"A most important item in the ceremony is the quaffing of large quantities of rough - the strong, unsweetened Somerset cider." A note to quaff responsibly, should ye olde tradition of visiting ...

Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.

Unearthed in 1880 from a burial, the ninth-century ship was powered by sail ... and donned heavy jewelry—neck rings, dress pins, armbands, and finger rings. But this dress for excess had a ...

He drank the infusion and discovered its mind-clarifying properties. In the 9th Century, tea became firmly rooted beyond China, when it was adopted in Japan as a drink for monks and the elite classes.

The first allusion to Advent's being reduced to four weeks is to be found in the ninth century, in a letter of Pope St. Nicholas I to the Bulgarians. The testimony of Ratherius of Verona ...

In 2013, the Irish State launched a decade of remembering the turning points in a “revolution” that led to the foundation of the Irish State and partition of the island, a century ago.

By this point, Irish republicans were negotiating face to face with a London government that had, not long before, called them a ‘murder gang.’ Though the IRA’s war from January 1919 had ...

The 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the ... origins of pretty much anything,” Jarman said of the podcast in her Institute of Irish Studies talk. After Spencer announced his divorce ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

The Irish Voice newspaper, sister publication to IrishCentral, ceased printing in July 2023 after 36 years. Look back on stories from the weekly, New York-based newspaper here. New York's Irish ...

It’s slightly smaller, but it still has a bigger, higher-resolution screen than the now-discontinued 9th-gen iPad; it also has a faster processor, and it moves the FaceTime camera to the ...