By Brian Lacey.
The 17 March is St Patrick’s Day. St Patrick is honoured as the patron saint of Ireland (although in medieval times there were two other patrons: Saint Brigid and Saint Colum Cille). His feastday is celebrated also in many other parts of the world, especially in countries such as the USA where the […]
The 1 February was celebrated in Iron Age Ireland as the Celtic festival of Oímelg or Imbolc, two similar words in Gaelic which originally signified the lactation of sheep and the birth of lambs. This was, in essence, a celebration of the arrival of springtime and the renewal of life in the countryside after the […]
Ireland has been inhabited by humans for the last ten thousand years, at least. People may have lived there before that but evidence for this has not been found. The island is dotted with, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of archaeological sites. Those ancient sites and monuments still survive because there was very little industrialisation – […]
Hemos encontrado este artículo «Leyendas de moros y tesoros en el Bierzo» de Tomás Mañanes y José Luis Alonso Ponga, que no solo puede aportar algo interesante al enigma de la fuente de las Cabachuelas, sino que además podemos conocer otras leyendas del Bierzo.
Cuevas, fuentes, moros y tesoros son elementos habituales en las leyendas. Los […]
