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Gravestones? Territory boundary markers? No one is quite sure.Īfter the conference, we spent a few days knocking around the province of Munster.
We also visited the corridor at UCC which contains the Ogham stones: the earliest written inscriptions in Irish, using a system of notches that don’t look like much, but record the names of powerful people from a forgotten time.
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You can still see the marks where the calligrapher scraped the fur off the hide of the cow’s skin to make the vellum. This is not a fancy illustrated manuscript like the Book of Kells, but the stories inside are priceless. It’s a manuscript in Irish from the 1400s, and contains many of the most important Irish tales of saints and heroes. That’s me in the front row, taking mental notes and trying to conceal myself.Īlso while at UCC, we got to see the Book of Lismore, one of the prizes of their archival collection. Here’s the well-known Celtic scholar John Carey presenting his closing talk on the concealment magic of the Tuatha Dé. You can bet those details will be percolating in my brain, waiting to be included in a novel! I got to say a few words of thanks in Irish, and attended a wide array of lectures in both English and Irish, learning all sorts of fascinating info about the Irish gods. That will be framed and will hang proudly in my office! Pádraig Ó Macháin presented Becky and me with a beautiful page of vellum calligraphy thanking us for our support. After I graduated from UCC with a masters in Gaelic literature, I was invited back as a guest at the conference, and the department head Dr. The subject was the Irish gods known as the Tuatha Dé Danaan. Over the weekend, we participated in the main event and reason for our trip: an academic conference at University College Cork, hosted by the Department of Modern Irish. Not sure what the Corkonians would think of that, though. Someone suggested we put a memorial plaque on the spot. He was born in the city around 1788, fought against the armies of Napoleon in Spain, lost a leg in the Battle of Tarragona, and returned to Cork to live out his life as a tobacconist. Finbarr’s Cathedral and Elizabeth Fort, was once the site of 6 and 7 Fort Street, where my third great grandfather Dennis Riordan lived. This field of weeds and wildflowers on Fort Street, between St. We also paid homage to my ancestors’ homestead. We were blessed with great weather most of the week, and the banks of the Lee are one of my favorite places to walk. Here’s me on a sunny day in Fitzgerald Park on the banks of the River Lee. We checked into the lovely Hayfield Manor and stayed for a week. Ĭork City is the Riordan ancestral homestead. I’m pretty sure they were planning something nefarious. We decided it was time to leave Dublin when the seagulls outside our hotel window started staking out our room. We had a scrumptious dinner at Glas, a vegetarian/vegan restaurant with a Michelin star, and we could see (and taste) why. Brigid has always been one of my favorite goddesses, er, saints.
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My favorites were these awesome stained glass windows of Ireland’s three great saints, Brigid, Patrick and Colmcille, done by Michael Healy in the 1920s. If your baby Jesus looks like this, see a doctor. His expression seems to say, “He’s right behind me, isn’t it?” Maybe that’s because Baby Jesus is depicted like this in the next painting. This John the Baptist looks rather worried as he proclaims the coming of Jesus. He looks cool.Īthena’s owl shows up in the strangest places. Some of our favorites from the National Gallery included Saint George killing the dragon, though my sympathies are very much with the dragon. Stephen’s Green on the good bus “Freya.” The last we saw them, they were turning into a tiny street that their tour guide promised was Thor’s Alley! Seems like Thor would merit at least a boulevard, but whatever. I’m not sure what Magnus Chase would’ve made of this tour group of alleged Vikings trundling around St. Stephen’s Green and visiting the National Gallery of Ireland.
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We spent our first full day getting our land legs in Dublin, walking St. Part business, part vacation, the trip took us from Dublin to Cork to the hinterlands of Munster and back again. Becky and I are just back from an eventful and fun two weeks in Ireland.
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