I’m a fan of Folklore & Mythology yet sadly I can’t find anything on Irish mythology, I tried looking for something at my College Library and I got Fuck All.

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1. there is a “Gander” who lives in a drain on Chapelizod hill road the one that leads to chappo bridge from Le fanu road

   It takes kids and robs their sweets, you have to run past the drain fast to avoid it

2. https://bardmythologies.com/irish-stories/

   Website gets a bit out-there in places, but their content is sound.

3. Fireside podcast is excellent as well.

4. Irish Mythology Podcast is a good listen.

5. Here’s a pile of old books about Celtic folklore : https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/index.htm

   A good one is [The Science of Fairy Tales](https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sft/index.htm). It’s interesting to see that a 130 yr old perspective isn’t all that different from a modern one.

6. Candlit tales do a good podcast and they often do live shows around the country and at festivals. They’re a brother and sister and they usually combine some music with their storytelling too.

7. Try looking under the 891s in your college library (that’s where stuff was in UCC). If your college has Celtic Studies or Folklore as courses there’ll be stuff there.

8. Ask your librarians to find stuff for you – they also have the budget and power to buy books!

9. Legendary Ireland by Eithne Massey.
   The Sacred Isle by Dáithí Ó Hógáin.
   Irelands Other History by Hector McDonnell
   Fairies by Morgan Daimler.
   Fairy Faith in the Celtic Countries by Walter Evans-Wentz
   And of course Lady Gregory, Complete Irish Mythology.

   This is an eclectic mix of light and heavy reading.

10. These are not mythical creatures, they are as real as it gets, go hit the road and find out yerself

11. OP have a look for Eddie Lenihan’s stuff! He has a podcast called “Tell Me a Story” and talks about folklore and mythology, getting his stories from hundreds of interviews over the decades with older people of Ireland. He’s a national treasure IMO!

12. Amadan Dubh.

13. Look up chucullain

14. Look up Lugh, very interesting read imo

15. I have a book compiled by WB Yeats called A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend & Folklore: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.

16. Michael Scott (wrote the Immortal Nicholas Flammel series) wrote a few books on Irish Folklore back in the 80’s and 90’s

17. If you check out “the Greek myths” part 1, it has a large pretext section explaining the kinks between different European myths, it goes through Irish mythology in some detail although not to the extent that would warrant reading the book exclusively on Irish mythology.

18. I read a book about Norse mythology (Maria Kvilhaug’s The Seed Of Yggdrasill) and she explained what was behind the surface reading of the seemingly silly stories. It was a real eye-opener into not just mythology but primitive psychology. I read one collection of Celtic myths and The Táin and there is nothing available to help me make sense of them. The Táin reads like a trip around parts of Ireland in order to put a name on places. At least that has some use but the story is utter nonsense at face value. I wish there was a Maria Kvilhaug for Irish mythology.

19. An leabhar gabala erenn is a pretty old source, lots of christian bias in it so you kind of have to read it with that in mind and mentally sort of parse the genuine irish lore out of that