Wilde IrisheAug 24, 202012 min readO’Donnell’s Kern—A Sixteenth-Century Campfire TaleSo there you have the Circuit of Manannán mac Lir of the tuatha dé danann, who used to be going round Ireland.
Wilde IrisheApr 23, 20208 min readSword Dance of the Irish KernThe kern in Elizabethan Ireland were said to have a sword dance peculiar to them. What can we learn of its nature?
Wilde IrisheDec 20, 20194 min readThe O’Byrnes of Wicklow: Tara in the MountainsTo find what may have been iron age raths still inhabited at this date is remarkable, but not isolated in Ireland.