THE IRISH FOLKLORE CENTRE

(Sponsored by The O’Donoghue Society)

Heroic Landscapes: Irish Myth and Legend can only provide a snapshot of the vast panoply of Irish myths, legends, folk tales, manners and customs. The Centre will provide a focus for the whole Irish folk tradition. Anyone can to input their favourite stories for the pleasure of others and explore the subject via related blogs. You need to register if making first visit, or log in if already registered

Folklore enthusiasts (of any name) from around the world can participate in the creation of a data base of stories over a number of different categories (largely following the chapter headings in Heroic Landscapes) and covering all the counties of Ireland. If you don’t know where to assign your story just show it as ‘unassigned’ and the Administrator will place it in the relevant category based on the predominant character or feature.

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Title:		Category:
Submitter:		County:

Title	Category	County	Submitter
The Death of the Sons of Tuireann	The Tuatha Dé Danann – the Gods	Meath	Rod O'Donoghue
The Adventure of Fearghus mac Léide	The mythological kings - those up to around AD 400	Ulster	Rod O'Donoghue
The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu or Uisneach	The Ulster Cycle – Cú Chulainn and the Red Branch Knights	Ulster	Rod O'Donoghue
The Battle of the White Strand	The Fenian Cycle – Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna	Kerry	Rod O'Donoghue
Diarmaid and Gráinne	The Fenian Cycle – Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna	All Ireland	Rod O'Donoghue
The Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient World	Unassigned	Outside Ireland	Rod O'Donoghue
The Palace in the rath	The fairies and the fairy-like	Wexford	Rod O'Donoghue
The Hags of the Long Teeth	Witchcraft, sorcery and giants	Wexford	Rod O'Donoghue
The Voyage of St Brendan	The saints and the voyages	Kerry	Rod O'Donoghue
The bad stepmother	Popular oral literature	Wexford	Rod O'Donoghue
An Fear Dearg and The Lucky Guest	The fairies and the fairy-like	All Ireland	Rod O'Donoghue
Cluricaunes and Leprechauns	The fairies and the fairy-like	All Ireland	Rod O'Donoghue
The Legend of O'Donoghue	O'Donoghue stories	Kerry	Rod O'Donoghue
The pursuitof the Giolla Deacair and his horse	The Fenian Cycle – Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna	Kerry	Rod O'Donoghue
Bill Doody and the rentman	The hero figure – generally after 1100	Kerry	Rod O'Donoghue


To contribute to the collection of tales and myths please join as a Folklore Enthusiast and you will be able to upload your data.

Copyright guidance: If you rewrite a story then generally copyright will not be a problem because most of the tales must of necessity be very old. Copyright law necessitates that authors must have died 70 years ago for a story to be reproduced without the author’s permission. The obligation is on the submitter to the data base to satisfy him/herself on copyright issues before inputting a story.