{"id":1956,"date":"2015-06-24T04:48:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2015-06-24T04:50:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T04:50:39","slug":"what-truth-lies-behind-irelands-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/what-truth-lies-behind-irelands-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"What Truth  Lies Behind Irelands Tales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2954\" style=\"width: 968px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2954\" alt=\"Sragh Castle in Tullamore - scene of historic and battles of legend!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sragh-Castle-in-Tullamore.jpg\" width=\"968\" height=\"272\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sragh Castle in Tullamore &#8211; scene of historic and battles of legend!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The telling of each story on the listener casts a spell,<br \/>\nThey silent open mouthed listen to the tales the old folks tell<br \/>\nOf hero&#8217;s of Ireland&#8217;s past, those stories legends some call,<br \/>\nYet upon the telling, silent even the skeptics fall.<br \/>\nThe origin of the stories the truth is no one knows<br \/>\nEach one is rooted local, or so the story goes,<br \/>\nYet in Wales, Scotland and Galacia, the story is the same<br \/>\nIn principle, names are different, according to the lands from which they came.<\/p>\n<p>I thought upon this once upon a time, and I thought to myself a while,<br \/>\nThey came from before the Celts were in Ireland, when this little isle<br \/>\nWas a land of others, who from its fields and history have flown,<br \/>\nLegendry peoples whose Iron language in the Annals is all that to us is known.<br \/>\nWhen settled in Ireland, Wales and other lands, each found a place to give location<br \/>\nRelative to their settlements for their legends of foundation,<br \/>\nBut that sat uneasy with me though it answered questions for some time,<br \/>\nI read more upon it in the form of prose and rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting theory I read is God knows where,<br \/>\nOne floating around in non academic circles, circles where folks don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nFor reputation, for ego, follow history from love alone&#8230;<br \/>\nNo political agenda to pollute their thinking, each analyse each story on its own.<br \/>\nThey say the stories are from astronomy, the hero&#8217;s are constellations,<br \/>\nAkin to tales of Gods of the Greeks of academic admirations&#8230;<br \/>\nIn a land of astrological architecture, why was this not thought of before&#8230;<br \/>\nI will never see them as mere tales or legends when I hear them anymore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telling of each story on the listener casts a spell, They silent open mouthed listen to the tales the old folks tell Of hero&#8217;s of Ireland&#8217;s past, those stories legends some call, Yet upon the telling, silent even the skeptics fall. The origin of the stories the truth is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,1],"tags":[2140,2141,2138,2135,1218,963,2142,865,2143,2136,2134,2139,2137],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-heritage","category-uncategorized","tag-beliefs","tag-druids","tag-fairytales","tag-folk-history","tag-folklore","tag-legend","tag-leprechaiuns","tag-piseogs","tag-pixies","tag-story","tag-storytelling","tag-superstitions","tag-tales","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-vy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/in-the-shadow-of-cairn-hill\/","url_meta":{"origin":1956,"position":0},"title":"In the Shadow of Cairn Hill","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Are they true the old tales, that he who slay Queen Maeve, Neath one of these cairns in death enjoys sleep? 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