Recent studies of theology in medieval Ireland have tended to focus on the early medieval period at the expense of a wide body of material dating to the post-Anglo-Norman era. This article considers ...

North Clare storyteller, Aindrias de Staic, will be channelling the energies of some of North and West Clare’s great bardic ...

DUBLIN — The Irish are renowned for their way with words. But the nation of bardic poetry, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats has proved a latecomer to the wordiest of music genres, hip-hop. “It’s always been ...

In "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," Walt Whitman is not the bard most of us know. Here, three American poets -- Frank Bidart, Marie Howe, and Galway Kinnell -- give voice to Whitman's stunning ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Fr. Matthew Russell, S.J. (1834-1912) intended to found a devotional magazine with the name Catholic Ireland in 1873, but it ...

The harp is an icon of Celtic music. Over millennia, it has served as the accompaniment to bardic poetry, tales of war and peace, love songs, laments, and fairy tales. It is the instrument most ...

The Red Book of Hergest, believed to have been written some time between 1375 and 1425, includes a mixture of poetry and prose. The manuscript was named after its former home, Hergest Court in ...

Although they left no writings of their own, the Druids have had a profound impact on modern culture. Largely forgotten by a Christianized Europe, this ancient Celtic priestly caste has reemerged as ...