Dr. Sadbh Kellett

Niamh Cinn Óir is one of the most well known women from An Fhiannaíocht, but you can find out more about her on our database! 🐚✨

fionnfolklore.org/en/lays/oto ~ Oisín i dTír na nÓg

#irishfolklore #scottishfolklore #irishmythology #gaelicmythology #irishwomen #womenoffolklore #fionnfolklore

Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh go léir!
Did you know that Fionn Mac Cumhaill had dealings with a vampire? 🧛
Check out the story of Abhartach and Fionn here: fionnfolklore.org/en/item/4447
Bígí cúramach anocht, beidh na hollphéisteanna amuigh!
#irishfolklore #scottishfolklore #halloween #irishmythology

Have you ever heard of Loscadh na Teamhrach (‘The Burning of Tara’)?

Check out some of the versions of this fiery tale available in our database by following the links below:

fionnfolklore.org/en/item/789

fionnfolklore.org/en/item/787

Attention all digital artists! We’re inviting you to create a piece of art inspired by a story or character from our database!
Entries close 15th October 2025 and winners will be notified shortly thereafter.

Meabhrúchán beag 👀👀

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#múinteoir #múinteoirí #oideachas #scoil #gaeilge #gaelicfolklore #irishfolklore #scottishfolklore #feniancycle #fionnfolkloreproject #fiannaíocht #fianna #gàidhlig #beulaithris #gaelic #fionnmaccumhaill #oisín #oscar

We might be biased, but we think Bran and Sceolang are frontrunners for the best dogs in folklore 🐾
#internationaldogday

Such a wonderful time at the #womensprize party in Bedford Square last night. Congratulations to all the winners (still not over those amazing speeches)!! 🥲💚 @womensprize.bsky.social

So delighted to have been chosen as a 2025 mentee! 🥳

Bill to ban fox hunting passes first stage vote in Dáil The Dáil has voted to pass the first stage of a piece of legislation that would ban fox hunting with 113 TDs voting in favour and 49 against.

The Dáil has voted to pass the first stage of a piece of legislation that would ban fox hunting with 113 TDs voting in favour and 49 against

Well, holy shit. Consider me shocked (in a good way).

Photo of statement

“We will not be silent in front of the man-made humanitarian catastrophe that is taking place before our eyes in Gaza.”

A joint statement from Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Malta and Slovenia.

Why can’t we have nice things like reliable buses and safe cycling lanes? Because a coal company who built an unmanned petrol station - after this Bus Connects route was planned - says it has a “constitutional right to make a living”, apparently.

Huge congratulations to the longlistees! 🥳

A black and white drawing of a crowd of people in mid 1800s to early 1900s clothes and the caption "Remember Monto"

Rejection is built-in to a writing career. I once sent 99 poems to 99 poetry journals and received 99 rejections over the course of six months. Made me laugh. Did it again. Kept doing it, stories, novels, etc. After awhile, it won't faze you. (This is different than clearly unfair situations.) 1/2

Pretty sure I've thought of nothing except the piercing the veil scene in #Sinners since I saw it last night. Phenomenal film. Make sure you see it in IMAX.

Ai has not made creative *skills* more accessible, it’s made *churning out stuff* more accessible.

And the accessibility issue was never in the creating, it was in the getting paid. That’s not changing because Ai is designed to funnel money into the pockets of already rich guys.

So many beauty brands still use animals for testing too. All the glossy cute packaging and a testing process that’s so gruesome that most people couldn’t watch it happening.
Please look for brands that don’t do animal testing 🐰🐁

The @ec.europa.eu will table today the deprotection of #wolves

Another step away from science, and another case of embracing toxic culture wars in a way that just keeps feeding the beast.

Reminder: wolf hunting does nothing to reduce damage to farmers, but it does real ecological damage

Séamas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even "...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Government’s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...

‘In 2017, a few short years after being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, author Donal Ryan revealed he was going back to his job in the civil service, causing great shock among the public, but probably not among his fellow authors.’

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Announcing the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist Tune in on Tuesday 4th March at 8am GMT for the announcement! Hear from our judges as they reveal the 16 books on the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist sponsored by @audible and @Baileys. The judging panel for the 2025 Prize is chaired by author Kit de Waal. She is joined by novelist, journalist and inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers (the Women’s Prize for debut novelists in 2006), Diana Evans; author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon; magazine editor, most recently Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph; and musician and composer known for award-winning film scores, Amelia Warner. We hope you discover some brilliant books to buy, borrow, read, love and pass on.

We’re delighted to introduce the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist! The 16 books on the list are genre-spanning, with many exploring the ramifications of global events in the past, present and future. We hope you enjoy every moment of the journey within their pages.

Congrats Ruth!! Fantastic news! 🥳

Grant recipients to be asked to explain spending following Arts Council scandal Letter will be issued in the coming days in the wake of the Arts Council €6.7m IT system scandal

If only there was some sort of mechanism by which people applying for Arts Council grants could explain how the money would be used

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Government to make cabin homes in back gardens exempt from planning The minister believes there needs to be planning exemptions to allow family members to live together on the same site.

"Priced out of the housing market? Try living in a hut in your parents backyard" is now the official government stance

We are so fucking cooked man

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist. We cannot wait to hear what you think of these 16 incredible books!

‘Accidentally Irish’: How Ruining The Economy Made Us All Irish Again The Celtic Tiger left a hollowed out corpse that we're now filling with Claddagh rings, Pellador jumpers, St Brigid's crosses and pints of Beamish. And I don't mind.

This piece, by Kelly Earley, is outstanding - a look into Irish cultural cringe in the Celtic Tiger and the subsequent correction we're seeing now.

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Deb Haaland, Ex-Interior Secretary, Is Running for Governor of New Mexico Ms. Haaland, one of the first former cabinet officials in the Biden administration to announce a run for office, would be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of a state.

Deb Haaland, the former secretary of the Interior who was the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet, on Tuesday announced a bid for governor of New Mexico.