Did you know the Celts invented Halloween? Long before Christianity made it to Ireland's misty shores, the native Celtic people celebrated the 31st of October as the eve of Samhain, a time when the boundaries of our world and the 'Otherworld' are at their thinnest and all manner of spirits, spectres, fairies and fell creatures are free to roam the mortal realm.
Join storyteller David MacCaffrey, the "Shannachie of Glenndunbun Ballybegg," as he tells traditional and modern Celtic tales of terror. Drawing on the ancient folkways and legends of the people who practically invented horror his stories present a macabre menagerie of ghosts and ghouls, devils and demons, banshees and beasties and things that go bump in the night.
David Emerson of History on the Hoof portrays David MacCaffrey, the Shannachie of Glenndunbun Ballybegg.
This program is part of a series made possible by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ, with the sponsorship of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. #njhumanities
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
250 years after Scottish emigrant and Philadelphia merchant John Wallace built the Wallace House at Hope Farm, the Wallace House is under construction again as part of Down the Brook: The Revitalization of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites for Revolution NJ. The historic rehabilitation of Wallace House is being supported in part by a Semiquincentennial Grant from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
⭐ Revolution NJ is New Jersey’s official observance of the 250th anniversaries of New Jersey’s first Constitution July 2, 2026 and the American Revolution in New Jersey from 2024 – 2033.
You may also like the following events from Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites:
- This Saturday, 28th June, 02:00 pm, George Washington Takes Command: The Journey Through Jersey, 1775 – Hudson River in Jersey City
- Next Wednesday, 2nd July, 06:30 pm, New Jersey’s Declarations of Independence: A Musical Discovery of Early America in Somerville
- Next Sunday, 6th July, 02:00 pm, George Washington Takes Command: The Journey Through Jersey, 1775 – Trenton in Trenton
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