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Folk memory - could local people in 1938 recall...
I've written before about the apparent curious persistence of local folk memory. You might recall one of the most famous examples - the fact that local people said Venus (the...
Folk memory - could local people in 1938 recall...
I've written before about the apparent curious persistence of local folk memory. You might recall one of the most famous examples - the fact that local people said Venus (the...
The Boyne river, Carl Jung and the reconciliati...
I've been reading a book about the life and influence of Carl Jung. One of the things that has struck me since I recently began to earnestly probe the life...
The Boyne river, Carl Jung and the reconciliati...
I've been reading a book about the life and influence of Carl Jung. One of the things that has struck me since I recently began to earnestly probe the life...
Watching the northerly march of the sun as we h...
I realise that I haven't written a blog post in a while. It's not that I haven't been doing anything. Quite the opposite. One of the things that's been keeping...
Watching the northerly march of the sun as we h...
I realise that I haven't written a blog post in a while. It's not that I haven't been doing anything. Quite the opposite. One of the things that's been keeping...
Tractor at work in the Nanny valley, Bellewstow...
A tractor in a field in the Nanny valley near Bellewstown, Co. Meath, rolling the soil after ploughing. The introduction of agriculture in the New Stone Age was arguably the...
Tractor at work in the Nanny valley, Bellewstow...
A tractor in a field in the Nanny valley near Bellewstown, Co. Meath, rolling the soil after ploughing. The introduction of agriculture in the New Stone Age was arguably the...
Almost 1.9 million sunsets since Newgrange was ...
Almost one million, nine hundred thousand sunsets. If we take the date of 3150BC for the construction of Newgrange (which is the date favoured by archaeologists), then tonight's sunset in...
Almost 1.9 million sunsets since Newgrange was ...
Almost one million, nine hundred thousand sunsets. If we take the date of 3150BC for the construction of Newgrange (which is the date favoured by archaeologists), then tonight's sunset in...
Blocc and Bluigne – standing stones at Tara
Blocc and Bluigne, the two ancient standing stones in the churchyard on the Hill of Tara. Some people say they are guardian stones. Others say that they are fertility stones....
Blocc and Bluigne – standing stones at Tara
Blocc and Bluigne, the two ancient standing stones in the churchyard on the Hill of Tara. Some people say they are guardian stones. Others say that they are fertility stones....