Irish Mythology and Legend

Ireland has been inhabited since the Stone Age times. For more than five thousand years, peoples moving westwards across the European continent have settled in the country, and each new group of immigrants, Celts, Vikings, Normans, English, has contributed to its present population. Ancient Irish myths and legends tell of four successive peoples who invaded the country before the Celts: the Fir Bolgs, the Fomorians, the Tuatha Dé Danann, and the Milesians. It is said that the Fir Bolgs divided Ireland into the five provinces of Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Meath. When the Tuatha Dé Danann arrived, warfare between the two tribes ensued over possession of the land. Later, the Tuatha also battled the Fomorians and were victorious. However, they were then defeated by the Milesians, the immediate ancestors of the Irish people.

The Tuatha Dé Danann are one of the great ancient tribes of Ireland,

ruling from 1897 B.C. to 1700 B.C.

They are said to now live under the mounds of Ireland, known as the Sídhe,

in the Otherworld.

And now the legends of the Tuatha Dé Danann continue through the story of

©The Shiny One.