As sunlight floods through the Neolithic passage tomb Newgrange once a year, it's as though our ancestors are reaching out to us. The 2024 Winter Solstice occurs on Wednesday, December 21 ...

The winter solstice in the northern hemisphere ... of Jesus was adopted from the festivals marking the birth of the sun. Newgrange is a burial complex that was constructed around 3200BC in ...

One of the best places to do that is at Newgrange. This ancient site in southeastern Ireland is just over 5,200 years old, predating Stonehenge and even the Pyramids of Giza. A visit there will ...

BRIGHTER days to come have been celebrated in gatherings to mark the Winter Solstice at ancient sites on the island of Ireland ... farthest from the sun in the Northern Hemisphere and has been ...

At the start of the week of the Summer Solstice, many will once again marvel at the magnificent structures built across Ireland thousands of years ago, including Newgrange in Co Meath. The ...

This is how the Irish poet Richard Murphy described Newgrange in his 1985 poem of the same name, paying homage to one of the oldest—and biggest—prehistoric structures in all of Europe.