Sophie Clarke speaks to the cast behind the MAC’s new Christmas production about original writing, collaboration and festive ...

Hannah Lavery’s new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde is a powerful outdoor celebration of the triumph of the forces of life over Jekyll’s deadly obsession, writes Joyce McMillan Did you know with a ...

EFFECTIVELY, Scotland was banned from celebrating Christmas, at least in the manner we do now, for around 400 years. For this reason there are not a whole lot of traditions that are unique to this ...

People have always tried to understand the strange moods of winter. It is cold, unpredictable, loud, and sometimes very magical. In old Scotland and Ireland, people believed that winter arrived ...

The legends of the winter goddess and the locations and ancient Irish folklore, including Saint Brigid, the goddess of summer, are linked to her. The Cailleach, or the hag, has been feared and revered ...

Patterson (Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch), a practitioner of witchcraft, gathers tales of a Celtic goddess known as the Cailleach in this unsatisfying volume. Originally linked with creation, the ...

THE sight of the dark, conspicuous figure of a cormorant, perched on a rock in Lower Lough Erne with its wings outstretched, seemed the perfect symbol for November’s bare and bleak countenance. In the ...

The Cailleach is one of the pervasive characters of Scottish folklore. The Cailleach (in Gaelic) or Carlin (in Scots) is a mythical old woman associated with the creation of the natural landscape and ...

Shane Lehane's deep interest in the Irish Hare has led him to write a paper entitled the The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare, and he fills us in on some of the folk beliefs that have sprung up around ...