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“It's I who know that well: when it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”

Sean O'Casey - Red Roses for Me
🎨William Holman Hunt

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Iris Murdoch

Paul Henry #BookologyThursday

Bres_, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

Sreng_, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Sreng went back then to Teamhair and gave the message and showed the spear; and it is what he advised his people, to share the country and not to go into battle with a people that had weapons so much better than their own. But […]

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A black and white illustration of a woman from the neck up. Her face has two non-graphic splits in it where flowers are growing

And she was killed. The way that people are. A little piece at first then all at once.

Deirdre Sullivan
📖Tangleweed and Brine

🎨Karen Vaughan
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'Harmony in the Light of the Moon' depicts a mysterious, magical female figure in profile. She wears flowing white robes and is perched within a large pine tree, playing a harp, with a large, full moon behind her.

'They have always a spirit-look, especially if they have listened to the fairy music. For the fairy music is soft and low and plaintive, with a fatal charm for mortal ears.' ~Lady Jane Wilde, on humans returning from Fairy-land.

🎨 Sarah Stilwell Weber
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Photograph of a cemetery covered in snow

"It was falling upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill.... His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- James Joyce, "The Dead"
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"... then the old and holy figure of Romance, cloaked even to the face, comes down out of hilly woodlands and bids dark shadows to rise and dance, and sends the forest creatures forth to prowl..."

(Lord Dunsany)

🎨 Sidney Sime

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Photo of Joyce seated, facing sideways. He is wearing glasses and a heavy dark coat and his hair is swept back.

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves." James Joyce, Ulysses. #BookologyThursday #books #literature #mythology #writing

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"Law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law ...”

Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
🎨S L Fildes

Ambassadors of the Fir Bolg and Tuath De meeting before the Battle of Moytura, illustration by S. Reid, 1911, At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `The two champions went one towards the other slowly, and keeping a good watch on one another, and wondering at one another's arms, till they came near enough for talking; and then they stopped, and each put his shield before his body and struck it hard into the
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"Passing the drawbridge we turn to the right, and follow the road over the steep Gothic bridge, westward, to reach the deserted village and ruined castle of Karnstein."

(Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla")

🎨Ana Juan

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Woodcut showing Pan and two female figures

In James Stephen’s marvelous novel ‘The Crock of Gold’ (1912), the god Pan visits Ireland and tempts the young Cáitilin Ni Murrachu until her heart is won by Angus Óg, the Irish god of love. ☘️ #BookologyThursday

🎨Thomas MacKenzie, from the first edition.

The Tuatha Dé Danann under their king Nuada arrive in Ireland, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had […]

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In European folklore, the witch’s hare is a magical creature said to be a witch in disguise, slipping through moonlit fields unseen.
This legend inspired one of the whimsical pages in my coloring book March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches Folklore. #Marchmadness 🐇

#BilliesMusicMonth #MusicChallenge
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12: a bookstore.
There can only be one contender 📚 The Bookshop Band!
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For St. Patrick’s Day, I’m sharing Irish lore inspiration from my new coloring book March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares & Witches Folklore. Available soon on Amazon
In Irish legend, leprechauns are trickster Fairy Cobblers who guard hidden pots of gold & wander the green mounds🧚‍♀️🌈

Seamus Heaney’s poem "Digging" opens his first major collection and reflects on Irish rural life. The image of a pen replacing the spade becomes a metaphor for literary inheritance. #BookologyThursday

Sunset at Killandangan Megalithic Complex; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Three things the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, put above all others were the plough and the sun and the hazel-tree, so that it was said in the time to come that Ireland […]

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#BookologyThursday Designer of Stained Glass & illustrator sublime, Harry Clarke (1889-1931) rose to become one of Ireland's most acclaimed artists. Influenced by the Decadents & Symbolists, his intricate work oft has a romantic perversity ideal for his visions of Poe, Goethe & Swinburn.

