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Áine & Milucra both loved Finn McCool! Áine vowed never to marry a man with grey hair! So Milucra put spell on Calliagh Berras Lough; anyone who swam in it became old! She then pretended she'd lost her ring in it; got Finn to get it! So Finn's name=white [hair]! #MythologyMonday

#Otd 1908: Birth in #Dublin of Mervyn Wall (d 1997). Novels, plays, short stories, Ireland Today.👨‍🎓@BelvedereSJ @UCDALUMNI. Civil servant @rte, Secretary @artscouncil_ie. 2 of novels are humorous fantasy about misadventures of a monk in Dark Ages Ireland! https://t.co/5avuE67EW9

#Otd 1798: Birth in #Dublin of Richard Robert Madden. Doctor, writer, abolitionist & U.I. historian. Active role in trying to impose anti-slavery rules in Jamaica on behalf British government. Had 20 siblings! 🎨undercover in Syria exploring Turkish Empire https://t.co/wfrzIvZhM0

21 Aug: St Mogin Mór. "Mór"=great. In the Martyrology of Tallaght. It seems to indicate that he was a person of distinction. However, in the O'Cleary's calendar he is called simply Moghin (Canon O'Hanlon). 🎨Jörg Breu

In Co Limerick esp, goddess Áine is known as Queen of the fairies! Sometimes represented by a red mare; can transform into one & never caught! Irish goddess of midsummer, love, fertility. In charge of crops/animals & associated with agriculture. #Ireland #FairyTaleTuesday 🧚🐎

#Otd 1784: Death Nathaniel Hone the Elder RA. Portrait/miniature painter. Dad #Dublin-based Dutch merchant. Settled in London. A founder @royalacademy. Had 1 man shows! Gr-grand-nephew Nathaniel Hone the Younger! Relation Evie Hone https://t.co/m3BOolYczs https://t.co/5bmTSFzDYy

#Otd 1778: Papists Act 1778. 1st Act for Catholic Relief. eg granted rights of leasing & inheritance to those who'd taken oath allegiance. Penalty of perpetual imprisonment for keeping a school, repealed! 1st rolling back penal laws https://t.co/rJ2kINH3Cs https://t.co/2mekELNlN7

14 Aug: Feast of vigil of the death of the Virgin Mary. Believed Jesus awaited the soul of his mother, in a reversal of their image as mother & child (Dr Elva Johnston). The Dormition, death of the Virgin Mary, 15 Aug. ©@BookOfKellsTCD f7v @tcdresearchcoll, & 🎨modern ?

With the recent rain, the grass is growing well again this summer! But have you heard of hungry grass/féar gortach?! It is a patch of cursed grass! Also known as fairy grass, anyone walking on it is doomed to perpetual & insatiable hunger! Spooky! #Ireland #FaustianFriday 🌱🌿🍃

#Otd 1854: Death of #Cork's Thomas Crofton Croker MRIA. Collector Irish poetry/folklore. Co-founded Percy Society & Camden Society. Fairy Legends & Traditions of the South of Ireland translated (German) by Brothers Grimm! Didn't like old annals! 🪦London https://t.co/8BHFMGQgqW