Kuno Meyer: The German Who Gave Ireland Back Its Voice
Kuno Meyer was born in Hamburg, taught German in Liverpool and died in Leipzig, yet few people did more to put early Irish literature back into Irish hands. Here is…
Did You Know About Isolde’s Tower? The Irish Princess Beneath Temple Bar
Thousands of people walk past Isolde's Tower every week without knowing it is there. It sits behind an iron gate on Exchange Street Lower, on the western edge of Temple…
Walking Between Worlds — Living Law Part XI
Part XI of the Living Law series, exploring ritual, skin, and the memory of land. There comes a point where separation no longer holds. Where the elements are no longerdistinct,…
The Law of Return — Living Law Part X
Part X of the Living Law series, exploring ritual, skin, and the memory of land. Nothing we take is without consequence. Not always immediately, but eventually.Everything returns: to soil, to…
Bark, Bite, and Brehon Law: Learn About The History of Dogs in Early Irish Society, Legend, and Law
Kill the wrong dog in early medieval Ireland and it could cost you ten cows and a replacement hound. Let your own dog foul a neighbour's land and you might…
INSIDE THE BREHON COURTS: JUSTICE, JUDGES AND SURETIES IN EARLY IRELAND
For over a thousand years, Ireland ran a legal system with no police force, no prisons, and no state courthouse, and it worked. Disputes were heard, judgements were handed down,…
The Language of the Woods: Everything You Need to Know About Ogham, Ireland’s Ancient Tree Alphabet
Shrouded in the mists of early medieval Ireland, Ogham remains one of the most enigmatic writing systems of the ancient world. Its slender strokes and notches, cut along the edges…
Brehons, Brahmins, and an Irish Scholar who made an Incredible Connection
Myles Dillon spent fifty years arguing that early Ireland and ancient India shared more than a distant ancestor — this is his story, and his case
“King and Hermit”—A 10th-century poem translated by Kuno Meyer
What follows is a 10th-century poem describing events set in the seventh century. It records an imagined conversation between King Guaire (Guare) of Connacht and his brother Marvan (Marban), a…
The “Hidden Ireland” of Daniel Corkery
Published in 1924, the book is a study of the Irish-language poets who kept a native learned culture alive across Cork, Kerry, and Limerick through the eighteenth century, long after the formal Bardic schools of medieval Ireland had been destroyed. Corkery called this world hidden for a precise reason.
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