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Delve into the deliciously dark Bram Stoker Festival
Get your teeth into four days of fiendish fun and undeadly adventures at Dublin’s Bram Stoker Festival. Celebrating the Dublin-born horror novelist Bram Stoker and his most famous creation – Count Dracula – the Bram Stoker Festival presents four days (27 – 30 October) of supernatural thrills across Ireland’s capital. Featuring walking tours, reimagined movies with live […]
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Mystical Púca Festival returns for Halloween 2022
The iconic festival celebrating Ireland as the origin of Halloween will be a jamboree of spectacle, storytelling, music, mischief and more. Fans of folklore and fun are in for a treat this Halloween as Púca Festival returns, running from Friday 28 to Monday 31 October 2022. Celebrating Ireland as the birthplace of Halloween, Púca is an authentic, […]
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BOREALIS to light up Dublin skies at Halloween
As part of the Bram Stoker Festival, a unique light and sound show will bring the magic of the Northern Lights to Dublin. The Irish premiere of BOREALIS, an artwork by internationally renowned Swiss artist Dan Acher, which creates a mesmerising illusion of the Northern Lights, has been announced for the Bram Stoker Festival (28 –31 October). The […]
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Halloween & the spirit world
Halloween’s origin is interesting. It stems from the Celtic celebration of Samhain marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the Celtic New Year. The belief was that during the nights of October 31st into November 1st the barrier between the realm of the spirits and the real world grew weak. Large […]
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PÚCA – A return to mischief this Halloween in Ireland’s Ancient East
Ireland’s iconic Festival celebrating the birthplace of Halloween returns from 23-31 October This Halloween the spirit of Púca returns to Ireland’s Ancient East, bringing more mischief and merriment than ever before. Púca Festival is a spectacular, fun and otherworldly festival celebrating Ireland as the original birthplace of Halloween. In 2021 visitors from home and abroad are being welcomed […]
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Traditional food for an Irish Halloween
In times past and just as much today, an Irish Halloween is a harvest festival celebrated with a feast for the family. With the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain falling on the last day of October and start of November, the harvest was in, food was plentiful and a huge feast of seasonal fare played […]
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Spooky Halloween events taking place across Scotland
There’s a chill in the air and I don’t just mean the temperatures outside are getting cooler. Halloween is nearly here. We take it very seriously in Scotland, with ancient traditions and superstitions living on. What will you be doing on All Hallows’ Eve? Cowering under the covers? We hope not, because we’ve come up with […]
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Ireland’s 9 Most Haunted
Halloween – a time for thrills, chills and scaring ourselves silly. But did you know that everyone’s favourite fright-filled holiday began in Ireland? Trace Halloween right back to its origins and you’ll find yourself in the mists of pagan Ireland over 3,000 years ago – a time when the ancient festival of Samhain was celebrated […]
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Grace Neill’s That chill you’re feeling in Grace Neill’s pub isn’t just cold beer. Welcome to the most haunted pub in Ireland
Clocking in at an impressive 400 years old (it’s listed in the Guinness Book of Records as “the oldest pub in Ireland”), it’s no surprise that Grace Neill’s in the town of Donaghadee, County Down, is home to a ghost or two. And we’re not talking about Casper. According to the pub website, during its […]
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Terrifying tales and frightening facts from the home of Halloween
Halloween – a time for thrills, chills and scaring ourselves silly. But did you know that everyone’s favourite fright-filled holiday began in Ireland? Trace Halloween right back to its origins and you’ll find yourself in the mists of pagan Ireland over 2,000 years ago – a time when the ancient festival of Samhain was celebrated […]