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The National Leprechaun Museum

The lobby of the National Leprechaun Museum with a sign for the Dark Land adult storytelling tours
Photo: Duncan Cumming/Flickr

TripAdvisor’s top Dublin museums might include Guinness, whiskey, and Kilmainham Gaol, but no writer or lover of good stories should visit the city without a stop at the National Leprechaun Museum. Ireland’s storytelling tradition goes back to the dawn of Irish history, and the National Leprechaun Museum is a tribute to the nation’s wild oral […]

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Horrible folk: mining Irish folklore for new horror

John Duncan's "Riders of the Sidhe" (1911)
John Duncan's "Riders of the Sidhe" (1911)

Irish folklore is horrible, and I mean that in the best way. Violence, sex and the supernatural entwine in epic tales of ancient history and everyday stories of ghosts, fairies and ordinary folk. Wry humour and dark twists are never far away. Despite Walt Disney’s best efforts, there’s nothing twee about Ireland’s fairies. There are […]