Cailleach The Hag Of Beara

Author : Leanne O'Sullivan
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852248185
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cailleach written by Leanne O'Sullivan and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland, particularly in the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where Leanne O'Sullivan comes from. The Cailleach's roots lie in pre-Christian Ireland, and stories of her relationship with that rugged landscape and culture still abound. Central to these narratives is the story of her love affair with a sea god. A large stone rests on the ridge overlooking Ballycrovane Harbour, and it is said to be the petrified body of the Cailleach; she has had several lives, beginning each life with a birth from her stony form - and returning to stone at the end. The supernatural and superhuman feature strongly in traditional stories of the Cailleach (pronounced Ca-lock or Cay-luck) - feats such as her creating mountains or leaping vast distances that place the tales firmly into the world of myth. While still recognising the Cailleach as a figure of extraordinary power and influence, Leanne O'Sullivan's poems explore the human origins from which the legend grew. She still forms the landscape, yet at the same time is intrinsically part of it, close to it, rather than gigantically above it; and her husband is not the sea god of legend, but a fisherman. And for all her strength, she is vulnerable.

Author : Sorita D'Este
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905297245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Cailleach written by Sorita D'Este and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and ground-breaking work brings together for the first time the wealth of folklore, stories and legends surrounding the Cailleach, the pre-eminent Celtic Hag Goddess and the most significant of British supernatural figures, whose myths and wisdom are as relevant today as they have ever been.

Author : Rachel Patterson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785353233
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagan Portals - The Cailleach written by Rachel Patterson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cailleach - goddess of the ancestors, wisdom that comes with age, the weather, time, shape-shifting and winter. Within the pages of this book Rachel Patterson gives the reader an introduction to the mysteries, myths, legends and magic of the ancient hag goddess The Cailleach, drawing upon ancient legends, stories told and her own experiences.

Author : Leanne O'Sullivan
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852249687
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mining Road written by Leanne O'Sullivan and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mining Road, Leanne O'Sullivan's third poetry collection, finds inspiration in the disused copper mines that haunt the rugged terrain around Allihies, near her home at Beara, in West Cork. Like remnants of a lost world, the mines' ruined towers, shafts, man-engines and dressing floors, evoke an elemental landscape in which men and women laboured above as well as underground, and even mined in caverns below sea level. Mining promotes a sense of memory, and the riches embedded in the landscape are human as well as material. But things brought to the surface can have a startling ability to shine in the present, and O'Sullivan's poems move and provoke as they resonate with experiences at the heart of contemporary Ireland.

Author : Kate Corkery
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750982977
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cork Folk Tales written by Kate Corkery and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the home of the famous Blarney Stone it is perhaps not surprising that the stories of County Cork could fill many libraries. Among its vast archive of myth and legend are tales of the Goddess Cliona, The Hag of Beara and the Giant Mac Mahon and the epic story of St Finbarr who bashed Louie, a fiery serpent, from the lake at Goughan Barra, its wriggling tail forming the course of the River Lee.These tales and more, drawn from historical sources and newly recorded local reminiscences, have been brought to life here by professional storyteller and Cork native Kate Corkery. This collection is a heady mix of bloodthirsty, funny, passionate and moving stories. It will take you into a remarkable world where you can let your imagination run wild.

Author : Gearóid Ó Crualaoich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781859184127
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Cailleach written by Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful analysis of the wise women healer from the oral traditions of Ireland's rural communities is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of culture and community, collected and studied for many decades, are here translated and made available to the general reader for the first time. The figure of the wise woman, the hag, the Cailleach, or the Red Woman are part of an oral tradition which has its roots in pre-Christian Ireland. In the hands of Gearoid O Crualaich, these figures are subtly explored to reveal how they offered a complex understanding of the world, of human psychology and its predicaments: the thematic structure of the book brings to the fore universal themes such as death, marriage, childbirth, and healing, and invites the reader to see the contemporary relevance of the stories for themselves.

Author : Leanne O'Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780372235
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quarter of an Hour written by Leanne O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burleigh Mutén
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1841480754
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goddesses written by Burleigh Mutén and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britomartis, goddess of the moon, was a clever, active girl who loved to hunt with her bow and arrows.... Britomartis was sacred to fishermen, hunters and sailors.

Author : Edward O'Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish-English Dictionary written by Edward O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Publisher : School of Celtic Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aislinge Meic Con Glinne written by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson and published by School of Celtic Studies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: