June 2012
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Oireachtas na Gaeilge Cheanada 2012 {a festival...
There is an event coming up near Kingston, Ontario, Canada that may be of interest to some of you folks! Here is an overview from the event’s website:
Oireachtas Gaeilge Cheanada is a weekend filled with traditional Irish music, singing, dance, story telling, and friendship. It is a celebration of the Irish language (Gaelic) and the traditional culture of that language.
The Oireachtas takes...
Staffordshire Hoard Research Continues..... →
eadfrith:
Researchers are continuing to tease out more information from the incredible “Staffordshire Hoard” found in 2009 in England.
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found, anywhere in the world.
Discovered in a field near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England on 5 July 2009, it consists of more...
“The main error committed by those who have called the Morrígan a “war goddess”...”
– The Morrígan and her Germano-Celtic Counterparts A dissertation by Angelique Gulermovich Epstein (via primalheart)
There’s a good article that touches on this in a book called the Concept of the Goddess, edited by Miranda Green and Sandra Billington. It’s called Transmutations of an Irish Goddess...
Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador: HEEY B'Y HOW'S SHE GOIN' B'Y I'S THE B'Y WHO BUILDS THE BOAT AND I'S THE B'Y WHO SAILS HER
Nova Scotia: Let's sing sea shanties while we go fishing and get drunk
Prince Edward Island: POTATOES
New Brunswick: FUCK YEAH WE HAVE CONCERTS
Quebec: Je ne sais pas goddamn flat tire de tabernacle we want to be our own goddamn country poutine
Ontario: Nothing above Southern Ontario exists, eh?
Manitoba: Holy shit it's cold
Saskatchewan:
Alberta: YEEEEE HAW IT'S LIKE WE'RE THE SOUTHERN STATES PART OF CANADA
British Columbia: I'm sorry I can't hear you at this altitude, also want to get high?
Yukon: Look at me I'm next to Alaska
Northwest Territories: William and Kate were here heeeeeey
Nunavut: LOOK HOW FUCKING BIG I AM LOL GOOD LUCK COLOURING ME IN BY THE END OF CLASS
And what a damn fine country it is! : )
Kickstarter - Rally Around the Catskills Irish... →
fuckyeahtraditionalfolk:
heatontunes:
The Catskills Irish Arts Week needs your help!
From what I understand, it is to help the funding of Catskills Irish Arts Week, which is a summer school about Irish traditional music in East Durham, NY (in the US).
It's not the years, it's the mileage:... →
archaeologicalnews:
With British experts baffled, the huge prehistoric structure discovered in Monmouth has aroused the interest of one of the world’s leading specialists in wetland archaeology. Excitement over the wooden structure, found on the banks of a long-lost lake on the Parc…
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Two Reasons to Love Elderberry Flower {First Ways... →
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