The life and times of a woman who has a significant place in the history of an Oxfordshire village will be celebrated next ...

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While the French say its origin stems from a 16th-century poem celebrating a prank involving a so-called April fish, the English claim it comes from one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s stories from The ...

Heard about the Poolbeg chimneys? Or Supermac’s plan for Croke Park? Yes, it’s that day again and we’ve all been caught by the April Fool tradition that goes back ...

We often come across expressions from time to time that may make us ask…what does this even mean? For example, piping hot. It means something is very hot or boiling hot. How did the ...

Some think that the origins have something to do with English poet and playwright Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer had a story about a fox that tricked a rooster 32 days from the start of March - which ...