Dear Friends / A Cháirde,

We hope this final care package finds you well.

For slides (called Field Notes), call recordings and bonus videos from our last nine weeks together, please click on the image with the relevant week number below. We have also compiled a master list of resources from each week, with some bonus surprises, below.

You have a month to review all Scoil Scairte content and catch up on anything you may have missed over the weeks. We will make the content unavailable for viewing on Jan 9, 2023.

Dive into some extra resources collected through each week:

Websites

• Manchán Magan

• Our guide Billy Mag Fhloinn

• Our guide Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
  Our guide Kíla's Colm Ó Snodaigh (of Kíla)

• Our guide Emma Dabiri

• Our guide Ríonach Uí Ógáin

• Our guide Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin

• Our musician Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

• Our musicians Rising Appalachia

• Our musician Cian Ó Cíobháin

• Irish/English dictionary

• Another Irish/English dictionary (useful for placenames, terms and pronunciation)

• MacBain's Dictionary

• Pota Focal - Irish thesaurus

• Gramadach na Gaeilge - Irish Grammar website

• Logainm website

• Dúchas website

• Heritage Maps website

• The Doegen Records Web Project - Archive of native-speaking Irish dialects from 17 counties

• Irish Songs Archive
  UCD National Folklore Collection website

• The Folklore of Ireland Society website

• The National Folklore Foundation website

• Irish Traditional Music Archive website

• The Keening Wake website

• Women in Trad and Folk at TradFest Temple Bar 2023

• Candlelit Tales

• Bard Mythologies

• First Voices: a suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Indigenous people engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture revitalization

• The Endangered Languages Project

• Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects

• Winona LaDuke's Honor the Earth

Books

• 32 Words for Field (2020) by Manchán Magan.

• Listen to the Land Speak (2022) by Manchán Magan.

• Irish Place Names by Deirdre Flanagan and Laurence Flanagan.

• That Place We Call Home by John Creedon.

• Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life (2020) by Sharon Blackie.

• The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Angela Bourke.

• Cnaipí agus scéalta eile (2022) by Colm Ó Snodaigh.

• Dún Chaoin: Oscail an Scoil! (2017) by Colm Ó Snodaigh.

• An File by Vivienne Bailie, translated by Colm Ó Snodaigh.

• The Lost Gaeltacht (2020) by Martin O'Halloran.

• What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (2021) by Emma Dabiri.

• Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by (2020) Emma Dabiri.

• Don't Touch My Hair (2019) by Emma Dabiri.

• Sandtalk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World (2021) by Tyson Yunkaporta.

  Beauty an Oileáin: Music & Song of the Blasket Islands with music by Áine Uí Laoithe and Eilín Ní Chearna, produced by Ríonach Uí Ógáin

• A Handbook of Irish Folklore by Seán Ó Súilleabháin [ebook]

• Machnamh Seanmhná by Peig Sayers

• The Folklore of Ireland Council books

• Gile na Gile by Aodhagán Ó Rathaille (Poem)

• We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole (2021)

• Sive by John B. Keane (1959)

• Saving Eden: The Gearagh and Irish Nature (2021) by Kevin Corcoran.

• Studies in Early Celtic Nature Poetry (1935) by Kenneth Jackson. Published by Cambridge Press.

• The Origins of Ireland's Holy Wells (2014) by Celeste Ray.

• Feminist Messages, Coding in Women’s Folk Culture (1993) which includes the essay "More in Anger than in Sorrow" by Angela De Bourke.

• The Christian Druids (2008) by John Minahane.

• The Poison Glen (2021) by Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

• Anseo (2019) by Úna-Minh Kavanagh. Published by New Island.

• Úna-Minh’s e-book DIY Gaeilge: 150 Irish Language Resources

• Leabhar na hAthghabhála — Poems of Repossession. Edited by Louis De Paor, Irish-English Bilingual Edition, Bloodaxe.

• A Ghost in the Throat (2020) by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Published by Tramp Press.

• The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook. Laurence Ginnell, Lightning Source UK.

• Pharaoh’s Daughter. Forty-five poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations by thirteen distinguished poets from Ireland, Gallery Press.

• If Women Rose Rooted - The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging. Sharon Blackie, September Publishing.

• Ireland’s Wild Plants. Niall Mac Coitir, The Collins Press.

• Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth. Mark Williams, Princeton University Press.

