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Selected features, interviews, reviews and conversations.

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Press & Reviews

Features, reviews and editorial coverage connecting Helena’s books, research and public-history work with wider audiences.

Television & Documentary

On-camera contribution and documentary participation across historical, cultural, symbolic and place-based subjects.

Radio & Podcast

Long-form interviews, specialist conversations and broadcast discussion for public and specialist audiences.

Research-Led Commentary

Source-led historical interpretation spanning heritage, Templar studies, symbolism, sacred traditions, Jungian thought and cultural memory.

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Available for interviews, expert commentary, documentary and broadcast contribution, podcasts, editorial commissions, historical context and research-led collaboration.

Press & Reviews

Waterford Templar Historical Day coverage, Munster Express
Press & Reviews·The Munster Express

First-ever Waterford Templar Historical Day takes place

Robyn Power·21 October 2025

Post-event coverage of the inaugural Waterford Templar Historical Day and the public-history research from which the initiative developed, including Kilbarry and the concept of a living heritage / participatory outdoor museum.

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Re-enactor at Waterford Templar Historical Day
Press & Reviews·Irish Independent

New Waterford festival to bring to life centuries-old stories of the Knights Templar

1 October 2025

Coverage of Waterford Templar Historical Day, conceived by Helena as part of her MA research in Public History and Cultural Heritage, and co-founded with Brendan M. Rohan of OSMTH Ireland.

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Templemichael, Co. Waterford — former Knights Templar site
Press & Reviews·Spooky Isles

Haunted Templemichael: Knights Templar, an Ancient Curse and Ley Lines

30 April 2024

Article by Helena on Templemichael, Co. Waterford — a former Knights Templar site — combining documented history with the site's later haunting traditions and landscape context.

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Loftus Hall archive photograph
Press & Reviews·Irish Independent / New Ross Standard

Medium Helena B. Scott to give talk on haunted Wexford house

4 April 2024

Coverage of Helena's New Ross Library lecture on Loftus Hall and the layered history of the Hook Peninsula.

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Spooky Isles interview with Helena B. Scott
Press & Reviews·Spooky Isles

Helena B. Scott: My supernatural love affair with Ireland

Ann Massey·17 February 2023

Interview with Helena about Ireland, Loftus: The Hall of Dreams, supernatural history and her approach to psychical and historical research.

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Day of the Unexplained paranormal convention coverage
Press & Reviews·Irish Independent / New Ross Standard

New Ross to host 'Day of the Unexplained' Paranormal Convention

David Looby·5 October 2022

Coverage of Ireland's first Day of the Unexplained paranormal convention, naming Helena among the invited speakers and experts.

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Munster Express review of Helena B. Scott chakra workshop
Press & Reviews·The Munster Express

Workshop Review: 'Know the Chakras & Aura. Cleanse, Balance and Protect your Energy'

Kieran Walsh·1 September 2022

Independent workshop review describing Helena as a published author, historian, medium and spirituality coach, praising the integration of sacred geography, Egyptology, anthropology, archaeology and local history.

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Munster Express profile feature on Helena B. Scott
Press & Reviews·The Munster Express

Real-life Female Indiana Jones, Priestess and Rebel conquers Ireland's Ancient East

28 June 2022

Profile feature on Helena's work as an author and adventurous historian, her historical research, sacred geography, the occult, spirituality and workshops.

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Loftus Hall, Co. Wexford — featured in The Irish Times
Press & Reviews·The Irish Times

Haunted houses and mysterious gate lodges: Ireland's hidden history

Paul Clements·5 January 2019

Four books tell stories of rural regions' often overlooked buildings and landscapes. Loftus: The Hall of Dreams is described as a lavishly produced work of historical revisionism / secret history, with a distinctive treatment of Loftus Hall.

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New Ross Standard feature on Loftus: The Hall of Dreams
Press & Reviews·The New Ross Standard

Haunted Hall's Secret History

23 October 2018

A feature on the publication of Loftus: The Hall of Dreams, its investigation of the house's history and past owners, and Helena's historical and psychical research.

