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original Irish?explain yourself offside:) juniorbsub (Wexford) - Posts: 646 - 26/03/2013 13:27:10 1356596 Link 0 |
Did somebody from Ulster say 'original Irish' and did somebody else reply?!....oh no, here's the thread dragged into the gutter so!! Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 26/03/2013 13:37:24 1356604 Link 0 |
Gladly juniorbsub - by original 'Irish' I am speaking of those who originally inhabited and settled in what we call modern day Ireland. The oldest settlements and monuments are all found in and around North Antrim and the Glens which is my backyard. It is also said that the Irish language spoken in Ulster today is of the purest formj of the language. Added to this those from this part of the country were historically always seen as the 'most Irish part of Ireland' then if it ever came to pratition then surely this would be the part which would be held on to now wouldn't it........ ;-) Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 26/03/2013 13:50:53 1356627 Link 0 |
Marsh's library (beautiful place) beside St Patrick Cathedral in Dublin has books on display showing the bullet holes straight through them from the Easter Rising! Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 26/03/2013 13:56:16 1356634 Link 0 |
St. Stephens Green was donated to the 'citizens of Dublin'!!....it is for this reason that nothing that collects revenue for the council is allowed to be placed in it or the footpath surrounding it!!....look at the parking meters, they are all down off the kerb and on the actual road!! Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 26/03/2013 14:08:20 1356644 Link 0 |
When I was a student in Dublin many moons ago there was a little lane off Smithfield with the wonderful name "Thundercut Alley". CmonAymonow (Laois) - Posts: 160 - 03/04/2013 13:41:57 1360233 Link 0 |
MuckrossHead Culann (Dublin) - Posts: 2306 - 03/04/2013 13:58:00 1360250 Link 0 |
CmonAymonow Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12452 - 03/04/2013 14:25:19 1360276 Link 0 |
Laois poster...here ya go! Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 03/04/2013 16:16:12 1360360 Link 0 |
"Original Irish" KELF (Kildare) - Posts: 775 - 03/04/2013 17:10:44 1360405 Link 0 |
Culann AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 04/04/2013 10:34:37 1360660 Link 0 |
St. Michan's Chursh on Halston Street in Dublin (Beside the fruit Markets) has three Mummies in its crypt below. One is almost a thousand years old. It was featured on Creadons cities on RTE but my dad had told me about them when I was a kid (he grew up in around the area). JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 04/04/2013 14:22:07 1360832 Link 0 |
Nice one YayP. Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 04/04/2013 14:50:25 1360863 Link 0 |
On September 29th 1979 Pope John Paul 11 came to Killiner just outside Drogheda. But he was not meant to come here in his original plans. He was orginally planned to go to Armagh but a month earlier the ira planted a bomb on a boat that killed Mountbatten off the coast of Sligo. With the security been at high risk they changed it to Drogheda. Drogheda is in two Diocese. The Boyne divides Armagh to the North with Meath to the South. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 04/04/2013 15:17:19 1360882 Link 0 |
Snuf, juniorbsub (Wexford) - Posts: 646 - 04/04/2013 15:46:24 1360901 Link 0 |
juniorbsub, Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 04/04/2013 16:39:50 1360955 Link 0 |
There was a Viking graveyard in the Phoenix Park, and its the biggest Viking graveyard discovered outside a Scandanavian country. JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 04/04/2013 17:11:10 1360989 Link 0 |
One for you in May Snuf ...Dr.Shane McKenna on the "Invincibles". He was up in Dungannon last week to give an excellent talk on Thomas J Clarke. Tyronetim (Tyrone) - Posts: 1254 - 05/04/2013 10:10:07 1361238 Link 0 |
Correction there are many varied speakers at this conference with different viewpoints. Might just make the trip myself and help the oul economy along with my copious consumption of the black. Tyronetim (Tyrone) - Posts: 1254 - 05/04/2013 10:18:06 1361244 Link 0 |
Are we not the decendants of many "tribes" who arrived in this island over thousands of years with the Celts being one of the later arrivals ( following by Saxons, Normans, Scots, Spanish etc in no particular order). Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 05/04/2013 11:13:21 1361281 Link 0 |