Biddy Early, the 19th century Witch of the West
Until all too recently in Ireland it was easy for someone who was outside of the prescribed...
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Category: Folklore
The Story of the Stone Ring of Denmark
Margaretta Eagar the Limerick nanny to the last Tsar of Russia in her autobiography tells of a...
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Paying the Rounds at St Patrick’s Well, Singland
In September 1881 an unusual case was brought before the Limerick City Petty Sessions by Mary...
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A Tale of Destructive Fairies of Ballynanty Beg in 1951.
On 31 October 1951, there were reports in the English newspapers the Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph...
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The Outcast Irish Girl poem from 1898
The following poem was published in the Freeman’s Journal in 1898 and was signed...
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