Not End Times, But Mountain Time | S7Ep19

OUR STORYMis staggers away from a gruesome battle on Kerry’s Dingle coast and finds a home in the mountains. Over 200 years, she becomes at one with the wild, covered in feathers and living completely apart from the human world. Eventually, the harper Dubh Ruis finds a gentle way to bring her home.

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IN THIS EPISODEWhy "apocalypse" doesn't mean the end of the world, at its ancient Greek root, but an uncovering or unveilingNaomi Klein and Astra Taylor's new book End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World, and the "politics of Hereness" inspired by the Jewish Labor BundThe Battle of Ventry, instigated by the invading Dáire Donn (the self-styled King of the World)How the story reads differently at different points in a life, from a young feminist grad student to nowNuala Ní Dhomhnaill's essay, ‘Mis and Dubh Ruis: A Parable of Psychic Transformation in Irish Writers and ReligionSources for the story: The Druid's Cauldron retelling — https://thedruidscauldron.org/2022/10/17/mis-and-dubh-ruis/, and Brian Ó Cuív's edition via Corpas na Gaeilge — https://corpas.ria.ie/index.php?fsg_function=3&fsg_id=492

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