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![]() ![]() ![]() “the personification of winter … her veil may have represented the land being clad in frost and snow. Manchán Magan, author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, describes her as: Which is fitting, given that it is she who was reputedly responsible for the formation of the land. Unlike the characters of those stories, though, she has remained very much alive in the psyche and oral lore of Irish culture as the centuries progressed.ĭespite the arrival of Christianity, the upheaval of invasion and British colonialism, the violence of linguistic imperialism, the devastation of famine and emigration, and the homogeneity of global capitalism and modernity, the Cailleach can still be found in the place-names and local legends of the Irish landscape. THE CAILLEACH IS A LONELY FIGURE, often interpreted as an otherworldly hag, crone or witch, who does not inhabit the written mythology of Ireland that we have inherited from our early medieval writers. ![]()
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