The Ever-Living Ones

Tomorrow is Lá Fhéile Bríde, Brighid’s Day and tonight after sunset she will emerge to walk the land. There are many folk traditions ass...

As the sun sank beneath the land, Samhain began... a door to the Otherworld opened... from the mound the Good People emerged to travel ...

Bean Fasa , Wise Woman © Jane Brideson 2015. Inspired by the Wise Women of Ireland & the stories of Biddy Early Model: Mary K...

Last week I  travelled to County Clare to visit the remains of Biddy Early's cottage. I was about to begin a new painting and as part o...

The field of the Fairy Path - © Jane Brideson 2015 It was on an evening such as this back in the 1970's, when there was a good stre...

As the Midsummer sun bathes the land, Áine's heat brings a mantle of green to the countryside. Walking along the dusty lane the scent of...

Let me introduce you to the Bean an Tí, the woman of the house, who continues the old tradition of hospitality for which Ireland is reno...