Tall, graceful, beautiful and noble, masters of all arts and alchemy

The tuatha de danann ruled Ireland until the coming of the Celtic people. Retreating before the rougher ways of the invaders. The people of Danann (or Danu) Inhabited the high lonely places, eventually disappearing under ground in their fairy forts, and  the hills like Cnoc medha (or hill on the plain) near Tuam where Fin Bhera , King of Connacht fairies lives with Nula , his queen , and a host of the Sidhe. 

Called "Fairies" "the Good Folk" " the Gentry" "The wee Folk" or Sidhe(pronounced Shee) they love feasting , singing , dancing and music. Whenever they play their pipes you can hear their music as clear as day and it is the grandest kind of music. It may last half the night but once day comes it ends.



Twilight, dawn, May and November eve are all times of the change when the mysterious entrance to the world of the fairies may become visible!  A Human who becomes enchanted on hearing fairy music, and dances all night on the hill will never return to the world of the humans and is referred to as being "away with the fairies"





A twinkle of light

Coming down from the mountain

A wonderful, magical

Sound from the hill

A sound half-forgotten

But still here inside me

It calls me s gently

I shiver and trill

And we'll dance all night on

The hill



We'll go away with the fairies

Back to fields

And we'll climb the hill

Away with the fairies

Ah c'mon please say you will

Ah c'com please say you will



We can go to the world

Of the legends and twilight

The world of the wee-folk

The fairy, the sidhe

If we dance to their music

We'll stay there forever

In the misty oul' moonlight

The dawn of the free

And we'll dance and dance and dance

And dance

We'll dance all night

On the hill



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