Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Some Irish folklore this St Patrick’s Day: the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> and the Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” The Sidhe evolved from a mythological people known as the Tuatha De Danaan, 🧵<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/AosS%C3%AD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AosSí</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Sidhe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sidhe</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folktales</span></a></p>