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| Fairies of the Irish Mythology |
From The Irish Fireside, Volume 1, Number 24, December
10, 1883 |
| Shee or Fairies and their Dwellings |
From A Smaller Social History of Ireland by Patrick Weston Joyce. |
| The Burning of Bridget Cleary |
From Five Years in Ireland, 1895-1900 by Michael J. McCarthy, 1901 |
| Witchcraft in Carrickfergus |
From The Dublin Penny Journal, Volume 1, Number 47, May 18, 1833 |
| Witchcraft in Kilkenny |
From the Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 10, September 1, 1832 |
| Witchcraft in Kilkenny |
From The Dublin Penny Journal, Volume 1, Number 43, April 20, 1833
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In Irish mythology the Tuatha Dé Danann,
were said to be the descendants of the great mother-goddess Dana. With
her consort Bilé she engendered a race of gods. They were the ancestors
of one of the early peoples of Ireland who were vanquished and became
the “fairy” inhabitants of the land. Dana’s divine offspring
include the smith god Goibhniu, the ancestral king Nuadhu Airgedlamh (Of
the silver hand), and Oghma, god of writing and eloquence, from whom we
get the Ogham alphabet.
Belief in faries and fairy lore is stronger in
Ireland than any other part of Europe, the otherworld community is known
in Irish as the people of sî this word origionally siginified a
tumulus or burial mound.
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In Irish mythology the Tuatha Dé Danann,
were said to be the descendants of the great mother-goddess Dana. With
her consort Bilé she engendered a race of gods. They were the ancestors
of one of the early peoples of Ireland who were vanquished and became
the “fairy” inhabitants of the land. Dana’s divine offspring
include the smith god Goibhniu, the ancestral king Nuadhu Airgedlamh (Of
the silver hand), and Oghma, god of writing and eloquence, from whom we
get the Ogham alphabet.
Belief in faries and fairy lore is stronger in
Ireland than any other part of Europe, the otherworld community is known
in Irish as the people of sî this word origionally siginified a
tumulus or burial mound.
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