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Some Irish history

Cearbhall MacDunlainge, mighty king of Ossory, stood up to the Vikings, late 800's....

Anglo-Normans in Ireland — Vikings twice-removed....

• The motte-and-bailey, Anglo-Norman proto-castle...

• The Anglo-Norman Kilkenny castle, timewise...

• People have been in Ireland for only ten thousand years....

• Dame Alice le Kyteler of Kilkenny was tried on charges of witchcraft and convicted, A.D. 1324....

• Has Ireland converted to the metric system? — Spring 2002

Dublin is a Viking city....

Vikings where I've been in Ireland...

Corporal punishment in schools outlawed, February 1982...

IRA implements plan for decommissioning weapons — 23 October, 2001

Kabul, Ardoyne, Queens — 17 November, 2001

Rose Inn Street, from ca 1192 to 2002...

Bishop Eamon Casey, father of the Irish Catholic scandal — May 1992...

St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny...

• What's the difference between Charles Haughey and an Aran jumper? ...

• The Irish Catholic church is in deep sh*t.... — Summer 2002

• "Settled" Irish don't like to believe a respectable heritage for the nomadic Irish Travellers....

Irish pub, Korean football time — World Cup, 2002...

Irish Catholicism — hand in glove...

Irish republicanism — say nut'n.... — early 21st century

• The Kilkenny round-tower, remnant of Gaelic monastery predating the city...

Nice Treaty (concerning accession of 10 Eastern-European countries to the European Union) passed in 2nd Irish referendum on the matter.... — 19 October 2002

Rule 21 — a sporting regulation of historic importance... — 2 November 2001

• "Stakeknife" Alfredo "Freddy" Scappaticci, British mole in the IRA, moved to safety... — May 2003

Talbot's Bastion — an uncelebrated, unmarked monument in Kilkenny; a remnant of the medieval city wall...


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