The adorable fairy doors are already in one million houses worldwide, bringing smiles to the faces of kids across the globe. The Dublin-based five-year-old company, the Irish Fairy Door Company, has ...

Staring at the palm-sized, blue wooden door — arched, with a tiny red mushroom adorning it — Chloey Neely wondered aloud about the ideal spot to place it. "Should I put it outside or inside?" the ...

“I had been curious about the Irish side of my biracial family heritage,” says Ken Yoshikawa, author of From a Hole in the Ground, debuting Sept. 27 at Northwest Children’s Theater. “So I leapt at the ...

Once upon a time, there was a fisherman, and he caught a woman in his nets, and it was a good day. And, so, begins Ondine, Neil Jordan's lyrical and beautiful fairy tale-esque story about such a ...

WHEN Giraldus Cambrensis visited Ireland in the twelfth century, he found the people “a trifle paganish.” They believed in all sorts of fairies, banshees, witches, and changelings— “the gods of the ...

At this time of year, thoughts of St. Patrick and Celtic traditions come to mind. Revelers don themselves in green hats, dress in leprechaun costumes and drink green beer. The saint would likely be ...

THERE is a greater demand for fairy books than there is for works on folklore, and the readers differ greatly in taste and requirements. Some fairy books are worse than useless to the folklorist, ...