The seanchaí were the storytellers of Ireland; the word means bearer of old lore. The seanchaí were preceded in Ireland by the bardic poets, who were central to the…
Ireland has always been called the land of saints and scholars. But there’s much more to us than that. We’re also a land of inventors, engineers,…
Ireland’s newly elected government deputies met for the first time on 21st January 1919. Nowadays, complaining about our elected officials (often with good cause) makes for a…
Early Irish poetry, remembered and transmitted orally by the ancient bards, was like no other art form in the world. We take a look at some…
Irish bardic poetry was an intensely complicated tradition. Produced by specially trained bardic poets and written in Early or Middle Irish, these poems came about during…
