History of Ireland (800–1169) Puns

I posted about my last play on here, which was about my testicles, and people were interested, so here's the next one!

The play was the winner of a competition by Fishamble Theatre Company to find "A Play for Ireland". It opened at the Dublin Theatre Festival there and has toured to Galway, Cork and Limerick before coming up to Belfast next week.

Synopsis

The Alternative

What if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom? What if Home Rule had passed? What if there was no War of Independence? No Civil War? No partition? What if the island had only one soccer team? ​

The year is 2019 and it is the eve of the Referendum. British Prime Minister Ursula Lysaght is returning to her hometown of Dublin to convince voters to Remain. With the threat of chaos in the streets, and personal conflict behind the scenes, the final debate is set to begin at BBC Dublin: Should Ireland leave the UK?

Promo Videos

• Should Ireland leave the United Kingdom
• Cast and writer interview

Articles about the show

• "Why we rewrote Irish History" Sunday Times
• "The Alternative" Slugger O'Toole

Reviews

"the most bitingly current play at this year’s Dublin International Theatre Festival... fantastically provocative drama... explores questions about nationalism, democracy, and who gets left behind."

★★★★ Financial Times

"a wild, wacky, and somewhat wonderful political comedy... One of the cleverest, funniest, Irish political comedies in recent years"

★★★★ The Arts Review

"A Highlight of the theatrical year... Everything about this show is first rate... Do not miss this show."

Irish independent

Info

• Venue: Lyric Theatre
• Dates: Tue 8th - Sun 13th Oct
• Time: 8pm (2.4

https://www.heritageweek.ie/whats-on/event/open-house-and-guided-tour

There were contemporary estimates saying 90% of people died in Britain during the plague, and conservative estimates for Europe on the whole are at around 33%. Especially given that the plague was comparatively deadly in rural communities, it's not surprising that an Irish monk could see this as heralding the end of the world.

What are some of the other times in history where it was genuinely believed that the end of the world was at hand?

On Thursday, December 7, 2000, Trevor Deely, a 22-year old IT specialist with the Bank of Ireland Asset Management, attended a staff Christmas party which involved travelling to multiple locations until they wound up at a Dublin nightclub. At around 3:25 AM on December 8, Trevor left the club and would have ordinarily walked home to his apartment, but there was a heavy rainstorm. Due to a taxi driver strike, no cabs were available, so Trevor decided to walk to his workplace, the Bank of Ireland Asset Management headquarters, which was a couple of minutes away. After entering the building, Trevor spent a few minutes checking E-mails before having coffee with Karl Pender, a co-worker who was working the overnight shift. Even though Karl described Trevor as being a bit tipsy, he did not believe he was overly intoxicated. Trevor grabbed one of the office's corporate golf umbrellas before exiting the building to walk home at 4:02 AM. He used his cell phone to leave a quick voicemail for a friend, but this turned out to be the last time anyone ever heard from him.

Trevor failed to show up to work later that day, which did not raise any alarm bells since he had been partying the night before. However, when he failed to show up for work on Monday, December 11, this caused great concern. Nobody had made any contact with Trevor over the weekend and his two apartment flatmates were out of town on holiday. His sister attempted to call him multiple times that weekend and claimed that Trevor's phone did ring until it started going straight to voicemail on December 11. After he was officially reported missing, investigators examined some CCTV footage of Trevor on the night he disappeared. At 3:34 AM, the security cameras outside BIAM headquarters captured Trevor entering the building through the rear gate. An unidentified man dressed in black was shown standing near the gate in the same spot since 3:05 AM. When Trevor arrived, the two men could be seen having a brief conversation before Trevor walked through the gate. According to Karl Pender, Trevor never mentioned anything about this conversation. When Trevor exited through the rear gate at 4:02, the man in black was no longer there. The last official sighting of Trevor occurred when CCTV footage showed him passing by an ATM located at the corner of Haddington Road and Baggot Street Bridge at 4:14 AM. Thirty seconds after Trevor walked out of frame, a man dressed in black passed by the ATM and headed in the same dire

Hi all. I am looking for recommendations for a good book on the history of Ireland from 1916 onwards. As an Englishman with an Irish girlfriend I want to learn more about that important part of Irish history.

Any books in particular about that period or Michael Collins that you can suggest?

Thanks.

In the distant past, Westeros is known to have experienced a series of migrations and invasions by different peoples. Most importantly, the First Men, the Others, the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the Targaryens. Most understand these through the prism of British history: the First Men are the Celts, the Andals are Anglo-Saxons, and the Targaryens are the Normans. While some of these comparisons are probably correct, there's another source I think is of greater importance: Lebor Gabála Érenn or "The Book of the Taking of Ireland." While the history of Irish settlement describes therein is not currently considered historically accurate and includes many obviously mythic features, it allows for a much greater insight into GRRM's inspiration for Westerosi history, and also clarifies the importance of the ironborn to ASOIAF, assuming that Euron = Balor, and that the Second Battle for the Dawn is inspired by the Second Battle of Mag Tuired (Moytura).

