FICHE DU LIVRE D'OCCASION
Type de document : Livres Catégorie 297 : IRLANDE Langue : ENTitre du livre : IRELAND a sacred journey
Auteurs : Michael Dames Editeur : TED SMART Année : 01/01/2000
ISBN : 1-86204-446-5 Code-barre : 9781862044446
Format du livre : 28,5 x 23,5 Poids : Tarif postal :
Prix neuf : 36.00
Description du livre : Extrait scanné : LOUGH GUR Ide was a shared thing - a sword on to generation, via periods of e Lady of the Lake. Old Irish cola ms "penis" and awn, or "grain-rhus the language itself urges he role of a N eolithic vegetation nder, for the sake of the next affirms that he lives on Garret e lough in a bright city. ment his downward plunge, 'ings of carefully crafted objects le lough in prehistoric times. e axes, 12 bronze spearheads, 2 'apier, several daggers, and 120 rkness adds "a great quantity of e inches diameter, and beauti- ~stilI rewarded by visions of 1 Iocals. Tom Carroll recalled: There was a niaht's }Tost about nine years aao [1963}. There was a man skatinq on the lake. 1 saw him, He looked like an Ordinary man - aoina up and down, and makina al1 kinds if fia ures on the lake. There was onfy about an inch ifice there, it wouldn'i hold a birdl He was a blackfiaure if a man with a cloak on him, A lot if people heard the swishina if him slid-ina over the lake. They so/" 'tis him ... 'When the ice is thin, and on a briaht niaht,you'd see hitn. Tommy Hannon recounts how Geâroid is . .. supposed to ao on hunts with the cavalcade. He leads them around the lake every midsummer niaht. ft is danaerous to meet them. The oul' Gearoid larla must be spoken to, to break the spel1 on him, but he himseif cati't: talk till then. He aets very cross when not spoken to. Midsummer night matches Âine's appearance at Cnoc Âine, and the belief recorded in 1839 by the 97 ------- •.. _..:_-------------
Sommaire du livre : INTRODUCTION Setting out PART ONE ULSTER St-Patrick's Purgatoty The Caoranach The Cailleach and Bith PART TWO MUNSTER Inherited Words Lough Gur from Lough to Province PART THREE LEINSTER Leinster Approaches Dublin, the real Dream Original Landings PART FoU R CONNACHT 1 Battle of East and West 140 2 Erne Weddings 160 3 Flood, Fish, Word 174 PART FIVE MIDE 1 The Center Stone 184 2 Ériu's Eye: National Observations 200 3 Uisnech and Consciousness 228 CONCLUSION Home : Domesticated Deities BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX ACKOWLEDGMENTS
