Culann’s Hound 21: Son of Lugh

January 30, 2017

Cúchulainn’s famous spear, the gáe bolg or “spear of mortal pain,” was made from the bone of a sea monster, Coinchenn, …

Culann’s Hound 20: The Animus

January 23, 2017

Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychoanalyst, has perhaps had more impact on the social sciences and humanities than on the …

January 16, 2017

I have written before about the cultural value of the severed head for the Celts. According to the Greek historian …

January 12, 2017

In Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo, we first see a black screen and …

January 11, 2017

On our Christmas trip to NYC, I decided to investigate a food trend that is most welcome to vegetarians: the …

January 9, 2017

For my version of the Cúchulainn myth, I relied for the most part upon English translations of the Irish sagas. But …

January 4, 2017

Inspecting the handwriting of an author, even one born in a century long-past, brings you to a direct apprehension of her (or his) …

January 2, 2017

Voltaire said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. But Charlemagne’s achievement was admirable. In an …