November 08, 2005

CELTS 'R' US, BEGORRAGH! .."Early Gaelic ollamhs (professors of history) and scribes recorded the actions of the kings and the provincial nobility of Ireland who supported them; and, after the mission of St. Patrick, the leaders of the Church. The annals of these scribes have become the early history of Ireland."
posted by jeraboam 19 years ago
  • Dammit, Vercingetorix's execution on last night's Rome really pissed me off.
  • Even more impressive, the Celts won 11 championships in 13 years between 1957 and 1969. /basketball fanatic
  • Wer-Kingeto-Rex = Super Warrior King. So who else is addicted to HBO/BBC's Rome? Does anyone find it ironic that many of the actors playing Romans are Irish and Scots? I laughed when I saw our man Ciaran as Gaius Julius Caesar. The guy playing Cato looked familiar to me and I couldn't place him - until I found out that he was one of the first musicians on ITV's Rainbow in the early seventies! I think I remembered his duff eye.
  • May I also say that I have travelled to a great many countries, and of all of them Ireland is by far the most beautiful. It truly is absolutely stunning.
  • Post your favorite Irish king!
  • William III! *ducks*
  • Nuadhat I, Ruled for one-half a year. "Fair too long if ye ask me."
  • I don't want to be exposed to Irish annals! Or maybe I do?
  • > Post your favorite Irish king! rory o'connor, natch. also brian boru.
  • Yes, brian boru, seconded. But I have a soft spot for Nuada of the Silver Arm. Probly the first cyborg in history fiction .. evar!
  • A pox on your mouldy kings - James Connolly the man who should have been the first president of the Irish Socialist Republic towers above them all. ...I have done nothing but see in the National Museum of Ireland the rusty red spot of blood, rather dirty, on the shirt that was once on the hero who is dearest to me of them all... ...the shirt that was on Connolly in the General Post Office of Ireland while he was preparing himself for the sacrifice that put himself up on a chair that is holier than the Lia Fail that is on the Hill of Tara in Ireland From Somhairle MacGill-eain's translation of his Ard-Mhusaeum na h-Eireann
  • Conaire (Conary Mor), grandosn of Cormac of Ulster, and High King of Ireland, who grew feathers in his hair, and was burdened with geasa, and who died an elaborately foredoomed death, as is appropriate for all true Irish heroes, including James Connally and the other unfortunates of the Easter Rising. Why these alleged feathers didn't count as a blemish against him, which in theory should have made Conary as a blemished man ineligible to be king, is a question only a pedant would raise. But then it seems there is a longstandfing love affair betwixt the Irish and birds such that perhaps a few feathers could not possibly be considered a blemish but a glorious embellishment. /might be a pedant if I work at it
  • And we're thirsty!
  • Fierce is the wind tonight. It ploughs up the white hair of the sea. I have no fear that the Viking hosts Will come over the water to me. -- Anonymous, 8th or 9th century, trans F.N, Robinson
  • I say, save us from such allegedly well-groomed nails! They look like one of Edgar Allen Poe's more perfervid imaginings about people who get bricked up behind walls and left to die. Don't recall Poe mentioning hair gel, however.
  • Anthropologists on the scene reported that the bodies "looked fabulous."
  • Wines so richly red and herbal guaranteed those Celts would burble; while the sandy aftertaste plastered smiles on every face.