Statue of King Arthur, Gallos, UK.

Skellig Islands, Co Kerry, Ireland 🇮🇪

The Treason of the Long Knives (Welsh: Brad y Cyllyll Hirion) was a pseudohistorical myth and legend of a massacre of British Celtic chieftains by Anglo-Saxon soldiers at a peace conference on Salisbury Plain in the 5th century. The story is not included in any contemporary accounts, but does feature centuries later in the semi-mythological histories of the Historia Brittonum and the Historia Regum Britanniae. According to the tradition, Vortigern, who had become a high king of the Britons in the wake of the end of Roman rule in Britain, called for Anglo-Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to settle on the Isle of Thanet in exchange for their service as mercenaries in battles against the Picts and Gaels in Scotland. The settlers, however, exploit a drunken Vortigern's lust for Hengist's daughter into allowing them to increase their numbers and granting them more land, eventually including all of the Kingdom of Kent.

The Treachery of the Long Knives

It happened however after the death of Vortimer, son of King Vortigern, and after the return of Hengist with his forces, they called for a false Council, so that they might work sorrow to Vortigern with his army. For they sent legates to ask for peace, that there might be perpetual friendship between them. So Vortigern himself with the elders by birth of his people [considered the matter and carefully thought over what they might do. And the same] opinion was with them all, that they should make peace, and their legates went back and afterwards called together the conference, so that on either side the Britons and Saxons should come together as one without arms, so that friendship should be sealed. Hengist ordered the whole of his household that each one should hide his knife under his foot in the middle of his shoe. 'And when I shall call out to you and say hey, draw your swords!, then draw your knives from the soles of your shoes, and fall upon them, and stand strongly against them. And do not kill their king, but seize him for the sake of my daughter whom I gave to him in matrimony, because it is better for us that he should be ransomed from our hands.' And they brought together the conference, and the Saxons, speaking in a friendly way, meanwhile were thinking in a wolvish way, and sociably they sat down man beside man. Hengist, as he had said, spoke out, and all the three hundred elders of King Vortigern were slaughtered, and only he was imprisoned, and was chained, and he gave to them many regions for the ransom of his soul (i.e. life), that is Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, Wessex. (Many districts he named)

The general meaning of the term "colleen", as most English-speakers use it, is a stereotypical young Irish maiden. Red hair, fiery attitude, and an earthy Irish accent. "Colleen" is an anglicization of the Irish Gaelic word "cailín", meaning nothing more than "girl". “The Black Velvet Band” is a traditional folk song collected from singers in Ireland, Australia, England, Canada and the United States describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to “Van Diemens Land” (Tasmania), a common punishment in the British Empire during the 19th century. The last verse of The Dubliners version tells the following: “So come all ye jolly young fellows • I'll have yous take warnin' by me • And when ever you're out on the liquor, me lads • Beware of the pretty colleens • For they'll fill you with whisky and porter • 'Til you are not able to stand • And the very next thing that you know, me lads • You've landed in Van Dieman's land”

Carriganass Castle, Co Cork, Ireland. 16th century tower house situated 8km NE of Bantry 🇮🇪

Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Early Christian standing stone, Glencolmcille, Co Donegal 🇮🇪

Ullapool, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Castle Stalker has been standing on an islet on Loch Laich since 14th century and is considered one of the best-preserved medieval tower-houses to survive in western Scotland. IG/rolling_sloane

A Cumbrian Stag doo, these boys will very soon be locking antlers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

An Irish Cottage #518

7/29/21

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Cozy on up in an Irish cottage with the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. ÚLLA, Steve Gibb, Willowgreen, Tartanic, Andreas Transø, Marc Gunn, Brobdingnagian Bards, Andrew McKee The Irish Bard, Kinnfolk, The Munster Men, Clann An Drumma, Old Man Flanagan's Ghost, The Badpiper, Celtic Rebels Band,, Loveridge, The Longest Johns, Battlelegs, Screaming Orphans, Blaggards, Ockham's Razor I hope you enjoyed this week's show. If you did, please share the show on social or with a friend. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is here to build our diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, buy the albums, shirts, and songbooks, follow the artists on streaming, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:05 - ÚLLA "Fr. Kelly Set (Reels)" from Ulla 4:08 - WELCOME 5:01 - Steve Gibb "3 Irish Jigs (The Frieze Breeches, Totes Adorbs, Morgan Rattler)" from The Boatman 10:00 - Willowgreen "From an Irish Cottage" from Inland Sea 13:23 - Tartanic "Dance of the Ice Weasles" from Uncivilized Check out their Pub Story in show #233. 16:07 - Andreas Transø "Winter Broke Me" from The Earth and Everything in It 18:32 - FEEDBACK 20:40 - Marc Gunn, Brobdingnagian Bards, Andrew McKee The Irish Bard “By Amazing Grace” from Selcouth 24:46 - Kinnfolk "Roll the Old Chariot" from Kinnfolk 27:47 - The Munster Men "Good old times / Night hawk" from Tasting The Waters 31:54 - Clann An Drumma "Ghosts of Culloden" from Order of the Stag 36:12 - Old Man Flanagan's Ghost "The Belle of Belfast City (Live)" from LIVE 38:20 - The Badpiper "Scotland's No Slave" from Tradical 40:26 - Celtic Rebels "The Wild Colonial Boy" from Thirty-Two United 43:35 - THANKS 45:42 - Loveridge feat. The Longest Johns "The Doom Bar" from As the Crow Flies 48:32 - Battlelegs "South Australia" from Save The Humans 50:16 - Screaming Orphans "Summerfly" from Sliabh Liag 53:27 - Blaggards "Moonshiner" from BLAGMATIC 56:28 - CLOSING 57:48 - Ockham's Razor "Morning Bell (The Puca's Song)" from Secrets and Silence The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. The show was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. ATTN Celtic Musicians. I’m looking for some good stories to share. You see, I also host the Pub Songs Podcast. I started sharing stories from musicians about their songs. I’d like to do more of those. So if you have a story that you’d like to share about a song, from a gig, or maybe even just a piece of Celtic history that you love. Drop me an email at marc@marcgunn.com. Put “Pub Story” in the show subject. Tell me about your story.

The Scottish Highlander Cow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🐮
Famous for its absolutely adorable appearance this cow can be found naturally in the highlands of Scotland and is known for their “dog like personality” and is also called “Grass Puppy”.