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Vox Hiberionacum

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Archaeology, History, Hagiography, Folklore & Landscapes of Early Irish Christianity & Early Medieval Ireland. Includes thinly veiled but good-natured irreverence, outrageous puns and irregular posts.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 15d

"The Northumbrian monks are known to have mentored the Picts".

If only we knew who mentored the Northumbrians...

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 19d

Gentle reminder that in and around 500AD, the Britons were the Welsh, the Welsh were British, the Irish were the Scots, and the Scots were the Irish. The Picts were the Picts, but they weren't that picky.

Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19d

This is interesting - a thorough Wikipedia explanation of the terminology used to denote “these islands”…

I tend to use “Britain and Ireland”, but accept thats problematical (eg the Isle of Man issue”)

Never in a month of Sundays would I say “the British Isles”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termino...

Terminology of the British Isles - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 20d

Lindisfarne is more Iona.

What? Too soon?

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 20d

Dál Riada is more Donegal. I blame Colmcille.

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21d

There are lots of patches of Ireland that are nominally County/Province A but their vibes are profoundly County/Province B.

Arklow is far more Wexfordy than Wicklowish.

Louth feels more Ulster than Leinster.

And there are certain parts of Westmeath that are to the east of certain parts of Meath.

🍉 Jäğęřßômß Ðæmǒņcőrẽ 👺 (Top 40% Typeracer) @gaelgigolo69.bsky.social · 21d

Where I live is definitely in Kilkenny but spiritually it’s part of Laois

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 28d

Beyond the ninth wave, for my sins ...

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Aug 25

Laundering Penitentials as a side hustle...

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bringing shame to ALL hermits as I type...

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Aug 25

an older woman with gray hair is wearing a black dress and earrings and looking at the camera .

Alt: an older woman with gray hair, Maggie smith in character, wearing a black dress and earrings and side eyeing the camera in disapproval

media.tenor.com

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Aug 25

#CroxHiberionacum

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ah jaysis, tis yourself....

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Jul 9

It's the earlier and earlier heat. Innit. (It used to be August in my youth).

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Jul 9

Of course, it's not widely known that flying ant day was originally a pagan colony...

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · Jun 8

Apparently.

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · May 30

The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @nmireland.bsky.social today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

Very sorry to hear this. Never met him, but he single handedly invented modern day geo/ textual criticism identification of Tírechán sites by correctly identifying Tobar Finnmhuighe. In 1967. It was the 1990s before anyone else did.

Bríd McGrath @bridmcgrath.bsky.social · May 25

So sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful, groundbreaking historian Kenneth Nicholls. He was so unbelievably generous to me. We have lost not just a lovely man but someone with an irreplaceable knowledge of mediaeval & #earlyModern #Ireland. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

And did you get it right?

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

A couple of hundred years of wren hunting folklore suddenly makes sense...

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · May 25

Armageddon. There’s probably a line about this in an apocryphal Revelation that no one reads anymore as a woman wrote it.
“And the magpies will rattle the earth”

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · May 25

I had to nearly stop on the way to work because a blackbird on the road was too busy roaring at one on the wall.

I was kind of amused, I dropped to second gear and eventually it moved.

When I cam back from work there was flat bird on the road.

Pick your battlefields, lads.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

A lesson to us all.

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

I have tons of Robins and Blackbirds, I won't hear a bad word against them. They've got soul and most importantly melody. Unlike the other feckers.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

One of my outstanding goals is to row to the Inishkeas. Early medieval style.

Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

Them feckers. They were there too. God help you if you got too close to their nest.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

I've noticed a recent influx of same. There's something going on.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · May 25

And while I'm at it..Sheep, man. Sweet suffering jaysis, they're quare thick altogether. I once startled a sheep by hopping over a stone wall. They ran away keeping their eyes firmly fixed on me... into another stone wall. Knocked themselves out for a few secs. Got up. Startled. Ran into wall again.