Culann’s Hound 57: Deadly Intent
This is a zombie post while I am traveling! When in Manhattan, I love to lay my eyes on familiar …
This is a zombie post while I am traveling! When in Manhattan, I love to lay my eyes on familiar …
This is a zombie post while I am traveling to Crete 🙂 About 5300 years ago, people in Ireland built …
Ă“engus Ă“g (“Angus the Young”) was an Irish god of love and poetic inspiration. In my version of the tale, …
I am fond of visiting cemeteries to read the names on the stones, look for quirky memorials, and enjoy the …
Samhain (pronounced sow-in, to rhyme with cow-in) is a Gaelic holiday celebrated on October 31, the same day as American …
Goodnight Moon is my favorite children’s picture book. It is a gentle story of a baby bunny’s bedtime ritual: saying …
Manannán mac Lir, the son of the Sea, was a prominent figure in ancient Irish religion. He also appears in …
Mortality is at the center of the great epics. In the Sumerian Gilgamesh epic, the hero (like Achilles and CĂşchulainn) …
CĂşchulainn’s battle at the ford with his friend Ferdiad is the climactic scene of the Táin BĂł CĂşailnge. The fight is …
The “Staunton” style of chess pieces, required for formal competition, was created by a man named Nathaniel Cooke, an editor …