May Day (May 1) is a holiday rich in folklore, celebrating the return of spring! As a child, many of us remember our grandparents or parents leaving delightful little May Day baskets, and dancing around the maypole at school. Learn more about May Day.

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Michael Fortune looks ahead to The Wexford May Bush Festival - a special celebration that can be celebrated within your own home no matter where you live in the country.

The boundaries between the Otherworld and our own are said to be slighter on May Eve, and it is then that protection against the fairies is believed to be more crucial than at any other time of the…