Fódla. In Irish mythology, Fódla or Fótla (modern spelling: Fódhla or Fóla), daughter of Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was one of the tutelary goddesses of Ireland. Her husband was Mac Cecht. In the Tochomlad mac Miledh a hEspain i nErind, Fótla is described as the wife of Mac Cecht, reigning as Queen of Ireland in any year in which Mac Cecht ruled as king.[1] The text goes on to relate that as the Milesians were journeying through Ireland, Fótla met them ‘with her swift fairy hosts around her’ on Naini Mountain, also called the mountain of Ebliu. A footnote identifies the Naini Mountain of Ebliu as the Slieve Felim mountains in County Limerick.
The soil of this region is peaty luvisol.[2] According to Seathrún Céitinn she worshipped the Mórrígan, who is also sometimes named as a daughter of Ernmas. In De Situ Albanie (a late document), the Pictish Chronicle, and the Duan Albanach, Fotla (modern Atholl, Ath-Fotla) was the name of one of the first Pictish kingdoms.[3]
Irish mythology. Bunworth Banshee The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity. However, much of it was preserved in medieval Irish literature, though it was shorn of its religious meanings. This literature represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. Although many of the manuscripts have not survived and much more material was probably never committed to writing, there is enough remaining to enable the identification of distinct, if overlapping, cycles: the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle and the Historical Cycle.
There are also a number of extant mythological texts that do not fit into any of the cycles. Additionally, there are a large number of recorded folk tales that, while not strictly mythological, feature personages from one or more of these four cycles. The sources[edit] Mythological cycle[edit] Lugh's Magic Spear; illustration by H. Other important Tuatha Dé Danann figures[edit] Irish mythology. Irish History, the story of the Irish Race. The Irish race of today is popularly known as the Milesian Race, because the genuine Irish (Celtic) people were supposed to be descended from Milesius of Spain, whose sons, say the legendary accounts, invaded and possessed themselves of Ireland a thousand years before Christ. The races that occupied the land when the so-called Milesians came, chiefly the Firbolg and the Tuatha De Danann, were certainly not exterminated by the conquering Milesians.
Those two peoples formed the basis of the future population, which was dominated and guided, and had its characteristics moulded, by the far less numerous but more powerful Milesian aristocracy and soldiery. The possession of the country was wrested from the Firbolgs, and they were forced into partial serfdom by the Tuatha De Danann (people of the goddess Dana), who arrived later. In a famed battle at Southern Moytura (on the Mayo-Galway border) it was that the Tuatha De Danann met and overthrew the Firbolgs. Irish Invasions of Britain Red Hugh. IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA. Irish Writers OnlineIrish PlayographyStudy Ireland: Poetry - BBCIrish Women Writers - M. OckerbloomIreland Literature GuidePoetry Ireland / Éigse ÉireannEarly Irish Lyric Poetry - Kuno MeyerSonnets from Ireland - E. BlomquistColum's Anthology of Irish Verse - Bartleby.comBREAC - Digital Journal of Irish Studies Medieval Celtic ManuscriptsThe Book of KellsCarmina GadelicaCELT Irish Electronic Texts Irish Writers OnlineIreland Literature ExchangeBibliography of 19th-c.
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Category:Irish legendary creatures. Category:Irish ghosts. Category:Irish fairy tales. Category:Irish folklore. Irish astronomical mythology. Donn was a mythical figure in Irish literature and folklore. His name, according to Daithi O hOgain, represents the adjective 'donn', meaning 'brown'. It is possible his name also meant 'dark', and O hOgain tells us his character is associated with the shadowy realm of the dead.
