True friendships are a wonderful thing to have during the best times and especially the worst times. There is an old saying which says if you are friends with a person for more than seven years, then ...

Let's toast to all the happy couples with some words of kindness and a great Irish wedding blessing! Wise old words from Ireland abound, and Irish blessings and sayings for weddings are no exception.

We scoured Celtic folklore, online forums, the Bible, and even our favorite Irish pub in New York City to find some beautiful and just plain weird sayings used on the Emerald Isle. Some of the ...

The sins of my youth and the sins of my age, The sins of my body and the sins of my soul, The sins I have confessed and the sins I have forgotten, The sins against others in thought, word, and ...

and are characterized by idiosyncratic Irish rhythms and verse order. This is true of the prayers set to music here; they derive from the Middle Ages (parts of them have even come down to us in the ...

Yet those who talk in this way make no objection to receiving Irish emigrants and intrusting ... with inscriptions and sculptures recording his sayings and doings. In some places he is represented ...

As you wrap presents, bake Christmas cookies, and decorate the tree, take a moment to remember the true origin of Christmas. For Christians, Dec. 25 marks the day when Jesus Christ was born in ...

Townlands are areas based on old Irish land divisions, many of which existed before the arrival of the English language. And before the mid-20th Century, our ancestors in rural areas identified ...

Between blessings, sayings, toasts and proverbs, the Irish clearly know a thing or two ... Which God divided among the five thousand men, May the blessing of the King who so divided Be upon ...

We scoured Celtic folklore, online forums, the Bible, and even our favorite Irish pub in New York City to find some beautiful and just plain weird sayings used on the Emerald Isle. Some of the ...