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Tain 20: An ‘Online’ Schools’ Óenach

♦ 02/12/2020 ♦ Leave a Comment

What has been happening? Each May the Táin Bó Cúailnge is celebrated by a group who walk the entire route undertaken by characters of the story. Along the way, schools community groups and many others, organise events and exhibitions to celebrate this wonderful ancient ‘epic’. The march begins at Tulsk, Roscommon. This is Cruachan, the …

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Walking with the Táin ~ Stories in The Landscape

♦ 25/06/2019 ♦ Leave a Comment

The text of the Táin Bó Cúailnge is one of Irish story’s greatest treasures. The central tale of the two great bulls may be familiar but the wealth of wider stories that circle the Táin, involve some of the most colourful of Irish characters and encompasses almost the whole of the country. Since 2011, a …

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Uaimh na gCait (Oweynagat)

♦ 29/06/2016 ♦ Leave a Comment

The Cave of the Cats Taken from a personal journal entry after an early visit to the cave …..“There it is, by that house” and we tumble out of the car into the everlasting drizzle. The cave of Cruachán was said to be the most notorious otherworld entrance in folktale and legend. From here, so …

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Who killed Medb? ~ a poem

♦ 14/06/2013 ♦ Leave a Comment

And Medb? That famous queen of Connacht, That virtuous virago – woman of renown, Serpent wise and venomous, How did she die? Was it Ailill, on a night of pillow talk, On a night of boasting and bragging, Was there one too many pillows plumped, To stifle her competitive tongue. Was it Ailill who brought …

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Dindshenchas 03: The Well and the Cheese – The Unlikely Story of Medb and her Sisters

♦ 13/06/2013 ♦ 3 Comments

Inis Clothrann, the largest island of Lough Ree, Co. Longford, is famous for more than just its venerable monastic remains.  It was here that Medb of Crúachán would bathe in the island’s well in fulfilment of a geis, imposed for killing at least one of her sisters.  It was at this same well she met her death. …

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Uaimh na gCait (Oweynagat)

♦ 30/08/2012 ♦ Leave a Comment

The Cave of the Cats Taken from a personal journal entry after an early visit to the cave …..“There it is, by that house” and we tumble out of the car into the everlasting drizzle. The cave of Cruachán was said to be the most notorious otherworld entrance in legend. From here the Morrigan emerged …

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