Cornish Celts keep their axes close
Pic: BBC The BBC reports that a collection of rare Bronze Age axe heads discovered in Cornwall has gone on display in Truro after a campaign to keep the relics in the county. The 3,000-year-old...
View ArticleThe Fifth Direction: Sacred centres in Ireland
Anyone who starts to take an interest in the medieval texts relating to Ireland quickly picks up the idea that the country was divided into ‘fifths’. Indeed, the Gaelic word cuigeadh still means...
View ArticlePreventing erosion of Scottish Neolithic sites
Skara Brae – click A LONG-TERM strategy is planned to protect one of Europe’s most important archaeological sites from erosion, says news.scotsman.com. Skara Brae is vulnerable to coastal erosion. A...
View ArticleIrish Viking trade centre unearthed
One of the Vikings’ most important trading centres has been discovered in Ireland. The settlement at Woodstown in County Waterford is estimated to be about 1,200 years old. It was discovered during...
View ArticleOrkney calls for action to save Celtic languages
The BBC tells us that Dr Donna Heddle has warned that without action to preserrve the linguistic celtic heritage, the old languages would become lost. Orkney-based expert Dr Donna Heddle said without...
View Article21st/23rd September Harvest time!
The Autumn Equinox or Harvest Home is also called Mabon, pronounced 'MAY-bon', after the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron, which means literally 'son of mother'.Mabon appears in 'The Mabinogi tales. Some...
View ArticleWomen of the Celts in Myth, Legend and Story
The gods and goddesses of the ancient Celts were living forces in their imagination and worship, and although Victorian scholars thought their savage war-goddesses; their barbaric sea-gods and the...
View ArticleThe Faerie Tradition, Gwydion Pendderwen & the passing of Cora Anderson
Cora Anderson 1915 – 2008 Cora Anderson, a co-founder with Victor Anderson of what is now known of as the Feri Tradition, passed on this morning at the age of 93. Cora Anderson was known as a Grand...
View ArticleCelebrating Beltane and the Fires of Tara
Half-nude, red-painted revelers at the Beltane Fire Festival reenact an ancient, annual Celtic ritual heralding the May 1 arrival of summer—”Beltane” being Celtic for “May.” Revived in the 1980s, the...
View ArticleThe Highland Games keep the Celtic Spirit alive
The wonderful thing about a mythology like that of the Celts is that it is still so vibrant and alive. Over the centuries it has matured, evolved and developed like a fine wine. The fruit from which it...
View ArticleGrace O’Malley the Dark Lady of Doona
Born c. 1530 into the O'Malley family, the hereditary lords of Umhall which included Clare Island, Inishturk, Inishbofin, Inishark and Caher, Grace married into two of the powerful families of Western...
View ArticleUpdate on Saving Newgrange: A New Hope?
Proposed Slane Bypass Pic: Save Newgrange Vincent Salafia of Save Newgrange tells us that the Irish Times has reported that new consultations are being ordered to discuss the Slane Bypass that is...
View ArticleCardiff couple boost the Breton language
Richard Thorpe and his Breton partner Dr Jacqueline Gibson both speak Welsh and Breton and have been active raising links between Wales and Brittany since moving to France 18 months ago. More than 700...
View ArticleThe People of the Kingdom of Dál Riata – Dalriada
The people of the Kingdom of Dál Riata spoke a Q-Celtic Goidelic language. They lived in Argyll on the West Coast of what is now Scotland from around AD 400. The Gaels of Dál Riata are often called...
View ArticleHurling, Love and Fairies
THE fairies, with their true artistic love of all the gentle graces of life, greatly dislike coarse and violent gestures, and all athletic sports, such as hurling and wrestling; and they often try to...
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