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Irish Nationalist History & Politics Channel, with a side dish of shitposting. Use of the channel has changed since August 2020 but name stays cause its funny.

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Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
Summary: Ires Reit, Ireland's biggest landlord and Cairns Home where Soros who funds immgration NGOs has investments in says immigration is needed for them to increase profits. Tell that to your champagne socialist friends next time they try tell you they…
This retard, who is a Maynooth Professor and writes books on the Irish housing crisis and is pushing housing policy here, is saying that suggesting migration plays a role in the housing crisis is racist and we should only blame Government policy and Ires Reit, Ireland's biggest landlord (Blackrock have 3.03% stake in it and other such companies).

But reports by Ires Reit state that inward migration is a driving factor for demand in housing....

This is even more significant when you take into account the Irish Governments own Demographics Budget where they state that by 2026, migration will be the main cause of population growth due to declining birth rates (current birth rate is 1.6, sub replacement is 2.1).

https://twitter.com/RoryHearne/status/1533431306293432320
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A map of Irish monasteries on the continent from that period
"The libraries of the Irish monasteries of Wiirzburg and Reichenau, seem also to have been large and important, and many of the existing Irish manuscripts come from these two monasteries. Unfortunately no old catalogue seems to remain of the Wiirzburg collection, but of that at Reichenau (Augia Major) on Lake Constance, a catalogue was made while Erlebald was Abbot, between the years 822-838, in which 415 manuscripts are recorded, thirty of which were written there in Erlebald's time.

....Among- other classical writings which have been gathered from Irish collections, are a copy of Servius' Commentary on Virgil and a fragment of Ovid's Metamorphoses, now at Berne; two important texts of Virgil now at Paris and at Florence; and the De Conjugatione of Eutychius at Paris and Vienna. These Irish copies have in several instances served as the base of the most reliable modern editions of these poets and writers.
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Early Christian Ireland - Eleanor Hull 1905
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"The libraries of the Irish monasteries of Wiirzburg and Reichenau, seem also to have been large and important, and many of the existing Irish manuscripts come from these two monasteries. Unfortunately no old catalogue seems to remain of the Wiirzburg collection…
Pics is of Reichenau Abbey which was founded by Saint Pirmin in 8th century. Second pic is a 1707 map of the Island of Reichenau.

The Abbey of Reichenau housed a school, and a scriptorium and artists' workshop, that has a claim to having been the largest and artistically most influential centre for producing lavishly illuminated manuscripts in Europe during the late 10th and early 11th centuries, often known as the Reichenau School.

Debate goes on the origins of this Saint as early claims were that he was Irish or was French and educated in an Irish monastery. Can read about debate here (leans on more that he was a Gael).
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The Reichenau Primer (Reichenauer Schulheft) early 9th-century Irish manuscript probably written in Reichenau abbey

The content is in insular script, apparently scribal practice by an Irish monk. It contains mainly Latin hymns and grammatical texts, with added glosses in Old High German, but also Greek declination tables, astronomical tables and notably Old Irish poems, among them Pangur Bán, which is a poem the Irish monk wrote about for his cat
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A map of Irish monasteries on the continent from that period
Map showing the main monasteries in Ireland during the Early Middle Ages

From Early Christian Ireland, 1958 by Máire de Paor
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The doorway of Rathdaire Church which is said to be a stunning example of Hiberno-Romanesque architecture. This doorway is based on the doorway of St. Cronan’s Church in Roscrea which dates from the 12th century. The church was designed by, James Franklin…
Sketch of a contemporary (8th century) Irish wooden churches inspired by 3rd Temptation of Jesus as depicted in the Book of Kells where Jesus is shown on the temple roof in Jerusalem (this being prob a sketch of said Irish wooden Churches).

None of these Wooden Churches of course survive today but we have images like these from Book of Kells and descriptions like that of English Saint Bede

"As a monastery grew in size the monks, instead of building a larger church, seem rather to have multiplied the number of small churches in the enclosure.

These in most places were, no doubt, ‘not of stone, but of hewn oak thatched with reeds after the Scots [i.e. Irish] manner’,3 as Bede describes them, and none of them have remained, nor has excavation yet revealed much concerning them. On the islands off the west coast, however, where some of the earliest seekers of solitude founded their monasteries, neither timber nor thatch was readily available, and buildings were constructed of stone.

From De Paor again
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Sketch of a contemporary (8th century) Irish wooden churches inspired by 3rd Temptation of Jesus as depicted in the Book of Kells where Jesus is shown on the temple roof in Jerusalem (this being prob a sketch of said Irish wooden Churches). None of these…
"the settlement [Glendalough] was clearly a large one; a city by comparison with contemporary secular settlements, so that the compiler of the Martyrology of Oenghusin (9th century) could write in his prologue: ‘The cells that have been taken by pairs and trios; they are Romes with multitudes, with hundreds, with thousands.’

