John Wilmott shared this wonderful TV show. It’s in Gaelic with English subtitles where Mary Mooney of Altan, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, goes through the fiddle music of Donegal and other music and there’s some landscapes too. One thing she shares is that Donegal is where Scotland meets Ireland. It truly is a mix of both […]
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Irish Megalithic Tombs
From the Celtic History Newsletter: Last month I said that one of the more notable changes started by the early Irish farming culture was in the burial of their dead. There is little surviving evidence of burial customs among the earlier hunter-gatherer peoples of Ireland, but starting around 4000 BC we see the first funerary […]
