Dinnseanchas: The Irish Poetry of Place
Before Heaney on bogs, before the Nobel for a poem about a forge, there were 176 medieval Irish poems whose only job was to explain why a place was called what it was called.
Irish Culture
What Kuno Meyer Actually Translated: An Introduction to Early Irish Lyric
A German philologist in 1911 translated a hundred early Irish lyrics and changed what anyone thought Irish poetry was. Most people have never read him.
Tain Bo Cuailnge: A Reader’s Guide to Ireland’s Great Epic
Ireland has one epic on the scale of the Iliad. It is older than Beowulf. Preserved in three medieval manuscripts. How to read the Tain Bo Cuailnge.
The Fenian Cycle in One Sitting: A Reader’s Guide to High Deeds of Finn
If you have never read Irish mythology and want to know where to start, here it is. The Fenian Cycle, High Deeds of Finn, and a practical reading plan.
A Reader’s Guide to the Four Cycles of Irish Mythology
Irish mythology is huge, but it is organized. Four cycles, in the right reading order, with the single best edition to pick up first for each one.
The Irish Calendar: Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasadh
Four festivals. Four pivot points in the Irish year. What each festival actually meant and why the etymology matters.
The Manuscripts That Saved Irish Mythology
Irish mythology survives because of four handwritten books. What each contains, where it survives, and what would be lost if the scriptorium had burned the wrong night.
Irish-Language Communities Keeping the Tongue Alive in 2026
Irish is endangered on paper. In practice there are more children being raised in it now than at any point in the last century. Here is where the language is actually being lived.