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This is the Prologue to a story/book I'm working on about Irish mythology. This opening 'chapter' is about a young Druid who must pass some initiation trials before becoming a fully-fledged druid. As such he meets Cernunnos and The Dagda. And yes, while Cernunnos isn't mentioned all too often in the Irish myths, only once as far as I can deduce, a nature god who was a figure of devotion among European continential Celts is worthy of a mention.

"...“Please, Mrs, I’ve hit some hard times and I know you’re wealthy, can you spare a few potatoes, some meat maybe, or even a shilling of two…”

A new short story from Spud called Grandpa Called Last Night about a ghostly appearance of a grandfather one night and some Occult chat as well

The White Trout of Tacumshane Lake, my version of the classic Irish folk tale of love lost and a magical fish that cannot be caught.

Reaction to the recent Polish Presidential election where the bad guy won against the lesser bad guy. Also, The Paramedic a short story by Spud Murphy.

This week, why Poland changes its statues every 50 years anyway and the Czech obsession with wangs.

Your head is rushing, no, swimming...swimming with ideas, boom, boom, boom, tangents connecting with tangents leading to insights and foresights. It's like a river has burst its banks and has formed a new waterfall and it’s all cascading and crashing down, down, down on your mind and it feels utterly amazing.

Poor Seamus had a heart attrack and is in hospital so yea, get ready for some gallows humour. Be well Seamus, my brother from another mother and I hope you're back to normal soon enough.

This week we have a chat about Polish weddings and Donald's Tiny Tusk Music: soundcloud.com/mozband/gent Image: dag08uxs564ub.cloudfront.net/images/IMG_9090_152.max-835x606.jpg © Atletico Spudland

Dominic Cummings is a Twat

Spud and Seamus talk about some Corona, some about Leo Varadkar's moob, some more Corona, work sucks and some more Corona and boobs.

The Poland Podcast, Corona Lockdown Part X, Kazik vs Kaczynski, Polish Gaydar and our ideals bands This week we talk about the punctuality of the Polish, Kazik vs Kaczynski, Polish Gaydar and our ideal bands. Exactly what it says on the tin really, Poles are always on time and that time has to be in 24 hours thank you. The singer of Kult doesn't like Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which isn't unique but he's had a song banned. Polish gaydar, something that is rumoured to exist but doesn't. And, they type of band we'd all be in if we weren't old and past it.

My Brother Tom, a short story by Spud Murphy

in this episode we lament the election that never was, all our our health systems are bad and Bobby Lewandowski; the big wimp.

That’s my sister Gene. She’s older than me, but not much. They call us the Irish twins, this means we were born within a year of each other and since Irish people apparently breed like rabbits, we’re called Irish twins. As far as I know though we’re of Scandinavian stock, all blond haired and blue eyed, not a ginger hair between any of us. Dad likes Guinness though.

A chat about the Catholic Church in Poland, religion in Poland in general and how we're getting on now, in our eighth week of the corona lockdown.

I slowed to a stop on the side of the road. I rolled down the passenger side window and could see her a bit more closely. She was soaked to the skin and shivering...well I thought she was shivering, she could have been shimmering looking back on it now.

The Poland Podcast, Corona Lockdown Part VII Bleach, can politics be fixed, Do-Dah, Do-dah-Day

The Black Magic Murder Case When a blind Indian witch doctor saw a vision in the curling pipe smoke violent death came to the log house in the Ontario backwoods. For there was only one way to break the terrible curse of the Bearwalker.

The Poland Podcast, Corona Lockdown Week VI. It's all gravy baby. Forest Fires, the Invisible Man and the toughest Polish man.

Spud & Seamus, 22 April 2020 We get together and talk Tiger King, the impending Socialist revolution and online comedy isn't comedy; it's opinion.

An update from the lads about how things are going in Poland as they enter the fifth week of lockdown thanks to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic

The best Western book, not books from the West though, y'know cowboys and Indians and scalpings and guns and stuff. I've been reading a few of late for some research and I run though them here.

The Poland Podcast, Corona Lockdown Part IV Some new laws are coming in, the elections might be going ahead and Sebastian, the hard b*stard!

Why I moved to Poland and why moving to the countryside, Cieszyn make me love it again.

While trying to keep busy I made a sigil. A binding sigil from Adventures in Woo Woo's Tommie Kelly. And I'm off the beer. Yea.

The people we put on call our heroes, our inspirations and what they say about us. What's the common thread between Jesse James, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Mogwai, Chuck Palahniuk and Cormac McCarthy?

We're the last immigrants in Poland, armed with our one Polish friend/lawyer. Teenagers are first on the list now, the Poles that will survive our impending doom, the worst people to live with in lockdown and a man in a frock in Gliwice.

Are Slovakia and Poland over stepping the mark by tracking people? German are suing an Austrian ski resort and Hungary's Orban is a gowl.

What is sleep apnea and how I live with it. A while ago I spoke about having sleep apnea, I got a few questions following that podcast so I go into it a bit more here.

Social Media ain't exactly a barrell of laughs of late but what can you do about it if you don't really like it, is it just a good, SEO tool?

Some new books and an interesting page from Reality Transurfing...there's probable gonna be loads of reactions to this mad book. Three books, two are magic, one isn't, or maybe it is?

Best Polish food for the apocalypse, Jaroslaw is a fish, best & worst in people during these strange times and a fine conspiracy theory.

Panic, Visualisations, plane crashes, Wayne Rooney and an Italian board game.

Stoicism is an incredibly useful philosophy, here I speak about how to use it in times of crisis and how it pertains to the Coronavirus.

Conspiracy theories abound, let's go into one of them and how to keep your mind busy. Coronavirus conspiracy theories, don't lose your mind.

Sure, we'll give Seamus a call. We've not been talking in a while...well, that's a lie but you'll find out all about then when you listen :)

So, WTF is going on in Poland? Sure, with us all on lockdown we thought we'd get the old gang back together and laugh at our impending doom.

What a time to be alive. Coronavirus, or Koronawirus, whichever you prefer. G'luck!

Interview with Irish rapper Captain Moonlight. We speak about the new album, the Agroculture trilogy and what's next for him.

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As flies to wanton boys, we are for the Gods. Also, wtf is going on in Britain? And will we see Hong Kong-style protests? I certainly hope so.

Murdered for Being Different is an award-winning documentary about the murder of Sophie Lancaster and assault of Robert Maltby. It recently aired on BBC One and I was floored by how good it was.

My review of the recent RTE documentary When Michael Met Davy documentary, about a GAA obsessed boy who meet a hurling legend, Davy Fitz.

Spud & Seamus talk about flying to Italy, sympathy sex, fun with cows, horses that fight wolves and why Seamus doesn't care.

AMA podcast where I answer some listener questions and take a hike out a mountain for some landscape photography.

Still no sign of the Iona Institute, time to call an end to the search...also watched a Roman documentary and it was nice about immigrants.

A recent return to Katowice lead to more questions. OFF Festival high jinx and a look behind some headlines.

I'm just back from two week in Bieszczady, Poland's most beautiful, wild area. This isn't the sizzle, but kind of a making of the sizzle. I hope you like it.

While I'm still waiting for The Iona Institute to call, I took a walk in a forest...

Part II of our series about The Iona Institute. Today we look at the who's who of the institute, the patrons and the directors.