University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Today, while we hear a fair bit from ...

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, believe it or not! This year, between your Irish soda bread baking, green beer drinking, searching for four-leaf clovers, and general merry-making, you may ...

The Irish folklore fairy known as leprechaun remains a St. Patrick’s Day favorite, and a staple in some places year-round. You might recall the little, bearded old man who wears a green hat, coat and ...

Have you ever been someplace very quiet and felt like you were being watched? Perhaps you heard a rustling sound or a soft voice but there was no-one else around? Did you feel something brush past you ...

Every family has one, a fairy. You can probably think of one in your own family. The oddball, the one who marches to a different drum, is cut from a different cloth, who seems away with the … well, ...

There's so much to know about the cunning creatures!

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne knew she wanted to be a writer from a very early age, and believed she had the perfect plan to achieve this goal: “Read everything.” This, of course, proved to be a little too ...