The Táin Bó Cúailnge: The Cattle Raid of Cooley and the Epic at the Heart of Irish Literature
The Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the central text of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology […]
Celtic Mythology
Queen Medb: The Most Powerful Ruler in Irish Mythology and Why She Is Not the Villain of the Story
Queen Medb of Connacht launched the greatest military campaign in Irish mythology over a bull. This is the fact that
The Book of Invasions: The Text That Invented Irish History and Why Reading It Properly Changes Everything
The Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Book of the Taking of Ireland, is the foundational text of Irish mythology and one
The Second Battle of Mag Tuired: The Defining Conflict of Irish Mythology and Why Everything Leads Here
The Second Battle of Mag Tuired is the central event of Irish mythology. Everything in the mythological tradition either builds
Balor of the Evil Eye: The Fomorian King Whose Gaze Killed Armies and Whose Grandson Killed Him
Balor of the Evil Eye was the greatest king of the Fomorians and the most feared being in Irish mythology.
The Fomorians: The Ancient Forces That Opposed Ireland’s Gods and Were Never Fully Defeated
The Fomorians are the oldest hostile force in Irish mythology. They were in Ireland before the Tuatha Dé Danann arrived,
Lugh: The Irish God Who Was Master of Every Art and Killed His Own Grandfather With a Sling Stone
When Lugh arrived at the gates of Tara and asked to be admitted to the court of the Tuatha Dé
The Dagda: The Good God Who Was Neither Good Nor Particularly God-like, and Was More Powerful for It
The Dagda is the chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann and one of the most distinctive figures in any
The Tuatha Dé Danann: Ireland’s Divine Race Who Became the Fairy Folk Beneath the Hills
The Tuatha Dé Danann are the gods of Ireland. Not gods in the abstract, remote sense that the word sometimes