In Irish mythology, the beginning of the summer season for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians started at Bealtaine.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

* Irish mythology in popular culture

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

This refers to Cethlenn, a figure in Irish mythology who may have been a goddess.

It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar Caladbolg, a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans.

According to German and Danish folklore, the Erlkönig appears as an omen of death, much like the banshee in Irish mythology.

* Goddesses of Insular ( Welsh, Irish ) mythology: Mórrígan-Nemain-Macha-Badb, Brigid, Ériu, Danu

Goddesses or demi-goddesses appear in sets of three in a number of ancient European pagan mythologies ; these include the Greek Erinyes ( Furies ) and Moirai ( Fates ); the Norse Norns ; Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, from Irish or Keltoi mythology.

Reference to Imbolc is made in Irish mythology, in the Tochmarc Emire of the Ulster Cycle.

Imbolc was one of the four cross-quarter days referred to in Irish mythology, the others being Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain.

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The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle.

The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th / early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 ( Rawl.

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The Morrígan (" phantom queen ") or Mórrígan (" great queen "), also written as Morrígu or in the plural as Morrígna, and spelt Morríghan or Mór-ríoghain in Modern Irish, is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have been considered a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.

See: Irish mythology in popular culture: The Morrígan

* Oscar ( Irish mythology ), the warrior son of Oisín and Niamh

Ossian is based on Oisín, son of Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill, anglicised to Finn McCool, a character from Irish mythology.

The earliest associations of 1 November with All Saints are thus found in 8th century sources of Northwestern Europe ( Anglo-Saxon and German ), while the earliest references to the Irish festival of Samhain are found in sources of Irish mythology compiled in the 10th century and later.

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

Oswald gave the island of Lindisfarne to Aidan as his episcopal see, and Aidan achieved great success in spreading the Christian faith ; Bede mentions that Oswald acted as Aidan's interpreter when the latter was preaching, since Aidan did not know English well and Oswald had learned Irish during his exile.

In a section printed in the introductions of volumes I and II of the trilogy, though not reprinted in the single volume compilation, the narrator mentions that he has a raft of Irish relatives in Ohio named McGee and Marlowe.

Landnámabók mentions the presence of Irish monks prior to Norse settlement, and states that the monks left behind Irish books, bells and crosiers, among other things.

The Roman historian Tacitus mentions that Agricola, while governor of Roman Britain ( AD 78-84 ), entertained an exiled Irish prince ( may be Túathal ), thinking to use him as a pretext for a possible conquest of Ireland.

The Icelandic Landnámabók ( Book of Settlements ) mentions that the Norse found Irish priests with bells and crosiers in Iceland when they arrived.

Among other notable mentions of Big Sur in music are Buckethead's song " Big Sur Moon " on the album Colma, and the song Big Sur by Irish indie band The Thrills from their album So Much for the City.

* The 1987 song When New York Was Irish by Terence Winch mentions céilidhs.

Irish brothers Connor and Murphy McManus attend Mass at a Catholic Church, where the priest mentions the fate of Kitty Genovese.

The early medieval history of Ireland, often called Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period ( Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography ) to the beginning of the Viking Age.

Irish poet Eavan Boland mentions the coffin ships in her poem " In a Bad Light " from the collection In a Time of Violence, and in her memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time.

The British Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman ( who lived in Ireland from 1941 to 1943 ) mentions Dungarvan in his poem, " The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom ".

Mac Fhirbhisigh's career as a scholar overlapped with a devastating period of war, famine, and plague in Ireland ( the Irish Confederate Wars of 1641-1653 ) but, curiously, Mac Fhirbisigh never mentions contemporary politics or events in his works.

The Roman historian Tacitus mentions that Agricola, while governor of Roman Britain ( AD 78-84 ), entertained an exiled Irish prince, thinking to use him as a pretext for a possible conquest of Ireland.

Some of the earliest mentions are in the 5th century, St. Patrick calls the Irish " Scoti ", and in the 6th century, St. Isidore bishop of Seville and Gildas the British historian both refer to Ireland as Scotia.

Robert Heinlein mentions the Irish Sweeps in his novel, Glory Road ( 1963 ), and in his novella, The Man Who Sold the Moon ( 1950 ).

The Irish folk song " The Spanish Lady " mentions Stoneybatter in the 5th verse.

The Irish singer Liam Clancy mentions them in a preamble to a version of the song, " Galway Races.

Such guerrilla groups included the Irish Republican Army ; prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein released a propaganda video demonstrating slingshots as a possible insurgency weapon for use against invading forces.

In his editorials, Scott was hostile to militant suffragettes, whom he accused of employing ' every engine of misguided fanaticism in order to wreck, if it be in their power, the fair prospects of their cause ' He was just as disturbed by the General Strike of 1926, hoping ' Will not the General Strike cease to be counted henceforth as a possible or legitimate weapon of industrial warfare ' Irish rebels were authors of their own destruction he thought, writing on the execution of Padraig Pearse and James Connolly after the Easter Uprising in Dublin ' it is a fate which they invoked and of which they probably would not complain '

It has been claimed the weapon was also used by the Special Air Service during the Northern Irish Troubles.

The Irish Brigade distinguished itself from the rest of the Army of the Potomac by Meagher's insistence on arming it with Model 1842 smoothbore muskets, an obsolete weapon that was largely phased out during 1862, because he wanted his men to be able to fire buck-and-ball shot ( a. 69 caliber musket ball with four smaller balls ), which produced a shotgun effect in close-range combat and could not be used with rifles.

One possible origin is from the Irish og-úaim ' point-seam ', referring to the seam made by the point of a sharp weapon.

With the establishment of the Defence Forces in 1924, the 18-pdr was the only artillery weapon in Irish service, forming the 1st and 2nd Field Batteries of the Artillery Corps.

* November 24-Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad at Beggars Bush ( Dublin ) after conviction by an Irish military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.

During the new hearing, coroner Dr. Andrew Reid heard that the two officers fired the shots after being given wrong information in a tipoff ; they had been told that Mr Stanley was carrying a weapon and had an Irish accent.

Recent popularized notions equate this weapon with swords from Irish mythology ( Cúchulainn's sword Cruaidín, or Nuada's sword, one of the Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann ), but this is not founded on solid literary evidence.

Arthur C. L. Brown and R. S. Loomis, proponents of the Irish origin of the Grail romances, argued that Celtchar's Lúin was to be identified with the spear of Lug, a weapon which is named in Middle Irish narratives as one of the four items which the Túatha Dé Danann introduced to Ireland.