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Kathleen Ni Houlihan, Abbey Theatre, 1916 Scene From Yeats and Gregory's play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, circa 1912 production. Kathleen Ni Houlihan (Irish: Caitlín Ní Uallacháin, literally, "Kathleen, daughter of Houlihan") is a mythical symbol and emblem of Irish nationalism found in literature and art, sometimes representing Ireland as a personified woman.
Goll mac Morna - warrior of the Fianna and uneasy ally of Fionn mac Cumhaill; Liath Luachra - Fionn's foster mother and a great warrior; Liath Luachra - tall, hideous warrior of the Fianna who shares his name with Fionn's foster mother; Oisín - son of Fionn mac Cumhaill, warrior of the Fianna and a great poet; Oscar - warrior son of Oisín and ...
Related words include the Gaelic caileag and the Irish cailín ('young woman, girl, colleen'), the diminutive of caile 'woman', [1] and the Lowland Scots carline/carlin ('old woman, witch'). [13] A more obscure word that is sometimes interpreted as 'hag' is the Irish síle , which has led some to speculate on a connection between the Cailleach ...
A Medieval Hebridean warrior. The Irish language gallóglach is derived from gall "foreign" and óglach; from Old Irish oac (meaning "youth") and Old Irish lóeg (meaning "calf" but later becoming a word for a "hero"). The Old Irish language plural gallóglaigh is literally "foreign young warriors".(The modern Irish plural is galloglagh.)
A gloss explains this night hag as "a monster in female form, that is, a morrígan." [ 23 ] Cormac's Glossary (also 9th century), and a gloss in the later manuscript H.3.18, both explain the plural word gudemain ("spectres") [ 25 ] with the plural form morrígna .
It includes Medieval Irish saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female saints of medieval Ireland" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Deirdre was the daughter of the royal storyteller Fedlimid mac Daill.Before she was born, Cathbad, the chief druid at the court of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, prophesied that Fedlimid's daughter would grow up to be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her, much blood would be shed because of her, and Ulster's three greatest warriors would be forced into exile ...
Irish swords were copied from these models, which had unique furnishings. Many, for example, often featured open rings on the pommel. On any locally designed Irish sword in the Middle Ages, this meant you could see the end of the tang go through the pommel and cap the end. These swords were often of very fine construction and quality.