Report: From harvest and pilgrimage to legend and lore about púca and the weather, Michaelmas used to be an important day in the Irish calendar The Feast of Michael and All Angels, also known as St.

It’s time to eat as many blackberries as you can find and stuff in a pie. After September 29, those celebrating the feast of Michaelmas warn you not to eat them. On the list of forgotten holidays, ...

Prehistoric people in Ireland demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, as evidenced in the monuments they left us, such as the passage tombs in Loughcrew in north Co Meath. Photo: ...

THE flowering of Aster novi-belgii or Michaelmas daisy in my garden, a big mauve sister to the common little white daisy, was timely, occurring as it did around the September 29, the feast day of St ...