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Unreal Irish Folklore

Unreal Irish Folklore

Society & Culture

The Ship from the Sky

The Ship from the Sky

2021-08-08
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As strange as it is imagine, there are infinite worlds out there in the universe, far beyond our sight. But, if the stories are to be believed, a group of early Irish people came closer than most to contact with the world above our world, and the strange people who inhabited it.

 

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Sources and Further Reading

  • “Aerial Ships and Underwater Monasteries: The Evolution of a Monastic Marvel” - John Carey
  • “Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven: The Phenomenon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond” - Michael McCaughan
  • “Lightnings VIII” – Seamus Heaney
  • Curiosities of Indo-European tradition and folk-lore – Walter Keating Kelly
  • On Hail and Thunder - Agobard of Lyons
  • “From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs” – theconversation.com
  • “Sometimes a flying boat is just a flying boat: Not everything has to be a UFO” – esoterx.com
  • Tailtenn Games
  • “On the Identification of the Ancient Cemetery at Loughcrew, Co. Meath” - Eugene Alfred Conwell
  • The Aonac Tailteann and the Tailteann Games – T. H. Nally

 

Music

  • The Butterfly - Sláinte
  • Periwinkle Waters – Christian Andersen
  • Free Form – Amaranth Cove
  • Sea of Space – Yi Nantiro
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