Map of Ireland in the Heroic Times

24/09/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

A rare and hard to obtain map of Ireland in the Heroic Times, found in Standish O’Grady’s History of Ireland. Here is an effort to map the lands most associated with Ireland’s mythologies and heroes and even charts the course of the Children of Lir from the House of Donn to the Isle of Rachlin. […]

Celtic Mythology | Devorgilla

17/08/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dervorgilla came from Norway and was a stranger in Ireland. She had listened to so many tales about Cú Chulainn that she decided he would have to be her only love. She left Norway accompanied by her maid alone. To accomplish the journey the both changed into swans and flew to Lough Cuan in Ireland. […]

#OTD in 1924 – The biggest sporting event organised across the world was staged in Ireland. This event – the Tailteann Games – was bigger even than that year’s Paris Olympic Games.

02/08/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

The Telltown or Tailtiu Games were said to have been instituted by the Gaelic god Lú Lamhfada Samildanách – Lugh the Long-Armed Master of the Arts, and are considered to be the Irish Olympics Games. They predate the Greek Olympics by about 1200 years and it could be reasonably speculated that the Irish Telltown Games […]

The Legend of Cú Chulainn

30/03/2023.Reading time 34 minutes.

There are a number of versions of the story of Cú Chulainn’s birth. In the earliest version of Compert C(h)on Culainn (The Conception of Cú Chulainn), his mother Deichtine is the daughter and charioteer of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, and accompanies him as he and the nobles of Ulster hunt a flock of […]

Ancient Irish Olympics | The Lughnasa Games at Telltown

07/01/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

Irish Wolfhounds | “Gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked”

03/01/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Irish Wolfhounds are one of the oldest breeds of dogs recorded in the history of man. They appear in early Irish law tracts under the name “Cú” (modern Irish word for hound). The dogs are known as the “gentle giants” of the canine world expressed in the breed slogan, “Gentle when stroked, fierce when provoked”. […]

Crow Goddess | Morrigan

11/12/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Draped over her shoulders, with its full hood pulled around her face and sweeping to the ground behind her, was a cloak made entirely of ravens’ feathers. The crow is a personification of the three Mórrígna in Celtic mythology and especially of Badb Mórrigu, the harbinger of doom. In this form, she seems to be […]

Samhain and Irish Mythology

27/10/2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

Irish mythology was originally a spoken tradition, but much of it was eventually written down in the Middle Ages by Christian monks, who Christianised it to some extent. Nevertheless, these tales may shed some light on what Samhain meant and how it was marked in ancient Ireland. Irish mythology tells us that Samhain was one […]

Map of Ireland in the Heroic Times

24/09/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Celtic Mythology | Devorgilla

17/08/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

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