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Colleen Berry Conway is the owner of Ogham Art alongside her husband Chris. She takes us through the history of the ancient Irish alphabet ... Also referred to as the Celtic Tree Alphabet ...
Celtic spirituality has always been associated with nature. Nature nourishes us, and the annual cycle of feasts and festivals in the Irish calendar conveys this. These seasons follow the length of ...
Ancient Greek and Roman writings on Celtic peoples from this ... which later transitioned into the insular art styles of early medieval Britain and Ireland. The construction of graves and grave ...
What was the Celtic concept of the afterlife, and why was it so similar to the concept of the Isles of the Blessed from Greek ...
Back then, this long wooden stick with a bulbous head, called a shillelagh, was key to bataireacht, or Irish stick fighting. And this Irish martial art ... They can admire ancient shillelagh ...
Hundreds of spectators have gathered for a Celtic fire festival marking the beginning of summer in Co Westmeath. A procession of light and fire was held at the Hill of Uisneach, an ancient ceremonial ...
Of Irish music Mr. O'Mara said yesterday: “We are only awakening to a realization of the beauties that lie hidden in our ancient airs. There is a new school of Irish music now beginning to ...
Still, much remains unknown about this Celtic tribe, as well as the many groups of prehistoric humans scattered across space and time., but Cassidy is convinced that ancient DNA will help unravel ...
This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain ... Only those drawn to the ancient Celtic past sense the numinous ...
A procession of light and fire was held at the Hill of Uisneach, an ancient ceremonial site steeped in Irish mythology. Performers dressed in Celtic costumes and donned leaf head-dresses as they ...