1988

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Continuity and Adaptation in Legends of Cailleach Bhéarra

Gearóid Ó Crualaoich¹

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“…In that legend, the ancient hag Cailleach Bhearra leapt from hill to hill, forming cairns by dropping stones from her apron in a supernatural but ultimately unsuccessful bid for power (see 0 Crualaoich 1988 on the hag and McMann 1991 on links between passage tombs and legendary Irish females).…”

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Forms of power: dimensions of an Irish megalithic landscape

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‘What must it have been like to be here in ancient times?’ — where ‘here’ is inside one of the Great Zimbabwe enclosures or a Mesoamerican ball-court. An architectural approach to built spaces may make coherent that felt experience, here applied to the Loughcrew chamber-tombs, classic built spaces of Irish prehistory.

“…In that legend, the ancient hag Cailleach Bhearra leapt from hill to hill, forming cairns by dropping stones from her apron in a supernatural but ultimately unsuccessful bid for power (see 0 Crualaoich 1988 on the hag and McMann 1991 on links between passage tombs and legendary Irish females).…”

Section: A Brief H I~t O V J Of the Sitementioning

confidence: 99%

Forms of power: dimensions of an Irish megalithic landscape

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1994

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‘What must it have been like to be here in ancient times?’ — where ‘here’ is inside one of the Great Zimbabwe enclosures or a Mesoamerican ball-court. An architectural approach to built spaces may make coherent that felt experience, here applied to the Loughcrew chamber-tombs, classic built spaces of Irish prehistory.

Myth, history and the politics of subjectivity: Eavan Boland and Irish women's writing

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