One reference describes him as 'Donn, king of the dead at the red tower of the dead'. His three sons are reported to have said 'we ride the horses of Donn - although we are alive, we are dead! ' The name Donn is tentatively associated with the bull through the story of another Donn, one of the sons of Mil, who was drowned at Inbhear Sceine (Kenmare Bay, Co. Donn, meaning darkness, could also be the opposite of Find (or Finn) meaning brightness. One folk tale tells how a man being brought into a fine palace in Knockfierna (a hill in Co. Astronomical mythology from the Tain Bo Cuailnge, IX - The Pact is Broken: CONN WATCHES THE STARS From Martin Brennan's "The Stones of Time"
Excellence of the ancient word - druid rhetorics from Irish tales. The Excellence of Ancient Word: Druid Rhetorics from Ancient Irish Tales by Seán Ó Tuathail Copyright © 1993 John Kellnhauser May be reposted as long as the above attribution and copyright notice are retained Introduction While the ancient Irish tales abound with warriors and kings (not to forget Queen Medbh!) , another figure at almost every turn emerges to out- rank them. In the ancient Irish tales Irish druids are frequently depicted in detail. But over all else, they were "poets". One of the purposes of the present collection is to make the archaic roscanna more readily available to the modern reader, in both English and Irish. Retaining the archaic grammatic forms where they occur also serves the important purpose of high-lighting the heady "mixture" of language in the originals, where, for example, the first person singular of verbs may end in both "-u" and "-im" within the same rosc.
One additional major editorial decision has been made. 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. Dindshenchas - ancient Irish placename lore. The Tuatha Dé Danann. The birth of Fin MacCumhail (Finn Mac Cool) CUMHAL MACART [Cumhail, genitive of Cumhal, after Mac = son pronounced Cool] was a great champion in the west of Erin, and it was prophesied of him that if ever he married he would meet death in the next battle he fought.
For this reason he had no wife, and knew no woman for a long time; till one day he saw the king's daughter, who was so beautiful that he forgot all fear and married her in secret. Next day after the marriage, news came that a battle had to be fought. Now a Druid had told the king that his daughter's son would take the kingdom from him; so he made up his mind to look after the daughter, and not let any man come near her. Before he went to the battle, Cumhal told his mother everything, - told her of his relations with the king's daughter. He said, "I shall be killed in battle to-day, according to the prophecy of the Druid, and I'm afraid if his daughter has a son the king will kill the child, for the prophecy is that he will lose the kingdom by the son of his own daughter.
Tain Bó Cuailnge - The Cattle-Raid of Cooley. An Irish Myth Concordance. An Irish Myth Concordance by Mike Nichol copyright 1985 c.e. By MicroMuse Press [This information may be reproduced and distributed exactly as is, without further permission from the author, provided the statement of authorship and copyright are retained, and provided it is offered free of charge. Changes in the text, however, must be approved in advance by the author. MicroMuse Press is a division of The Magick Lantern, 1715 Westport Road, Kansas City, MO 64111. 816/531-7265] 'Myth is what we call other people's religion.' The following concordance is based on 'Gods and Fighting Men' by Lady Augusta Gregory, first published in 1904.
As this is intended to be a concordance of the Irish mythological cycle only (as opposed to heroic, legendary, or historical material), references are limited to Part I, Books I - V, of Lady Gregory's volume. Abhean - son of Bicelmos, he was the harper of the Tuatha de Danaan, brought from the hills by the Men of the Three Gods (37). Beltaine - May Day (28)
Irish Mythology. Irish Mythology. Dindsenchas. Dindsenchas or Dindshenchas (modern spellings: Dinnseanchas or Dinnsheanchas), meaning "lore of places"[1] (the modern Irish word dinnseanchas means "topography")[2] is a class of onomastic text in early Irish literature, recounting the origins of place-names and traditions concerning events and characters associated with the places in question. Since many of the legends related concern the acts of mythic and legendary figures, the dindsenchas is an important source for the study of Irish mythology. The literary corpus of the dindsenchas comprises about 176 poems plus a number of prose commentaries and independent prose tales (the so-called "prose dindsenchas" is often distinguished from the "verse", "poetic" or "metrical dindsenchas"). As a compilation the dindsenchas has survived in two different recensions.
The first recension is found in the Book of Leinster, a manuscript of the 12th century, with partial survivals in a number of other manuscript sources. Edward J. References[edit] Non-eu-visiting-student-application-form-sept14.pdf.