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Friday 1 March 2024
Seal songs and legends
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Stories about selkies are ambiguous, evocative, sad. This is largely because of the way seals themselves affect us. Bobbing ...
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Friday 26 January 2024
The 'Little Dark People'
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In ‘A Book of Folk-Lore’ (1913) the Devon folklorist Sabine Baring-Gould recounts three instances in which he and members of his fam...
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Monday 8 January 2024
Perilous Voyages
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All voyages are voyages of discovery; all voyages are dangerous. Even in these days when cruise liners are thought of as little more than ...
Friday 1 December 2023
The Poem of Finn mac Cumhaill
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This wonderful poem attributed to Finn was translated by Lady Augusta Gregory in Gods and Fighting Men (John Murray, 1904), and is part...
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