I don’t really know what anyone else thought, but the film at the Navan Fort museum depicted the epic hero, Cuchulainn, very poorly. Now, I get it, it was a film made for an exhibition, but the lightning-hair was the least of what happened to him (according to the Tain) when he entered into his “battle fury”; I shall elaborate.

As the myth goes, his hair would, indeed, stand up on end as if electricity was zipping through it, but it gets crazier than that. For example, one of his eyes would get sucked back into his skull while the other bulged to the size of a heron’s egg; his whole body would convulse as if he was being electrocuted and his muscles and sinews would twist up into grotesque knots of flesh and skin. His lips would curl back away from his mouth, leaving nothing but his bared teeth and jaw. He would then scream so loudly that sparks of fire would not only fly from out of his mouth (as is common for most people, I’m sure), but also shower down from the thundering clouds above him. His enemies would be nothing but lumps of gore after he was done with them…

Welcome to Armagh, everyone.