'Creideamh am bata buidhe' - derisive term used in the Hebrides to describe forced conversion to established church. The laird's factors used bamboo canes to herd people to the kirk & the landlord appointed minister...

Ruling ideology of official Ireland is that analogue is dead & digital only is madatory for everything. Hardly inclusive.

Worth asking them if they followed the National Disability Authority's guidance on Universal Design when designing the 'passenger journey'
universaldesign.ie/communicatio...

I worked on London during the 80s. Home for Christmas, I tried to exit a packed last 32b bus to Baldoyle via the backdoor. The whole bus started singing "Maybe its because I'm a Londoner" to me. True story.

No one agency owns enforcement - at least 6 diff agencies responsible for diff aspects of water quality - The real problem. Thus the Minister is giving Wex Co Co 700k to ' aid the council’s coordination' of an inter agency response to Lady's Island Lake. Sigh..
www.southeastradio.ie/minister-bro...

Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Wylder's Hand - Sheridan LeFanu
Knocknagow - Charles Kickham
A Drama in Muslin - George Moore

"He gave the little wealth he had
To build a house for fools and mad;
And show'd by one satiric touch,
No nation wanted it so much."

No hay banda...

Mulligan's tyre

Not forgetting Ireland's Samuel Beckett - the only Noble Prize winner listed in Wisden...

There's a song about that...
youtu.be/3k0lzYGDI_E?...

A meniskos was a bronze disk mounted above the head of a statue in Ancient Greece to prevent bird feces from accumulating on the statue's head. This probably the origin of the halo in Christian art.

Breaks the Law of Comparative Advantage. Ireland is a small country, lacks the critical mass of specialists, know-how and experience to build, operate & maintain nuclear. Money better spent on connecting to the EU Supergrid - leave nuclear to larger nations with indepth tech know-how.

Funding for a land grab. 1815 to 1825 was the second brutal phase of na Fuadaichean (Highland Clearances) in Scotland. Characterised by mass evictions, 'assisted' emmigration and driving tenants to coastal areas to take up fishing and crofting.

"Ceann goimh air madainn Earraich 's mairg a chailleadh a chaomh charaid"

A spring morning with a stinging head, who would lose a beloved friend?

- Toraidhean Dwelly

The Brontë (Prunty) family had Irish connections too. Terry Eagleton's conjugation of Wuthering Heights and the Great Famine an influential text here in Ireland when first published in '92.

www.jstor.org/stable/29735...