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October 2021
- The Druids of Brittany
- Michaelmas and Irish folklore
- Horses in the Sea – Michaelmas and Scottish folk practice (video)
September 2021
- Viking reenactors in Ireland (video)
- The Goddess in Irish Mythology (video)
- The Fir Bolg (video)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (video)
August 2021
- The Salmon of Wisdom
- Biddy Boys (video)
- The Druid’s Apprentice (video)
- Biddy Early and the Changeling (video)
- The Mari Lwyd (video)
July 2021
- Irish songs, dance – from about 100 years ago (video)
- The Cunningman – a short film from the UK. Brilliant
- The dead month – the hunger and thirst of July
- The question of Scottish deities
- Warrior women of Ireland
- Mid Summer’s Eve in Ireland
- The bonfire on Saint John’s Eve
- Irish deities, Welsh deities – how different are they? (video)
- Manannán Mac Lir (video)
- Áine, a Goddess of summer (video)
“It represents the annual solar and lunar events which marked the seasonal festivals (na féile shéasúracha) as well as the movement of the sun around the earth.
To them the earth was the center of the universe – an Ollmháthair.)
It marks the quarter days ( laethanta cinn ráithe) as well as the cross quarter days (laethanta trascheathrún).
Much of this astrological material was preserved in tAn Seanchas~ Mór or the oral tradition (béaloideas dTraidisiúnta, de réir seanchais.)”
– Brehon Law Academy
June 2021
- Irish Folklore for Mondays
- Pangur Ban – the Irish monk and his cat
- Ireland has only 1% of native forest left
- How to pronounce Beltaine and other stuff (video)
May 2021
- Who were (and are) the Celts?
- The May Bush tradition in Ireland
- May Poles in Ireland
- May Day and Butter Stealing Witches
- A Beltaine song (video)
- Bird and Animal lore in Ireland (video)
- Waulking songs from the Hebrides (video)
- Beltane in Scotland 2021 (video)
- A new Bardic poetry data base
- All Fools Day and sending the fool farther (April 1)
April 2021
- The Tuatha Dé Danann as depicted in John Duncan’s “Riders of the Sidhe” (1911)
- Understanding the Irish mythological cycle
- Saint Patrick’s Day traditions in Ireland
- Brighid the Goddess
- The Voyage of Bran
March 2021
- The weather of March in Irish Folklore
- Celtic woman warriors
- Warrior queens and Fairies in the Isle of Skye
- Celtic women were also warriors
- Shrove Tuesday, pancakes and marriage predictions
- Tale of a Banshee
- Brighid, Brigantia and Imbolc (video)
- Traditions and beliefs of Candlemas Day in Ireland
- Symbolism and Saint Brighid in Early Christian Ireland
February 2021
- Who is Brighid? (video)
- A poem for Brighid (video)
- Ever wonder what happened to Saint Brighid when she was brought to America by Irish immigrants?
- The dance of the Straw Bear
- Who is the Cailleach?
January 2021
- Hogmanay in Edinburgh (video)
- Hansel Monday – the first Monday of the year
- The ancient Hag Goddess of Winter – The Cailleach
- Christmas Eve and the city below Lough Gur
- Mythical lake-bursts of Ireland
- The wren boys on Saint Stephen’s day
- Banishing hunger on New Year’s – an Irish tradition
- Irish New Year’s Day traditions
- A podcast about Brighid, Goddess and Saint
- The Scottish Island tradition of Skelking
- Eddie Lenihan speak about trees (video)
December 2020
- The Cailleach – Goddess of Winter in the Scottish Highlands
- Irish Tree Lore
- The New Moon in Irish folklore
- The weird and wonderful traditions of Samhuinn in Scotland
- Old Irish Halloween mischief and amusements
- All Souls and Day of the Dead in Ireland
November 2020
- Irish Folklore of the Barnacle Goose
- The Land of Youth (Tír na nÓg)
- The origins of Samhain (Halloween) (video)
- More on the origins of Halloween
- Halloween (Samhain) in Ireland
- Halloween divination in Ireland
- The warrior women of Ireland
- Understanding the concept of “geas” in Celtic tradition
- The role of animals in the Mabinogion
October 2020
- The Celtic origins of Samhain (Halloween)
- Michaelmas – carrots, horses and dancing
- Michaelmas in Ireland
- The last sheaf of the harvest – honoring the “Hag”
- The Hazel tree in Celtic lore (video)
- Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” was likely inspired by Irish myths
September 2020
- The Water Bull
- Modern Irish folklore – “The Day of the Straws” project – music, art, writing about Covid-19
- Have we forgotten who the Cailleach really is?
