On Jul 18, 11:06Â pm, Archdruid Michael McGrath of Ireland
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gmail.com> wrote:>> On Jul 18, 9:16Â pm, "Ruiseart agus Ceit"
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btinternet.com> wrote:>>> "Searles O'Dubhain" wrote:
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>>>>In these cultures, Druidry survived within the schools and functions of the
>>>>Filidh (among the Gael) and the Bards (in Britain and Wales).
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>>> Just as a matter of interest, the word "BÃ rd" (Bard) is GÃ idhlig (Scottish
>>> Gaelic) for "Poet" :)
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>>> Le beannachdan,
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>> Yes, Ruiseart, similarly as in Ireland among us Gael.
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>> "Gaeil iad fein,
>> Ni Gaill na Spainnigh
>> Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh !
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>> Chorus:
>> - "Oro se do bheath abhaile
>> Â From "Grainne Mhaol" - as you heartily can sing it !
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>> The native Irish always referred to themselves as Gael,
>> and to the Gauls as Gaill, singular "Gall"
>> the word Gall later became to identify all foreugners
>> in the Irish Language.
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>> Then we had the Galloglaigh who we brought over from Scotland,
>> Scottish Gaelic mercenararies, greatly feared warriors,
>> and though they were Gaelic in origin
>> they were still called "Galloglaigh"
>> The Galloglasses, or "foreign soldiers". -
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>> Gall, Oglaigh = Foreign, Soldiers.
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>> By this time Ireland and Scotland
>> were beginning to grow separately
>> as distinct nations.
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>> But a Scottish Druid
>> had exactly similar rights and privileges
>> among his counterparts
>> in Ireland - similarly with an Irish Druid in Scotland.
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>> And of course, Mann, The Isle of Man,
>> of Mananan MacLir,
>> Gaelic as well,
>> to such an extent
>> that their accents
>> are reminiscent of the Dublin accent.
>> This is probably due to the fact
>> that after the Battle of Contarf in 1014 AD
>> The same Vikings settled down in Dublin
>> and on Man,
>> and in the case of Ireland
>> contributed so hugely as Members
>> of the Irish Nation today,
>> as did the Normans,
>> and even the English and Welsh,
>> so that today there is hardly anybody left
>> of the pure old Gaelic blood
>> except in the Gaeltacht Irish-Speaking areas
>> that my own Clanna Bui,
>> in our case, the Rinn Gaeltacht of Portlairge
>> (Waterford)
>> and the majestic Comeragh mountains.
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>> Bard, an Irish Gaelic word too,
>> that led to the name down trhough millenia -
>> MacAnBhaird = Ward, in English, today.
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>> Chief of our Clanna Bui today,
>> in the Rinn Gaeltacht,
>> An-t-uasal, An t-Ard Drui Seamus MacCraith,
>> Septuagenarian now,
>> places our origin as far back
>> as the most fabulous Druid opf all the Eireannaigh,
>> Mogroith of Valentia Island, off County Kerry -
>> Next stop, America !
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>> Seamus was Leas Oide (Vice Principal)
>> of Augustine's College in nearby Dungarvan,
>> virtually an all-Irish College.
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>> He is still recognised throughout Ireland
>> as one of the foremost scholars and apeakers
>> of the Irish Language today.
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>> He is one of the founders
>> of our Order of Druids in Ireland, ODI,
>> pictured on Irish TV news,
>> standing in circle with us on the Hill of Tara
>> in suit, collar and tie !!!
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>> In such an Irish Druid Elder
>> you will find the Irish Druid Oral Tradition,
>> Today, Not in books,
>> though he always reads -
>> Peter Berresford Ellis,
>> and nobody else,
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> The word in the Irish Language for Magic is: Draoiacht.
> The ancient Irish Druids called themselves: "Drui" singular, "Druid",
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> Then the monks came and sarcastically dubbed them,
> as part of the process to deprive them
> of their Stately functions : "Draoi" - Magicians,
> in the Church Latin, Magus, Magi.
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> Lesser Druids probably performed magic,
> oerhaps the Faidh (Ovates is the nearest word in English,
> but it does not perfectly describe an Irish Faidh (or 'Faith'),
> pronounced "fawee".
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> A senior Irish Druid
> would have considered it beneath his status
> to perform magic -
> though he could well work it,
> but mostly by means of sciences,
> crystal-working etc.
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> The word 'Druidry' , invented among the English Druids,
> probably some OBOD Druid, I think,
> does describe ancient Druidry better than the word 'Druidism',
> For 'Druidry' corresponds better
> to the ancient Irish word 'Druideacht or Druidecht.
> All the "isms" being of much more recent vintage
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> Thus, in Irish today, Draoi (pronounced "Dree")
> still means Magician.
> But the word Drui (pronounced Drewee)
> means Druid
> (Druid, which in the ancient Irish Gaelic was actually the plural
> meaning - Druids ! ).
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> Hope you get your heads and your mouths
> around all of that !
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> Cheers,
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The word 'Druidry' could have been coined by Philip Carr-Gomm of OBOD,
or John Matthews, the Druid writer and member of OBOD,
or even by the two of them,
and they did us all a good service by coining this word,
to divorce us from the 18th century Masonic Druid Revival in England
(note: This revival never took place in Ireland, and I don't think it
extended to Scotland, or even Wales either -Iolo Morganyg brought
about a much different revival to the Freemason one, much nearer to
the ancient Welsh Druidry).
All that said and differentiated, Druidry owes them all a debt -
even the Masons, except here in Ireland, where Druidry was on its own
separate path down through certain of the Fili (not all of them, the
O'Daly or Daly are famous in the service of the Irish Catholic Church,
for instance).
My own Clanna Bui of the MacCraith survived as actual Druids in their
Comeragh Mountain fastness, defiant of the Catholic and all Churches.
Some did , however, make money from the Anglican Church of Ireland as
Church Proctors gathering in the Church tithes enforced on the people
until the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, in or around
1860's.
Around this time a favourite son of one MacCraith Clan Chieftain
became a Catholic priest and many then at last recognised the Catholic
Church, only then after ignoring and fighting it since the sixth
century !. Basically the Clanna Bui were great businessmen, wheelers
and dealers, also brigands and Rapparees, and that is how they
survived all down the Great Famine in Waterford, the worst- hit County
of all in famine-stricken Ireland - and that's how I exist today to
tell the tale !
Peter Berresford Ellis' ancestors were granted much of our lands as
planters - but we don't hold that against Peter today - he is of
Landed Gentry Anglo-Irish nobility, and knows us, the Clanna Bui of
the MacCraith, only too well !!! He is one of the few writing books
today on Druidry worth reading at all.
Michael.
