Hello all. New to the forum. A bit about me…I am Irish. From Dublin.
As far as magick and the occult goes I think it was just something I always did. I can’t remember when I started but I know I must have been hardly more than a toddler. Had “experiences” as a child that I considered normal back then it was only when I got older I realized they weren’t.
I was in my teens at this stage and the “experiences” hadn’t stopped and now I understood what was happening it scared me so I basically repressed every natural gift or ability that I had until some time in my early 20s they finally stopped.
Over the years I still had my little rituals but they didn’t work for me like they use to. Then recently something happened that changed my life dramatically and put things into perspective and long story short I came back to spirituality and the things I’d known inside myself to be true because I’d experienced them but had shoved to the back of some mental drawer somewhere.
I’ve been back practicing again. The only thing I find frustrating is I have to work a lot harder at things now. Repress those things long enough and it’s like anything else…Use it or lose it.
I’m hoping to develop them again and face some things about myself and everything else I was afraid to once upon a time. That’s the short version but you haven’t even bought me a drink yet 
Welcome to the forum 
Welcome.
What, exactly, do you practice?
The timing of your profile name is astounding…
I’m working with The Morrigan
Celtic witchcraft and shamanism for the most part
The Morrigan is my Matron Goddess.
Thank you for elucidating more upon your practice, and, again, welcome to the forum 
We share something in common.
Welcome to the forum. 
Awesome to see more Celtic-based spirituality growing on the forum.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Thought I’d share with you the title of an interesting little book I’ve been reading, published in Dublin in 1913, Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St John D. Seymour.
As the author states, “modern writers seem to hold that the witch-cult never found a home in Ireland as it did elsewhere…this book, however imperfect it may be, can fairly claim to be the first attempt to collect the scattered stories and records of witchcraft in Ireland from many out-of-the-way sources, and to present them when collected in a concise and palatable form.”
There have been some interesting shifts and transformations, for sure.
I have my own theory about this. It’s only a theory though. Generally to this day there are certain parts of Ireland you could go to where they still have old traditions and superstitions that to anyone else would be deemed witchcraft but there it’s so normal that no one thinks that deeply in to it. For example I remember my Dad getting stuck behind a tractor a few years ago when he was driving in the countryside because the farmer driving it refused to drive past this random chair that had been placed in the middle of the road because he insisted it was a curse and so ended up holding up a line of traffic because the road was too narrow to turn around on. No idea if it was a curse. My Dad managed to get around him eventually and the chair and it done him no harm unless it was target specific.
I think also back during the times of witch trials etc when a lot of people got scared by the prospect of witches I’d hazard a guess that Irish people were use to going to “medicine women” and farmers undertaking rituals and superstitions etc. So yeah it didn’t scare them and there wasn’t mass hysteria.
Witchcraft didn’t miss Ireland it was there already, in plain sight but without the mass hysteria and fear mongering the ugly discrimination passed us by and we never had a chance to see anyone’s “practices” as out of the ordinary and mostly a useful service.
Of course this is all just speculation on my part.