Celtic Mythology Irish Quotes

“Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they are set in a world so fluctuating and dream-like, that nothing can hold them from being all that the heart desires."
from a preface to
Gods and Fighting Men
by Lady Augusta Gregory”
― William Butler Yeats

“When two kindred souls meet, a confluence forms that joins them in an ancient and eternal way. (Dru)”
― Robin Craig Clark, Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny

“I was looking for it," Eliza said. "For the tír fo thuinn. The land beneath the waves."
As if she might find Mam there, like the merrow from her childish story.”
― Emilia Hart, The Sirens