The Incomparable History Of Ireland

Send us Fan Mail I’m thrilled to announce that I am now a published author! 📖 My book, The Celtic Code: Can the Irish Save Western Civilization Again , is now available on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback formats. This book is a fascinating journey through Irish mythology and history, offering a deeper understanding of how ancient cultures connected with their natural surroundings. Inspired by...

Send us Fan Mail Irish water fairies are not like Tinkerbell; they are monsters.  This episode I share some of my favorites: Muirdris, the “Sea Bramble” or “Sea Briar” - A huge, mysterious, undefined horror that inflates and deflates, expands and contracts like a bellows. It has features of a thorn-bush, with branches that stings, and its appearance alone is deadly. Alp-Luachra - In Celtic mytholo...

Send us Fan Mail Bataireacht is a traditional Irish martial art that involves fighting with walking sticks, or shillelaghs, for self-defense and community protection. It originated in the 16th century and was a key part of Ireland's resistance to colonization.  Bataireacht is a combination of boxing, fencing, and grappling, where fighters use their sticks to punch, strike, and jostle. It was...

Send us Fan Mail Many soldiers on both sides of the civil war were Irish Immigrants.  Highly regarded for their skill and courage many were high ranking officers.  After the civil war they wanted to free their country from the shackles of the British empire.  The closest target the British colony in Canada.   Interestingly, the US government looked the other way at first, since the British helped...

Send us Fan Mail Rose Dugdale is a remarkable but controversial figure known for her dramatic transition from a life of wealth and privilege to radical activism. Born into an affluent English family, she enjoyed an elite education at institutions like Oxford University, where she excelled academically. However, disillusioned with the inequalities she witnessed, Dugdale abandoned her privileged upb...

Send us Fan Mail There were two really tragic maritime disasters in Ireland in December.  One a heroic tragedy, one a total disregard for human life.    Support the show Irish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us Fan Mail The Celtic Yule festival was the foundation for what we call Christmas today.  I will present the Yule festival as well as cover some other traditions still followed today. As I describe the Yule festival you will see many similarities to our modern day Christmas making it apparent as with other Christian holidays, that it was actually rooted in pagan culture.  Support the show Ir...

Send us Fan Mail Oíche Samhain was celebrated on the eve of November 1st.  It is  also the Irish name for the month of November. The festival was a time when people believed the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead was thin, and that spirits could cross between worlds more easily.  It was a time to welcome in the harvest and welcome in “the dark half of the year.” For the Celts, the...

Send us Fan Mail The story behind this song is just amazing and totally Irish.  I will tell you the tale behind this song and share with you a version that you can watch in the YouTube link below.    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-fairy-tune-from-the-blasket-islands-given-new-life-1.3952348 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C5QqFapcuw   Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Billy Mag Fhloinn S...

Send us Fan Mail Irish Peacekeepers have stood tall on the Blue line for over 44 years. The Blue Line is a demarcation line dividing Lebanon from Israel and the Golan Heights. It was published by the United Nations on 7 June 2000 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon. It has been described as: "temporary" and "not a border, but a “line of wi...

Send us Fan Mail Ireland is proud of being the only nation to have a continuous presence on UN and UN-mandated peace support operations since 1958 , with Irish peacekeepers highly respected internationally.  They thanked Irenad and you can see it in this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3N3WJpLA48&t=1s Support the show Irish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us Fan Mail Ireland's witches include Alice a four-times-married moneylender; Biddy a much-loved healer; Bridget a successful seamstress seen as a bit too high and mighty; and eight women from Islandmagee, who were accused of bewitching a young newcomer, in a trial that came to be known as Ireland's Salem. These were incredible women that might have been seen as threatening or ahead...

Send us Fan Mail Most people are unaware of the famine before An Gorta Mor.   Bliain an Áir , meaning "The year of the slaughter" took place in 1741.  A bizarre weather pattern lasting 2 years will cause an estimated 13% to 20%  of the 2.4 million people of Ireland to die. This was a proportionately greater loss than during An Gorta Mor of 1845–1852.  This weather is just really freaky e...

Send us Fan Mail This is my struggle with answering what should be a very simple question. Support the show Irish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us Fan Mail Druids – draoithe, plural of draoi – are sorcerers with supernatural powers, who are respected in society, particularly for their ability to do divination . Dictionary of the Irish Language defines druí (which has numerous variant forms, including draoi) as 'magician, wizard or diviner'. Celtic Tree Astrology is based on the idea that the time of our births is related to...

Send us Fan Mail The Congo crisis of 1960 could frighteningly turn into a war world.  Rich in resources and asserting its independence from Belgium it seeks United Nations assistance in protecting its sovereignty.  The UN sends in Irish troops because Ireland is a neutral company and has never colonized another country.  These Irish soldiers perform outstandingly.  They were courageous and battle...

Send us Fan Mail ON 6 MARCH 1988, three unarmed members of the IRA were shot dead on the territory of Gibraltar by British Special Air Service (SAS) troops. The killings of Sean Savage, Daniel McCann, and Mairéad Farrell sparked weeks of increasing violence and  murders in Belfast. All three were killed as part of the controversial Operation Flavius, the British military operation targeted at prev...

Send us Fan Mail This episode cover the Shamrock Spitfire Flying Ace Brendan Finucane, Father Hugh O'Flaherty who saved over 6000 people from the Germans and Maureen Flavin Sweeney whose weather reporting move D-Day to protect troops from rough weather. Support the show Irish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us Fan Mail The Irish Saint Brendan landed in North America 500 to 1000 years before Christopher Columbus? He also arrive in Iceland and Newfoundland before the vikings and documented in the book of Icelanders written in 1130. Could Saint Brendan have stepped foot on the mythical Island that was on early maps but has disappeared and that I covered in an earlier episode Hy - Brazil?  This Sain...

Send us Fan Mail Around 130 bodies have been found in our Irish bogs to date, some male, some female, and children too. Some were thought to be there by accident, perhaps as a result of falling into the bog and drowning. Others were considered to be formal burials, and others appear to be murder or sacrafice. The most famous is known as Cashel Man, who was discovered near Portlaoise in 2011, and a...

Send us Fan Mail Padraic Pearse was an Irish teacher, lawyer, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Uprising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion.  My Father, brother Steve and I got to tour his summer cottage in Ireland on our last...

Send us Fan Mail Ireland's deadliest day, May 17th 1974 came at the hands of the UVF, Ulster volunteer force, a radical protestant loyalist paramilitary group from Northern Ireland. The Ulster Volunteer Force set off four car bombs that exploded without warning, bringing destruction to Dublin and Monaghan and killing 33 people including a woman that was nine months pregnant. the youngest of t...

Send us Fan Mail A lake-burst, in Irish, tomhaidhm is a phenomenon referred to in Irish mythology, in which a previously non-existent lake comes into being, often when a grave is being dug. Part of the lake-burst stories may originate in sudden hydrographic changes around limestone-based inland plains or turloughs. in the legend surrounding the lake burst of Lough Neagh , a woman turned mermaid . ...

Send us Fan Mail The Dublin whiskey fire took place on 18 June 1875 in the Liberties area of Dublin. It lasted a single night but killed 13 people, and resulted in €6 million worth of damage in whiskey alone. People drank from the 6 inches deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe. Support the show Irish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us Fan Mail January 6 is an important day within the Christian calendar.  Known as Epiphany Sunday, or Twelfth Night, it commemorates the three kings visiting Jesus.  it is also a feast known as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas). In Ireland, Epiphany was also associated with death divination, Twelfth Night being the night on which the gates of heaven were meant to close after Christmas. In...