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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Ask most people, even most Irish people, to name a famine, and they'll give you one answer: the Great Hunger of the 1840s (or An Gorta Mór; though a growing…
This article is for anyone curious to learn more about their family history and genealogy. It includes essential resources, records, and strategies for successfully tracing one's Irish ancestry. From vital…
OR, A Hypothetical Timeline of Irish History Note – Anno mundi, (Latin: “in the year of the world”), abbreviation A.M, the year dating from the year of creation in Jewish chronology, based on rabbinic calculations.…
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...
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…
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...
Back by popular demand! The most requested guest of 2025 returns — and this time, we go deeper, stranger, and more thought-provoking than ever before. Picking up where we left…