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    Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland
    Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland
    Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland
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    Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland

    By Gabriel Woods

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    You are probably bored of the typical narratives about early Ireland and the times before the Celts, books that are often educational rather than interesting and entertaining. Lady Gregory’s 1904 classic, Gods and Fighting Men, tried to establish a narrative using the various stories of the Fianna. Books of this nature capture the historical folklore aspect of Irish storytelling but they do not include the essential element of ancient Irish stories which is storytelling. Irish myths were created for the ancient art of telling stories through the spoken word. Gabriel Woods has captured the skill of story-telling within the stories of this book and he truly brings alive the myths and the characters of each story within the pages of this book.
    Ancient Irish stories such as written in this book are written in the spirit of storytelling. These folklore stories are written in the fashion that they would have been told in the ancient past possibly sitting around an open fire in a forest, a castle or small town home. The objectives of the story being to entertain and to convey lessons learned from the past. The stories in this book would also have been passed through the generations so that Irish people and sometimes other ancient people from faraway lands could remember their heritage and culture. These tales have been selected from the myths of Pre-Celtic times, the Celtic era and also myth about Saint Patrick.
    This book has a selection of short stories which have been selected to suit all ages, Irish people and any reader from any cultures would find these stories both informative, interesting and entertaining. Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland is a delightful, enjoyable and descriptive narrative.

    Lissa Oliver Review

    Woods has a very simple and engaging style that comes to the fore here, the stories bite-size and easy to digest, sure to hold the interest of younger readers. Simple narrative, yet beautifully phrased, so of appeal to Woods' older fans, too. The stories serve as an introduction, leaving the reader to seek out further detail, there interest sure to have been sparked.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriel Woods
    Release dateMar 29, 2018
    ISBN9781370539024
    Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland
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    Gabriel Woods

    I am Gabriel Woods, author of The Golden age Trilogy and four other books including Easter Rising 1916 A Family Answers the Call for Ireland`s Freedom. My latest novel is The Golden Age Evolution, view Facebook Books by Gabriel Woods. I researched and described in my novel The Golden Age Dawns how a serious pandemic manifests and the proper international public health procedures used to control an outbreak such as in my novel the Black Marbella virus sweeps across London and the world. Covid international policy and how Covid has manifested differs widely from the proper public health procedures used to control virus outbreaks. I have obtained a Degree in Psychology and a Masters in Aid work Management from University College Dublin, a Certificate in Counselling from University Maynooth in Ireland and I am a fully trained life coach. I have travelled around the world and lived in Sydney and Brisbane in Australia. I explored major sacred places and the spiritual practices of aboriginal culture and the Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim ancient sites of India. I am the author of nine published books and my very popular positively reviewed The Golden Age Trilogy.   

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      Short Stories Of Ancient Ireland - Gabriel Woods

      Short Stories of Ancient Ireland

      Copyright © 2018 by Gabriel Woods

      The Right of Gabriel Woods to be identified as the Author of the work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright & Related Rights Act, 2000.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the Author, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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      The Mysticism of Newgrange and The River Boyne

      The Boyne River in Meath, Ireland flows gently, murmuring through the most sacred land for the ancient people of Ireland. The ancients believed the waters of the Boyne to be the seat of divinity for thousands of years. It is thought, by some, that the ancients believed the light shafts of the sun god Lug entered the circular chamber of the fertility goddess Bridget at the Winter Solstice. The investigation of statues that were unearthed around the monument at Newgrange suggests this. The goddess was later worshipped in Christianity as Saint Bridget.   

      Further along the Boyne’s banks, the river flows by the Hill of Tara. The Irish believed the Hill of Tara to be the seat of the God Lug and the Goddess Medbh.

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