Word: cathasaigh
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...Irish, he is seen as the deliverer of Christianity, but you may all know him as the man who brought you green beer," Kenneth G. Haig '99 recounted O Cathasaigh as saying...
Jokes aside, O Cathasaigh is passionate about Irish mythology. He says he is motivated to teach this material, much of which is also offered in the departmental course Celtic 136, in order to offer the obscure material for more public consumption...
...this material is not widely known, but it is really worth reading," O Cathasaigh says. "It comes from an epoch when the paganism and Christianity came together, and that produced a tremendous creative impetus...
...Cathasaigh has found an eager audience for the tales, which he says have been passed down orally since around the fifth century A.D., and describe the lives and battles of mythical Celtic gods and heroes...
...Cathasaigh says the tales offer a "fresh and vigorous approach" to the hero culture...