{"id":7386,"date":"2015-08-03T05:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T21:40:23","slug":"a-history-of-the-gods-of-irish-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7386","title":{"rendered":"A History of the Gods of Irish Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press, Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth<\/em> (2016), by Mark Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Think of the “Finding a God” and “Finding a Goddess” chapters of Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon \u2014 <\/em>but book-length, dealing with Irish material, and the product of numerous quests through textual tunnels wherein dwell the ferocious beasts.<\/p>\n

All of the Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans out there will probably rush not to buy it. Someone should \u2014 he is a fine writer.<\/p>\n

From the scraps of his research that I have seen, readers (me included) should prepare to end up in places quite different than they expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forthcoming from Princeton University Press, Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth (2016), by Mark Williams. Think of the “Finding a God” and “Finding a Goddess” chapters of Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon \u2014 but book-length, dealing with Irish material, and the product of numerous quests through textual tunnels wherein dwell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,5,4],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ireland","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1V8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6998,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6998","url_meta":{"origin":7386,"position":0},"title":"Was Lugh a Comet?","author":"Chas S. 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