Qualla: Children of Lir https://qualla.com/children-of-lir en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/children-of-lir-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Children of Lir https://qualla.com/children-of-lir Children of Lir: Introduction https://qualla.com/children-of-lir/ Photo credit Comhar, Public domain. Their stepmother could not bring herself to kill them. She raised the druid's wand intending to, and then her nerve failed at the last instant. Instead she turned the four children of Lir into swans and bound them to nine hundred years on the waters of Ireland. Three hundred on Lough Derravaragh in the calm midlands, three hundred on the Sruth na Maoile between Ireland and Scotland where the storms tear, and three hundred on the cold Atlantic off Iorrus Domhnann, the very stretch of coast you are flying over now. The endpoint of their curse, the small island of Inishglora west of the Mullet Peninsula, is here. So is the bell that freed them.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/children-of-lir-wp/gc8u-children-of-lir-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Children of Lir: The Stepmother's Spell https://qualla.com/children-of-lir/ Photo credit Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0. Aoife was the sister of the children's dead mother, and Lir, their grieving father, married her hoping for some restoration. Instead, jealousy gathered in her like weather. The children were Fionnghuala, Aodh, Fiachra, and Conn. One day Aoife took them on a journey and, at the sh...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/children-of-lir-wp/gc8u-children-of-lir-the-stepmothers-spell.mp3 0:06 2 full Children of Lir: Three Stations of Suffering https://qualla.com/children-of-lir/ Photo credit Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0. The three hundred years on Lough Derravaragh were almost gentle. The De Danann and the later-arriving Milesians both gathered at the lake to hear the children's plaintive singing, and a proclamation went out that no swan was to be killed in Erin. Then the time turned. The swans f...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/children-of-lir-wp/gc8u-children-of-lir-three-stations-of-suffering.mp3 0:06 3 full Children of Lir: The Bell at Inishglora https://qualla.com/children-of-lir/ Photo credit Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0. When the nine hundred years were almost done, the swans came to Inishglora, the small island that lies off the Mullet Peninsula's western coast. By then Saint Patrick had brought Christianity to Ireland. A holy man named Mochaomhóg had settled on the island. One morning the swans...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/8/u/children-of-lir-wp/gc8u-children-of-lir-the-bell-at-inishglora.mp3 0:06 4 full Children of Lir: A Legend in Bronze and Bells https://qualla.com/children-of-lir/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Sebb assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The Children of Lir have not stopped being told. In Dublin, sculptor Oisín Kelly's bronze statue stands in the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, four swans rising out of the cast figures of children; it commemorates the rebirth of the Irish nation through 900 years of stru...

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