Ballyvadhea, County Tipperary – March 1895Retold by Kevin Flanagan on 31 October 2025 In 1895, gripped by paranoia and fear, Michael Cleary and his accomplices would burn Michael's wife, Bridget,…
Part III of the "Living Law Series," exploring ritual, skin, and the memory of land. There is a season that isn't drawn on any calendar. It lives between endings and…
Part I of the "Living Law Series," exploring ritual, skin, and the memory of land. I've long believed our bodies keep their own calendars. Skin, especially, is a seasonal storyteller.…
Few artists have done more to shape the visual language of Irish mythology than Jim Fitzpatrick. With a brush that seems equally at home in the ancient and the modern, Fitzpatrick has spent decades conjuring the gods, warriors, and otherworldly beings of Gaelic/Celtic legend into vivid, unforgettable life...
Part II of the "Living Law Series," exploring ritual, skin, and the memory of land. I wake each dawn to the soft percussion of the ocean against limestone. The Shipwreck…
Patrick Hickey (27 April 1927 – 16 October 1998) was an influential Irish printmaker, painter, architect, and educator whose contributions shaped modern graphic art in Ireland. Renowned for founding the…
Ireland's many stone ring forts are an enduring mystery for the scholar of ancient Ireland. Numbering in the tens of thousands, with some estimates of their numbers reaching over fifty…
"In early times [in Ireland] wealth is not spoken of in terms of money, which was not in circulation, nor of ownership of land, but primarily in terms of livestock…
A peculiarity we find in many late medieval and early modern depictions of Gaelic warriors are their swords, which often seem to be "flared" or widened towards the end, a…
The Irish Wolfhound, known in Irish as the Cú Faoil, is a breed of unparalleled size, strength, and historical significance. Renowned as one of the tallest dog breeds in the…