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Planning Your Visit to Ireland? 4 Spooky Ancient Sites Associated with #SAMHAIN

Ali Isaac

Oct 30, 20174 min read

Planning Your Visit to Ireland? 4 Spooky Ancient Sites Associated with #SAMHAIN

If you are in Ireland for Halloween, consider creating your own bespoke Samhain tour. Here are my top 4 spooky Samhain ancient sites.

Planning Your Visit to Ireland? ENTHRONE YOURSELF in the Witches Chair.

Ali Isaac

Oct 16, 20172 min read

Planning Your Visit to Ireland? ENTHRONE YOURSELF in the Witches Chair.

The Witches Throne is a huge kerbstone carved with armrests at the base of cairn T at the highest point of Loughcrew, in Co. Meath, Ireland.

Planning Your Visit to Ireland? Stay in the Most Haunted Castle in Ireland.

Ali Isaac

Oct 9, 20173 min read

Planning Your Visit to Ireland? Stay in the Most Haunted Castle in Ireland.

Ross Castle in Co. Meath, is said to be the most haunted castle in Ireland. Are you brave enough to spend a night there?

the peculiar case of the burning of bridget cleary

Ali Isaac

Oct 2, 20176 min read

the peculiar case of the burning of bridget cleary

In 1895, Bridget Cleary was the last woman in Ireland to be burned as a witch.

The #Halloween Legacy of Ireland’s Witches

Ali Isaac

Oct 31, 20167 min read

The #Halloween Legacy of Ireland’s Witches

It’s a popular enduring image of Halloween. How many little girls will be donning black, and a wide-brimmed pointy hat, painting their...

Ali Isaac

Oct 24, 20163 min read

Halloween or Samhain?

I recently watched a video on Youtube where the expert in the film kept pronouncing Samhain as it looks… Sam-hain. An easy mistake to...

Ali Isaac

Oct 26, 20155 min read

tlachtga: goddess of earth & fire

Her name derives from the old Irish 'tlacht', meaning ‘earth’ and 'gae', meaning ‘spear’. This implies a mother earth or fertility deity.

Ali Isaac

Oct 25, 20154 min read

samhain: the original halloween

The ancient Irish divided their year into four seasons punctuated by the festivals of Imbolc, Beltaine, Lughnasa and Samhain.

Samhain | Ancient Irish Celebration of New Year

Ali Isaac

Oct 27, 20145 min read

Samhain | Ancient Irish Celebration of New Year

I‘ve never really liked Halloween. I never understood why people got excited about dressing up, or visiting the homes of strangers and...

Ali Isaac

Oct 20, 20144 min read

Donn, Lord of the Dead

Halloween is the Christian overlay of a celebration far more ancient, a pagan Celtic festival called Samhain. Halloween is thought to be...

Ali Isaac is an author and blogger specialising in Irish mythology. Through word and image, she tries to draw the human story from Ireland's landscape and tumbled stones, with a particular focus on the women history has abandoned, and legend only half remembers.

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