TALES of witch trials usually evoke thoughts of Salem in Massachusetts, England’s Pendle Hill or other infamous places in ...

A scarily anticipated follow-up from Irish director Damian McCarthy after his unsettling wooden man horror Oddity from 2024. An author travels to a remote part of Ireland to spread the ashes of his ...

A plaque has been unveiled in Northern Ireland to commemorate the last witch trial to take place on the island of Ireland, in 1711. At a trial in a Carrickfergus courthouse in County Antrim, eight ...

In an age of spiritual isolation, witches are flocking to the woods of Ireland and elsewhere to form covens of ‘sisterhood’ On the floor of a sun-drenched room in a 200-year-old Irish estate, a group ...

IN PRE-CHRISTIAN Ireland, four festivals celebrated the changing seasons: Imbolc signalled the beginning of spring and is now celebrated as St Brigid’s Day, Bealtaine marked the start of summer and ...

A bishop, sent to Ireland by a 14th Century pope, was one of the first people to this country to practise witch hunts, according to a leading Irish historian. Dr Mary McAuliffe says that, in the ...

It is a centuries-old gruesome tale of fear, horror, injustice and alleged witchcraft in County Antrim. The infamous Islandmagee witch trials of 1711 have been given a very modern make-over in a ...