Ireland’s immortals: a history of the gods of Irish myth

ed. EC MARK WILLIAMS Princeton University Press $39.50 ISBN 9780691157313 Reviewed by: Angela Bourke Between Charles Stewart Parnell’s death in 1891 and the 1916 Rising, pre-Christian Ireland exercised a fascination that lies behind the present fact of Irish sovereignty. The years of cultural revival were saturated in the pagan past. Parents who broke with tradition ... Read more

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