Forwarded from 📖 Ancient Restoration
The enjoining of hands around symbols of fertility is impressed deeply in the Irish psyche. Whether it's the modern heart or ancient cord.
Anti-Treatyite rally O'Connell Street, Dublin 1922
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty_Dáil_vote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty_Dáil_vote
"Ó Néill stands a head and shoulders above his peers as one of Ireland’s truly great men. His stoic personal character, his uncompromising defence of Old Ireland, and his militant Gaelic spirit are cause for remembrance and celebration."
"Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill should serve as inspiration for those who find that the cause of Old Ireland remains to this day unfulfilled."
Informative article
https://bit.ly/2tonrs1
"Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill should serve as inspiration for those who find that the cause of Old Ireland remains to this day unfulfilled."
Informative article
https://bit.ly/2tonrs1
Today marks the death of King Richard II in 1400. A biography of his history in Ireland, his failings and successes, written by Alfred Webb in 1878.
https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/KingRichardII.php
https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/KingRichardII.php
Libraryireland
King Richard II. - Irish Biography
The biographical entry for King Richard II., from 'A Compendium of Irish Biography', by Alfred Webb, 1878
📖 Ancient Restoration
"The high poets are gone and I mourn for the world's waning, The sons of those sharped masters emptied of sharp response. I mourn for their fading books reams of no earnest stupidity, lost-unjustly abandoned-begotten by drinkers of wisdom...."
"After those poets for whom art and knowledge were wealth,
Alas to have lived to see this fate befall us,
Their books in corners greying into nothing,
Their sons without one syllable of their secret treasure" - Cúchonnacht Ó Dálaigh
Alas to have lived to see this fate befall us,
Their books in corners greying into nothing,
Their sons without one syllable of their secret treasure" - Cúchonnacht Ó Dálaigh
Crannóg's are partial or completely artificial islands built on lakes and rivers and estuarine waters in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Starting in the European Neolithic period c. 4500 BC–1700 BC.
Starting in the European Neolithic period c. 4500 BC–1700 BC.