McCain's Corner

  Lupercalia From February 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated Lupercalia.  This festival honours Lupercus, a god of shepherds, their f...

A Bríd's Cross Today, at sunset, marks the beginning of the festival of Imbolc. This a Gaelic festival to honour the beginning ...

A Jackro aka a Brownie drawn from eyewitness encounter There was a large migration of people from the north of Ireland to the English...

Illustration from 1900 of a Luchramán The Luchramán, which is anglicised as Leprechaun. They are mentioned in an 8th Century manuscrip...

Lúnasa es uno de los festivales más antiguos que tenemos en las Islas. En la ortografía gaélica moderna, es Lúnasa, la ortografía gaélic...

Advertisement Logo Lúnasa 2019 Here we are again, another year and the return of Lúnasa.  Lúnasa is one of the oldest festivals we h...

el hombre a la parilla  Cómo cocinar un pecho de vaca; Mi método al menos. A menudo cocino el Punto del pecho de vaca. Esta parte ...

From Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, both men carry Gaelic origin surnames, and are archetypal 'Cracker' cowboys .  ...

Well it is May Day... I remember well the May Pole ritual which was still around when I was a child.  And what is May Day? It is a very...

I will be speaking at the 30th Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage Weekend.  This symposium runs from April 5 through April 7....