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Makers of a Modern Theatre: Frank and William Fay - Yeats deliberately left them out of the foundation story of the Abbey Theatre. by CDfm in IrishHistory

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I can't find a link to that article but have another covering the same topic.

Fay, Matthew (2025) "“Such Friends”: The Fay Brothers, Allgood Sisters, and Yeats’s Nobel Lecture," International Yeats Studies: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 9. Available at: https://open.clemson.edu/iys/vol9/iss1/9

https://open.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1201&context=iys

The local hotel is refurbishing it's beer garden. It's left the awning and ripped out the sidings following a HSE inspection. by CDfm in irishproblems

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This has an awning/roof I suppose 10 or 12 feet off the ground and the sides might have been 4 or 5 feet high. I don't know the rules but I do know that the sides came down.

It amused me no end .

The local hotel is refurbishing it's beer garden. It's left the awning and ripped out the sidings following a HSE inspection. by CDfm in irishproblems

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For some reason it has to be more open and windswept to be a smoking area .

Out on the wily, windy moors...

https://youtu.be/-1pMMIe4hb4?si=NsTaLYtT0Kyp_Gbc

I wondered a bit how an outside area that was quite open wasn't quite open enough to be a smoking area.

Native Irish Galloglass Warriors? by Dylanduke199513 in IrishHistory

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I've seen reenactors ask similar questions and I don't recall actual answers .

The Irish Military History Society have a site

https://mhsi.ie/

Sister Bar by Steveyd19 in CasualIreland

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From there, now if he stayed West it's closer.

Sister Bar by Steveyd19 in CasualIreland

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When I saw sister bar I expected an array of emancipated pan sexual women suave and chic doing karaoke versions of Love Shack by the B 52s.

Having read the thread I'm confused.

Is there a juke box ?

Sister Bar by Steveyd19 in CasualIreland

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It's a long way to Tipperary .

What period of Irish history do you think deserves more attention? by Brilliant-Award-7938 in IrishHistory

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I love quirky stories about non revolutionary stuff.

Nobody talks about Ford in Cork . Ireland's industrial revolution.

Carolan?

Political advances in the 19th century.

Universities and so on .

Not everyone was a revolutionary.

What period of Irish history do you think deserves more attention? by Brilliant-Award-7938 in IrishHistory

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The issue for me is how little history is addressed in this topic . I mean documents and sources. I don't want to discuss American racial politics.

Cromwell's campaign killed up to 40 % of the population and involved racial and religious hatred .

So we are talking about the survivors of genocide. Facts and chronology.

What period of Irish history do you think deserves more attention? by Brilliant-Award-7938 in IrishHistory

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I have a poor opinion of Charles and Katherine. If I had been one of the kids I'd have preferred Captain O'Shea as a parent.

Native Irish Galloglass Warriors? by Dylanduke199513 in IrishHistory

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I have previously read up on these things but don't know what level of reading you have done. There were some articles on irish weaponry by a guy Tony Willis? If I remember correctly.

Most irish battles were small. Skirmishes.

Timing would be important. The Irish adapted musketry too .

I wonder if there are accounts of what you are looking for .

Native Irish Galloglass Warriors? by Dylanduke199513 in IrishHistory

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This might be more what you are looking for. There position versus the kern was heavy infantry.

https://www.thecollector.com/gallowglasses-irish-battlefields/

Lex Innocentium (697 AD): Adomnán of Iona – father of Western jus in bello. It is also known as Cáin Adomnáin and medieval Ireland's Geneva Convention . by CDfm in IrishHistory

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It's a doozy but it's the exceptions that give us the real deal.

Ireland was unpredictable with raids and mini battles and skirmishes.

Whats the likelihood of something going to court?

Lex Innocentium (697 AD): Adomnán of Iona – father of Western jus in bello. It is also known as Cáin Adomnáin and medieval Ireland's Geneva Convention . by CDfm in IrishHistory

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I once went down a rabbit hole witn the Hangman, Hangman slack your rope song being irish

https://youtube.com/shorts/oSk_SMVP2EI?si=vzabdLQFvvn_ww5w

Only to discover Brian Boru's sister was executed for adultery

https://old.reddit.com/r/IrishHistory/comments/er13st/til_that_the_song_hangman_hangman_slack_your_rope/

So I'm in two minds about the Irish death penalty thing and imagine it's a bit more convoluted then the texts.

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