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Right Relationships

ipsadminDecember 10, 2023December 8, 2023

In today's interconnected world, understanding and practising 'Right Relationship' in our interactions with cultures different from our own is crucial. It is even more important that we consider this in...

Making Offerings in Spiritual Relationships

ipsadminNovember 20, 2023January 9, 2024

Living an active pagan practice can involve many things, from reverence of nature to moments of introspection or meditation. Yet there is one aspect of the devotional practice of paganism...

Contemporary Paganism Festivals

Healthy Boundaries Make for Safe Communities

ipsadminSeptember 29, 2023February 12, 2024

There is a crucial concept that forms the foundation of strong and safe communities: healthy boundaries. We have seen a real profound impact of setting and respecting boundaries on the...

Beginners

You Don’t Have to be Irish to Study Irish Paganism Here

ipsadminJuly 14, 2023July 24, 2023

An interesting question, or some version of it, comes up for us time and time again. From ‘my great grandparent was Irish’ or ‘my [insert random DNA test brand here]...

Guest Posts The Gods

What is Paganism? with Alan Wells

ipsadminApril 28, 2023January 9, 2024

This is a guest post in answer to the question 'what is Paganism?', for the Irish Pagan School blog by Tuath member, Rev. Alan Wells. More from Alan at -...

Festivals Irish Folklore Magic The Sidhe

Bealtaine in Irish Folklore

ipsadminApril 7, 2023May 11, 2023

Bealtaine is a significant community festival in Ireland, marking the beginning of summer and the changing of the year. In this article you will discover some of the traditions of...

Beginners

Why Some People are More Confident in Being Openly Pagan

ipsadminMarch 31, 2023May 11, 2023

Spirituality can be a very personal thing. We are each of us trying to learn and grow as a spiritual person as much as we are an intellectual, physical and...

Irish Folklore The Sidhe

What is a Sidhe?

ipsadminMarch 17, 2023July 24, 2023

Call them elves, faeries, goblins, faery, dwarves, sprites, pixies, gnomes, fay, or fae… almost every culture has them, and in Ireland we call them the Fairies, or the Sidhe. If...

Contemporary Paganism

What Everybody Should Know… When Starting to Create Community

ipsadminMarch 10, 2023January 9, 2024

So what does it take to create community, and is having one really all that worthwhile? There are many things that we are very grateful for in our little corner...

Beginners The Gods

Paganism

ipsadminDecember 2, 2022May 11, 2023

Having the word Pagan in your vocabulary may seem like a strange concept to some, but Paganism is a term used to describe a number of different religions, a term...