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Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo formed in 2007. [ 6] The duo is a collaboration between Luke Steele, formerly of alternative rock band The Sleepy Jackson, and Nick Littlemore, of electronic dance band PNAU. [ 7][ 8] Empire of the Sun's 2008 debut album, Walking on a Dream, brought the duo international success and has ...
Newgrange ( Irish: Sí an Bhrú[ 1 ]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [ 2 ] It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian ...
Áine. Áine ( Irish pronunciation: [ˈaːnʲə]) is an Irish goddess of summer, wealth, and sovereignty. She is associated with midsummer and the sun, [ 1] and is sometimes represented by a red mare. [ 1] She is the daughter of Egobail, [ 2] the sister of Aillen and/or Fennen, and is claimed as an ancestor by multiple Irish families.
140 [ 1] The Grianan of Aileach ( / ˌɡriːnən əv ˈæljə ( x )/ GREE-nən əv AL-yə (kh); Irish: Grianán Ailigh [ˌɟɾʲiənˠaːnˠ ˈalʲiː] ), sometimes anglicised as Greenan Ely or Greenan Fort, is a hillfort atop the 244 metres (801 ft) high Greenan Mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal, Ireland.
Croagh Patrick ( Irish: Cruach Phádraig, meaning ' (Saint) Patrick's stack'), [ 1] nicknamed 'the Reek', [ 1] is a mountain with a height of 764 m (2,507 ft) and an important site of pilgrimage in County Mayo, Ireland. The mountain has a pyramid-shaped peak and overlooks Clew Bay, rising above the village of Murrisk, several kilometres from ...
This is a partial list of solar eclipses visible from Britain and Ireland between AD 1 – AD 2091.. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. Below is a complete list of total and annular eclipses visible anywhere within the modern extent of the United Kingdom between AD 1 and AD 2090 [1] and a ...
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch 's News Corp. [ 11][ 12] It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. [ 13]
According to Irish mythology, Samhain (like Bealtaine) was a time when the 'doorways' to the Otherworld opened, allowing supernatural beings and the souls of the dead to come into our world; while Bealtaine was a summer festival for the living, Samhain "was essentially a festival for the dead". [ 33]