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Discover the world of Celtic mythical heroes through five Irish legends, narrated in English to a traditional music score

The Myth - presents characters that symbolically portray different aspects of humanlife, or the forces of nature.
The Legend - relates real facts, distorted by the imagination, or totally imagined facts

The "Book of Invasions", (or Lebor Gabala in Irish), is a 12th century manuscript. It describes the arrival of successive bands of foreign colonists in Ireland. According to this account, the first invaders were led by Parthalon, and may have come from Greece. After 300 years the whole colony was destroyed by a plague.Supposedly, the second colony came from Scythia and was led by Nemed. But they were constantly troubled by a race of sea robbers, called the Formorians, who would have come from Africa. The Formorians at the "Battle of the White Strand" defeated the Nemedians.

The next invaders were the Fir Bolgs, who like the Parthalonians are said to have come from Greece. The Fir Bolgs ruled for 36 years and then came the Tuatha Dé Dannan, the "tribes of the Goddess Danu".They came also from Greece, but had stayed for a time in Scandinavia before their arrival in Ireland.They possessed the arts of magic and necromancy. They were able to defeat both, the Fir Bolgs and the Formorians.

The last of the colonies that came to Ireland were the "Sons of Mil". They are said to have come from central Asia by way of Scythia, Egypt and Spain. Two battles were fought. One at Glen Faisi, a valley of the Slieve Mish Mountains in Kerry, and the other at Telltown in county Meath.The Milesians were victorious, but the Tuatha Dé Dannan's powers of magic were such, that the Gaels agreed that Ireland be divided in two parts, above and below ground. The Tuatha Dé Dannan took the lower part. They were not banished entirely from history, and from time to time they come forth in the outer world they once ruled over, and mingle in human affairs...