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We are taking a brief break from the top 50 books about Irish mythology to talk about Brigid, and particularly a new paper examining whether the Christian Saint Brigid has been 'overshadowed' by the goddess Brigid. A recent paper by UCD historian ELva Johnston makes for very interesting reading in relation to the two Brigits - the saint and the goddess. Johnston asserts that Brigit was a real, actual woman, and that she has been 'reductively overshadowed' by a 'barely attested goddess'. I provide a commentary and some criticism of this paper. (NB: As a non-academic scholar!)
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