Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. In a used bookshop some years ago, I chanced upon a small volume called “Irish Fairy ...

It was the 1990s, and Pop-Pop was dying. Pop-Pop was my grandfather, wrestling with late-stage diabetes, and he didn't have long to live. This news hit me hard; I'd appointed him years earlier as the ...

Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales of the Aos ...

Leprechauns are a type of fairy, though it's important to note that the fairies of Irish folklore were not cute Disneyfied pixies; they could be lustful, nasty, capricious creatures whose magic might ...

More humanists should take folktales and fairy tales seriously, because these stories provide unique windows into culture, ethics, human nature and metaphysics. While these tales might seem like ...

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for her, and helped her ill grandfather It was the 1990s, and Pop-Pop was dying.