Written by The Calendar Maker on August 2, 2024
The Tailteann Games and Lughnasadh
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One hundred years ago today, the fledgling Irish Free State established the Tailteann Games for the first time in at least eight hundred years. You may not know it from the frequent intermingling of the holiday with the Anglo-Saxon holiday of Lammas and the Elizabethan legend of John Barleycorn, but the Tailteann Games were, for