Celtic folklore has a number of stories about fairies, who often carried people off, never to be seen again. One type of fairy in this folklore is the leprechaun. But are leprechauns actually real?

Behind the shamrocks and gold-tipped rainbows, Ireland is packed with surprises—both in its history and in the ways it has shaped culture far beyond its shores. Sarah Erdman The Dingle Peninsula tells ...

Leprechauns embody the idea of Irish luck. This is a modern addition to the character’s attributes, rather than an aspect from ancient folklore. The pot of gold that leprechauns are said to hide at ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. In this week after Halloween, it's fitting that we talk about ghost stories. Conor McPherson, the prolific Irish dramatist, is a master of modern ghost stories ...