Symbolically, fog marks a threshold space, concealing and revealing, signalling the presence of the Otherworld…

Numinous experiences are profoundly healing—often because they work hand-in-hand with archetypes, those deep, universal patterns of human experience.

No matter how tangled or imperfect our path or our story has been, we start to glimpse the wholeness of who we are—and see how, even our mistakes, are threads in the greater tapestry of our life’s unfolding, the story that carried us forward…

The cousins from England were home, the fields hummed with life, and one year in the 1980s, something stirred in me—a longing I couldn’t quite name. I wanted everyone there…

Our very first relationship in this world was with our mother. The mother wound is a term that describes the emotional and psychological pain that arises from…

The Otherworld was considered to be very much a living worldly place that existed parallel to this one and was ‘sensuously colourful, musical and carefree’…

We make sense of who we are through our stories. When we piece together the story of who we are, it helps us find an anchor for ourselves in the world…

When we were born, the first nervous system we attuned to was that of our parental figures. If we felt safe in their presence, that we belonged, if we felt loved, listened to, seen and valued, and supported in times of stress…

Cill Aodáin (Killedan) is a town in Mayo, and it is also the homeplace of the Irish poet Antoine O Raifteirí (Anthony Raftery). Raftery was born in 1779 and died on Christmas Day, 1835…

According to local lore, it was named after the Tuatha de Danann’s “King of all ghosts”. The Tuatha De Danann were the ancient mythical race in Irish mythology…

There is something wonderful about living in rhythm with the seasons. Each season feels different in our bodies. There is a distinct rhythm in the spring, summer, autumn, and winter seasons.

When we begin a New Year, we often think about the changes we wish to make, resolutions we want to keep, promises we hope to make, and the symbolic page we wish to turn…

In ancient times, the Winter Solstice, or grianstad, meaning “sunstop,” was one of the key liminal times in the Celtic Calendar…

Women today gather all around the country on this day to celebrate the women important to them in their lives, their female ancestors, their mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, as well as each other and charitable causes. 

The very first relationship we had in this world was with our mother. The mother wound is a term that describes the emotional and psychological pain that arises from a disruption in the emotional bond with one’s parental figure, one’s mother…

Many of the Irish writers of this small island wrote about what it means to connect to a sense of place, to connect to home, to connect to Ireland, to its native language, and this, too, has often been an expression of a yearning and sense of exile within…

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He is considered the most prominent English-speaking literary figure of the first half of the twentieth century…

Eavan Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor at Stanford University, where she had taught since 1996. Her work deals with issues of Irish national identity and the role of women in Irish history…

Michael Harnett (Micheál ÓhAirtnéide) was a bilingual poet who wrote in Irish and English. He was deeply revered and beloved amongst his peers…

Edna O'Brien was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Her writing often spoke to women's experiences and described the inner world of women and their challenges in society…