Finvarra

Stories tagged Finvarra:

• Finvarra, King of the Connacht Fairies Aug 13, 2025

  

  The road up Knockma is longer when your heart is racing. Tomás climbed it with a ribbon in his pocket and a vow on his tongue: to bargain for the return of his bride, who had been taken—not cruelly, people said, just mistakenly, which is worse for anger and better for outcomes.

• The Enchanted Music of Knockma Aug 13, 2025

  

  On Knockma in County Galway the wind keeps old tunes in its pockets. Seamus the fiddler climbed there one evening with a loaf, a wedge of cheese, and the sort of confidence that comes from being the best bow in three parishes. He sat by a hawthorn and played until dusk made a cup of the hill.