16 May 1639: The #Irish Privy Council orders all #Scots over 16 years of age living in #Ireland to take an oath abjuring the National Covenant #otd (BL)
#FairyTaleTuesday: Like the seal, the badger was sometimes seen as a shape-shifting person; the #Irish hero #Tadg found their meat revolting, unconsciously aware that they were really his cousins.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
The National: Glasgow airport has been told to act after a sign for a restaurant appeared to mix up Irish and Scottish Gaelic… The slogan on the sign currently reads “An bhfuil ocras ort?” with [Murdo] MacSween explaining it should instead say “A bheil an t-acras ort?”
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: „The names of the #Irish goddess #Medb and the #Gaulish goddesses #Meduna and the #Comedovae may be derived from an Indo-European word *médhu– signifying ‘honey’, ‘intoxication’, and designate the fermented drink extracted from honey, that is ‘mead’. If this etymology is correct – other possibilities have been suggested -, their names may be therefore glossed as ‘Goddess of Intoxication by Mead’ or ‘Mead Goddess’.“
#MythologyMonday: The #TuathaDéDanannrefined the art of brewing until the ale of their smith and brewer #Goibniu was strong enough to endow the drinker with immortality. #Irish epics connect ale with the festival of #Samhain, when the boundaries between this world and the #Otherworld were blurred.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
‘Transgressing into poetry’: Nationality, Gender & Sexuality in SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND by Edwin Morgan & THE PRICE OF STONE by Richard Murphy
by Prof Tara Stubbs
Both #Scottish poet Edwin Morgan & (Anglo-) #Irish poet Richard Murphy transgressed poetic norms: contradicting ‘nationalist’ poets of their respective traditions, making playful use of language, & treating #gender & #sexuality in daring ways
8 May 1666: d. John Sinnich of #Cork professor of Theology at #Leuven & canon of Sint-Pieterskerk #otd He made his career as a vigorous defender of Jansenist opinions, & was Rector Magnificus of the university (googlebooks) He left money to support #Irish students to study law.
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: The #Irish ritual of the one-legged crane dance curse (corrghuineacht) is a form of magic-working, the power of which is intensified when practised standing on one leg, with one arm outstretched, and with one eye closed like a crane (ir. corr). The ritual position itself is known as glám dícenn (meaning ‘satire which destroys’). It was thought that the open eye was able to look directly into the magical #Otherworld, whilst standing on only one leg indicated being present in neither one world or the other.
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
The Aisling is a dream or vision in which a poet meets a beautiful, magical woman, probably a woman of the Sidhe, symbolising #spring, the bounty and beauty of nature, and love. During the troubles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Aisling developed into a patriotic poetic genre in #Irish language poetry, in which the fairy woman became a Goddess representing #Ireland’s sovereignty.#Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
The placenta has always been seen as something mystical.
In #Australia, if it was believed that, if the mother had launched the afterbirth into the water, the baby would have been a good swimmer.
Batak¹ people from Sumatra, #Indonesia, buried it under the house; it was believed to be the newborn's sister or brother.
Similarly, Baganda² from #Uganda believed that the placenta was a doppelgänger of the child – this is similar to the #Irish (or #British, in general?) concept of fetch.³
24 Apr 1348: First recorded sermon of Richard Fitzralph anti-mendicant Archbishop of #Armagh is given at #Dundalk#otd (ParkerLib/JMcC) The #Irish Franciscans who owned this later copy of his works were less than impressed with him.
23 Apr 1627: Preaching before Deputy Falkland at Christ Church #Dublin#otd George Downame of #Derry makes public opposition of #Irish bishops to limited toleration of Catholicism. Everyone there was aware of the recent conversion of Elizabeth Falkland #writer to Rome (NT/NLI)
„The foxglove, known as Lus Mór in #Irish, meaning the ‘great herb’, is used to describe the beautiful blush of the pure cheeks of #Étain, #Deirdre, and warrior #Conall Cernach.“
Source: Source: Ali Isaac | Substack #Celtic
„Tormentil is a little yellow flower which looks similar to a buttercup, and which commonly grows all over #Ireland between May and September. It was used for pain relief and to treat digestive problems.
In #Irish, its name is Néalfartach; neal meaning ‘depression/ gloom’, and fartach meaning ‘hurt/ injury’. In Co Cork, however, it was known as Lus an Chodlata, meaning ‘herb for sleep’, suggesting that it may well have been used for promoting sleep.“ #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack