Lora O'Brien – Irish Author & Guide
Your Authentic Connection to Ireland
Phoney Mahoney. Fake Irish. Plastic Paddy. Not terms you’d want to be used about you if you’re serious about your Irish heritage. Well, more serious at least than a green leprechaun hat and getting pissed as a fart on Paddy’s Day. So, how do we avoid such labels? How do you know if you are…
It’s not that hard, really. Us Irish actually have the toughest time of it, with our outdated dinosaur curriculum forced-by-nuns-and-christian-brothers system of learning the Irish or Gaeilge, from the age of 4 or 5 until we leave school at 17 or 18. There’s many an Irish person who’s done over 13 years of schooling here,…
To move forward, we need to understand what is behind us, what has developed us, how to use the fertility of prepared and nourished ground and seed to grow and thrive into the future. This is our Ancestry. Blood lines are important, and an understanding of family ties, bonds, history, and each root and branch…
Being Pagan in Ireland is a little different, I think, than being Pagan anywhere else. We’re an odd lot, and we value individual strength, as long as it doesn’t upset the apple cart of family/community tradition, or give the neighbours anything bad to talk about. I’m a… well, I don’t actually have a label that…
Samhain Interview with Lora O’Brien First Contact Hi Lora, I hope you’re keeping well. My name is Lisa [xxxxx] and I’m a freelance journalist for the Irish [xxxxx]. I am currently working on a Halloween special for the newspaper and I would like to include a feature on modern Irish women who practice witchcraft. I…