Hello Jack It is an interesting period isn't it? This is quite a well known incident. There is a discussion of it and the political context in C. Ó...
Dianne Hall
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Feb 1, 2006 9:28 am
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**** Armorica or similar,**** I'm going to start my comment here and thank you later in the reply. I have only a thin veneer of no how when dealing with my...
Armorica = Brittany [peninsular in western France]. Kevin ... From: idleswordsman Date: 02/01/06 22:47:12 To: Late-Gaelic-Ireland@yahoogroups.com Subject: ~LGI...
... Exactly so. Head south from Wexford for example, and you hit the tip of Cornwall; head south from waterford and you hit the tip of Brittany (formerly ...
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People, With apologies in advance for the cross-posting... People are invited to take a look at the online listing of events related to Irish Human and Natural...
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... 'hereditary' is truly the curse of popular history. A coarb was successor to a saint and headed his ecclesiastical jurisdiction. In the early medieval...
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I hope you have a good one. I got the day off. We're going out to New London, Wi. It is renamed New Dublin for the week prior to St Pat's Day. They do a wake...
People, Issue #3 of INSIGHT Online Journal of Irish Heritage Studies is now being readied for publication later this month. We are now accepting submissions...
When Rinucinni arrived in Ireland in 1645 he brought with him a sum of money -20,000 pound stetling- to support the Confederates. How much money would this be...
Its difficult to make an analogy for several reasons. 1) Armies were much smaller back then, and so funding for the army for a period of time required less...
TED MEEHAN
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Apr 28, 2006 1:58 pm
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With apologies for cross-posting... Issue #3 of Insight Journal, the free online Irish Heritage Studies publication is now available: www.irishinsight.net This...
I am not sure this is the proper forum, but here goes. Does anyone know anythig about a missing "Book of Sligo"? According to the few references I have managed...
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Hello there; I was wondering at what point was it in Irish history that a majority of the population of Ireland could understand English?. I suspect that it...
Oh that is a very good question. I to would also like to know. Thank you very much Carol...
Carol Schnipke
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Jun 30, 2006 3:54 am
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Hi pre 20th century figures are not terribly reliable but... By about 1800 the percentage of Irish speakers on the island as a whole was probably less than...
It is a good question. The English language was legally imposed on the Irish as early as the Statutes of Kilkenny in 1367. That law stated, in part, that it...
TED MEEHAN
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Jul 1, 2006 6:19 pm
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I thought that England forced their languge into the school system. The native American Indians were made to stop using their languge. Their languge was used...
I read that the Greeks came into Ireland and brought their Christianity and language. This was before Saint Patrick. The church of Rome had the information...
Linda, ... It'd help to know where you read this. The only source I can think of at all like this is a book written a couple of decades ago by a non-expert who...
... I don't think others have read your question quite as I have, and though the information relating to *use* of Irish is correct, it seems to me that you are...
