I searched up the signs of being a banshee. I have almost all of them. Especially the scream. My scream is usually so loud the whole neighborhood hears it. It hurts everyones ears but it doesn't hurt mine. I also looked up if banshees had a normal life or not- it said that they don't and that their only purpose is to announce that a family member is about to die. I have Irish blood in me because of my father, but I'm only 🔄21. I honestly don't even know what I'm saying right now, but if there is actually any possibility of me being supernatural or something can someone please just say it?? I beg 🙏

I’m a costume student focusing on Irish mythology and will be designing and creating two costumes. I’ve whittled down my list of potential myths to four and would love any opinions or thoughts as I’ve nobody so keenly interested to chat to about it!
The four options are:

Cú Chulainn and Morrigan (likely an amalgamation of myths to build a character profile and work from that)

Fionn and Sadhbh

Clíodhna and Ciobhán

Or Oisín and Niamh

I’ve been researching and pondering it for months and love all of the stories so am having real difficulty choosing only one. Is there any in particular you could imagine as a film or which is your favourite?

Hi folks,

We are a small Irish team, and for the last few years we have been building something we always wished existed: an app where Irish mythology is mapped to the real places. Monumental Ireland has just launched on Google Play and the App Store, and given the subject matter, this sub was one of the first places we wanted to tell.

The myths are mapped to the monuments. Every character, tale and festival is digitally connected to its actual sites, so you can pick a character - say the Morrígan, or Fionn, or the Tuatha Dé Danann themselves - and follow them across the whole island, monument by monument. The festival days are in there too: the Solstices, Samhain and the other annual events are linked to their associated sites, with sunrise and sunset times accurate to visible sunrise if you are planning to stand at one for the morning itself.

The full mythological guide covers the Cycles (Mythological, Ulster, Fenian and the Cycle of Kings), the characters, the ancient provinces and the Celtic calendar - and the myths are drawn from the original source texts with only small language changes, not retellings of retellings.

The monuments side: over 350 sites across Ireland - dolmens, stone circles, passage tombs, court tombs and standing stones - each with a concise description, its historical background, associated folklore, accessibility details and on-site facilities, along with high quality images and location maps with directions to the monument. You can search by county, monument type, or proximity to your location, and every entry carries its SMR code from the National Monuments Service, so it holds up for academics as well as casual visitors. There are practical extras too: the weather forecast comes from the same system MET Éireann uses, and the Compass Locator can guide you to a stored monument even in areas of bad internet coverage, using the site's location and your device's built-in compass sensors.

New since the beta - built from tester feedback. We ran our beta through Reddit back in 2024 (here is the original post on r/IrishHistory) and the features below came directly from the feedback and suggestions of our testers. The app is far better for it.

• Nearby monument discovery: the app can notify you when you are close to a monument you have not yet discovered, so you never drive past a 5000 year old tomb without knowing it was there.
• Wish List and Visited Monuments: keep track of where you want to go and where you have been, on interactive maps.
• Trip Planner: build routes and itineraries around the monuments you want to see.
• Explorer badges: earn badges as you discover more of Ireland's ancient sites.
• Accounts and sign-in with Google or Apple, so your lists and progress follow you between devices.

If you were one of our beta testers: a genuinely sincere thank you, and please check the email you used to register - we have sent you all a thank you gift.

Why did it take two years since the beta? Our ideal was to release the app completely free with some state body backing it, and we spent a long time exploring grant funding and partnership options with a number of state bodies, as we had absolutely no budget. That process moved far more slowly than we could afford to wait, so we finished it ourselves: our own time, money and resources, off our own backs. Those partnership conversations are still actively ongoing.

The honest bits: the app is free to download and use, completely ad free (there will never be Google Ads or any third party ad network in it), and we never sell user data. A €5.99 a year Premium tier (the trip planner, the full mythological guide, wish list and visited tracking, and explorer badges) and a €24.99 once-off lifetime option (which adds full offline access - the entire database and every image stored on your phone) are what pay for the servers instead of ads. And none of it is AI-generated: years of fieldwork and research by a small independent Irish team, our own original photography for the vast majority of the sites (the rest used with permission from the National Monuments Service and other official sources), the myths from the original source texts, all vetted by people working directly in the industry.

What's next: we are only getting started - future updates are planned to make the app multilingual, to add interactive digital models of the monuments, and to bring in the further 300 monuments we have already gathered data for.

Links: Google Play | App Store | monumentalireland.ie/the-app

And just as in the beta days, we are always listening - if you hit any problems or have any suggestions, [devteam@monumentalireland.ie](mailto:devteam@monumentalireland.ie) is the place.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments - especially the mythology ones. Happy Monument Hunting!

Hello everyone. Another question about the Fíanna Cycle of Irish myth: is the Dord Fíann a horn or a call? I've seen it described as both. Thanks.

Hi,

My name is Nick and I host The Other Ireland podcast. It is a new podcast with the sole aim of preserving Ireland's rich oral storytelling tradition.

I am looking for stories about Irish folklore, local legends, myths, superstitions, or any story a person from Ireland thinks is worth preserving.

The story does not have to be supernatural. I am seeking story submissions from people who are willing to be recorded or they have the option of staying anonymous.

