... of England and France and the wholesale destruction in Ireland during its occupation. The surviving written Celtic source documents ... Irish deity Anu, referred to as the mother of the gods of Ireland, and the Welsh deity Don, a mother fertility goddess. The similarity in ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jan 19 2020 - 6:03pm - 0 comments
... relatives of those who died in the Kingsmill massacre in N. Ireland in January 1976) that Garda files on the attack will be released to a ... it is significant for victims and survivors of the Northern Ireland conflict that the Stormont House Agreement provides for a comprehensive ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Jun 28 2015 - 3:34pm - 0 comments
... son Lugh, who fought battles for the Tuatha Dé Danann in Ireland. Lugh is an important god of Irish mythology. He was sent to the Isle ... time came, with his people the Tuatha Dé engaged in war in Ireland, for him to return home. Important in his quest was his magnificent ...
Alastair Kneale - Oct 22 2019 - 9:06pm
... BC was vast, an area of Celtic dominance that stretched from Ireland to the Black Sea and from Central Europe to southern Spain in an arc of ... artefacts and pictured being worn by figures in bronze and stone associated with Celtic settlement. The Torc, an undeniable marker of ...
Emmett McIntyre - May 19 2018 - 1:23am - 0 comments
... the French” as if the constitution is a fact set in stone. France has continuously disappointed me, not that I had any high hopes ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Dec 12 2014 - 9:47pm - 0 comments
... is a Memorial to Animals in War constructed in Portland stone and cast bronze, 58ft (17.68m) wide and 55ft (16.76m) deep. It is the ...
Alastair Kneale - Nov 14 2017 - 3:18pm
... community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad, The Gaelic League’s main aim is to reinstate the Irish language as the common tongue of Ireland. Since its founding in 1893, members have been actively promoting ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 13 2019 - 11:00pm
... Jedburgh, Edinburgh, Stirling and Montrose. Edward takes the Stone of Destiny from Scone, then moved back south to Berwick to take the oaths ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 18 2016 - 9:14pm - 0 comments
During the period of Christian conversion of Ireland in the 4th and 5th centuries, it was the strategy of monastic scholars ... God. Although it is thought that people throughout Ireland venerated this goddess, she is particularly associated with the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Oct 22 2019 - 9:02pm
... Jim was at the ‘Graham Memorial’, a small stone alpine styled shelter cut into the side of the mountain on a sharp left ...
Alastair Kneale - Feb 18 2022 - 6:09pm - 0 comments