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Unruly Ireland

Gillian Kenny

Unruly Ireland explores the strange, unsettled, and deeply human sides of Irish history and folklore, from the medieval period to the modern world.

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The Bone in the Bed

How to improve your own sex life and destroy others' using magic in medieval Ireland. Medieval Irish people who couldn't get what they wanted from love and sex by ordinary means reached for magic, and the church, the lawyers and even the s...

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Not Thinking of Love

A few months ago I wrote a piece on female poets in Ireland here but I am working on medieval expressions of love at the moment and thought I would write a bit more in detail on Líadain and her famous love story. To me her story is one of t...

6 days ago
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Five Astonishing Things About the Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator

Every so often the medieval Irish produced a story so improbable that the only reasonable response is to sit back and admire both the nerve as well as the absolute seeming unruliness of it all. But as ever, upon closer inspection, that unru...

11 days ago
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The Trees You Do Not Cut

It’s mid-May, and the fairy trees of Ireland are in flower. They stand alone in ploughed fields, sometimes awkwardly stranded on perfectly good roundabouts or just randomly leaning into a wall the hedgers were careful not to clip. Most are...

13 days ago
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Eye-Bitten

Ireland may not have had demonic witches but it did have eye-biters.

In 1584 the English sceptic Reginald Scot tucked a curious aside into his enormous Discoverie of Witchcraft. Across the Irish Sea, he reported, the supernatural ran on a...

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