leprehaun, lioprachán, luacharman, lubrican, lugharcán, lugracán and lupracán) is quickly told: ‘The best known of [the Irish solitary fairies] is the Leprecaun… He is seen sitting under a hedge mending a shoe, and one who catches him and keeps his eyes on him can make him ...
One of the commonest types of early Christian art produced during the Middle Ages was the illustrated religious text. These illuminated manuscripts, created inside Irish, British and Continental monastery scriptoria, were hand-written in Latin on animal skins, then ornamented with Biblical art, ...