Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS) challenges the perception that traditional music, dance, and storytelling belong only to history. Officially constituted in 2012, TRACS was...
While there is little recorded about Celtic religion, there are some things we do know about our ancestors’ beliefs and rituals. The Celts were polytheistic...
The Celtic Festival of Beltane (Beltain, Beltainne, Beltaine, Bealtaine, Beltany) – which marks the beginning of summer in the ancient Celtic calendar – is a Cross Quarter...
Scotland is home to three native languages: Gaelic, English, and Scots. The Scots language has four main dialects and 10 “sub dialects” around the country....
Northern Ireland is home to a rich literary heritage. Here are 10 great experiences to explore across the region’s literary landscape. 1. Seamus Heaney Homeplace...
The Nova Scotia Highland Village Society was founded in 1959, to create a living history museum to interpret, preserve and promote the Scottish Gaelic language,...
Scotland is a land filled with stunning landscapes, a deep-rooted history, and lively traditions, and it boasts some of the most iconic and culturally significant...
Reincarnation was an important aspect of the Celtic worldview. Because of this belief, the Celts did not identify a particular place that one went to...
The Emerald Isle is world-renowned for its quaint and cozy pubs. From the collection of some 7,000 pubs scattered across the country, the leading travel...
This weekend marks the 120th anniversary of the Maclean Highland Gathering in Australia. Recently we caught up with one of the organizers, Alister Smith, to discuss...
