Women of Ireland is an exciting digital art project that celebrates rich Irish folklore and highlights the role of female figures in Irish mythology and history. Through a combination of digital illustrations and classical photography, the project aims to immerse viewers in a magical and fascinating world in which Irish women take centre stage.
BRIGID
Irish goddess of spring, belonging to the Tuatha de Dannan, the people of Goddess Danu. She is known as the goddess of healers, poets, blacksmiths, childbirth and is the inspiration for the goddess of fire and hearth, as well as the patroness of war or Brig.
Brigid is said to be gentle, but very strong and stern.
Irish goddess of spring, belonging to the Tuatha de Dannan, the people of Goddess Danu. She is known as the goddess of healers, poets, blacksmiths, childbirth and is the inspiration for the goddess of fire and hearth, as well as the patroness of war or Brig.
Brigid is said to be gentle, but very strong and stern.
Drawing inspired by Aquilina108 (via DeviantArt)
Background image by Ainars Djatlevskis (via Unsplash)
Background image by Ainars Djatlevskis (via Unsplash)
BE CHUILLE
Good sorceress as well as sorceress of the afterlife. She joins three other Tuatha Dé to defeat the evil Greek witch Carman. Daughter of Flidais, she is the goddess of the wilderness, one of the most powerful sorceresses among the Tuatha Dé Danann. Be Chuille is commonly depicted as a wise woman. She is the mistress of magic, over which she has total control.
Drawing inspired by Victoria Rain (via Pexels)
Background image by Tomas Robertson (via Unsplash)
Background image by Tomas Robertson (via Unsplash)
Clìodhna
Goddess of love, beauty, healing and death. She presides over a heavenly afterlife where there is no age, death, pain, illness and decay, only beauty. In Irish mythology, Clíodhna is a banshee queen of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Clíodhna of Carrigcleena is the powerful banshee who rules as queen over the sidhe of southern Munster.
Drawing inspired by Fae-stock (via DeviantArt)
Background image by Markus Voetter (via Unsplash)
Background image by Markus Voetter (via Unsplash)
Aìfe
Warrior woman, present in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology Irish mythology, where she is described, living in Scotland, as the rival of Scatach. Both are sorceresses shamanesses and lovers of the martial arts. Aìfe was a beautiful queen of the Underworld and a brave warrior woman of Scotland. Aìfe's skills as a fighter were equal to those of the legendary Irish hero Cuchulainn.
Drawing inspired by Bella Stanyer (via DeviantArt)
Background image by Robert V. Ruggiero (via Unsplash)
Background image by Robert V. Ruggiero (via Unsplash)
AINE
Aine is the goddess of the sun, summer and wealth in Irish mythology. She is also associated with love and fertility, with power over animals and crops. She is the pre-eminent goddess of ancient Ireland and is specifically a spirit of love, desire and fertility; she also protects man from disease. Her name means BRIGHT DELIGHT.
Drawing inspired by Aquilina108 (via DeviantArt)
Background image by Lukas Medvedevas (via Pexels)
Background image by Lukas Medvedevas (via Pexels)
SCATHACH
Scáthach is a semi-goddess from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. A legendary Scottish warrior woman and master of martial arts, she educates the Ulster hero Cú Chulainn to combat. Scathach is a dark warrior. The Gaelic word Scath means 'a shadow or a ghost. She is a prophetic goddess, who lives in Dun Scaith, the Fort of Shadows, described as the Isle of Skye.
Drawing inspired by FXQuadro (via FreePik)
Background image via Pexels
Background image via Pexels
