Its most popular and unusual traditions have roots in the ancient Celtic fire festival of Samhain, which marked the end of ...

Aisling Walsh receives funding from the Irish Research Council. At an academic conference I attended this summer, an Irish Druid presided over an opening ceremony. She blessed the proceedings and ...

After a character with a gaping head wound makes his entrance in Druid Theatre's satisfyingly madcap "The Playboy of the Western World," one might expect someone else onstage at the Kennedy Center to ...