Seamus Heaney A Birl for Burns From the start, Burns’ birl and rhythm, That tongue the Ulster Scots brought wi’ them And stick to still in County Antrim Was in my ear. From east of Bann it westered in On the Derry air. My neighbours toved and bummed and blowed, They happed themselves until it thowed, By slaps and stiles they thrawed and tholed And snedded thrissles, And when the rigs were braked and hoed They’d wet their whistles. Old men and women getting crabbèd Would hark like dogs who’d seen a rabbit, Then straighten, stare and have a stab at Standard habbie: Custom never staled their habit O’ quotin’ Rabbie. Leg-lifting, heartsome, lightsome Burns! He overflowed the well-wrought urns Like buttermilk from slurping churns, Rich and unruly, Or dancers flying, doing turns At some wild hooley. For Rabbie’s free and Rabbie’s big, His stanza may be tight and trig But once he sets the sail and rig Away he goes Like Tam-O-Shanter o’er the brig Where no one follows. And though his first tongue’s going, gone, And word lists now get added on And even words like stroan and thrawn Have to be glossed, In Burns’s rhymes they travel on And won’t be lost.

From the start, Burns’ birl and rhythm,
That tongue the Ulster Scots brought wi’ them
And stick to still in County Antrim
Was in my ear.
From east of Bann it westered in
On the Derry air…

—Seamus Heaney, “A Birl for Burns”
in THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY (Faber, 2025)
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Sunset at Killandangan Megalithic Complex; photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Three things the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, put above all others were the plough and the sun and the hazel-tree, so that it was said in the time to come that Ireland was divided between those three, Coll
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The Irish word for fairy is sheehogue [sidheogl, a diminutive of 'shee' in banshee. Fairies are deenee shee [daoine sidhe] (fairy people)

~W.B. Yeats
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw (1879)
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In Irish mythology, the Tuatha Dé Danann were a powerful supernatural race—masters of magic, poetry, and wisdom—who once ruled Ireland.
After their defeat, legend says they retreated into the ancient fairy mounds, becoming the hidden folk of Irish lore.
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The book with dust jacket

Letters, envelopes, and a customs form

WILDERN, BLACKHEATH, GUILDFORD. SURREY. TELEPHONE SHALFORD 143 26th June 1937 Paul S. Seybolt, Esq., 140 Warren Street, West Medford, Mass. Dear Mr. Seybolt, Thank you for your kind letter of 14th inst. I am very pleased that my books have given you pleasure. I shall be delighted to autograph your copy of THE CASK if you care to send it across. But if you will be content with pasting the enclosed in, it will save you the trouble. However just as you like. Yes, I know copies of the first English edition are rare. One fetched £4 in London recently. Yours sincerely, F. W. Crofts

WILDERN BLACKHEATH, GUILDFORD, SURREY. TELEPHONE SHALFORD 143. 10th August 1937 Thank you so much for postage which arrived safely. Most kind of you to think of it. So glad you were pleased with inscription. F. W. Crofts.

Auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021:

"The Cask" by the Irish mystery author Freeman Wills Crofts, 1920

1st edition, signed

Incl. two notes to the American collector Paul S. Seybolt, 1937

"Yes, I know copies of the first English edition are rare. One fetched £4 in London recently."

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Magic cauldrons, giant kings, and devastating wars... Not surprisingly, Welsh and Irish mythology share many themes!
These common motifs are often viewed through very different lenses, though. In the Irish stories, the characters are openly mythic, the battles cosmic in scale.
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The Dagda, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

Bres, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

Danu, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

Nuada Airgetlám, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.”

(Oscar Wilde)

🎨 Eugene Dété

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Welcome to #BookologyThursday 🍃

Today we begin our early St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with the theme:

🍃Irish Literature and Culture🍃

…in literature, art, legends, and lore.

🎨 Neil Parkinson

Danu, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

The Dagda, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

Bres, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

Nuada Airgetlám, The Old Church Visitor Centre, Carrownamaddy, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
It was from the north they came; and in the place they came from they […]

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In Celtic mythology, white stags are believed to be mythical messengers, when one appears it means change is coming. Arthurian legends depict the elusive white stag as a symbol of the eternal quest for spiritual knowledge.

🎨 Sebastian Meyer #BookologyThursday