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Updated: May 4, 2025
And they knew not whence they came, or in what form, or from what people, or from what country; but they supposed them to be Duine Sidh, or gods of the earth, or a phantasm."
Under the rule of Sidh Rajah, "the Magnificent," one of the noblest and greatest of the Moguls, it reached the height of its wealth and power at the beginning of the fifteenth century. He erected schools, palaces and temples, and surrounded them with glorious gardens. He called to his side learned pundits and scholarly priests, who taught philosophy and morals under his generous patronage.
Colgan explains the term Duine Sidh thus: "Fantastical spirits," he writes, "are by the Irish called men of the Sidh, because they are seen, as it were, to come out of the beautiful hills to infest men, and hence the vulgar belief that they reside in certain subterranean habitations: and sometimes the hills themselves are called, by the Irish, Sidhe or Siodha."
She is my maid, Elspeth Mackay, answered Miss Macrae, puzzled. They were alone, separated from the others by the breadth of the roof. 'I said the Daoine Sidh, replied the poet, spelling the words. 'It means the People of Peace. 'Quakers? 'No, the fairies, groaned the misunderstood bard. 'Do you know nothing of your ancestral tongue? Do you call yourself a Gael?
'Was it Clonmell? asked Miss Macrae, letting him take her hand. He pressed it against his burning brow. 'Though you laugh at me, said Blake, 'sometimes you are kind! I am upset I hardly know myself. What is yonder shape skirting the lawn? Is it the Daoine Sidh? 'Why do you call her "the downy she"? She is no more artful than other people.
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