irish folklore
Aug 17, 2026
The Skin Left on the Rocks
A journal entry on the selkie of Scottish, Irish, and Faroese tradition — the seal that becomes human by shedding its skin, and what is owed, and lost, when that skin is taken.
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Aug 13, 2026
The Giants Beneath the Turf
In the west of Ireland the Fir Bolg are remembered first as an ancient, defeated people, and only later as giants whose bodies became the hills they once held.
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Aug 2, 2026
The Stone That Turns Three Ways
A visit to Newgrange and its carved triple spiral, and an honest reckoning with how much of what we say about the symbol is memory and how much is invention.
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