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Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons If you’ve ever dreamed of standing on the land your ancestors worked, this changes everything. The National …
Honeycomb stitch on an Aran sweater (CC BY-SA 4.0) Count the stitches on a genuine Aran sweater and you are reading a deliberate vocabulary: the …
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Manannán mac Lir (pronounced MAN-an-awn mak LEER) is Ireland’s ancient god of the sea. He rules the Otherworld — the realm the Irish called Tír …