The Irish Script is unique in that it was a deliberate new creation derived from Greek and Latin learning. Other medieval noscripts, Visigothic, French, Beneventan etc, come from the degenerated cursive writing of the late Romans. [Irish vs Visigoth]

Clondalkin village Dublin today in the snow - The Round Tower dates from the 7th century and was founded by St Mochua.

In the spirit of the weather in Ireland lately. Harry Clarke’s ‘the Snow Queen’, one of Ireland’s greatest illustrators

Connemara snow scene by J.P. Rooney http://www.jprooneyartstudio.com/m/-/galleries/the-shop-index

‘Old Dublin - Marrowbone Lane’ by Joseph Malachy Kavanagh (1836-1918)

‘A Green Island Garden Under Snow, Antrim’ by the renowned Irish artist Frank Egginton (1908-1990)

‘The Delegates’ by Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941) an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects.

James Arthur O'Connor's 'A Frost Piece'

Elizabeth Magill, 'Greyscale'

The inhabitants of the Sídhe look like humans but are different. They are superior: immortal, more beautiful & possess supernatural powers.

Gaoithe sídhe, or fairy wind, is a sudden wind gust or whirlwind thought to have been caused by the faeries.

The Cailleach is the Irish goddess of winter, the cold, wind and tempests. She was called "the old gloomy woman" or envisioned as a crane with sticks in her beak that forecast storms. Snow that fell in late spring was often attributed to her.

Queen Maeve's Cairn, the enormous neolithic monument on the summit of Knocknarea mountain in County #Sligo.

In mythology Síd-mounds are imagined as centres of fairy power & commerce, they have their own farmland & craftsmen, much like a ringfort.