- The old Irish story tellers (video)
August 2020
- The High Man (video)
- Tracing the Cailleach (video)
- Was Crom Dubh a Black God of Ireland?
- The hunger and thirst of July
- Reek Sunday, Garlic Sunday, the last Sunday of July
- A haunted house in Ireland is up for sale
July 2020
- The Bonfire on Saint John’s Eve (June 23)
- Midsummer’s Eve in Ireland (June 23)
- Saint John’s Day (June 24) “tell it in Toberona”
- Was Taliesin a Druid? (video)
June 2020
- How the Druids united Ireland (video)
- Irish May Day traditions
- Death, superstition and fear, the lore of the Hawthorn tree in Ireland
- Clootie wells in Scotland
May 2020
- May Eve and the Fairies in Irish Folklore
- May Day and Butter Stealing Witches
- The May Bush tradition in Ireland
- Living off the grid in Northern Ireland (video)
- The Maypole tradition in Ireland
- The folklore of Mondays
- Crofting and Scotch Whisky
- Where did Cerridwen chase Gwion Bach? (video)
- Celtic Fairy Tales for Children
- A Corona Virus song (video on Facebook)
- When ancient kings married the Land Goddess
- Celt-Iberians (video)
- Hand dancing for small spaces (round the house and mind the dresser!) (video)
April 2020
- Manannán Mac Lir (Facebook video
- March weather lore in Ireland
- Saint Patrick and the cult of Crom Cruach
- Defiant Celtic Women (Eddie Lenihan speaks)
March 2020
- The Faery lore of the Elder tree
- Christians and Pagans in late Irish antiquity
- Celtic women in mythology
- Holy wells in Cork and Kerry
- Holy Wells in Ireland (podcast)
- Cure for the Evil Eye
- The mythical island of Hy Brasil and the Book of Lees
- Who were the Druids? (video)
February 2020
- Traditional Imbolc practices
- Goddesses in Celtic religion
- Evidence that an old Irish folk cure works
- Hansel Monday – the first Monday of the Year
- Saining not smudging, purification rites in Scotland
- Twelfth Night in Ireland, candle magic
- Brighid, Goddess and Saint of the Gael
January 2020
- The terrifying and weird tradition of the Mari Lwyd which is celebrated every December
- More on the Mari Lwyd (poetry and music)
- Christmas Eve and the city below Lough Gur
- Irish New Year’s traditions
- Druids, the rulers of the Celts (along with the nobility, of course)
- Druids; a short introduction (video)
December 2019
- All about the Puca (video)
- The Hag of Beara (video)
- Fairy Archaeology, Folk Medicine in Ireland
- The history of Ireland in 10 little words
- The story of the Fianna
- Tibetan cosmology and Ogham
November 2019
- Welcoming the New Moon in Irish folklore
- Edinburgh’s Samhuinn fire festival
- Irish cursing stones (video)
- The Cailleach: Goddess of Winter (video)
October 2019
- Michaelmas – 29 September – a feast in Irish folklore
- The last sheaf – a harvest rite for the old hag
September 2019
- September harvest customs in Ireland
- Celtic Gods and Goddesses of Iberia
- Land, Sea and Sky – the 3 sacred Celtic realms (video)
- The Lady Well at Modeligo
- Studies in Irish mythology (paper)
- The Puck fair at Killorgin (August 10)
- Clouties and Cloutie pollution (rag wells)
August 2019
- Reek Sunday and other Irish traditions associated with the last Sunday in July
- Eddie Lenihan, traditional story teller (video)
- Hidden text found in Welsh Arthurian stories
- Folklorists outraged as “clouties” are cleared from fairy trees in Scotland