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Saint Brigid Solvent Abuse and Irish Mythology

The Blindboy Podcast

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Irish Christianity - It Was Fucking Brilliant

The stories of all the saints contained these wild supernatural stories and they took bits from Irish mythology. Christianity in Ireland was treated as an art form. You could worship true acts of creativity through storytelling, illuminated gospels. It was a time of learning and creativity and art which in my opinion brought in the silliness and flexibility and fun of the Irish oral tradition of storytelling.

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