Macha

  I was grumbling to a friend a while ago about the commercialisation of Halloween and was picking on the ubiquitous pumpkin, a rather lurid American import in my opinion. She reminded me that the origins of Halloween are Irish and then a few days ago she sent me a photo of the turnip she’d carved “in honour of” her “Irish roots”. The pagan celebration from which Halloween originates is Samhain (pronounced Saw-when or Sow-whin), a Celtic festival marking the …

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Are they fact or are they fiction? It doesn’t really matter, because these stories are what we believe and we are mostly hard wired to see them as the truth. Slugger is a platform for us to share our deep seated beliefs on a daily basis. When we read opposing viewpoints it is natural for us to feel pretty bewildered and even angry. Yet, in the context of NI we view history and what happened here through different prisms. This …

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