John Scotus Eriugena on the old Irish £5 note - Illustrated with images from the Hiberno-Viking Ricemarch Psalter & Book of Durrow.

Tartessos in Southwestern Iberia was a Proto-Celtic culture with its own unique systems of writing, art, & beliefs dating back to 900 BC. According to Herodotus, these 'Celtic-speaking tribes' predated the classical world and the Persian Empire.

The Atlantic Bronze Age (1300–700 BC) was a time of bustling trade and cultural exchange in Western Europe. It is defined by bronze swords, spearheads, cauldrons, and the spread of Celtic as a common tongue, stretching from Tartessos to Brittany, Britain and Ireland.

Burial mounds were constructed by the Celtic peoples of Western Europe from about 800 BC. Common names for hills are '-briga' (Iberian), 'brí' (Irish) - Inside wealthy rulers were interred with items like jewelry, weapons, chariots, and wine.

[Penycloddiau, Wales]

'Expectation, West of Ireland', late 19th century, by Dublin painter Aloysius O'Kelly. A beautiful insight.

'Time Flies', 1887, by William Gerard Barry.

The Cork artist preferred to paint scenes from the daily lives of the peasants.

'Feeding Hens', West of Ireland by Aloysius O’Kelly (1853–1936)

'We have in our keeping the hopes of all the children yet unborn, and that those hopes must be safeguarded and shepherded to fulfilment.' - James Connolly

Benbulbin (from the Irish: Binn Ghulbain), is a large rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland that was shaped during the Ice age.

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

The Carrowmore megalithic cemetery in County Sligo is the largest in Ireland and amongst the oldest in Europe with dates going back to 4600 BC.

The word 'Orc' in old Irish means 'little pig' and was perhaps a borrowing for LOTR. It's most associated with place names i.e Orkney Islands: 'island of the pigs'.