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Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
06 June 2019

Halloween comes home: New 'Púca' festival could attract 100,000 visitors

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Fáilte Ireland is investing €1.5 million in a festival bringing Halloween back to its roots, reports Pól Ó Conghaile Read more here .
18 March 2019

Sheelah's Day

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28 October 2016

"Halloween in Irish Folklore" by Irish Archaeology

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" Halloween in Irish Folklore ", a blog, by Irish Archaeology , filled to the brim with excerpts, and well worth the reading: ...

Halloween by Dúchas.ie

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A downloadable presentation : "From earliest recorded history in Ireland, Halloween (All Hallows Eve), or Oíche Shamhna was conside...
12 August 2016

Déithe na Spéire | Baile | Seinnteoir | TG4

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A Science/History documentary from TG4 gives viewers a revolutionary new insight into Ireland's ancient sites: Déithe na Spéire | Baile ...
24 July 2016

Irish Myths: The Children of Lir

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Irish Myths: The Children of Lir Today we have a featured story from The Emerald Isle, and Dee Dee Chainey talks to Ronan Burke, w...
20 July 2016

In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature by JP Mallory review

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" In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature " a review by JP Mallory. JP Mallory describes this...
05 January 2016

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1969 – The Táin, by Thomas Kinsella and Louis le Brocquy

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Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1969 – The Táin, by Thomas Kinsella and Louis le Brocquy The poet and the artist collaborated to produce ...
31 July 2015

The Prophecy of the Morrígan - Badb's Prayer for Peace

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11 July 2014

Quote in relation to Fairies on the Hunt

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“ The fairies often go out hunting. In the calm summer evening the faint sound of tiny horns, the baying of hounds, the galloping of...
07 July 2014

Quote on Libations

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“ A libation of some of the thick new milk given by a cow after calving, if poured on the ground, more especially in the interior of...
22 May 2014

Quotation regarding the Morrigan

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“ At first glance the fertility aspect of the Morrigan does not seem as evident. It is an essential part of her character, however. ...
13 May 2014

The Waves of Manannán mac Lir, the Irish God of the Sea

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Author :   Charles W. MacQuarrie ISBN : 1907945296 / 9781907945298 Why did I read it?   I was searching out a reasonably priced cop...
16 April 2014

Single, pagan and resident in the UK?

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If so, and you are a member of Facebook , a new group where you can mingle has just been started, a break-away from a rather successful, and...
13 March 2014

Quote on Manannán mac Lir

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Greatest of all the water spirits, the sea god, Manannan mac Lir, has occasionally appeared, usually on some errand of mercy on the coast ...
12 March 2014

Quote on Irish Fairy Lore

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"If an oat-cake be baked and left for the next day it should have a piece broken out of it, and should not remain whole, because if th...
15 August 2013

A Repost

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I kind of felt the need to reblog one of my own posts from 2011:  " 9th Century Irish Myth and the Internet ".   It came to mind a...
04 May 2013

Irish Pagan Culture: Witchcraft, Wicca, Druidry - Presentation at UCC

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20 April 2013

"The Curse of Macha"

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Big Chris Lennon of Belfast-based Digital Mist Production s will begin shooting his brainchild ‘The Curse of Macha’ this August, a fea...
01 September 2012

Change of Address

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As readers of this blog may have noticed, the url address has changed.  It is now located at http://www.ancestral-gael.com/  So, why the cha...