The Ancient Irish Hero Who Tied Himself to a Standing Stone Rather Than Die on His Knees
The first time most people encounter Cú Chulainn, it is not in a classroom or a museum. It is on a pub wall in Dublin, or carved into a fountain in…
The first time most people encounter Cú Chulainn, it is not in a classroom or a museum. It is on a pub wall in Dublin, or carved into a fountain in…
He was the greatest warrior Ireland had ever known — son of Fionn mac Cumhaill, legend among the Fianna. And then, one morning beside Lough Leane, a white…
If you have ever watched a pair of white swans gliding across a still Irish lake at dusk, you may have felt something you couldn’t quite name — a flicker…
Long before Magna Carta, long before English common law stretched its reach across the world, a legal system thrived on the western edge of Europe that…
In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable field in County Clare,…
The first time you really look into a seal’s eyes, something…
Every autumn, across rural Ireland, a warning passed from farmer to…
Scattered across Ireland’s countryside — rising from…
Three men lift a narrow, tar-black boat above their…
Three miles off the tip of the Dingle Peninsula,…