Filmmaker Aislinn Clarke, who became the first Northern Irish woman to direct a horror film with The Devil’s Doorway, reaches ...

Victor LaValle writes fantasy with a strong edge of horror, fairy tale, and social commentary. His most beloved work is probably The Changeling ... and father in a tiny Irish village in 1985.

Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales of the ...

As Fréwaka is released in cinemas, Esther McCarthy looks at why the horror genre seems to be so strong in Ireland right now, ...

Jo Kerrigan and Richard Mills researching for Irish Fairy Forts: Portals to the Past Even crannógs, those wonderfully photogenic little artificial islands built on wooden piles in lakes as ...

Rosie Sheehy as Billie and Brian Gleeson as Stephen in The Brightening Air. (Image: Manuel Harlan) The plot, such as it is, hinges around a wife seeking water from a fairy well to restore her ...

His nationality tells a deeper story about the Irish community’s initial experience in the United States and abroad, its complex relationship with foundational Black Americans and how and why he ...

The Irish political party Aontú has launched a new Bill that seeks to amend the Irish Constitution to allow Irish citizens in the North of Ireland to be able to vote in Ireland's Presidential ...

As Irish hotelier Patrick McKillen tells it, he met the former emir of Qatar on a yacht in Doha to discuss a business opportunity in California, more than 8,000 miles away. McKillen and Sheikh ...

Irish fairy folklore is conjured to terrifying effect, as are menacing figures in medieval-looking straw masks — a sinister twist on festive 'mummers' — creepy goats a la The Witch's Black ...