‘So firm was the hold which the ethnic gods of Ireland had taken upon the imagination and spiritual sensibilities of our ancestors that even the monks and christianized bards never thought of denying them. They doubtless forbade the people to worship them, but to root out the belief in their existence was so impossible that they could not even dispossess their own minds of the conviction that the gods were real supernatural beings.’–STANDISH O’GRADY.

The Goddess Dana and the modern cult of St. Brigit–The Tuatha De Danann or Sidhe conquered by the Sons of Mil–But Irish seers still see the Sidhe–Old Irish MSS. Faithfully represent the Tuatha De Danann–The Sidhe as a spirit race–Sidhe palaces–The ‘Taking’ of mortals–Hill visions of Sidhe women–Sidhe ministrels and musicians–Social organization and warfare among the Sidhe–The Sidhe war-goddesses, the Badb–The Sidhe at the Battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014–Conclusion.