• Tree Ogham. Written, illustrated and published by Glennie Kindred.

• Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man. Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire, Oxford University Press.

• An Crann Faoi Bhláth (The Flowering Tree): Contemporary Irish Poetry with Verse Translations. Edited by Declan Kiberd and George Fitzmaurice, Irish American Book Company.

• Irish Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore, by Niall Mac Coitir.

• Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) and Gathering Moss (2003) by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

• Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019) by Robert MacFarlane.

• The Lost Words: A Spell Book (2017) by Robert MacFarlane. [Children’s book!]

• Earth Emotions: New Words For a New World (2019) by Glenn Albrecht.

Articles

• Article on Wran's Day by Dr. Aoife Granville (Longer version attached)

• RTÉ News Pieces on Wren's Day here, here and here

• Article on the Gate of the Cow, Kilmalkedar Keelers Stone

• "Making Sense of Irish Gender" Article by The Geeky Gaeilgeoir

• Magic of Pagan Ireland dies with playwright by Fintan O’Toole (2002), The Irish Times

• "Kerry musician granted permission to build home on farm" by Seán Mac an tSíthigh (RTÉ, 2020)

• Irish Words for Irish Rain by Breandán Ó Cróinín (2006), The Irish Times

• The Murder Machine, essay by Pádraig Pearse

• Irish Times article by Ola Majekodunmi

• Online articles on linguistics here and here

• Cló Gaelach (Gaelic Script) / An Aibítear

• The Gaelic Tree Alphabet

• Fada Signs/Accents in Irish

• Tíortha/Countries

• The Definitive Article and Country Names

• All About Irish article on “It’s Just Not Up to Scratch”

Watch

• Port na bPúcaí by Tony MacMahon

• Port na bPúcaí by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Billy Mag Fhloinn

• Beir Mo Dhúthracht with Danú, a group Muireann was in

• Róisín Dubh from Róisín ReImagined - Muireann's latest project with the Irish Chamber Orchestra which is just being released worldwide and touring

• Full concert from Siamsa Tíre with Muireann and her guitarist Gerry O'Beirne

• Dúlamán by Altan

• Song of Bridget Cleary by Edel Meade

• Cailleach an Airgid by TG4

• Sráid-Éigse by Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin

• Viva Liobarnach by Súil Amháin (Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin)

• "Fógraím an fheis seo anois ar Gael Oscailt" - An Béal Bocht

• The Man with the Moving House (RTÉ): Documentary about Breanndán Begley’s fifteen year journey to build a small traditional home in his ancestral village on the Dingle Peninsula, as he highlights his plight and the much broader fight to save our culture, music, heritage and language.

• The Camino Voyage (Anú Pictures): A crew including musicians Oscar-Winner, Glen Hansard (Once, The Frames) and Brendan Begley, artist Liam Holden, stonemason Brendan Moriarty, and the writer and poet Danny Sheehy, embark on a Camino by sea in this 2,500km modern day Celtic odyssey, all the way from Ireland to Northern Spain.

• Beidh Aonach Amárach by Altan

• Interview with John Moriarty and Tommy Tiernan

• Amhrán Mhuínse / The Song of Muínis - Líadan

• Clare Sands: Winter - ‘Carry My Song’ with Susan O’Neill

• Clare Sands: Spring - ‘Abair Liom do Rúín’ with Steve Cooney & Tommy Sands

• Clare Sands: Summer - ‘Iontach Bheith Beo (Good to Be Alive)’ with Brídín

• Clare Sands: Autumn - ‘Teacht an Fhómhair’ with Liam Ó Maonlaí

• Red Shoe by Fearghus Ó Conchúir, for TG4

• An Caoineadh by Ceara Conway, video by Myles O’Reilly

• Video: Bayo Akomolafe in conversation with Charles Eisenstein

• Iarla with Crash Ensemble for The Trailblazery - Táim Sinte ar do Thuama

• The Gloaming - Meáchan Rudaí (The Weight of Things) [Lyrics are here]

• Carmel Winters’ short film featuring Lucky and Habibi

• Manchán Magan at We Need to Talk About Ireland (2014)

• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill at We Need to Talk About Ireland (2014)

• Seán Ó Tarpaigh dubbing Ian McKellan's Macbeth soliloquy "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"

