Also, those same 9 pages seem to be mostly N/A for both Religion and Marital Status even though most were actually filled out.

I've seen what may be a widespread error in the Irish transcriptions. My grandmother has 'b' in the 'Sex' column but is listed as 'M' in transcription. I searched Dublin for 'Bean Ui' and got 9 pages of married women: random names from those pages and they're all 'M' so far. 1/2

The categories they single out were all coercive, where people were 'locked away' in reform schools, prisons, mental asylums or Magdalene laundries. I think that is of particular interest to modern relatives and researchers, who may take a dim view of the historical attitudes involved.

Partial surnames are also useful for the 1% of forms in Irish. My grandfather in Dublin had used an Irish spelling of his obscure surname - I found him in an unexpected street by just searching Drumcondra for "Ua". (It was Ua Mhíadhacháin which I hadn't known exactly).

And they're not just for tourists! Coming from south Dublin with loads of parks within easy reach, I found it a pity that in many rural areas, there's nowhere to walk except along the roads, which are quite dangerous due to the speed of cars and poor visibility. Greenways give locals safe walks too!

An ornate stone cross decorated with figurative carvings of biblical scenes. Overlaid text reads 'Irish Depictions of the Crucifixion' the image is further captioned with 'The West Cross, Monasterboice, Louth. c.10th century'

Good Friday is the day when Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ at Calvary. The scene is a common theme in religious art.

This short thread has a few examples of how the crucifixion has been depicted in Irish art through the centuries.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #GoodFriday #Medieval

Great thread! Also well done for the thorough alt text.

Really interesting, thanks!

About his later works: "While attracting a certain amount of attention from students of the seamier aspects of twentieth-century Britain they would require very extensive knowledge of certain specialised milieu (as well as a great deal of patience) to arrive at an assessment of their worth." 2/2

Patrick Maume in the DIB has a very interesting article about him.

www.dib.ie/biography/br...
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Cork to Cork flights

Re that Derry-L'Derry flight, it's long haul compared to this.

I'm surprised they don't list cattle, which are claimed to kill more than 20 people a year in the USA alone, which world-wide should mean more human deaths than those caused by hippos, bears, sharks or wolves.

Getting very discouraged at my inability to land a job. Even interviews are hard to get. If anyone know of any business or heritage organisation that needs some graphics done, or their website maintained, even a couple of hours a week, I'm their guy.

An odd thing about this review is that the actual name of the book being reviewed is buried in the middle of paragraph three, while the reviewer's latest book gets a line to itself at the end.

GRAND AULD STRETCH IN THE EVENING, THANK GOD DUNE

Looks interesting! Have you ever visited Huntington Castle in Clonegal (Co. Carlow?) It belonged to the Robertsons, and it was Nora Robertson's son and daughter who set up a highly eccentric worship of Isis in the castle basement in the 1970s. See the DIB: www.dib.ie/biography/ro...

The harp as a symbol on Irish coins goes back long before Yeats: from around 1500 to the Act of Union the harp or crowned harp (for the Kingdom of Ireland) appeared on Irish coins. So he was bringing back a symbol that had been in use for hundreds of years.

The really important thing about 'Heads or Harps' is that it worked for both Irish and UK coins, which were both in circulation together in Ireland until the Irish pound was detached from Sterling parity: British coins all had heads, and Irish coins all had harps, so it worked either way.

'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Global antiquity! 🌎 “Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages [= Old Tamil] have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.” The graffiti discussed here is so cool and indicate Indian travellers to Roman Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries CE www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Since his father was born in Laois and he's been an Irish citizen for more than 30 years, I don't think he should count. But I think an Anglo-Irish descent disqualifies him from being considered a spudbaby!

People say genius can't be rushed but I think what isn't pointed out nearly enough is that non-genius also shouldn't be rushed. Non-geniuses are no less entitled to a personal quota of idle wandering, breaks to consume cake, staring blankly out a window and taking 11 days to reply to a text message.

Thanks!

Great story! I always heard of them as called Lammergeiers. Is that name not used any more?

This was at a time when I used to take the land-bridge route from Dublin to Brussels every year or two. The 'Free Enterprise' branding of the Townsend Thoresen ships was just a joke to me as my ferry passed them on the channel crossing. I still remember my absolute horror when the news broke.

This thread is a nice distraction from gloomier news.

Building data centres to house the AI that picks targets for war crimes that cause spikes in prices for the fossil fuels we burn to power the data centres that we keep building so the war criminals will give us tax money to build data centres to house the AI that....

Advice used to be not to feed them any fishy cat food. There now seem to be different opinions: nutritionally it may be okay but because it's smellier it attracts more other animals, and also flies which may lay eggs on the hedgehog's skin. I think I'd still avoid it!

That way of preparing quinces looks amazing! I must try it after my next Polonez shopping expedition.

There seems to be an Eastern European fruit/vegetable wholesaler that supplies Polonez and Moldova shops in Ireland: they all seem to have fist-sized yellow quinces, stripy aubergines, various colours of tomatoes, great beetroot and just generally a different selection from Irish supermarket chains.

In my hillwalking days, I went with a small group of friends. But it can be a great help to join a club or group. www.mountaineering.ie/members/club... I think has an up to date list to search. 4/4