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Archaeology
Network for Underwater Archaeology, Ireland
NUA (the Irish word for new) is a network of institutions actively involved in research on the underwater archaeology on the island of Ireland.

Knowth
The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth were built around 3200BC making them older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

Database of Irish excavations Reports

The Irish Association of Professional Archaeologists

A Brief Guide To Irish Archaeological Sites

Save Tara/Skryne Valley Campaign
Campaign to preserve the Tara/Skryne Valley from the M3 motorway.
History of Tara site.

The Irish Stone-Axe Project
This Site includes an off-line Bibliography of texts pertaining to the Neolithic period in Ireland.

Stones of Ireland
Irish megalith sites, including Newgrange and Poulnabrone. Descriptions, images and maps of dolmens, standing stones, stone circles and more.

Clonmacnois
Investigations of the Celtic High Cross in Clonmacnois (County Offaly, Ireland).

The Fifth Direction: Sacred centres in Ireland
An Essay discussing the concept of the 'Fifth' Coiced and archaeologial evidence for same by Bob Trubshaw.

The Internet Journal of Archaeology in Ireland

The Archaeology of Rural Life in Ireland, 1650-1850

Heritage of Ireland

Achill Archaeology Centre
Archaeological field school on Achill Island. Offers a summer school for archaeology and anthropology students as well as introductory courses for interested amateurs.






Irish Mythology
An A-Z of Ancient Ireland

Little Glossary of Celtic Mythology

The Second Battle of Moytura The story of the Tuatha De Dannan (Mythological Cycle)

Bricriu's Feast (Ulster Cycle)
This section of the Ulster Cycle is culled from various reliable sources.

The Pursuit of Dairmuid and Grainne (Fenian Cycle)
The most famous love story in Irish mythology.

The Voyage of Bran
Kuno Meyer's 1890 translation of a medieval version of the Old Irish saga together with the original Old Irish.

The Birth of Lugh - Óðinn and Loki among the Celts by Thor Ewing

A Review & Extracts from Robert Graves' The White Goddess (1948)

Department of Irish Folklore, Dublin. Includes the National Folklore Archives

The Celtic Literature Collection - over one hundred ancient texts available to download free

Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
Collected and Narrated by Patrick Kennedy (Second Edition 1891)

Winifred Faraday's version of the Tain (1904)

Joseph Dunn's version of the Tain (1914)

Another source for Joseph Dunn's version of the Tain (1914)

Cecile O'Rahilly's version of the Tain published by CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts

Gods and Fighting Men

Buile Shuibhne published by CELT

Acallamh na Senórach published by CELT

Deirdre of the Sorrows published by CELT

Pretanic World - Pantheons



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