Irish mythology
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Ancient Roads
Read more: Ancient RoadsHighways of Ancient Ireland Earlier this summer I watched the road outside my home slowly broken up and resurfaced. The many weeks of hard labour (granted they took far longer than needed), disruption and chaos created, and the army of trucks carrying materials, all got me thinking about how such roads were built and used…
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Gods of Ireland
Read more: Gods of IrelandThe Tuatha De Dannan If I were to list out the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Norse cultures, I can almost guarantee that their respective pantheons will come to mind. But if I now add the Irish to this list, I wonder how many would be able to list even one of their gods. Even as…
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Fashion in Iron Age Ireland
Read more: Fashion in Iron Age IrelandEvery morning all of us share in a ritual that dates back as far history itself. For, without exception, each of us will decide what we will wear for the day ahead. The questions we will ask to form our choices are the same questions our ancestors would have asked some 2,000 years ago: ‘What…
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The History of Dunseverick Castle
Read more: The History of Dunseverick CastleUlster’s hidden treasure There are few more iconic sites than the lone, solitary stones of a once great castle standing tall above the sea. Dunseverick, as it is known today, is but a shadow of its former glory. Now a National Trust site, all that remains are but a few stone walls displaced along a…
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Dún Ailinne
Read more: Dún AilinneLeinster’s Ancient Hillfort Even from a young age, we have an in-built desire to outdo one-another. We view the greatness of our homes relative to those of our neighbour’s. When one upgrades their driveway, everyone else will publicly praise yet inwardly resent it. You only have to look at the great skyscrapers which line our…
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Life in the Iron Age
Read more: Life in the Iron AgeA day in an Irish Hillfort Life in the Iron Age is hard for us to picture today. With some 1,500 years of history in between, it’s difficult to underestimate the great social chasm that time lays between us and our ancestors. And yet, for any who have the eyes to see, all around us…
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Navan Fort
Read more: Navan FortUlster’s Ancient Capital Few today ever question the choice of Belfast as Northern Ireland’s capital. But this is a very recent phenomenon; for Belfast is one of the most recent cities in the world to become a nation’s capital, having only claimed this status with the partition of Ireland in 1920. In fact, while Belfast…
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