The little churches that were built in the monasteries have no architectural pretensions, but, as Leask says, ‘they have a special interest: they were evolve —unlike those of western Europe in the same period—in almost entire independence of Roman traditions of building’.

Two types of timber church are consistently described; a church of wickerwork or wattles, and a church of hewn timbers. None of either type still stands, nor have the traces of any been discovered by excavation, yet we have quite a good idea of what the early churches were like, since it seems that the first stone oratories preserved something of the form of their wooden prototypes.
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De Paor on Irish Architecture
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"the settlement [Glendalough] was clearly a large one; a city by comparison with contemporary secular settlements, so that the compiler of the Martyrology of Oenghusin (9th century) could write in his prologue: ‘The cells that have been taken by pairs and…
Important to remember when studying architecture of Europe, as noted in post above, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia were never conquered by Romans.Thus, a lot of stone building techniques and such never imported over until much later. So a lot of native architecture in non-Roman parts was some stone but mostly wood which has been lost to time.

Given climates, making things out of wood made more sense as stone buildings get very cold in the summer, let alone winter (hence Romans engineering Hypocaust systems that were available in Roman Britain).

So in these countries, when building from stone in the early middle ages became more common, you can get some unique features (like the Irish Round Towers). You can see evolution of it in Ireland comparing some of the early High Crosses with the later ones.

I seen a study before that Romans/Greeks developed such wonders due to the ready available materials for concrete making & the need for building stone buildings given their warm climates
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Important to remember when studying architecture of Europe, as noted in post above, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia were never conquered by Romans.Thus, a lot of stone building techniques and such never imported over until much later. So a lot of native…
If you check a map of active volcanoes in Europe, you'll notice the main ones are in Italy and Greece

And how was concrete making accelerated?

By adding volcanic ash to the mix and allowing it to set underwater, so it makes sense why Greeks and Romans were readily able to develop such marvels as their civilizations expanded and cultures heightened.

Final note - The long-term durability of Roman concrete structures has been found to be due to its use of pyroclastic (volcanic) rock and ash, whereby the crystallization of strätlingite (a specific and complex calcium aluminosilicate hydrate)and the coalescence of this and similar calcium–aluminum-silicate–hydrate cementing binders helped give the concrete a greater degree of fracture resistance even in seismically active environments. Roman concrete is significantly more resistant to erosion by seawater than modern concrete; it used pyroclastic materials which react with seawater to form Al-tobermorite crystals over time.
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Description of a brawl breaking out at an Irish Volunteers meeting between Redmondites and what would be IRB types

Pearse punched some low energy Redmondite in the face and a Redmonite Priest priest challenged Ceannt to a gun duel lol
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Ezra Pound's schizo correspondence with Irish government ministers
The American ambassador to Ireland, David Gray, was doing schizo satanic rituals in Phoenix Park to communicate with the ghosts of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR's mother and Arthur Balfour so that he could ask them how pro-Axis Joseph Walshe was and other Irish politicians.

Joseph Walshe was the Secretary of the Department of External Affairs during WW2 and was viewed as being Pro-German and him and Dev sent the condolences to Germany on the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

David Gray really wrote letters to FDR telling him all about this schizo shite.
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Map showing the main monasteries in Ireland during the Early Middle Ages From Early Christian Ireland, 1958 by Máire de Paor
Another map of ecclesiastical sites founded by or associated with Irish monks during the 5th-12th centuries, many of these were the foundations for the Carolingian Renaissance during the reign of Charlemagne which British Historian Kenneth Clark states was the means which 'Western civilization survived by the skin of its teeth' during and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Not a complete map though, as few sites on continent I can see not on it.

From Early Christian Ireland, 1958 by Máire de Paor
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Another map of ecclesiastical sites founded by or associated with Irish monks during the 5th-12th centuries, many of these were the foundations for the Carolingian Renaissance during the reign of Charlemagne which British Historian Kenneth Clark states was…
One thing to keep in mind during this expansion of the Irish during the early middle ages was that

Here you had a people, never touched by the Roman Empire, coming into former Roman territory and becoming leading scholars, abbots, Bishops etc

Back then anything outside Roman Empire would be considered barbarous so to see the dedication of 'barbarous' men from the edges of the earth, not known to the Roman Empire, having this absolute will and zeal to just come and establish centres of learning and Faith must have been baffling and inspiring to many

This also lead to contentions, as Irish had own law (Brehon Law) and never really adapted into Roman Law/Customs (as wasn't part of the Roman Empire) which would had been more common on continent, so some mannerisms would have been seen as 'non-civilized' i.e. 'non-Roman' in their eyes.

These misunderstandings are what later tried to justify the Norman invasion of Ireland.
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