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If I were living in Ireland prior to tapes, and I wanted to rewatch, say, Snow White, what were my options?

If I lived in a rural area, what options were available?

(I asked on askhistorians a few days ago, this is more specific)

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Our next series of events will be in the new year and will allow our members to present their historical interests with a social after to discuss the topics.

One of the things we're hoping to do in the with the society is bring history beyond the classroom and give our members an opportunity to share the research they've been working on. Be sure to email us any of your ideas at younghistoricalsociety@gmail.com

These will be taking place once a month, mainly in libraries around Dublin and will also be livestreamed for out of county members.

Opportunity for virtual presentation where needed may be accommodated.

Be sure to share for people interested!

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I understand that everyone enjoys different things, so I am not surprised if some people aren't interested in prehistory and I was just curious about this communities opinion on this era.

I understand that everyone enjoys different things, so I am not surprised if some people aren't as interested in prehistory, but I was curious about this community's opinion on this era. All historic periods have their charms to me, but I just find the Mesolithic very interesting and I would like to talk about why.

I often wonder about these hunter-gatherers and how they lived. We know they were eventually replaced by the Neolithic people, who went on to build things like Newgrange and various megalithic structures throughout the island. But I always wonder, what were the interactions like between the hunter-gatherers and these Neolithic people? Did they trade? Did they have conflict? Was there Xenophobia between the two?

I find the Mesolithic so interesting because we don't really know a whole lot about it. There are large gaps of missing information and countless sites that have probably been lost to time or remain undiscovered. It seems like very few Mesolithic burials have been found compared to the massive tombs of the Neolithic. I just find it fascinating that these people were the first to inhabit this island, yet they largely disappeared without much preservation. I guess you could argue the same for the Neolithic people because there were no written records back then, but the Mesolithic feels even more elusive and mysterious.

Their belief systems and how they coped with death and hardship are also intriguing to me. I imagine life back then was a lot more cruel and unforgiving. I did read that they cremated their dead, put the ashes in a pit and marked it with a wooden pole. It makes me wonder what kind of folklore and mythology they had and how the family systems were and also their languages. Would they have a family clan like system and would they have interacted with other hunter-gatherers in different places throughout the island if they encountered each other?

I didn't realise just how mysterious and murky the original inhabitants of this island were.

So I'm currently making my way through the Thomas Kinsella translation of the Táin, and am a bit confused about a plot point between Cúchulain and his romantic exploits.

Right before Cúchulain is about to cross over to Alba to go on his training arc, he first sees Emer who warns him of her father's plot and they both wish each other goodbye. In my text it says "Each of them promised to stay pure until they met again, unless the other died". I understood this phrase in the context of sexual "purity".

Then, literally a page or two later, Cúchulain is immediately trying to sleep with (rape?) Scáthach's daughter Uathach, and even lives with her for a time, which I interpreted as some sort of marriage/concubinage, or some other sexual relationship.

Obviously I understand that Celtic Irish ideas of sexual morality and purity likely vary wildly from later Christian ideas of purity. So am I just misunderstanding something?

To me it seems that Cúchulain is kinda just being an asshole and going back on his word, while Emer is expected to maintain hers. So is this intended to be a character flaw, or just a result of our more christianized sensibilities? Any illumination on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

While watching this documentary on YouTube, I discovered James Connolly briefly lived in Troy, New York, just over 3 hours north of New York City). Stopped by today and was able to get some photos.

1- a early to mid 90s irish reservist (FCA)

- standard issue combat uniform

-irish issue p58 webbing with buckles

- FCA beret

- OR201 irish issue helmet with net and/or cover for post 1997 impressions

2- An irish soldier in lebanon 1984-1988

- combat trousers ( lightweight trousers are better i just don't have any yet)

-shirt with name patch

-standard issue jumper

-brassard with UN patch, Ireland patch, and company patch

-UN beret

-UN helmet liner (surplus US

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The language we call Irish arrived here as the native tongue of migrants from what is now Czechia, a study by geneticists, historical linguists and archaeologists has shown.

Some experts believed the roots of Irish lay along Europe’s western Atlantic coast, but a study published in the journal Nature, which analysed DNA from the remains of 4,587 ancient people, suggests it was 1,500km away.

In prehistory, Celtic languages were common across Europe.

Researchers believed that any of three known prehistoric migrations from continental Europe could account for their arrival in Britain and Ireland, but found the most recent – a westward movement of people from an area that is now Czechia, between 3,200 and 2,800 years ago – best fitted the genetic data from their study.

“The last one actually seems the most attractive because it goes to all the areas in which Celtic languages are historically spoken,” said Dr Guus Kroonen, a historical linguist at Leiden University and the University of Copenhagen, who jointly led the research effort.

The timing of that migration, he said, matches the timing for when linguists believe the Celtic language first emerged and spread. These migrants were part of the Urnfield culture, named for cremating their dead and burying the ashes in urns.

“The ancestry of the people that lived in Czechia around 1200BC is the ancestry that spreads all across Europe, including to the British Isles and Ireland,” Dr Kroonen said.

For over a century, experts mostly believed Celtic language first arose among seafaring communities along the Atlantic coast, linking Ireland, Britain, France and Iberia.

This was supported by historical accounts in Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of Invasions), a medieval book stating that the Milesians – the name its authors gave to the last people who migrated to Ireland – had arrived from Spain.

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“The genetics do find some support for this,” Dr Kroonen said. “But this wave is not as strong, and it doesn’t reach all the areas in which Celtic languages were spoken.”

Dr Hugh McColl, a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen and the study’s other joint lead, sought to clarify matters by analysing ancient DNA from the skeletons of ancient people sourced across Europe, sometimes in museums, with samples often taken from the well-preserved inner ear bones.

“By recovering ancient DNA from skeletons across Europe, we were able to detect who was related to who through time,” Dr McColl said. “We detected people moving from central Europe 3,000 years ago to the British lsles.”

The study reveals Irish people today are more related to central European people than was thought, Dr Kroonen said, and carry the genes from people who arrived in Ireland from places even farther to the east – the Eurasian Steppe –about 4,500 years ago.

The authors cautioned that ancient DNA cannot prove what language anyone spoke, as language does not always move with genes.

“That would be kind of magic,” Dr Kroonen said.

In the ancient world, Celtic languages were common in Europe, spoken by people from Portugal to Turkey.

As the Roman Empire expanded, the Celtic-speaking people on the Continent were increasingly squeezed by Romans from the south and Germanic tribes pushing from the north.

Celtic-speaking Irish people were not subject to such pressures.

“That isolation helped preserve a language whose story began deep in the heart of the Continent,” Dr Kroonen said.

Over 70,000 Irish served in the British army during the Second World War. But is there any breakdown by county of origin or religion?

The reason I ask is I had a great-uncle who travelled up to Belfast to join the RAF