Category: folklore
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Leigheas Draighean Scéal: Chapter 9: Conclusion & Contemporary Implications

How Ancestral Stories of Blackthorn Inform Contemporary Healing Narratives: Chapter 9: Conclusion and Contemporary Implications/Acknowledgements
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Leigheas Draighean Scéal: Chapter 7: Hedges: From Barriers to Thresholds

How Ancestral Stories of Blackthorn Inform Contemporary Healing Narratives: Chapter 7: Hedges: From Barriers to Thresholds
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Leigheas Draighean Scéal: Chapter 6: Blackthorn Relationships in Fairy Faith

How Ancestral Stories of Blackthorn Inform Contemporary Healing Narratives: Chapter 6: Blackthorn Relationships in Fairy Faith
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Leigheas Draighean Scéal: Chapter 5: Relationships with Blackthorn in Irish Folk Medical Tradition

How Ancestral Stories of Blackthorn Inform Contemporary Healing Narratives: Chapter 5: Relationships with Blackthorn in Irish Folk Medical Tradition
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Leigheas Draighean Scéal: Chapter 4: Story As Medicine

How Ancestral Stories of Blackthorn Inform Contemporary Healing Narratives: Chapter 4: Story As Medicine
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Leigheas Draighean Scéal: Intro

How Ancestral Stories of Blackthorn Inform Contemporary Healing Narratives: Intro (Table of Contents, Abstract, Lit Review, Methodology)
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The Plants of Our People.

So much gratitude to Rowan of @hawthornandyew for inviting me to speak at The Plants of Our People this evening. I was great connecting with the group. I will be uploading my entire thesis one section at a time – coming soon.
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Bealtaine with Reclaiming.

Still buzzing from Bealtaine with @baltimorereclaiming last night. Grateful for the community and a ritual of joy and pleasure!
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Relics of St Valentine

I recently visited the shrine and relics of St Valentine at Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin. The reliquary, containing bits of blood-tinged bone was uncovered during one of the many church/monastery reconstructions above the saint’s grave and was gifted to Irish Carmelite, John Spratt by Pope Gregory XVI in 1835.…

