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Article: Goddess Isis alive and well in County Wexford. (Fellowship of Isis sect in Ireland) (Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- July 29, 1994
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Your best bet, if you can find the village of Clonegal, is to ask at the petrol pumps. They'll tell you to go down there between two nearby gables. It won't look promising but do as you're told. Through the trees you will soon see Huntington Castle, home of the Fellowship of Isis and of the fellowship's founders.
Catholic Ireland might seem an unlikely place for the resurrection, after many centuries, of the ancient cult of this feminine goddess. The stereotypes, however, are in decline in Ireland. Sure, there are still some walking statues and occasional weepers, but you'll have to get up early to catch them. And at Dundrum shopping center you will find a notice ...