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POPSThe Twelve Apostles and Bloody Sunday (original) Like America, we had out War of Independence followed by a bloody Civil War on the issue of independence. This was also in common with many other states that gained independence. We didn't gain full independence until 1948 when we took it without a shot being fired. We did lose 6 of our 9 counties of Ulster, our northern providence. Hopefully some day our "four green fields" will be reunited peacefully. By Bush&Co's definition all our leaders would have been terrorists like Nelson Mandela , just like your own revered insurrectionists/freedom fighters/terrorists/founding fathers. Our longest serving PM and president de Valera would have been executed along with the 1916 Rising leaders only he was born in America.
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POPSThe CELTS by Enya
Antiquarian interest from the 17th century led to the term Celt being extended, and rising nationalism brought Celtic revivals from the 19th century in areas where the use of Celtic languages had continued. Today, "Celtic" is often used to describe the languages and respective cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany (see the Modern Celts article), but corresponds more accurately to the Celtic language family - of which six languages are spoken today (Manx and Cornish being recent revivals): Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx (Goidelic languages) and Welsh, Breton and Cornish (Brythonic languages). Only in the last two decades of the twentieth century did multidisciplinary studies come to bear upon the history of the Celts. Disciplines such as ancient history, palaeolinguistics, archaeology, history of art, anthropology, population genetics, history of religion, ethnology, mythology and folklore studies must all be taken into consideration and the
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POPSThe wail of the Banshee The stories told to me sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a woman who died in childbirth would or could become a Banshee if she did not receive a good Catholic burial.
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POPSIsle of Skye Another place that is on my "to visit" list, the beautiful Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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POPSThe Irish Invented American Slang: Jazz, Dude, The Secret Language of the Crossroads: How the Irish Invented Slang. Irish words and phrases are scattered all across the American language, regional and class dialects, colloquialisms, slang, and specialized jargons (like gambling), in the same way that Irish-Americans have been scattered across the crossroads of North America for five hundred years. Cassidy traces the hidden history of how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically, but through the gambling underworld, urban street gangs, and the powerful political machines that grew out of them. In a series of essays, including: "Decoding the Gangs of New York," "How the Irish Invented Poker and American Gambling Slang," "The Sanas (Etymology) of Jazz," "Boliver of Brooklyn," and in a first dictionary of Irish-american vernacular, Cassidy provides the hidden histories of so-called slang, and words with unknown origin—words that define the American language and culture: scam, slum, snazzy, sucker, swell, poker, daddy-o
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POPSClans: backbone to Scotland's culture "The succession of the clan chief in the Celtic tradition was decided by the system of "tanistry", an ancient law that brought members of the ruling elite together to choose the next heir. This system ensured that a strong leader was always chosen, but inevitably led to conflict and fracturing of some clans. When Malcolm III became King in 1058 he adopted the English Feudal system and also changed the language of court from Gaelic to English. To some extent this was the start of the intensification of the struggle between Lowland Scotland and Highland Scotland that was to reach its zenith in Culloden."
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POPSAMERGIN, poet from Irish mythology. Now a Clipper Amergin sang an invocation calling upon the spirit of Ireland that has come to be known as The Song of Amergin, and he was able to part the storm and bring the ship safely to land. There were heavy losses on all sides, with more than one major battle, but the Milesians carried the day. The three kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann were each killed in single combat by three of the surviving sons of Míl, Eber Finn, Eremon and Amergin the druid. Amergin then divided the land between his two brothers, Eber taking the southern half or Ireland, Eremon the north.
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POPSTop 5 Most Luxurious Hotels and Resorts just reading traveling related stuff make me to go weak on my knees: I am a self proclaimed travelist (is there a word like this?) love visiting places, talking to people, the tastes, the air special to every other place in the world...just traveling...
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POPS"I Love You" in Many Languages I like the fact that they include Klingon and Vulcan, not to mention Redneck and Pig Latin! A note to those with Spanish-speaking lovers (I learned this one the hard way)... it seems that when they say "Te quiero" it means "I love you" but if you are looking for the answer to whether or not they are IN love with you, wait for the phrase "Te amo."
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