Send us a text Hello Everyone Just wanted to gice you another taste of my book - The Celtic Code - Can the Irish Save Western Civilization again This is Chapter 5. you can find the book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Code-Irish-Western-Civilization/dp/B0F3JN4B2W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Support the show Irish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a text 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 a series of vivid dreams, I recorded each vision upon waking and wove them into a compelling narrativ...

Send us a textIrish 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 mythology, a Joint-eateror Just-halver the Alp-luachra is a type of fairy who sits invisibly and consum...

Send us a textBataireacht 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 developed as a way to settle disputes and for self-defense in a rural and often lawless Ireland. The ...

Send us a textMany 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 the confederacy even though they said they were neutral. The Irish attacks ...

Send us a textRose 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 upbringing to align herself with revolutionary causes. She became a passionate advocate for the Irish R...

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

Send us a textThe 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 showIrish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a textOíche 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 Samhain festival was the most significant of the four quarter Celebrations includ...

Send us a textThe 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-1.3952348https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C5QqFapcuw Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Billy Mag FhloinnSupport the showIrish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a textIrish 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 withdrawal”. Support the showIrish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a textIreland 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 videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3N3WJpLA48&t=1sSupport the showIrish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a textIreland'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 of their time or in the case of the eight women oh Islandmagee - Women who drank, smoked and cursed and not th...

Send us a textMost 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 especially what happened in fall of 1740.There is a great book that will give you greater det...

Send us a textThis is my struggle with answering what should be a very simple question.Support the showIrish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a textDruids – 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 the formation of our personality and behaviour. The Celtic Tree Astrology system was developed from the Druid's...

Send us a textThe 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 a force greater than them 20 to 1. They will not receive their due honors ...

Send us a textON 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 preventing a planned bombing by the IRA in the territory.Despite the fact the three were unarmed, a s...

Send us a textThis 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 showIrish Mythology - Mythical Cycle - Book of Invasions

Send us a textThe 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 Saint is attributed with naming it Hy-Brazil. His voyage is record in "Navigatio sancti Brend...