Lusty’s Centra in Larne is helping to enhance biodiversity and create a foraging area for bees, by sponsoring the planting of ...

A Local Mystic's Favorite Spots in "Witch City" Salem, MA originally appeared on Parade.

Take a drive along the Avalon Peninsula’s Cape Shore or Killick Coast this May, and you may come upon an unfamiliar type of holiday tree: a spruce or fir, stripped of its lower boughs so that ...

We read Under The Hawthorn Tree (1990), and its sequels: Wildflower Girl (1991) and Fields of Home (1996). I loved best her book The Blue Horse ... The Irish greats who roared on the pitch.

Marita Conlon-McKenna was the first Irish author on the list at number 22 for her bestselling children's book, Under the Hawthorn Tree, set during the Great Famine. Irish novelist Liz Nugent's ...

Everyone knows everyone’s business, but in the great tradition of the Irish, they say nothing ... over fields and past a fairy fort and a lone hawthorn tree. “He ran, a flash of red ...

A hawthorn tree hangs over it; a slab of rock beside it is engraved with a fading cross. I see no one else during my visit, and the only sound is that of the water bubbling up from beneath the karst.

In the Celtic countries, trees were treasured and imbued with magical qualities, superstitions, and folklore. One of the most magical is the Hawthorn, a beautiful, often gnarled, thorny little tree ...

Opinion: why was the hawthorn tree regarded in Irish folklore and tradition as one to be avoided? People enjoying the outdoors in many parts of Ireland at this time of the year will start to ...

Imports of hawthorn are putting native hawthorn trees and hedges — as well as cotoneaster, apple, pear, and rowan — at risk and must be halted immediately say environmental groups.