BY: Joe Horgan ÉIRÍ competition article from The Irish Post: June 27th 2022 When I was a teenager growing up in inner city Birmingham our Granny Murphy came over from Cork regularly to visit. She came for a week or so and usually stayed for a month or so. She was the mother of thirteen…
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Women in Irish Mythology – Competition News from the Irish Post
ÉIRÍ Evoking Ireland’s Resilient Female Icons I will add new reports and updates as I get them. The articles should be available on lineso I will add links when I get them.
Celebrating Women’s Stories in Irish Mythology – A ‘Starter’ story for Children
An International Competition Celebrating Women in Irish Mythology A Story to get you started. Find out more about the competion and how schools can get involved. A fully interactive Schools’ package is in preparation. It will take another week or two to complete. By the close of May, for Irish schools at least, it is…
Celebrating Women in Irish Mythology – Who will you choose?
An Exciting new Project Socio-Physicist and comparative mythologist, Professor Ralph Kenna, with support from The Irish Post and Story Archaelogy, are launching an second nternational arts competition This exciting project, in parallel with a participatory research project, is designed to re-ignite awareness of inspirational female figures from Irish mythology and folklore who have all too…
Celebrating Women Through Irish Mythology- an exciting new arts and research Project.
‘ÉIRÍ’ Évoking Ireland’s Resilient female Ícons Myths meets Maths meets Gender Socio-Physicist and comparative mythologist, Professor Ralph Kenna releases news of a new arts competition and participatory research project, Ongoing from May 1st, (Bealtaine) to October 31st (Samhain) 2022 View all of the ÉIRÍ Competition articles from the Irish Post Both aspects of the project…
Explore Series 5: Mythical Women Revisited
There are six episodes It was Isolde’s idea to reprise the first six episodes that we had created back in 2012. She felt that, in the light of our discoveries in the intervening years that there would be much to update. This was particularly true of the episode about Sinann. Back in 2012, we had…
Explore Series 1: Mythical Women
This series allowed Isolde and I to explore some of our favourie characters from Irish Mythology. In almost every episode, as I remember, there were unexpected surprises that made us think about these mythical women in a new light. Each episode includes the podcast a plus a range of translations, stories and related material. There…
Circling the Táin 06: Women Warriors ~ The Training of Cú Chulainn
The magnificent warrior women Scathach and Aife both play a major role in Cú Chulainn’s future life and exploits but they are not the only women who actively engage with out young hero.. Join the Story Archaeologists as they attempt to come to terms with the number of dalliances and romantic interludes encountered by the…
Revisiting Mythical Women 05: The Search for Brigid
Brigid is the much-loved irish saint of kildare as well a pre-Christian Celtic mythical figure. But what connection is there between the two? Just who is Brigid? Sift through the strata of her story with the Story Archaeologists to uncover some unexpected surprises. Links to other episodes mentioned within the podcast. Further Discussion on the Well of…
Revisiting Mythical Women. 4: Revisiting Airmed.
Airmed is the daughter of the great Dé Danann physician, Dían Cécht, part of a family of healers. Together, they create the healing well of Sláine, which restores injured warriors at the Second Battle of Moytura. But do the meanings of their names tell a different story? In our revisit to what may seem at…