Lora O'Brien – Irish Author & Guide
Your Authentic Connection to Ireland
Make sure you check out the full Beginner’s Guide to Irish Paganism Series. Moving on from the Recommended Irish History Books, we can now focus specifically on Irish Gods and Goddesses. As we said last time, these books can stretch a little to cover a broader ‘Celtic’ pantheon, but our focus here is quality information on…
Make sure you check out the full Beginner’s Guide to Irish Paganism Series. I know everyone is keen to get to the sexy magic practice or life changing guided journey experiences, but in reality, we have to start with how things were. So that means the Irish History Books. Some of these cover a slightly…
Through the Irish Pagan School mailing list, Mike asked: “One question if I may. What is the difference between Druidism and Paganism? As I’m sure you know there are unlimited resources online and allot of it is quite confusing and contradictory. I’ve been doing some reading for a year and a half or so and…
You might have made these Pagan Mistakes in the past and still feel mortified – maybe even felt like you couldn’t go back to the Coven/Group/Event ever again? Or maybe you’ve been doing some (or all) of these things and didn’t even realise, this whole time. But look, we’ve all been there, I promise. This…
Spoiler Alert! No. You don’t. The Number One reason we hear for folk joining the Irish Pagan School comes down to an Irish heritage connection or Irish ancestry… which is grand, and good for you if you have that and want to explore it! I’m here today to be the killjoy that tells you though…
Today is the Summer Solstice (on Sat 20th June, at 22.43 pm, in Ireland, to be exact). You’re gonna see a load of inane ‘Solstice Blessings!’ stuff that’s all well and good like, but I happen to know some of ye are also a little confused about the whys and hows of this Pagan Holiday….
In our annual Meeting the Mórrígan programme, I got a question on the Daughters of Ernmas – basically, which ‘set’ of sisters was older? The basic info that’s going around runs like this: Ernmas is an Irish mother goddess, mentioned in Lebor Gabála Érenn and “Cath Maige Tuired” as one of the Tuatha Dé Danann….
I’m not sure how many of you, exactly, have searched for a beginner’s guide specifically… But every month, there are 1,900 searches on Google for the topic ‘Celtic Paganism’, which in broad terms also covers the main theme of this blog, Irish Paganism (which gets 390 searches itself). So, 390 of you lovely people each…
Or indeed, what is a Pagan? These are big questions; broad, and deep, that span the entirety, really, of human history. Paganism is the spirituality of our ancestors, the original religion of the world, which has endured in many places, and may ways. The word itself has Roman roots… From Late Latin paganus “pagan,” in classical Latin…
The character of Queen Maeve has come to popularity in Amazon’s TV show ‘The Boys’ as a badass superhero with some… issues, not the least of which appears to be the toxic masculinity and sexism she finds herself constantly surrounded by. For once, pop culture isn’t completely off par when dealing with Irish Mythology, because…