Burning A Changeling, Bridget Cleary And The Good People
The Australian fiction author, Hannah Kent, whose debut historical novel, “Burial Rites“, was published to critical acclaim in 2013 is currently promotingContinue Reading
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Crom Cruach, The Dark God Of The Burial Mound
A guest post by Megas Begadonos of the website, Unchaining the Titan, reinterpreting for a modern audience the Medieval Irish figure of Crom Cruach,Continue Reading
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Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invadingContinue Reading
The Atlantic Irish And Celts
Following on from a previous post examining the “Celtic from the West” theory, a quick thank you to ASF reader, Mark, for reminding meContinue Reading
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Who Were The Celts?
I recently purchased a copy of “Celtic from the West 2“, the follow-up volume to “Celtic from the West“, the 2012Continue Reading
The Four Jewels Or Treasures Of The Tuatha Dé Danann
The Leabhar Gabhála Éireann or “Book of the Taking of Ireland” is a Medieval collection of poems and prose narratives purporting toContinue Reading
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Bealtaine Or Céadshamhain, Just Enjoy!
Sunset on the last day of April, May Eve or Oíche Bealtaine, is the traditional start of the Irish and pan-Gaelic festival of BealtaineContinue Reading
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Two Irish Fantasy Writers On The 1916 Easter Rising
A quick post to recommend this short essay, “The Political Imagination: Irish Fantasy Writers and the Easter Rising“, by Rob MaslenContinue Reading
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Rowling’s History Of Magic In North America Is Not Magical To Native Peoples
Some of you may be aware of yesterday’s launch of “History of Magic in North America”, an expansion of theContinue Reading
The ASF Vote In The General Election Of 2016
Having spent the last several days sat atop the fog-shrouded Cruachán Aighle, or Cruach Phádraig to the tourists, I am sad toContinue Reading
More On The Artist Seaghán Mac Cathmhaoil Or John P. Campbell
My post yesterday on an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising of 1916, published some three months after the insurrection by the NewContinue Reading
Majority Of Irish DNA May Have Originated In The Middle East And Eastern Europe
I’m sure some of you may have seen the recent flurry of articles in the national and international press highlightingContinue Reading
Anglophone Segregationists In Wales, Hipster Denigrationists In Ireland
I suppose it was inevitable that an Anglophone supremacist somewhere in Ireland or Britain would pop up to denigrate that which mostContinue Reading
The Unmaking Of Ireland
Back in April the National Geographic magazine attempted to explain to its horrified readers the seemingly inexplicable rationale behind the Islamic State’s fanaticalContinue Reading
The Origins Of The Halloween Jack-O’-Lantern
There are many customs surrounding the annual October holiday of Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve, the quasi-Christian festival incorporating significantContinue Reading
Uaigh Éadaoine, Éadaoin’s Grave, Hill Of Howth
Ceann Bhinn Éadair or Howth Head is the suburbanised peninsula overlooking the northern half of Dublin Bay, a headland that is geographically dominatedContinue Reading
Oíche Bhealtaine 2015
It’s May Eve in north-western Europe and at sunset the ancient festival of Bealtaine, marking the start of theContinue Reading
Síle Na gCrann
Remarkable the things one can find in nature when one is out an’ about. However, can anyone else see it?Continue Reading
Old Gods In New Settings
Here’s an article from Vice magazine on the Ásatrúarfélagið movement in Iceland that I meant to highlight a few weeksContinue Reading
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Celtic Cosmology, Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland
Over the last two decades relatively few studies have been published analysing the cosmological traditions of the Celtic-speaking peoples, atContinue Reading
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