Culann’s Hound 60: Wisewoman
In the Dublin General Post Office, site of the 1916 Easter Uprising, stands this famous bronze of the dying Cúchulainn. …
In the Dublin General Post Office, site of the 1916 Easter Uprising, stands this famous bronze of the dying Cúchulainn. …
Both as a physical object and a set of ideas, a book can tie together past and present, allowing us …
Superhero movies loom very large in the chatter online: witness the excitement over Justice League, with its “extended universe” of …
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 …
Óengus Óg (“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 …
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 Cúchulainn) …