* Dragon of Shandon Samhain parade in Cork, held annually on the 31st of October at night

It is still the custom in some areas to set a place for the dead at the Samhain feast, and to tell tales of the ancestors on that night.

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.

On Samhain Oengus challenges him to a duel and defeats him but spares his life if Elcmar will give him the Brugh for day and night.

Throughout Ireland, bonfires are lit on the night of 31 October to celebrate Halloween or Samhain.

A legend based on this is " The Adventures of Nera ", in which the warrior of the title is challenged to tie a twig around the ankle of a condemned man on Samhain night.

* At Halloween, a ‘ Samhain ’ festival and street carnival is held at night.

The lyrics join them in celebration of a triumphant return on Samhain night, when the deadways between the worlds are at their closest and most vulnerable to rupture.

One Samhain night when the warriors of Cruachan were feasting, King Aillil offered a prize to any man who was brave enough to put a wicker band around the ankle of a corpse that had been hanged.

Because Samhain was considered to be a night when the dead have power, only Nera was courageous enough to volunteer.

Inside the hill, he met a woman of the sidhe who told him that the destruction that he had seen was only a vision of what would happen on the next Samhain night unless the warriors of Medb and Aillil destroyed the Hill of Cruachan and defeated the sidhe army.

Old Irish gem-adaig (' winter's night ').

Aengus was instructed to ask his father if he could live in the Brú for láa ogus oidhche "( a ) day and ( a ) night ", which in Irish is ambiguous, and could refer to either " a day and a night ", or " day and night ", which means for all time, and so Aengus took possession of the Brú permanently.

The Wild Irish focuses mainly on Ní Mháille's life, but is highly fictional — the main part of the story is Ní Mháille telling her life story to Elizabeth I on the night of their meeting.

On that same night Peel's Irish Coercion Bill was defeated in the Commons by 292 to 219 by " a combination of Whigs, Radicals, and Tory protectionists ".

This Irish showband, with Morrison playing saxophone, guitar and harp, in addition to back-up duty on bass and drums, toured steamy clubs and US Army bases in Scotland, England, and Germany, often playing five sets a night.

Finally a policeman arrives to send the drunken customers home, the pub is closed up, and the customers disappear singing into the night as a drunken HCE, clearing up the bar and swallowing the dregs of the glasses left behind, morphs into ancient Irish high king Rory O ' Connor, and passes out.

But Irish has no indefinite article, so " a day and a night " is the same as " day and night ", which covers all time, and so Aengus took possession of the Brú permanently.

On that same night Peel's Irish Coercion Bill was defeated in the Commons by 292 to 219 by " a combination of Whigs, Radicals, and Tory protectionists ".

Dante's has an open mic night every Thursday, traditional Irish music on the first Wednesday of each month, and a variety of music on the weekends.

It was at Russell ’ s house where Bax one night met Irish Republican Patrick Pearse.

On the night of Bloody Sunday in 1920, three Irish Republican Army members Dick McKee, Conor Clune and Peadar Clancy, were tortured and killed.

In his arguments, Adams called the crowd “ a motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs .” In particular, he charged Attucks with having “ undertaken to be the hero of the night ,” and with having precipitated a conflict by his “ mad behavior .”

Buckley first appeared at the small Irish café in April 1992, and quickly earned a regular Monday night slot there.

The Irish Environmental Protection Agency, after much initial upset in the west of Ireland, has an exemption for the burning of fires outdoors during midsummer night.

After his arrival at Cheb, however, certain senior Scottish and Irish officers in his force assassinated him on the night of February 25.

Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who strung together his anecdotes late at night after the serious business of the day was done, was astonished at its success.

Instead of attending to his studies to secure an engineering diploma, Boland took Irish language and history classes at night.

From its curious and irregular shape it is commonly called the ‘ Hunchback Bridge ’; also the ‘ Devil ’ s Bridge ’ after many legends: the famous legend tells that it was built by the Devil in one night after he made a pact with Saint Columbanus who promised him the soul of the first passerby ; but when the bridge was finished the Irish Saint sent a dog.

In 1857, the Whig quarrelled with the radical Southern Citizen, published by Knoxville businessman William G. Swan and Irish Patriot John Mitchel, and Brownlow spent at least one night parading in front of Swan's home while brandishing a revolver.

The Irish owners of the Harp Club let The Flim Flam run a regular Friday night club there.

He taught night classes in Irish and numbered Sean O ' Casey among his pupils.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

At nearby Gauldwell Castle ( now only with one partial wall left standing ) Mary, Queen of Scots, is reputed to have spent the night.

James ' successor, King Charles I, visited Edinburgh Castle only once, hosting a feast in the Great Hall, and staying the night before his coronation as King of Scots in 1633, the last occasion that a reigning monarch has resided in the castle.

On the night of the 13th the main force of the Scots Guards began its advance on the western side of Mount Tumbledown.

Ewing famously said on the night of her by-election victory, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and this spirit seemed to be embraced by many Scots.

Mary, Queen of Scots, after the Battle of Langside, spent her final night in Scotland here, in 1568.

On the night of 18 December, a force consisting of the 100th Foot, the grenadier company of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots, and the grenadier and light companies of the 41st Foot, with some small detachments of militia, crossed the river above Fort Niagara.

The term is Manx Gaelic in origin, deriving from Shogh ta ’ n Oie, meaning " this is the night ".

In addition to the Favourite Films, there is an outdoor screening on a Gable End, Gaelic Short films, Animation workshop, photographic exhibition and late night Pizza and Film screenings.

Of great interest is the use in the Coligny calendar of the word Saman, a word that is still in use in Gaelic refer to Hallowe ' en ( evening of the saints ), an important day and night and feast among the Celts ( in Welsh it is called Calan Gaeaf ).

` Foggy Dew ' may be an English tongue's best attempt at the sound of the Gaelic, and derive from ` Oroce dhu ' meaning a black or dark night.

Esteemed Irish sportsman and Gaelic Games legend Michael Ronan Conan Murphy ( better known by the moniker Mickey ------ Ro Co ) has been a loyal supporter and advocate of the great one, and it is believed his passionate election night speech played a crucial role in the ultimate success of Bermuda Allan's campaign and marginal victory.

One documented aspect of Carrick and Galloway law was the power of sergeants ( an original Gaelic word Latinised as Kethres ), officials of the earl or of other captains, to claim one night of free hospitality ( a privilege called sorryn et frithalos ), and to accuse and arrest with little restriction.