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The Irish Ringfort book by Matthew Stout is bei...
There is good news for Irish archaeology fans this month after it was revealed that Matthew Stout's book The Irish Ringfort is to be reprinted. There are as many as...
The Irish Ringfort book by Matthew Stout is bei...
There is good news for Irish archaeology fans this month after it was revealed that Matthew Stout's book The Irish Ringfort is to be reprinted. There are as many as...
St. Brigid's Day and Imbolc are not the same thing
Saint Brigid's Day and the old cross-quarter festival of Imbolc are often celebrated on 1st February. However, as Anthony Murphy argues here, Imbolc can never fall on 1st February and...
St. Brigid's Day and Imbolc are not the same thing
Saint Brigid's Day and the old cross-quarter festival of Imbolc are often celebrated on 1st February. However, as Anthony Murphy argues here, Imbolc can never fall on 1st February and...
Reading from Sir James G. Frazer's 'The Golden ...
Over the past few weeks, I have been reading excerpts from the wonderful The Golden Bough by James George Frazer on Live Irish Myths, the weekly livestream about Irish mythology.
Reading from Sir James G. Frazer's 'The Golden ...
Over the past few weeks, I have been reading excerpts from the wonderful The Golden Bough by James George Frazer on Live Irish Myths, the weekly livestream about Irish mythology.
Spectral forms in the dark at Dowth and uninten...
While photographing the famous Stone of the Seven Suns at Dowth in the twilight, I captured some ghostly or spectral forms, showing a face. Had I photographed the spirits of...
Spectral forms in the dark at Dowth and uninten...
While photographing the famous Stone of the Seven Suns at Dowth in the twilight, I captured some ghostly or spectral forms, showing a face. Had I photographed the spirits of...
Dowth Henge - another solstice alignment at Brú...
While all the focus of winter solstice is on Newgrange today, there is another monument at Brú na Bóinne with apparent alignments on midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset. The Dowth...
Dowth Henge - another solstice alignment at Brú...
While all the focus of winter solstice is on Newgrange today, there is another monument at Brú na Bóinne with apparent alignments on midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset. The Dowth...
Newgrange satellite cairn may have had its own ...
A destroyed passage-tomb close to the famous Newgrange monument may once have had a roofbox, just like its more famous and larger neighbour, an Irish archaeological research has suggested.
Newgrange satellite cairn may have had its own ...
A destroyed passage-tomb close to the famous Newgrange monument may once have had a roofbox, just like its more famous and larger neighbour, an Irish archaeological research has suggested.