“When the order was all-in-all to me”
Allan Bennett - Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya A rather poignant letter from Allan Bennett to Robert Felkin dated March 1900. Writing from...
Dorothea Hunter and Irish Magic
Dorothea Hunter née Butler © The Hunter Family In 1892 an article by W. B. Yeats appeared in The Irish Theosophist , the...
The Battle of Blythe Road
It's the 13th of June, Happy Birthday William Butler Yeats . In honour of the great man's 159th birthday I though it might be interesting...
A History of Irish Magic - update.
Holythorn Press is delighted to have Cormac Figgis on board as our cover designer for A History of Irish Magic. Cormac is probably better...
"Merry meet, merry part" Somerset witches in the 17th century.
The full account of the Somerset Witches can be read in our most recent publication Concerning Witches and Apparitions by Joseph...
Yeats - Please do not tell people that I am an Astrologer.
Happy Birthday William Butler Yeats. I thought it might be an appropriate occasion to post a little bit about this previously unknown...
"That scoundrel Aleister Crowley"
Following on from my previous blog post - this is a letter sent by MacGregor Mathers to Brodie-Innes in 1909 asking for support in...
"I do not think Crowley will face a Court"
Even a very experienced solicitor and legal expert can get it wrong sometimes. When it comes to the Golden Dawn, the notorious Mr....
A(nother) Golden Dawn puzzle.
A torn sheet of paper with a very long name...written in an old-fashioned hand; a list of names, a title. Just a scrap of paper which...
A Book of Mad Celts
Sometimes into one's life comes a book of such rarity with a title so intriguing, with the promise of eccentric druid revivalists, celtic...
W.B. Yeats and the Lost Talisman
In our forthcoming book Green Fire - A History of Irish Magic (Summer 2023) we discuss in some detail W. B. Yeats and his Celtic Order....
Dr. Marsh's Library - an 18th century treasure house.
Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713) was an English clergyman whose greatest legacy to his adoptive country is his library near St. Patrick’s...
The Fire Temple of the Goddess
In the grounds of St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare is a magnificent round tower which is open to the public. Nearby is a high cross with a...
Holythorn Road Trip 2 - Kilkenny
Kilkenny was founded as a monastic settlement under St. Canice, or Cainneach in the 6th century CE. The settlement gradually expanded and...
Holythorn Road Trip 1 - Cashel
Cashel of the Kings is a prominent rocky hill in Co. Tipperary and a treasury of medieval architecture and sculpture. The Rock of Cashel...