Tales of mythical islands and enchanted cities have captivated our storytellers for generations. We are always searching, searching on the far horizon and in the depths of our lakes and rivers, for the worlds we have lost, and the promised lands we still have left to find.

 

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Sources and Further Reading

 Introductions

• Ireland’s Mysterious Lands and Sunken Cities by Jon Douglas Singer
• Immram
• Celtic Otherworld

 

Kilstuiffeen

• Ordnance Survey Letters by John O’Donovan and Eugene O’Curry
• Ireland: its scenery, its character etc. by S. C. Hall
• Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy
• A Folklore Survey of County Clare by Thomas John Westropp
• The Monks of Kilcrea by A. G. Geoghegan

 

Caher Linn

• @RostrevorRARE’s post
• Dúchas Stories
  • Carlingford
  • Carlingford Volcano
• Louth Folk Tales by Doreen McBride
• Carlingford Leaflet

 

Fintan Mac Bochra

• Lebor Gabála Érenn translated by R. S. Macalister
• The Hawk of Achill or the Legends of the Oldest Animals by Eleanor Hull

 

Liban

• Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland
• The Topography of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis

 

Mystical Islands

• The Topography of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis
• Speculum Regale translated by Laurence Marcellus Larson

 

The Voyage of Brendan

• Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore translated by Whitley Stokes
• Brendan
• Cumann Comnae by Julianne Pigott

 

Music

• The Butterfly by Sláinte
• Drops of Brandy / The Mountain Kid by Aislinn
• The Burning of the Piper’s Hut by Pinnipied
• Pretty Little Dog by Shake that Little Foot
• Shady Grove by Shake that Little Foot