Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  Stories about selkies are ambiguous, evocative, sad.             This is largely because of the way seals themselves affect us. Bobbing ...

In ‘A Book of Folk-Lore’ (1913) the Devon folklorist Sabine Baring-Gould recounts three instances in which he and members of his fam...

  All voyages are voyages of discovery; all voyages are dangerous. Even in these days when cruise liners are thought of as little more than ...

  This wonderful poem attributed to Finn was translated by Lady Augusta Gregory in Gods and Fighting Men (John Murray, 1904), and is part...