Notes on the Black Pig’s Dyke

Notes on the Black Pig’s Dyke

The Black Pig’s Dyke is an ancient Irish earthwork composed of banks, ditches, and timber palisades, stretching across several counties. While once believed to serve as a defensive frontier for Ulster, new research suggests ritual or symbolic purposes were more...
An Ode to Pagan Days (2001)

An Ode to Pagan Days (2001)

This Halloween-flavoured column featured in The Dubliner in October 2001.   *****   Perhaps it’s the time of year that is upon us – the ghouls and the pussycats, I mean – but I can’t help thinking what mighty good craic it’d be if this world of ours returned to its...