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Guardians of the Threshold: Síle na gCíoch and the Protective Language of Irish Sacred Architecture (Part 3)
There are certain carvings in Ireland that appear to speak in a language older than the buildings that now hold them. They emerge above doorways, beside windows, along castle walls and within monastic stone, their bodies exposed, their posture deliberate, their presence unmistakable. These figures are known as Síle na gCíoch - commonly anglicised as Sheela na Gig - and although they have been catalogued, debated and interpreted through archaeological and folkloric study for g


Gobnait at the Threshold of Spring (Part 1)
Early February carries a particular quality of light that belongs neither fully to winter nor fully to spring. Snow may still rest along shaded field boundaries and in the lee of stone walls, yet something within the air begins to loosen its hold. It is a season that does not announce itself through spectacle but through attentiveness. It asks to be noticed rather than celebrated. During one such morning, while the terrace door lay open to a low but steady sun, a bee crossed
