DeitiesE

Emain Macha--(evin or owin maha): Emain Macha, the royal seat of Ulster, now known as Navan Fort, lies two miles west of the town of Armagh. Emain Macha, was the place of sovereignty, the cosmological and ceremonial center and the seat of power of the Ulaid of Ulster. It was laid out according to the brooch from the cloak of the goddess Macha. Emain Macha is dominated by a hill ringed by a huge earthen bank and ditch and topped by a great mound. Around 100BCE a massive circular timber structure about 130 feet in diameter was built upon a hill and then deliberately destroyed, perhaps after a decade, as part of the rites for the construction of the mound. Emain Macha was Ulster's equivalent of the royal seat of Tara in Meathor of Cruachan in Connacht. For a long time it was assumed that these places were habitation sites and must have had thrones, banqueting halls, and houses. We now know that the main purpose of the great mounds and circular enclosures was ceremonial. The banks of the enclosures are outside the ditches, not inside as would be needed to defend a habitation site. Few structures were ever built on or beside the central mounds, and reconstruction shows that they were suited for ritual. The social structure of Emain Macha is indicated by the raths or ring-forts on hills nearby. It is possible that the king lived in a ring-fort on one hill, the warriors of the Red Branch on another, while people such as craftsmen conducted their livelihood in the vicinity. We find mentions of Druids in the texts of
Emain Macha. One text describes the foundation of a hospital attended by Druid physicians in 300BCE, the first record of such an institution in Europe. The Tain Bo Cuailnge says the custom of Emain Macha was that none could speak before the king and he could not speak before his Druids.
Emer--(eve-er or ay-ver): Wife of Cuchulainn. There is no mention of Their having children.
Eochaid--(yoch-i): A name common among the Irish kings. The most well-known was Eochaid Airemh, "of the plough", lover of Etain.

Eriu--(ayr-u): Eriu, of the Sun, one of the three tutelary and sovereign goddesses of the land of Ireland.
Etain--(etoin): The most famous Etain was loved by Midir of the Sidhe
and the High King Eochaid. Her story contains this classic description of a sovereign Goddess of the Land: The king was going over the green of Bri Leith and he saw at the side of the spring there a woman. She had a comb of gold and silver, and she was washing in a silver basin with four golden birds chased upon it and small bright purple carbuncles set around the rim. A beautiful purple cloak she had beside her, with silver fringes to it and a golden brooch. She had on a dress of green silk embroidered in red gold with marvelously wrought clasps of gold and silver on her breasts and shoulders. The sunlight was falling upon her so that the gold and green silk shone out. Two tresses of hair she had, four locks in each tress and a gold bead at the point of every lock. Her hair was the color of the yellow flag iris in summer, or the color of red gold after it is polished. She was letting her hair down to wash it, and her arms were out through the sleeve-holes of her dress. Her arms and wrists were long and straight, and as white as the snow of a single night. Her cheeks were as red as the foxgloves of the moor. Her fingers were long and of great whiteness, and her
nails beautiful and pink. Her eyebrows were as blue-black as a beetles wing; her eyes were as blue as the hyacinth; her even teeth were like a shower of pearls in her head, and her lips were as red as the berries of the rowan tree. Her shoulders were high, smooth and white, and her long slender yielding side was as soft and as white as the foam of a wave. Her thighs were firm, warm and sleek; her knees were round and small; her shins were white and straight. The bright light of the moon shone in her face; the highness of pride was in her smooth brows, and the light of love was in her eyes. The dimple of sport was in her cheeks, and in them there came and went flushes as purple and as red as the blood of any calf, and other with the brilliance of snow. A gentle, strong dignity was in her voice; and when she walked her step was as steady and as stately as that of a queen. She was the most perfect of the women of the world that the eyes of men had ever seen. They who saw her thought She must be one of the race of the fairies [from: Tochmarc Etaine, the "Courtship of Etain", based on the translations of Lady Augusta Gregory (1904), A.H. Leahy (1905), and Jeffrey Gantz (1981).]
Ethlinn--(elin): Daughter of the Fomorian leader Balor of the Evil Eye. Forewarned that he would be slain by his grandson, Balor imprisoned Ethlinn in a tower and forebade her sight of any man. Cian of the Tuatha

De Danann is disguised as a woman by the Druid, Birog of the Mountains. Cian finds Ethlinn and their union produces Lugh.