Cessair, Fintán and the 3ER

The Lebor Gabála Érenn lists six waves of human settlers to Ireland. Of these, the first three have little impact on the island long-term as they are almost wholly annihilated by various disasters. The first settlers to arrive in Ireland according to myth did so in an attempt to survive the Great Flood. All but one did not, and the island became uninhabited again. > According to LGE, the first people to arrive in Ireland are led by Cessair, daughter of Bith, son of Noah. They are told to go to the western edge of the world to escape the oncoming Flood. They set out in three ships but when they land in Ireland, forty days before the Flood, two of the ships are lost. The only survivors are Cessair, forty-nine other women, and three men: Fintan mac Bóchra, Bith and Ladra. The women are split evenly among the men. Each also takes one as his wife: Fintán takes Cessair, Bith takes Barrfhind and Ladra takes Alba. However, Bith and Ladra soon die and Ladra is the first man buried in Ireland. When the Flood comes, Fintán is the only one to survive. He becomes a salmon and later an eagle and a hawk, living for 5,500 years after the Flood, whence he becomes a man again and recounts Ireland's history.

This character is extremely similar to a couple other more well known Irish

"Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (Architects of the Resurrection) were an Irish fascist political party active in the 1940’s They envisioned a united Ireland where emigration as well as the speaking of the English language would be banned. Highly conservative and religious, they also saw women’s role as to produce as many offspring as possible in order to form a large army and imagine Ireland rising as a supreme leading nation after all other countries had been decimated during World War II."
Our artist of the month @doireanndoireann Doireann Ni Ghrioghair mines the history of fascism in Ireland for her exhibition ‘Declaration of the State Metropolis at Tara’ which runs at the Pallas Projects/Studios in Dublin until November 16th, open Thursday-Saturday 12pm to 6pm.

https://cassandravoices.com/arts/artist-of-the-month-doireann-ni-ghrioghair/

Hi I am new to this subreddit but have always been interested in witchcraft. My grandmother apparently practiced witchcraft. Now, my mom moved out and was estranged from her mother at the age of 12 so my mom doesn’t like to talk about her much.

So my grandmother was born in 1941 in Galway Ireland. I’m not 100% sure what she practiced but I know she believed herself to be a witch. She was a terrible, abusive woman who beat her children. She claims to have put a spell on her brother in law who died of lung cancer at a young age (40s I think).

My mom has always believed in having abilities and “willing” things to happen. She has always warned us to never ever wish ill will upon someone else no matter what. She believes heavily in karma.

I was wondering if anyone knows about any history of witchcraft in Ireland, especially Galway. Thanks in advance!

Hi All,

Me in a nutshell: Italian grandmother had some traditions that I now know were based in Italian folklore. When I was kid I was one of those super into The Craft types who bought Silver RavenWolf books and was obsessed with the supernatural/witchcraft/ESP, etc. From the age of 9, off and on through adulthood and now, if I end up meeting another pagan and feel the need for an elevator speech to describe my practice I've landed on some variation of "eclectic neo-pagan who uses spellwork as a form of visual, tactile and kinetic meditation. Heavily influenced by Italian folk magick and animism."

Lately, I've been studying the Irish side of my family in greater detail through various genealogy projects and have been learning more about the anthropological side of things and am interested in learning more about Celtic Paganism/Druidry/etc. I see a lot of chatter here about the different modern groups for coursework and community - ADF, OBOD, and AODA? Right now, we're on a single income so I doubt I can afford OBOD, but I do want to study as much as I can using the internet and library books. Any recommendations on free resources to learn more? Right now it's more of an academic interest, but you never know where interests can lead. I'm always incorporating new practices that resonate.

It may seem like an overreaction given that my side is going to go through to the Super Six, and will still have Test and ODI status regardless, but the performance from Ireland today really pissed me off.

First of all, we reduce the West Indies to 83 for five, a winning position for us if we play our cards right. Or just don't play them wrong really. After 30 overs, they've recovered to 122 for five, but we're still in the box seat - which is how the wheels come off. On 30.3 overs, George Dockrell fails to collect a throw from Balbirnie to run out Jason Holder. At 32.3 overs, Rovman Powell skies a ball in the off-side and Gary Wilson drops a difficult catch.

Holder makes a valuable half-century, while Powell - with a previous best score of 59 in ODIs, and no first-class half-centuries to his name - comes alive to flay his way to 101. The wheels come off as Boyd Rankin bowls short and wide and Kevin O'Brien bowls full tosses.

The West Indies recover to 255. In reply, Ireland start disappointingly, with Will Porterfield registering his customary non-hundred score of zero (nobody has ever scored so many hundreds at such a poor average), Paul Stirling flays a few boundaries but misses a straight ball, Andy Balbirnie continues a long tradition of scoring bugger-all runs off plenty of balls.

This leaves Ed Joyce, who came in at four rather than opening the innings as he probably should be doing, having to do a firefighter's job again, trying to stop 32 for three from becoming anything worse. With the support of the O'Brien brothers, he manages to recover us to 166 for four, and our noses are probably just ahead in the game.

So we lose the last six wickets for 39, job done.

A big part of why the same performances keep happening is that the same players keep getting picked to deliver them. Of today's side, only Andy McBrine has less than fifty international caps, and even he can boast 45. These are tried and tested players, which means it's also not a huge surprise when the match follows a tried and tested pattern that sees Ireland on the losing side.

Now, it's partly understandable if Ireland can't attract the very best players because we don't have a particularly wealthy cricket board (we do however have a lot of internal politics - like anyone else - and enough money t

We reached out to a realtor and the lowest she was getting for us was 3400. I see places for less if i search myself but again we don't have the credit score or jobs yet(we are working on this).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.