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What Do You Know About Medieval Ireland?
Pop culture is not exactly bursting with references to Irish magic. But we do have some idea about what happened in pre-Christian Ireland. There's an idea that there was a nature worship around forests and wells. Of course, when the Christians come along in the 5th century, they run out of oral tales. And this conversion brought with a huge economic, social and intellectual changes. So today we'll talk mostly about Ireland after the conversion to Christianity in the5th century as that's where we start to get our literary sources.