RelAudio

Ireland'S Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth [Audiobook] download free by Mark Williams

Ireland'S Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth Audiobook download free by Mark Williams
  • Listen audiobook: Ireland'S Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
  • Author: Mark Williams
  • Release date: 2016/5/23
  • Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Religious
  • ISBN: 9780691157313
  • Rating: 8.28 of 10
  • Votes: 386
  • Review by: Memphis Blunt
  • Review rating: 8.47 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/13
  • Duration: 7H28M40S in 256 kbps (121.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-09
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 ALS, MPEG4, WMA, WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG (compression RAR, ZIP, TBZ2, CHM, LZ, 7-ZIP, AZW3)
  • Total pages original book: 608
  • Includes a PDF summary of 59 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 43M11S (11.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation's languages, the book describes how Ireland's pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era-and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams's comprehensive history traces how these gods-known as the Tuatha De Danann-have shifted shape across the centuries, from Iron Age cult to medieval saga to today's young-adult fiction. We meet the heroic Lug; the Morrigan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the mist-cloaked sea god Manannan mac Lir; and the ageless fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's immortal elves. Medieval clerics speculated that the Irish divinities might be devils, angels, or enchanters. W. B.Yeats invoked them to reimagine the national condition, while his friend George Russell beheld them in visions and understood them to be local versions of Hindu deities. The book also tells how the Scots repackaged Ireland's divine beings as the gods of the Gael on both sides of the sea-and how Irish mythology continues to influence popular culture far beyond Ireland. An unmatched chronicle of the Irish gods, Ireland's Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world's imagination for so long.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Folklore, Myths & Legends, Celtic Religion & Mythology, Literary Studies: General
  • Download servers: 4Shared, Volafile, Torrent, BitShare, Hotfile. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, TBZ2, CHM, LZ, 7-ZIP, AZW3
  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 44.25 USD
  • Dimensions: 154.94x236.22x43.18mm
  • Weight: 992g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New Jersey, United States

Download audiobook in:



Option 0

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Option 5

Categories: Religious, English, 2016
Vote:
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
The Meaning of Mary Magdalene

More audiobooks of the genre or collection Religious

‹ ›

More audiobooks in language English

‹ ›

More audiobooks of 2016

‹ ›
Years
1998 2001 2018 1984 1989 1993 2013 2000 2009
Languages
English Not Available
Publishers
SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS INC AUTHENTIC MEDIA WATKINS MEDIA LLEWELLYN PUBLICATIONS,U.S.
Genres
Religious Biography