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RTE’s Website Brainstorm: The Irish Celtic Festival of Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. It occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum slant away from the Sun and it happens twice in each hemisphere at the peak of Winter and Summer. Both the Solstices, the Seasons, and the

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RTE’s Website Brainstorm: The Irish Celtic Festival of Samhain

Hallowe’en celebrated on the night of 31st October is a joyous revelry of fancy dress, sweet treats, wild games and bonfires for those young at heart. Delve a little deeper and one might question the symbols of dead souls and ghosts with a morbid fascination for horror stories and masked creatures. The eve of the Western Christian feast

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