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    • Immersion 1 – Nine Waves – Introduction to Irish Myth, The Cycles and Silver Branch Perception
      • Wave 1: The Voyage Of Bran
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      • Wave 4 – The Settling of the Manor of Tara
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      • Wave 1 – Birth and Boyhood Deeds of Fionn MacCumhail
      • Wave 2 – Fionn and the Fianna
      • Wave 3 – Oisin and Niamh
      • Wave 4 – Diarmuid and Grainne
      • Wave 5 – Parthalon
      • Wave 6 – Nemed and the Fir Bolg
      • Wave 7 – Balor of the Evil Eye
      • Wave 8 – Cormac MacAirt
      • Wave 9 – Mongan
    • Immersion 3 – Exile, Migration and Return
      • Wave 1 – Deirdre of the Sorrows
      • Wave 2 – Midir and Etain
      • Wave 3 – The Children of Lir
      • Wave 4 – The One Jealousy of Emer: Cuchulain and Fand
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Wave 9 – Mongan

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A King with remarkable gifts Mongan’s story begins before he was born.  His father, Fiachra Finn, joint King of Ulster with Fiachra Dubh is at war with the King of […]

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Wave 8 – Cormac MacAirt

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Ireland’s exemplary High King and the Importance of Truth Cormac MacAirt is seen as Ireland’s greatest high king and said to be the codifier of the remarkable Brehon Laws, a […]

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Wave 7 – Balor of the Evil Eye

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The Second Battle of Moytura – Cosmic Battle between good and evil? The Fir Bolg were the sensible, hard-working and humble people who ruled in Ireland for a short period […]

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Wave 6 – Nemed and the Fir Bolg

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Mythology of the Not Chosen A – NemediansHope, Greed, Oppression and Anger The land of Ireland lay empty after Partholon’s passing for thirty years.  Another group of people then arrived, […]

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Wave 5 – Parthalon

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Cursed to create nothing, create for millennia Partholón and his people were the second great invasion in Lebor Gabála.  This giant of a man travelled with his family and people […]

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Wave 4 – Diarmuid and Grainne

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The woman pulls the strings… not Fionn… or does she? Long ago in Ireland one of the greatest and most famous warriors under Fionn MacCumhall’s leadership was Diarmuid O’Duibhne.  What […]

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