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Rivers, Lakes and Data Centres in Irish Mythology

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What Makes Irish Mythology So Beautiful?

Ireland was having its golden era of monastic scholarship, but our Christianity was becoming quite isolated from the Christianity and the Christian doctrine of Rome. Early Irish Christianity would mix in the pagan tales of Ireland with Christian stories to mix the two together. From about 8,500 onwards, we had all these monasteries full of monks, and they were creating these beautiful books that contained the GospelsChristian stories. It's also how our oral indigenous mythology that was thousands of years old was recorded and how we're able to know about these stories today.

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