He toured with P.T. Barnum. He was billed as being over 8' tall. Figure 7. Hugh Murphy. Irish folklore contains many references to giants. Giants were believed to have built aspects of the natural ...

Passed down from one generation to the next, Irish folklore is ingrained in Ireland ... Not to debunk the myth of feuding giants, the Giant’s Causeway was actually created by volcanic activity ...

Depictions of Irish folklore in horror have historically been less about Ireland and more about innumerable leprechauns and banshees who bear little resemblance to their mythological origins.