Samhain, a Celtic pagan festival, marked the beginning of winter and was believed to be a night on which spirits could roam among the living. Following is a transcript of the video. Halloween is ...

Derry City and Strabane District Council's annual festival is billed as one of the biggest Halloween parties in Europe. Events have also been taking place in other parts of Northern Ireland ...

Halloween, one of the most popular celebrations of the year, traces its origins to an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. Celebrated over 2,000 years ago by the peoples of Ireland, Scotland ...

It is all part of a revival of the ancient Celtic festival called Samhain ... at the National Museum of Ireland. “The spooky stuff that we associate with Halloween, such as ghosts, the dead ...

Halloween is now an Americanised ... Everyone knows the Irish and their Celtic cousins carried variants of the festival of Samhain (summer's end) to North America between the 1600s and 1800s.

You might be that bit too old to go out trick or treating in Ireland on Halloween, however you can bet there will be plenty of Halloween events in for you to get involved with. There are loads of ...

A traditional food of Halloween in Ireland is barmbrack ... toys and candles. The Halloween festival known as Teng Chieh is built around rituals that not only celebrate the dead but free the ...

A plan to charge for admission to part of Londonderry's annual Halloween festival has been rejected ... the largest state-owned monument in Northern Ireland. The event has never previously been ...

Known as Europe’s largest Halloween Festival, Aircoach will help transport some of the thousands of visitors from outside Northern Ireland being increasingly drawn to the event in specially ...