Culann’s Hound 23: My Town
Is it safe to walk through Central Park at night? Most New Yorkers will tell you that it is perfectly …
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Culann’s Hound 22: Words of Scáthach
The warrior school run by the heroine Scáthach was on the Isle of Skye, but I can’t resist showing these …
Finding My Religion
While on a trip to the UK, I was told that in Northern Ireland, if you drink Jameson’s, it means …
Culann’s Hound 21: Son of Lugh
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
Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychoanalyst, has perhaps had more impact on the social sciences and humanities than on the …
Culann’s Hound 19: Black Dog
I have written before about the cultural value of the severed head for the Celts. According to the Greek historian …
Shusaku Endo’s “Silence” on Page and Screen
In Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo, we first see a black screen and …
Veggie Burgers in Manhattan
On our Christmas trip to NYC, I decided to investigate a food trend that is most welcome to vegetarians: the …
Culann’s Hound 18: O Mournful Wonder
For my version of the Cúchulainn myth, I relied for the most part upon English translations of the Irish sagas. But …
Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 17: The Wandering
Inspecting the handwriting of an author, even one born in a century long-past, brings you to a direct apprehension of her (or his) …
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