Folks, The IRQUAS team are pleased to announce the arrival of the latest addition to our family of discussion groups. 'Irish Literature' is designed to...
Folks, As some will be aware, faltering efforts are being made to create a series of online maps of Ireland through IRQUAS' HIPNO project, which will give...
People, Two days from now, on November 10, 2001, the Irish-Agriculture discussion group will begin a reading group of Fergus Kelly's 'Early Irish Farming',...
A chairde, The Red Hand has been a symbol of Ulster for many centuries. As I understand it, the symbol commemorates an ancient Irish chief who was in a boat...
Ted Meehan
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Nov 9, 2001 10:55 pm
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I have a book here: Cody, Winifred Sieh Cody. Mouldy Oldies, Etc. or the Crest of the Red hand. I can't tell who published it, but it looks like University...
[Mike, fair comments all, an I'm also wondering if this is not a little more appropriate for the EMi group?] This has me confused. Is it referring to Sean, son...
Thank you Alizah! This confrms a great deal about the "Red Hand". Do you know the approximate time that Shane was chieftain? There was a Shane in the 1500s,...
Ted Meehan
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Nov 10, 2001 6:56 pm
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... more appropriate for the EMi group?] Early Medieval at the very least I should think. There are little things that set the alarm bells ringing about a...
Ted: This is from a wonderful web site-it is rather lengthly, including modern theories of the legend of The Red Hand: The severed bloody right hand has been...
Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760. By Edward McParland. Yale. 241 pp, £35 in UK Toby Barnard Trinity College and the Bank of Ireland, originally the...
Alizah, a chara, You have been a fountain of information. Thank you for your generous sharing of this research. I had been curious, and now I feel quite ...
Ted Meehan
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Nov 12, 2001 2:02 am
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People, What evidence do we have for the use of salt in medieval Ireland? Can't bring any to mind right now myself, but it is a potentially important product,...
People, Foreigners, under Brehon Law, were without rights, except where an agreement had been formed to protect them. Even then, their rights were heavily...
People, Its recorded that Corsair raiders captured people from Baltimore in Co Cork for sale on the slave market - an event which is still well remembered. The...
People, What was the status of the domestic cat generally in early medieval - and later medieval Ireland? On the Irish-Literature mail group we're shortly...
People, What comments do we have during the medieval period on vermin in Ireland? I'm thinking not only of the likes of rats and mice, but also possibly foxes,...
People, Geoffrey Keating's history of Ireland is well known, and through its fame it has been used, abused, disparaged and lauded in turn. This work was...
People, During the long period between the initial Anglo-Norman landings and the advent of Tudor plantation both the indigenous and settler populations had...
I have read debates about whether the Red hand is a palm facing out, or is a hand seen from the back. I have read that it is a left hand, since it would have ...
annie given
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Nov 12, 2001 10:31 pm
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... I happened to run into this man at the Wexford library last August and the story is apparently true. William Cody's parents were from Ireland and the man...
Janet Crawford
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Nov 12, 2001 11:33 pm
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I found the book at our school bookstore on the sale table-it caught my eye because of the Irish content. Apparently the book was published by the university...
... later ... to begin a ... 'The ... of cats in ... attention ... as part of ... as a ... damaged grain ... the likes ... this? Do they ... cats? ... Ireland?...
annie, Huge thanks for this post. The deconstruction of previous versions was geat reading, and I broadly agree with your perspective on this. ... The process...
... territories for ... this later, ... I remember you raised the whole shiring issue some time ago, in my lurking days. I look forward to your chronological...
annie given
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Nov 13, 2001 9:00 pm
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... I think its a gem - 'authentic voice'-type stuff. ... place.....[Stiof] The mind boggles - possibilities are enormous! annie ... From: "Alizah E Solomon"...
annie given
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Nov 13, 2001 9:00 pm
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A useful article on the subject: Finbar McCormick, "The Domesticated Cat in Early Christian and Medieval Ireland" in Keimelia: Studies in Medieval Archaeology...
... Hi Janet, et al, The issue of slavery in 12th-century and later Ireland intrigues me very much. I raised a question about it several months ago on LGI, ...
... Actually they were bred for their pelts by the Vikings. At Dublin they found a pit with hundreds of cat skeletons. The markings on the bones indicated...
