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…
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…
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
How the Irish Got Their Language | Origins of Gaeilge and Ogham
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.
Trial by Truth: The Twelve Ordeals of Brehon Law and the Testament of Morann
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…
The Silver Branch: Cormac Mac Airt and the Price of the Otherworld
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...
Ireland’s Oldest Rule for Kings: Tell the Truth, or Watch the Kingdom Die
Imagine a political idea so old and so serious that a king who told a lie could, in theory, cause the harvest to fail.
The Spirit of the Law: What Irish Mythology Can Teach Us About Ancient Irish Laws
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…
Inside the Artistic Mind of Jim Fitzpatrick — “Mere Mythology” Fairy Tales or True History?
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…
The Defeat of the Tuatha Dé Danann – How Mere Mortals Destroyed the Old Gods
The Battle of Tailtiu, a pivotal event in Irish mythology, marked the decisive confrontation between the Milesians, the ancestral Gaels, and the Tuatha Dé Danann, the divine race that ruled…
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