• Dambé: The Mali Project Documentary with Liam Ó Maonlaí and Paddy Keenan

• Song of Granite by Pat Collins

• Seo Linn's "Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile"

• Video poetry reading by Louis de Paor

• Video: A Blessing of the Boats by the Village Mothers by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

• Bás Arto Leary (The Death of Arto Leary) - Trailer

• C.E.A.R.T.A. song by KNEECAP

• Video reading of "Gruaig na mBan Dubh" by Ola Majekodunmi

• Ophelia McCabe: ‘Story Buddleia’

• John Cummins: ‘A Vibe for Philo’

• Séamus Barra Ó Suilleabháin

• Seán Ó Ríordáin: ‘Rian na gCos’

• Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes the Way We Think

Listen

• Scoil Scairte Spotify Playlist

• Playlist of Wren music by Aoife Granville

• RTÉ Radio's Folk on One with Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

• Giving album by Colm Ó Snodaigh [Spotify here, CD here]

• Kíla's Lemonade and Buns album [Spotify here, CD here]

• Kíla & Oki album [Spotify here, CD here]

• Listen to Rising Appalachia's newest song "Thank You Very Much"

• Blindboy Podcast: Irish Folklore and Environmentalism with Manchán Magan

• Blindboy Podcast: The Linear Understanding of Time in European Art

• Sorcha album by Sorcha Ni Ghuairim

• Blúiríní Béaloidis / Folklore Fragments Podcast

• Eirigh (Rise) by Julianna Bloodgood

• An Taobh Tuathail with Cian Ó Cíobháin on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta

• Lá Breá by Súil Amháin

• Dreamworld by Don Downing (Tom Moulton Mix)

• Suzanne Simard: Forests Are Wired For Wisdom by On Being with Krista Tippett [Podcast]

• Clare Sands’ new CD ‘Tírdhreacha agus Fuaimdhreacha’ with handmade prints and a unique bilingual song-lyric booklet

• Eachtraigh Dom le Pádraig Ó Sé (RTE Radió na Gaeltachta)

• Iarla's Playlist with the songs shared during his teaching piece

• Lárnú - A Meditation in Irish by Seán Ó Tarpaigh

• Timmy Creed’s sound walk English version

• Timmy Creed’s sound walk Irish version

• On Being podcast: A Conversation with Margaret Noodin

• Raidió na Life Interview on Music with Ola Majekodunmi

• For the Wild: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality

• For the Wild: Lyla June on the Endangered Diversity of Language and Life

• Emergence Magazine: Language Keepers Podcast Series

• Orion Magazine: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy

We have also gathered some trauma resources to aid you in identifying and healing it:

People we recommend

• Dr. Gabor Maté

• Diane Poole Heller

• Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Mark Wolynn

• Dr. Dan Siegel

• Kimberly Ann Johnson

• Dr. Peter Levine

• Dr. Richard Schwartz

• Marian Dunlea

Organisations we recommend

• Collective Trauma Summit

• Shock Trauma Healing with Diane Poole Heller

• Trauma Healing with Somatic Experiencing International

• Pocket Project

Watch

• The Wisdom of Trauma with Dr. Gabor Maté

• Gabor Maté and Thomas Hubl

• Oprah Winfrey & Dr. Perry on: Healing From Childhood Trauma & Becoming Self Aware, Confident Adults

• Oprah on Trauma Informed Care

Listen

• On Being: Body Healing and Trauma

• Sounds True: The Healing Trauma Online Course

• Sounds True: The Healing Trauma Summit

• Unlocking Us: Brené Brown with Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D. Perry on Trauma, Resilience and Healing

Read

• Gabor Maté: When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2011)

• Gabor Maté: In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction (2010)

• Peter Levine: Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of the Body (2008)

• Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (1997)

• Mark Wolynn: It Didn’t Start With You (2017)

• Thomas Hübl: Healing Collective Trauma (2020)

• Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You? (2021)

• Bruce D. Perry: Brief: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society (2013)

• Resmaa Menakem: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (2017)

• Jewel: Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story (2015)

• Richard C. Schwartz: Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy (2018)

• Patricia June Vickers: Singing to the Darkness (2021)

• Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2014)

We are so grateful to you all for your support of our third spiral of Scoil Scairte. Thank you for showing up each week and making it the experience that it was. We hope to see you again in the future.

Le buíochas agus beannachtaí 💚

Kathy, Manchán and the team at Scoil Scairte