Slainte: Irish Recipe Archives. Sláinte: Soup is ON! It rained yesterday.
That might not be a big thing in Ireland or New York where drenching downpours only generate brief comments from the weatherman. In Los Angeles even scattered showers are top news stories. Every cloud is tracked on radar, and when people in the street are quizzed about how they’re coping, they groan about the lack of sunshine. I, however, love a good rainstorm. Perhaps it’s my Irish genes or my East Coast roots. Sláinte!: Dancing at Lughnasa. By Edythe Preet, ContributorAugust / September 2008 Of all the months of the year, only August has no ‘official’ holiday.
That’s poor marketing if you ask me. Holidays generate more ‘stimulus’ to the economic calendar than any paltry government ‘rebate’ could ever engender. Granted, there’s a flurry of back-to-school buys but academic purchasing doesn’t hit full momentum until September. Sláinte!: Irish Wedding Traditions. By Edythe Preet, ContributorJune / July 2009 Just when I think I have my dad all figured out, a new snippet of info comes to light, and June always finds me thinking more about him than usual.
It’s Father’s Day month, his birthday was the 3rd, and my parents were married on June 16th, now celebrated globally as Bloomsday, the day Leopold Bloom wandered through Dublin in Ulysses by James Joyce, Dad’s favorite author. June is also the prime month for weddings, and Dad was a wedding photographer. He used to say he’d like to write a book about his wedding adventures titled I Shot the Bride with a 4-5, meaning his trusty 4×5 press camera. Almost immediately on beginning the research for this article on Irish wedding traditions, I chanced upon some eye-opening Irish marriage advice: “Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, and Saturday no day at all.” Producing healthy offspring was what brought the sexes together. Sláinte!: Irish Wedding Traditions.
Buildings at risk: The Wonderful Barn, Co Kildare - Irish Homes & Property. Urban Outfitters St. Patrick's Day Clothes Cause Outrage (PHOTOS, POLL) Urban Outfitters has done it again: offended a cultural group through derogatory clothing.
The fashion store recently started selling clothing targeted towards St. Nike Apologizes For Offensive 'Black And Tan' Sneaker (PHOTO, VIDEO) Nike is apologizing for a new St.
Foundation Myths: The beginning of Irish Archaeology. Author: John Waddell Publisher: Wordwell ISBN Number: 1869857984 Publication Date: 2005.
Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. The period of Landlordism was generally a turbulent time on the Dingle Peninsula, with evictions and land agitation.
One of the most tragic events to occur during this time was the famine of 1845-48. Although there were shorter periods of famine in various parts of Ireland up until 1928, it is the period between 1845 and 1848 which is today referred to as the Great Famine. During this period the potato crop failed, which was the stable diet of the majority of the population. Poor housing and disease, along with hunger, led to the deaths of 1,500,000 people, and at least the same number again left Ireland, heading mostly for North America. Rathcroghan Royal Site. Tulsk, Co.
Roscommon We Irish should keep these personages much in our hearts, for they lived in the places where we ride and go marketing, and sometimes they have met one another on the hills that cast their shadows upon our doors at evening…When I was a child I had only to climb the hill behind the house to see long, blue, ragged hills flowing along the southern horizon. What beauty was lost to me, what depth of emotion is still perhaps lacking in me, because nobody told me…that Crúachan of the Enchantments lay behind those long, blue, ragged hills! W. B. Www.ucd.ie/t4cms/emap_report_2_2_complepeted.pdf. (9) An Bó Bheannaithe: Cattle Symbolism in Traditional Irish Folklore, Myth, and Archaeology.
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Bega of St. Bees: the Irish princess, nun, or pagan relic? Viking silver armlet from Cuerdale Hoard, copyright British Museum The official line on St.
Bega1 is that she was the Irish princess in whose name St Bees’ Priory was founded. Bega decided at an early age that she would devote her life to the church, whereupon an angel gifted her a holy arm-ring as a symbol of her dedication to Christ. Needless to say, Bega was also a very beautiful Irish princess and she was soon in demand for marriage and her father, an Irish king, accepted the proposal of the King of Norway. This was the last thing Bega wanted, so whilst the kings were feasting, Bega used her arm-ring as a magical key to open all the castle’s locks and she escaped across the Irish Sea. Perhaps the best-known story about Bega is how she came to own the land upon which her priory was built. Over the next hundred years ago, a series of nine Bega-related miracles took place in Cumbria. St Bees Priory copyright Doug Sim. Rhetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: A Prolegomena to Ancient Irish Rhe...: EBSCOhost.
Www.ucd.ie/t4cms/emap_report_2_2_complepeted.pdf. Essay: St. Brigid. If we are to believe that there are some things inherent in our nature as humans, perhaps we should include in this list ethnocentricity. Www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/tripos-papers/part-ii-papers-for-2012-2013/paper-g. Saints, Scholars and Pagans? The impact of Paganism on Medieval Irish Christianity. In the film adaptation of “The Field”, the parish priest proclaims Christianity to be a “thin veneer” over Irish people, in a derogatory reference both the people and pre-Christian Paganism alike.
This idea of Christianity being a thin veneer runs contrary to the notion of medieval Ireland being an “island of saints and scholars” but is there any truth to this idea? Exactly how Christian was early Irish Christianity? How the conversion worked In Episode 7 of the podcast, I outlined the early stages of the conversion of Ireland to Christianity. In short by the early 7th century after several generations of proselytising by Christian missionaries Christianity was the most popular spiritual practice in Ireland.
Modern views tend to see the concept of the conversion in black and white terms where the convert drops one set of spiritual, religious and often customary practice and replaces them with another. Continuity: St Brigid. Rathcroghan Royal Site. Scottish Archaeological Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2005), pp. 147-183. Burials uncovered in Ireland reflect fusion of Paganism and Christianity. Alternative Archaeology: Many Pasts in Our Present.: EBSCOhost. The Heroic Age: Celtic Ogham Primer by James-R-MacAdie on deviantART. JSTOR: The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 23, No. 91 (Apr., 1926), pp. 178-190.