Myths & Legends

‘There was a wise woman, we’re all agreed, some call her Brigid, some call her Bríd. She grew up kind and she liked a joke and she always wore a wee small cloak.’

What is your best defense against a phosphorescent land sheerie? Can you really find contentment with a wealthy merrow wife? The answers are disclosed at last in A Field Guide to Irish Fairies, the first and only such guide available.

A unique insight into the fascinating overlap between witch belief and the vast range of fairy lore that held sway for many centuries throughout the land.

Just what is a leprechaun? To some, he is full of harmless mischief, guarding his elusive crock of gold. To others, an evil gnome bent on disrupting mortal lives with black magic. Historian & folklorist Bob Curran turns the spotlight on the 'real' leprechaun - mysterious, complex and contradictory.

Meet the Gods and Goddesses of pagan Ireland in myth and modern practice.

The Irish Goddess Brigid is as powerful and popular today as ever; in this short introduction find out why.

'Once upon a time there lived in a little house at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains...' Sinéad de Valera's The Enchanted Lake weaves a world of magic like no other.