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Ancient Origins extract from Loftus: The Hall of Dreams
Press & Reviews·Ancient Origins

Loftus: The Hall of Dreams — The House of the Dead

5 August 2018

Published extract from Loftus: The Hall of Dreams, presenting the abandoned mansion through Helena's Gothic historical-revisionist narrative.

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Irish Writers Union review of Loftus: The Hall of Dreams
Press & Reviews·The Irish Writers Union

A Stunning New Book by Helena B. Scott

Lisa Oliver, Secretary IWU·1 January 2018

Review of Loftus: The Hall of Dreams, praising the production, Steve Meyler's atmospheric photography and the unusual, compelling approach to historical research.

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Television & Documentary

Video Interview·Helena B. Scott (YouTube)

Holycross Abbey: The True Cross, Medieval Heritage & the Restoration of a Cistercian Abbey

William J. Hayes·29 December 2023

An interview with the late William J. Hayes — author of The Awakening of the Abbey, former curate of Holy Cross Abbey, Co. Tipperary, and the driving force behind the restoration of this Cistercian abbey founded in 1182 and custodian of relics of the True Cross. He reflects on the abbey's medieval mason marks, the owl and St. Michael carvings, its ancient and modern pilgrimage legacy, and the Grail and Templar lore woven through its stones.

Video Interview·YouTube / Zoom Interview

Knights Templar & Wine — Interview with Andy Godst (OTAC) and Herdade dos Templarios, Tomar (Part 2)

1 December 2023

Discussion on Templar wine history, wine-growing traditions and the St Helena Pimen medieval spiced wine project, with Andy Godst (OTAC) and Hernani Edgar Canavarro Magalhaes of Herdade dos Templarios.

Video Interview·YouTube / Zoom Interview

Knights Templar in Ireland — Interview with the Grand Master of Ecuador's Knights Templar Order

1 November 2023

Helena discusses her work on the Knights Templar in Ireland and research connections in Scotland, Rosslyn Chapel and northern England, with the Grand Master of Ecuador's Knights Templar Order.

Video Interview·GhostEire

GhostEire Interview with Anthony Kerrigan

Anthony Kerrigan

Interview on Helena's work, Loftus: The Hall of Dreams, female occultists of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, chakras and the aura.

Video Interview·Knights Templar of Ecuador

Knights Templar of Ecuador — Further Conversation on the Templar Tradition

A further conversation exploring the Knights Templar and their historical and continuing legacy, extending Helena's dialogue with representatives of the Knights Templar of Ecuador and her wider research into Templar history, tradition and symbolism.

Video Interview·The Gnostic Union

Helena B. Scott on the Knights Templar, Important Women of History & Gnosticism

In conversation with Father Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union, Helena explores the Knights Templar alongside Gnosticism and the often-overlooked place of important women within history and sacred tradition, bringing historical research into dialogue with questions of spirituality, symbolism and Gnosis.

Video Interview·Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio

The Gnostic Knights Templar — with Miguel Conner

Helena joins Miguel Conner and Vance Moondog of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio for a conversation exploring her research into the Knights Templar through the lens of Gnosticism, spirituality and symbolism, including the deeper religious and esoteric currents associated with the medieval Temple.

Radio Interviews

Beat FM Sunday Grill with Orla Rapple
Radio·Beat FM

The Sunday Grill with Orla Rapple — Helena B. Scott

Orla Rapple·24 July 2022

Interview promoted around Helena's Loftus Hall investigations and her 'ghost whisperer meets Indiana Jones' profile.

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South East Radio Morning Mix with Alan Corcoran
Radio·South East Radio

Morning Mix with Alan Corcoran — Helena B. Scott

Alan Corcoran·12 July 2022

Helena discusses new projects and upcoming workshops in her work across history, psychical research and spirituality.

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WLR Saturday Cafe with Maria McCann
Radio·WLR FM

The Saturday Cafe with Maria McCann — Helena B. Scott

Maria McCann·9 July 2022

Interview on secret history, chakras, sacred geography, Helena's life, books, workshops and the Day of the Unexplained.

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Podcasts & Video Interviews

Podcast·Psychic Matters Podcast
9 February 2023

Helena explores how myths connected with sacred geography often arise from the land itself and may preserve clues to a place's deeper story.

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