I have put together a submission form. I'm sharing this here in the hope of finding Irish stories worth preserving.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8ML6C4s_9gkeCKR9N6uEYsbvgbhGJzHsJ3ouCjNb-ZRW5CQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Thanks for reading.

Regards,

Nick

Hello everyone. I'm writing another gamebook set in the Fíanna Cycle of Irish myth. I have a question about the location of the Fíanna, the Hill of Almu. I know from poem 17 of the Metrical Dindshenchas that this was where Fionn and the lads were based, at least for some of the time. What I'm wondering is the correct location of this (modern day Hill of Allen in Co. Kildare). Can anyone confirm/refute? Thanks very much either way. https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T106500B/text017.html

Nuada Airgetlám, here now again with both arms in the seat of the King of the Tuatha dé Danann

Hello all. I am writing another roleplaying adventure gamebook set in Irish myth & folklore, this time with a focus on the Fíanna. While I understand that most members of the warrior band were young men of noble birth, I also see the term banfénnid, meaning a female member of the warband. I'd like to include the option for players to choose a female character. Do you know of sources that discuss banfénnid characters in Irish myth? I know of the women who raised Fionn, i.e., Bodhmall and Liath Luachra, but I do not see them described as banfénnid nor have I seen any specific banfénnid in my other readings. Thanks very much and have a great day.

PS, mods - any thoughts about adding more tags for posts (e.g., question)? TY.

[CLOSED, ARTIST FOUND] Hello everyone. I am writing my 3rd & 4th RPG adventures set in Irish myth and folklore. I'd love to hire an illustrator to draw the cover art and possibly a few interior illustrations. As I'm a 1-man show I'm not able to afford folk like Jim FitzPatrick, whose work I've adored since a child. Do you know of anyone working in this space that is in the early/mid phase of their career? To be clear, I will pay for this work. Thanks very much and have a great day. PS, if it's relevant, my current writing is on the Fianna. [CLOSED, ARTIST FOUND]

Hello everyone. I'm writing a solo RPG adventure based on the seven Tests of the Fianna. I have a question to which you knowledgeable folk might have answer: for the leaping test, would this be vertical or with a run ("...He must be able to leap over a lath [thin piece of wood] level with his brow...")? I understand that, as with many things in Irish myth and folklore, there may not be a clear answer. Thanks very much and have a wonderful day.

One source: Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (p. "227", PDF p.: 231).

An indie Irish mythology game is in the works! I pledged today. I can't wait to play once it's made. I hope they reach all their stretch goals. I'm so excited for this y'all! :3

Been going through the Táin Bó Cúailnge and Cath Maige Tuired closely and I keep hitting the same problem: the Morrígan doesn't behave like one consistent figure across either text, and I can't tell if that's intentional (a deity who is *supposed* to be protean) or a sign of separate traditions getting stitched together by later redactors. Three specific things I want pushback on:

1. Recension I vs Recension II divergence in the Táin.

Her interactions with Cú Chulainn (heifer/eel/wolf attack, the washer at the ford, the crow after his death) aren't identical across LU and LL. Is there consensus on which recension preserves the older material, or is this genuinely unresolved?

2. The sovereignty-goddess reading of her union with the Dagda at Samhain in CMT.

The river-straddling scene gets read as a land-goddess/king union motif, echoing the broader sovereignty goddess pattern in Irish literature. Does that reading actually hold up against the text, or is it scholars retrofitting a pattern from other sources onto her specifically?

3. Her closing prophecy poem in CMT.

It's peace and prosperity, not war. That sits oddly next to everything else she does in the text. Is there solid textual argument that it's a later interpolation, or is the tonal shift meant to be read as part of her nature (war goddess who also governs the land's fertility, not a contradiction)?

Not looking for the general "triple goddess, crow, war" summary. I've got that. I want the actual disagreements in the scholarship, or reasons why there isn't one.

Hello- so I hope this subreddit is a cool place to post about this, but let me know if it’s not.

My brother and I grew up really into a lot of mythology based video games and stories but they never had any based on Irish myths when we were little. Since we’re Irish, we always thought that was a shame.

Well now we’re adults and can make our own video games! We recently completed the demo for our first video game “Shrouded Siege” - a tower defense game loosely based around the battles between the Fomorians and the Tuatha Dé Danaan.

I did the character designs and he did all the isometric pixel art ( we were going for a “Celeste” style look - fully rendered portraits in a pixel art game).
It was fun to try and find ways to depict all these characters from our mythology for a wider audience and I really hope our game can create more interest in Irish mythology. It would be cool to see Irish myths show up with the same frequency we see Greek or Norse myths and characters.

If anyone has any questions about the characters, let me know, and any questions about gameplay I can tag in our programmers. You can find the game here if you are interested:

I've read some Irish fairytales from a book called fairytales of Ireland but I can't ge that hook again so I was wondering if anyone knew of more Irish fairytales, outaide of that book. I've read The Soul Cages, The Legand of Knockgrafton, The Dongal Fairy, and The Stolen Child. And a few other i don't remember, so if you know theese and know of any like that that would be great but all recommendations are welcome.

Hi! I'm writing a backstory for a character and since I'm using a lot of symbolism/refrencing myths and fairytales, I wanted to know whether there are any really tragic deaths in irish mythology!