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Except for him. We cant stand him. Scarlet for his ma.

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Dont forget their Chips... On their bleedin shoulders.

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Utterly looks it, but I swear it's not. Im not a complete monster...

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 12/08/2026

Gentle reminder that people from Dublin are...

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This evening's 90% #eclipse over cloudy #Glasgow coming and going... Proper Camera, big lens and neutral density filter.

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I don't personally buy that. I think Patricius was writing in the mid/late 4thC. Which means, aside from a few stray curse tablets, Vindolanda letter scraps and stone inscriptions, there are no surviving historical documents from 5thC Britain, at all. Astounding.

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Semi regular reminder that there are only *two* Romano British primary sources conventionally dated to the 5thC AD. And these were written in Ireland, not Britain... confessio.ie

confessio.ie

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Ironically, no c.450AD Latin option is strangely authentic.

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Gentle reminder that 'Old English' c.450AD was 'New'. No Brytonnic option either. Typical Sassanachs.

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This is why people were afraid of poets; why we previously worshiped the written word; and why we still squirm when we see the inevitable final word delayed.

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One of the highest compliments Irish ppl pay each other is to say nice things about them after they die that they would never have said when they were alive. Thing is, they also do the equal and opposite if the person was an absolute raging thunderfunt of a shitehawk. Its all delicately balanced

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Some people hope other people die roaring for a variety of reasons. In the 8thC. In the 21stC. And when they do, some people make a point to highlight and piss on their previous behaviour within the social media of the day, be it short medieval annal entries, or... Oh wait.

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...such and such died in this year, of hemorrhoids. It always got a snigger. I would then show them annal entries from previous years listing his dastardly deeds and antics. A bollox of the highest order. Irish people in the 8thC, or the 21stC, know what entries like that mean. He died, roaring.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The early medieval Irish, just as soon as we have surviving records, couldn't fucking wait to speak ill of the bollixin' dead. It was, ever thus, a national pastime. Look at the earliest poetry, genealogies, hagiography, annals... I used to highlight a specific annal entry in tutorials...

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Gentle reminder that archaeologists prime feckin role is to speak ill of the dead... Look at the absolute state of that inhumation. What were they thinking? Were they glad to get rid of them or what? They must have been an awful bollox altogether.

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Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ladz. The Táin is unfilmable and they would make shite of it in anyway. We should just make our own sequel... "Odyssey 2: The Horse Goes To France"

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Post script. Today was Reek Sunday. Aka Garland Sunday. *X-files Music*

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Keep them away from sheep for gods sake...

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The 5th one is on the Mayo border with Roscommon. What pissed him off? People not sharing their fish, and rivers themselves where his young buddies drowned. Basicly, if a Romano British stranger ever shows up in your locality, you best share your dinner. Otherwise we'll be talking about you.

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..of a location near the wood of foclut so that they would never have any sense of smell. These esrly modern takes are variations on an early medieval theme. In Tírecháins account of the Saint,(a Mayo man himself) he curses peoples locations and dynasty 6 times. 4 of them are in Mayo...

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The whole Mayo curse thing is a purely modern fakelore attempt at explanation... however the national folklore collection is full of accounts of St Patrick cursing certain areas, landscapes and children of Mayo, the location of his childhood captivity. My favourite one has him cursing the children..

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There wont be a Romano British teenager enslaved in Mayo tonight...

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I hear you. I sometines wonder if we're also mixing it up with a bit of residual survivor's guilt.

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Fair play to her. We need people to look into stuff like this and ground truth the 'myths'. Reminded of some historians waxing lyrical about early texts and monk's fasting. They've never looked at the excavated faunal remains from church sites rich in all sorts of meat ;)

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That's absolutely another aspect. Land commission did all sorts in the absence of social memory/objection of emptied parishes. Theres a hint of deliberate silence there too of people who didn't want to get in the way of desperately needed infrastructure progress.

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Now that is interesting. Coffin paths definetly persisted longer on the west coast and on the islands. Theres a whole micro Connacht funerary culture there to exolore post famine. Intriguing link with washed up seafaring bodies buried outside resting stones of graveyards because they were 'unknown'.

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Reminded of account of early 19thC Pattern Day at St. Maelruains. The antiquarians and clergy horrified at the locals drinking and carousing to 'Moll Rooney'. 2 or 3 generations before, they were on their knees, praying.

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That's it! Settlement and disease: a plague on all your raths',. Archaeology Ireland 19.4 (2005), 14–17.

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You gave us a reading list in 1st year and there was a great article on advent of enclosure versus plagues in 7thC. Cant remember author. I think the later fairy fort stuff may reflect a kernel of deep misremembered social memory. 'Do not trespass otherwise you have no rights when we defend'.

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Indeed, and the rest of the middle aged people who survived, gone to UK and USA. Nobody left to hand it down locally.

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