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The convention of Tara, called in Irish Feis Teamrach, from “Feis,” which signifies a convention or assembly, was ordained by Ollav Fola, to be held every third year in the royal residence at Tara; and was attended by the provincial kings, princes, and chiefs—the druids, the brehons or judges, and the bards in the pagan times; and, after ...
Ollamh Fodhla was the title of the mythical 18th High King of Ireland who is said to have first formed the assembly known as the Feis Teamhrach, or Feast of Tara around 1300 BCE. Literary fosterage. In Ancient Ireland, ollams taught children with or without compensation depending on the circumstance. See also. Ireland portal; Ollamh Érenn
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feis, f. (gs. ~e, pl. ~eanna). 1. Lit: (a) Act of sleeping, of passing the night. (b) Accommodation, entertainment, for the night; bed and supper. 2. Lit: (a) Sleeping together, sexual intercourse. (b) Espousal, marriage. 3. Festival. (a) Hist: F~ Teamhrach, the Tara Festival. (b) ~ Inide, (Shrove) carnival. ~ cheoil, musical festival (with ...
Feis na Teamhrach has gone with the Ard-Righthe and the Tánaistí; the Oireachtas stands in its place today. Not until an emancipated Ireland directs her own affairs can the hosting of the new Gael vie in native hue, in impressiveness, in ordered beauty with its old-time prototype; but it can at least strive, year after year, to live up to ...
Oct 31, 2014 · Of these the greatest was the Feis Teamhrach at Teamhair na Rí (Tara of the Kings). However in more mythological terms Samhain represented that brief period in the calendar when the porous barriers between the worlds of gods and men all but disappeared.
It was called Teach Miodhchuarta, signifying either the “House of Banquets,” or the “House of Conventions;” also Teach-na-Laech, or the “House of the Heroes;” and it was the place in which were held the great Feis Teamhrach, or the “Conventions of Tara.” In its halls the monarchs gave their great Banquets; and entertained the ...
M3922.1. Ollamh Fodhla, after having been forty years in the sovereignty of Ireland, died at his own mur house at Teamhair. He was the first king by whom the Feis Teamhrach was established; and it was by him Mur Ollamhan was erected at Teamhair.
