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Posted on August 2, 2019September 9, 2019

We Will Bring The Doe Alive, a Retelling by Karina Tynan

Introduction : A young woman called *Sadbh was cast into the shape of a deer by a dark *druid for refusing his amorous advances. She was found in that shape by *Fionn Mac Cumhaill who took her to the safety of his *Dún where she regained her human form for a time. She was mother …

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Posted on June 27, 2019September 12, 2019

In Sleep, a retelling by Karina Tynan

Introduction : It was the evening of *Samhain. The people of Ulster were gathered at*Muirthemne for a feast, when a flock of white birds came flying over the plains. It was put to the great hero Cú Chulainn to capture them for the women of the court, to compensate for how much they were all …

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Posted on June 21, 2019August 6, 2019

Come to Tír na nÓg with me, a retelling by Karina Tynan

Introduction: At a time when the Fianna of Ireland (a band of warriors led by the great Fionn Mac Cumhaill) were coming to their end, a woman called Niamh Chinn Óir (Niamh of the golden hair) came to the shores of Ireland from Tír na nÓg (The country of the young). She was in love …

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Posted on May 25, 2019October 18, 2019

The Second Coming, a retelling by Karina Tynan

Three hundred years after Ceasair’s people were gone, a second wave of settlers came to Ireland. These were Dealgnat, her husband Partholón and their people who came from Greece. This is Delgnat’s account of the first adultery, the first jealousy, how Tallaght got its name and who made the first pint in Ireland.   The …

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Posted on April 28, 2019April 28, 2019

Edict – a poem by Karina Tynan

                I dreamed of a cow up to her knees in brown water and a bull  on a high hill, hooves planted deep and able for all winds. Bulging from his forehead was a sacred horn full of rightness and foreboding; the enemy of all the mystics in …

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Posted on April 17, 2019April 17, 2019

The Talking Of The Rushes Has Begun By Fionn Mac Cumhaill

  Introduction : I found this poem in Part II of Lady Gregory's God's and Fighting Men. The stories in that section are about the Fianna who were a band of warriors trained in the arts of fighting, oratory and poetry. Their leader was Fionn Mac Cumhaill who is said to have written the poem …

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Posted on March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

Green and Blue .. by Karina Tynan for Poetry Day 2019

Green and Blue …  ...Are the colours of his bedroom painted up since he left  for down under on the matching globe   and the day today: a surreal three quarters blue light; a backdrop for the hedge taking it out of the ordinary   or the dream I had last night; blue curtains pulled …

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Posted on March 2, 2019August 10, 2019

Mór-Ríoghain’s Song by Karina Tynan

  Introduction: The Mór-Ríoghain is a phantom Queen known to be the Irish Goddess of war often taking the shape of a crow. She features in the first and second battles of *Maige Tuired. The first between the *Fir Bolg and the *Tuatha Dé Danann and the second between the The Tuatha Dé Danann and the …

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Posted on January 27, 2019March 1, 2019

Against my Sister a Retelling by Karina Tynan

Introduciton :   Scáthach was a warrior queen who lived on Skye, an island that is part of the archipelago called the Hebrides, west of Scotland. Young warriors from Ireland and other kingdoms nearby were sent to be trained by her in the arts of battle. But while Scáthach taught her pupils she also had to …

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Posted on January 20, 2019August 10, 2019

The Boy with the Beautiful Name, a Retelling by Karina Tynan

Introducion: Dechtine daughter of Neas was the mother of the legendary Cú Chulainn whose birth name was Setanta. This is her account of the story of his conception, birth and early life before he left his home at Muirthemne to join the Court of her brother King Conchubar Mac Nessa.     There was a cup, …

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