https://youtu.be/7rybVPBN4t4 To understand why Newfoundland sounds the way it does, you have to go back further than the fishery — back to the collapse of the old Gaelic order itself.…
Auraicept na n-Éces, or The Scholars' Primer, is one of the most important and fascinating surviving texts from medieval Ireland. It stands as the earliest known native Irish treatise on grammar, poetics, and the philosophy of language.
When people imagine early Irish law, they usually picture the brithem — the brehon — weighing evidence and handing down a careful judgement based on precedent. That's true enough for…
There's a passage that turns up in a lot of anthologies of Irish myth, usually just a page or two, that starts with a strange young man walking up to the King of Tara carrying a branch of silver with three golden apples on it...
Imagine a political idea so old and so serious that a king who told a lie could, in theory, cause the harvest to fail.
Osborn Joseph Bergin (1873–1950) was a towering figure in Celtic studies. Read on to learn more about this veritable master of the Irish language, in all its historical forms, a brilliant philologist, an exacting editor of manuscripts, and a dedicated teacher who helped shape the next generation of scholars, including Myles Dillon.
Born into one world, stolen into another — Standing Bear's journey back to himself is one of the most powerful stories you'll ever hear. Wayne "Standing Bear" Snellgrove is Saulteaux/Anishinaabe…
A guide to the principles of Ireland's ancient legal tradition, told through myth and legend. The Demise of the Brehon Laws? Sir John Davies wrote the following in a treatise…
What did a Gaelic warrior actually look like? Not the romanticised image — the real thing, backed by historical evidence. Step back into the turbulent world of 16th-century Gaelic Ireland…
How an ancient faith didn't die — it transformed...