22 July 2024
Recently, I've been researching an area in County Limerick, Ireland, for a genealogy project, and I came across a bog burst, one of the deadliest bog disasters in Ireland. If you try to look up the Castlegarde bog disaster in Ireland that killed 21 people, you will find conflicting information. This was one of the initial articles I found:
2 April 2024
Have you noticed how in action movies, on any day of the year, at any time of the day, if you're running from someone you can always hide in a Saint Patrick's day parade? There must be something about St Patrick, that his legend is not even subject to the laws of physics, the space/time continuum bends around him. Seriously though, that's not how it works of course. There must be many cultural phenomena which are celebrated of which you could argue there's little or no way to tell how much of the story is historical truth and how much is just myth. So does it matter? Christmas is an example. A christian origin story fully laced with lots of extra-biblical and pagan stuff and for probably the majority of us, no 'spiritual' significance at all, but we all love it (unless you're the grinch). It's become purely culture and tradition. Most of us don't really believe a twelve year old Jewish girl got pregnant without the 'help' of a human man.