Due to concerns with COVID-19, we should all be practicing social distancing for everyone’s health. Please stay home unless you must go out! It’s sad that we can’t go out and celebrate Irish culture together during Irish Heritage Week / St. Patrick’s Day, but we can come together online! Join me on Twitter or InstagramContinue reading “Virtual Irish Fest!”
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Learn the Lore: Day 8
Well, it should be obvious to everyone that it’s taking me a lot longer than 21 days to go through this lore challenge from Irish Pagan School, but at least I have not given up! Today I jumped back into “Oidhe Cloinne Tuireann.” The Tuatha Dé Danann are described in very earthly terms, and they express fearContinue reading “Learn the Lore: Day 8”
Chinese Food, the Irish Diaspora, and Identity
I recently read a piece from NPR called “Shanghai Warms Up to a New Cuisine: Chinese Food, American Style” by Frank Langfitt. It really caught my attention. “What does Chinese food have to do with Druidism?” I hear you ask. It has everything to do with identity and authenticity – two things that modern peopleContinue reading “Chinese Food, the Irish Diaspora, and Identity”
Keeping in Touch with the Ancestors
I honor and work with the Three Kindreds: the Nature Spirits, Gods and Goddesses, and the Ancestors. The later tends to fall to the sidelines all too often in my daily practice, which is very unfortunate. I pride myself and my tradition for paying better attention to the beloved dead, but I know I haveContinue reading “Keeping in Touch with the Ancestors”
Preparing for a Spring Equinox Rite on March 17th
The Vernal Equinox approaches and, as is customary because of our modern schedules, Muin Mound is to celebrate on the weekend – March 17th, to be exact. For those of you who live under a rock, that’s St. Patrick’s Day. A column from the General Post Office in Dublin on O’Connel St. If youContinue reading “Preparing for a Spring Equinox Rite on March 17th”
Author M. A. Phillips 