When Eve Hewson was in her late teens, a young Irishwoman in America trying to get her acting career off the ground, casting directors kept knocking her...
Scotland’s foremost creative isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Over fifty years ago, Alison Kinnaird applied for a student placement at Edinburgh College of Art. She...
Our Christmas 2024 edition celebrates the company we keep over the holidays! Also, enjoy feature stories on journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, Irish American troubadour Ike...
Whilst it was generally believed that Columbus was the first European to discover America in 1492, it is now well known that Viking explorers reached...
One of the most interesting of the Celtic tribes in the British Isles are the Celtic Picts. They inhabited what is modern day Scotland, north of the...
Blended Scotch whisky doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. If blended Scotch whisky was a comedian, it would definitely be Rodney Dangerfield. Much of...
Looking for that special something for that special someone this year? We've got you covered with our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide! Pick up your complimentary...
The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (summer’s end). The Celtic year was determined by the growing seasons...
Who knew that internationally renowned American author Edgar Allan Poe had a Scottish connection? The internationally renowned author of The Fall of the House of...
In the rich tapestry of Celtic traditions, the connection to nature and its spirits is deeply woven into the cultural and spiritual fabric. This ancient...
Celts occupied land in modern day Eastern Europe, Greece, Spain, Northern Italy, Western Europe, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Celtic people have mystified anthropologists...
It’s Gaelic, originally. Or an anglicized version of a Gaelic name, if you’re being fussy. Most people believe it to derive from the ancient “cano,”...
When Fontaines D.C. were living in Dublin and making their first album, Dogrel, the five band members would pile into drummer Tom Coll’s car and blast their freshly recorded songs through...