150th Anniversary of #Catalpa (ten year planned prison escape via ship)

(Note: #Fenian from Irish culture the band of warriors, #Fianna, led by the hero Fionn macCumhaill - anglicised to #FinnMcCool )

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-18/catalpa-rescue-150th-anniversary-of-fremantle-prison-break/106556082

#Convicts #Fremantle #Ireland
#jailbreak #prisonescape

In Irish folklore, when the warrior Cumhall is killed, his son is raised by his aunt Bodhmall and her companion Liath Luachra. Bodhmall is a mighty druid, and both she and Liath are fierce women warriors. They teach the boy to fight; he becomes the great hero Fionn mac Cumhaill.

#FolkloreSunday #Mythology #Folklore #Ireland #Scotland #Celtic #FionnMacCumhaill #FinnMcCool

OMGs! I just made a salmon dish involving GF panko breadcrumbs and hazelnuts! The salmon was fresh at the fish market, and I served it up with roasted potatoes and rosemary (both from our garden), and carrots from a local farmer. Salmon and hazelnuts tie into #IrishMythology and #FinnMcCuhal / #FinnMcCool -- the salmon eats the hazelnuts of wisdom, and Finn eats the salmon!

Anyhow, the website is aptly named -- it was completely delicious!

https://www.completelydelicious.com/hazelnut-crusted-salmon/

#AnimalProducts #SalmonRecipes #GoodFood

Fionn mac Cumhaill

" ... he heard far off in the deepening gloom the first notes of the fairy harp. Never such music was made by mortal hand, for it had in it sorrows that man has never felt, and joys for which man has no name, and it seemed as if a man listening to that music might burst from time into eternity..."

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston

#StephenReid #IrishFolklore #illustration #art #FionnMacCumhaill #FinnMcCool #mastodaoine

Today's poem:

Giant's Causeway
- by Richard Burke

https://at.tumblr.com/ukdamo/giants-causeway/h6fmzx6dn6ae

#poetry #legend #giants #FinnMcCool #rivalry #GiantsCauseway #NorthernIreland #RichardBurke