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Embracing the Divine: Ritual Honouring the Dagda

ipsadminJuly 28, 2023July 15, 2024

With the colonising oppression of the Catholic church it's fair to say that we lost all previous rituals and practices that honour the Dagda. Yet by taking the time to...

In Service to the Morrigan: Social Justice

ipsadminJuly 26, 2023May 16, 2024

A while back, I became aware of a contentious blog post and subsequent social media commotion emerged from a self-proclaimed community 'elder' who was railing against Social Justice being a...

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]...

Mythology

Unveiling the Rich Mythology of Irish Paganism

ipsadminJuly 11, 2023January 9, 2024

The ancient stories of Ireland are not collected in one singular tome, but gleaned from decades of effort across a variety of manuscripts. In order to provide some timeline in...

Irish Folklore Mythology The Sidhe

Water Beings in Irish Folklore

ipsadminJune 9, 2023July 24, 2023

The island of Ireland was in its past a place of vast and dark forests, rolling hills and mountains and of course many lakes and rivers. As the peoples of...

Irish Folklore Magic

Being a Bard in Ancient Ireland

ipsadminMay 26, 2023January 9, 2024

The mythology of Ireland has come down through the centuries to us today. Though a lot of it dates to the mediaeval period, linguists have identified forms of old irish...

Beginners Reviews

Checking Sources in Irish Paganism

ipsadminMay 5, 2023May 11, 2023

In our Irish Pagan School student group on Facebook, and our blog comments here, an ugly spectre recently raised it's head again, in the form of queries about whether sources...

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 -...

Mythology The Gods The Sidhe

Tuatha De Danann, Myth or Reality?

ipsadminApril 21, 2023January 9, 2024

So much of Irish Pagan beliefs were lost in the repeated colonisation of our little island. For all of that, there are some names that seem impossible to forget. From...

Magic The Gods

Why Some People Always Hear Back from their Gods

ipsadminApril 14, 2023May 11, 2023

From prayers to meditations, journeys to offerings, it can sometimes feel like we are casting our cries out into the void in the hopes of hearing a reply. Struggling to...