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calendar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
calendar. The Celtic measurement...light. Thus the Celtic calendar of pre-Christian times...onset of winter. The Old Irish name for the first day of...The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs (Dublin, 1977...
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hazel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...have played important roles in Irish and Welsh traditions. Hazel leaves...represented the ninth month on the Old Irish calendar, 6 August to 2 September. Initiate...eaten hazel nuts. The name of the Irish hero Mac Cuill means ‘...
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Imbolc
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...imelc , Oimelc , Oímelg . Old Irish name for a seasonal feast of pre-Christian...origin fixed at 1 February on the Gregorian calendar. One of the four major Celtic calendar feasts known in Old Irish as Samain (1 November), Beltaine...
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Hollantide
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Hollantide, Calan Gaeaf. Welsh calendar festival for 1 November, a counterpart of Irish Samain , Cornish Allantide , and Breton Kala...holidays. As dark preceded light on the Celtic calendar , the dark time, i.e. of death, comes before...
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Samain
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...sam , summer; fuin , end]. Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx...1 November on the Gregorian calendar. The most important of the four great calendar feasts of Celtic tradition, including, by their old Irish names, Beltaine (1 May...
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Angus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...ile Dé [Ir., client of God], or Angus the Culdee. An early Irish anchorite ( fl. 800–50); author of the Féilire , a calendar of saints and festivals. His feast-day is 11 March. 3. A Fir Bolg leader...
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Beltaine
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Bealltuinn (ScG.), Boaldyn (Manx). Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx words for...feast fixed at 1 May on the Gregorian calendar, or 15 May in Scotland. As the end of...survival of one of the four great Celtic calendar feasts, known in early Ireland as Imbolc...
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Lughnasa
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...festive or commemorative gathering]. Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx names...last Sunday of July in the Gregorian calendar; in Scotland the festival is renamed...the most prominent heroes of early Irish literature. Lug seems most certainly...
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Colum Cille
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Cille has a fixed place on the calendar of saints, 9 June, but a number...priest, he studied classical Irish poetry under the chief poet...known for many centuries in Irish as Doire Choluim Chille in his...he wished to minister to the Irish-speaking settlers of D...
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Howth
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Peninsula jutting into the Irish Sea 9 miles NE of Dublin, scene of many actions in early Irish literature; by extension Howth...Benn Étair , the Old Irish name for the Hill of Howth...Bibliography See The Book of Howth: Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts , ed...
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