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The Brusselstown Ring archaeological find in County Wicklow, Ireland, is a massive prehistoric hillfort with over 600 house platforms, making it the largest nucleated settlement found in prehistoric Britain and Ireland, dating to the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (around 1200-800 BC). This discovery, part of the Baltinglass Hillfort Cluster, challenges ideas about early Irish towns, suggesting large, complex settlements emerged centuries earlier than previously thought, with evidence of organized structures like potential water cisterns and dense housing.

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There was a massive explosion on March 11, 1597, when a stockpile of gunpowder on the docks in Dublin ignited. The explosion devastated central Dublin, killing 126 people, and halting city growth for decades. The explosion was in midst of a clerk's mismanagement of workers that lead to a porter strike. The strike causing an unusual build up of gunpowder.

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Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashed en route from Cork to London on 24 March 1968, killing all 61 passengers and crew. The aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 803 named St. Phelim, crashed into the sea off Tuskar Rock, County Wexford. The cause of the crash has never been determined but there is some evidence to British military possible involvement.

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Labraid Loingsech, also known as Labraid Lorc, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. A king above all the other Kings. He was an ancestor of the Laigin clan, who gave their name to the province of Leinster. There is an early dynastic poem that calls him "a god among the gods", suggesting he may once have been an ancestor-deity of the Laigin.

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The Song of Amergin is an ancient, powerful Gaelic poem from Irish mythology. It was spoken by the bard Amergin when the Milesians (Celts) arrived in Ireland to claim the land from the Tuatha Dé Danann. He identified himself with the land's spirit through myriad natural and elemental forms (stag, wind, wave, sunbeam, etc.) to quell a magical storm and assert divine right. It's considered perhaps the oldest poem from the all the Islands of the west coast of Europe. It is found in ancient texts like the Book of Leinster, and is known for its enigmatic, transformative imagery, asserting control over the land's essence.

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Eiocha was born by the sea and earth when the world was nothing, empty and void. She births gods and becomes a symbol of fertility and rebirth.

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Is America's Ground Hog Day rooted in Irish Mythology? Could Irish and Scottish Immigrants have evolved a very celtic day that determines if winter will be long or short?

In Irish mythology Cailleach rules winter and Brigid who rules spring.

The Cailleach is a powerful, ancient Celtic goddess of winter, creation, and sovereignty, known as the "Veiled One," who shaped the landscape (mountains, valleys) with rocks from her apron and controls the harshness of winter, appearing as a fearsome old crone or hag, often with one eye, associated with storms, horned animals, and the cycle of life and death, ruling between Samhain (Halloween) and Beltaine/Imbolc. Brigid is a powerful Celtic goddess, daughter of the Dagda, revered as a triple goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft, associated with fire, spring, fertility, and water.

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Irish Mythology tells of a battle where a united world attacked Ireland. The Battle of Ventry (Cath Fionntrá) is a legendary, epic tale from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. It tells the tale of the invasion of Ireland in the 3rd century by the "King of the World," Daire Donn, and a massive European army that he united. The world was united to conquer Ireland because Fionn mac Cumhaill had eloped with the King of Frances's wife and daughter. The one year one day war was fought at Ventry Bay in County Kerry. The Fianna had fighters from other groups in Ireland to include the Tuath Dé Danann. This battle included heroic single combat, magical elements like special weapons, and devastating losses. The battle ultimately ended with the Fianna's victory and the invaders' retreat, though the Fianna experienced a horrific number of casualties.

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