I know of a stone on High Island, an old monastery island near inishbofin in Galway. The stone is mentioned by Tim Robinson in Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness and he discussed the stone as being mysterious, quite sizable and brought they from elsewhere with difficulty. I thought it might be a cursing stone. I asked a local Bofiner about it, Tommy Burke a historian and archaeologist if he knew anything about it and he showed me a picture of him lifting it up to his chest, and he told me thing was a feat done by fishermen and sheep farmers when they visited the island. It is maybe a foot sphere and i wouldn't have a hope in hell lifting it! If David going looking it can be easily found i believe and you can hire a boat taxi out for the day from Bofin. I'd love to come!

You mentioned the connections between these stones and Irish myth a few times throughout. If I'm not mistaken, when Lugh came to Tara, did Ogma not challenge him to throwing a flagstone, which Lugh threw back and had land perfectly back in its original spot?

I am listening to Eddie Linehan talking about funeral games and when he spoke of a game called lifting that heavy man it immediately made me think of the game that I think was mentioned in this episode of lifting stones at a funeral, at the very least in a graveyard. And I wondered if lifting the stones was an outgrowth of lifting the man. Another game was lifting the dead man, but again this wasn’t the actual dead man but a man who is making himself very heavy but who starts with the advantage of being fat to begin with. Anyway, I thought your interviewee may be interested in the possible connection. Here is the link.I thought your interviewee may be interested in the possible connection. Here is the link. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tell-me-a-story-with-eddie-lenihan/id1489656479

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This weekend we went to Crystal Waters Florida and recorded various sounds of the marine life. We took a boat out to theses specific locations including Kings Point Bay, Shell Island, and Mouth of Rainbow River. Here we captured some bizarre sounds of Dolphins communicating, thousands of shrimp feeding, and the distant moan of the Hypostomus Plecostomus catfish. (Headphones highly recommended). These recordings where captured using the Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR hydrophones, and Sound Devices 702 Digital recorder. Original files recorded at 24-bit-96khz.


Hydrophone Recordings of Dolphins, Shrimp Feeding, and Hypostomus Plecostomus Fish

What if the secret life of the machines that surround me every day grew suddenly louder, the way a part of the body cries out for attention whenever pain arises? I began to walk through my new and apparently post-pandemic city, where the quiet streets hummed again, and even the air seemed cut with a new intensity and purpose. This track begins with a late night calling, an uneven pulse, that summons a world of ticking gears and levers, underpinned with dark drones and stretched choral verses, as if despair was the necessary beginning of every joy.

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Lying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest forgotten echoes of our past. Large and unwieldy stones; blocks of granite and sandstone flags which, used in former times as tests of strength, still reverberate with the memory of heroic feats.

The tradition of stone lifting, while well-attested in Scotland, Iceland and other parts of Europe, is a topic about which very little is known in Ireland. For the past year, David Keohan, multiple national European and world champion in kettlebell sport, world record holder, avid strength historian and self-described stone-lifting fanatic, has been (literally) unearthing this little-known aspect of traditional Irish physical culture. Guided by material relating to the practice of stone lifting as found in the archives of the National Folklore Collection, David has been travelling the country identifying lifting stones mentioned in manuscript sources gathered by folklore collectors, and has been talking to locals who remember the lifting of these stones in former times. It has been an honour to assist in shining further light on this topic, and I was delighted to be joined by David for this episode of Blúiríní as he discusses his adventures to date.

Join us as we attempt to set out the scope of the tradition as it existed in Ireland, drawing on NFC collection to examine the occasions on which these stones were lifted, their connection to funeral games and the dead, the role of lifting stones as rites of passage or method of settling dispute as well as their associations with hags, giants and mythical champions.

The richness of our archival collections now serve to assist in the regeneration and reanimation of this once widespread custom, and should serve as a source of inspiration and pride; linking us with the past, with our birthplaces and with those who have gone before us.

David's Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/irish_move_athlete/?hl=en

David's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@davidindianakeohans3566

Two highly recommended and very beautiful Rogue Fitness documentaries were mentioned at the outset of the episode. They are available here:

Stoneland (Scottish stone lifting tradition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQlNwxn5oo&ab_channel=RogueFitness

Fullsterkur (Icelandic stone lifting tradition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Tcsg2Yac8&ab_channel=RogueFitness

Website here dedicated to the memory of Scotsman Peter Martin (mentioned in this episode). Peter held a special affection for the Gaels, and his research into Gaelic strength culture and traditional stone lifting was without equal: https://www.oldmanofthestones.com/

Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)

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Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.

Podcasts are available for download directly from SoundCloud or via iTunes.

Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)

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