Setting off on a wondrous journey to Supersonic Festival at 3pm with special legendary guests along the way.....

Just got my vinyl of "...And Take the Black Worm With Me by one_eye_one_leg through @EiderdownSounds and it looks great! Can't wait to put it on!

FDN XLVI is dedicated to the memory of Joe Mulheron and features songs by him and The Men of No Property as well as Jrpjej, The Mob, Synth Widow, Lainey Dempsey, Seán Keane and more more more more more campsite.bio/firedrawnear

False Lankum Forever! Huge thank you to Cormac, Radie, Daragh, Ian, Spud, Rachel & John for 3 nights of incredibly moving, powerful, funny, unifying, interstellar music @ Vicar Street. Huge thanks to all the support artists and crew who made these nights so special ❤️

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Delighted to have taken place in this great documentary by Johnny Savage about several fellow Dublin Digital Radio DJs / legends!!! johnnysavage.com/work/resonant-…

Find out the story behind the ballad the Golden Vanity aka the Turkish Reveille on this FDN bonus episode. It features versions of the ballad by Andy Doorbum Fenstermaker, Odetta, Paul Clayton and loads more!!! campsite.bio/firedrawnear Image by *that* Pamela Coleman Smith!!

3rd-4th century AD - Found in a terracotta vase with a lead tablet bearing a binding spell now at Musée du Louvre

Those born with the caul or veil, as it's sometimes known, are in one way or another tethered to the realm of spirits. For good luck or ill, that child's life will be bathed in two lights; one from the mortal star and one from somewhere---other. #FolkloreThursday

America seems cursed at the moment. Almost as if it was built on an ancient Indian burial ground.

Junior Brother performs Hungover at Mass. Episode IV. youtu.be/MC01GoDv5Yw

Word(s) of the day: "selva oscura" - lit., a "dark/shadowed wood"; figuratively, a period of life in which one has lost one's way, become disoriented. From Dante's Inferno: "Midway through the journey of life I found myself in a dark wood, with the clear path ahead of me lost."

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it. - Andrei Tarkovsky

Sympathetic magic is a prevalent concept in Irish folk tradition, the idea of one object or action representing another. Take for example Snaidhm na bPéist or the Worm's Knot when looking at #cattle cures, as part of our Cow in Folk Tradition theme this wk bit.ly/2EOhNTC

Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down? /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/technology/you…

Smuggling in Folklore , between 1937-38 dúchas.ie helped Irish schoolchildren collect 250K stories of Irish Folklore , one example detailed the history of smuggling in Portrane and Rush #Dublin . A helpful map was included for posterity.

The pre-famine population of #roscommon was over 250,000. During the #GreatFamine 1/3 of the population died or emigrated. This triggered a population decline that continued until 1971 when only 54,000 people were left just over 20% its pre-#famine pop. Grim. Today its 64,000.

“In the fight for Irish independence, Churchill was one of the few British officials in favor of bombing Irish protesters, suggesting in 1920 that airplanes should use ‘machine-gun fire or bombs’ to scatter them.” washingtonpost.com/news/global-op…

Liam O’Flynn 💔 was a gift to this country, our music, our culture, our poetry. His playing was deeply mystic and his work is eternal. Rest in peace, Liam.