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Posts Tagged ‘Technorati’ County Armagh: A look at Bandit Country (BloodSpite’s Note: I originally wrote this in March of 2011. I’ve republished here for this years Irish Heritage celebration. I hope you enjoy!) I’ve mentioned before that my family hails from County Armagh. However, my family does not align itself with the Ulsters. It’s one of the reasons we left Ireland in the 1940′s my grandfather having had enough of the frictions between the North and South, “We were all Irish, dammit.” he would often curse in his latter years with a shake of his head. This post isn’t about politics however, it’s more about a place that politics happened. A Barker St Adventure: The case of the damaged wall It was early morning on Barker Street as Watson coming strolling up to his flat mate. “I say! Sherlock ol boy! What the devil has happened to your wall?” Sherlock looked nonchalant “Well, after consuming a mixture of cocaine and heroin I borrowed your Webley and….” “Oh, stop it man!,” Watson interrupted. “I’m a war veteran for goodness sake. That wall looks like its been positively eaten! No weapon could possibly do that sort of damage! Miss Hudson will positively have kittens!” “Mmmm, kittens…,” Sherlock with a delicious look in his eyes. “Holmes! How could you possibly think of kittens at a time like this!” Watson exclaimed. “Quite easy really. I’m hungry!” The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & Gang (And be sure to hit the Play button for some ambiance!) With all respect to Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as to Cumberbatch and Freeman, I think I finally found a way to spur my blogging back to normalcy. Sure the world didn’t end when I started slacking. However, it may experience a momentary lapse in dignity now that I’m trying to begin again. Ladies and gentlemen allow me to present to you the residents of 221A, 221B and 221C Ba(r)ker St. The new guys I feel a bit sanctimonious posting about new dogs immediately after the loss of Huck. The problem, unfortunately is more one of a lack of blogging on my part rather than one of poor intent. I’m trying to make it a point of posting more, but where as before I felt inspired, angry at the world in some cases, and otherwise driven to add my voice to deluge of people shouting against the whiles of the world, these days I find myself more often shaking my head in disgust and walking away. At any rate a more pleasurable topic. As of yesterday, Sherlock, Watson and Mary arrived at An Dun. It’s hard to say whom was more excited us or the pups. Training has begun, but not in earnest. I need to acquire three cages as the ones we initially procured are not going to be sufficient in anyway. That said we are all extremely excited to have the rug rats I need to start with a couple of hat tips. First a big shout out got to the Baxter County Arkansas Animal control whose adoption process was not only painless but enthusiastic. The only downside to their operation is it is a “kill shelter” but I also understand why they don’t feel they have a choice starting with the funding just inst there. They rely on folks like me who want a pet and who aren’t looking for something with a pedigree 90 miles long. We want a family member, not a paper trail and the staff there was more than excited to assist us. I cant say enough about these folks who I spoke to via phone and E-mail almost on a every other day basis. Next All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Mountain Home, Arkansas. They not only spayed and neutered the new additions to our home, they treated them for worms, distemper, rabies and fleas. They didn’t break the bank doing it either. For someone who wants to adopt an animal the process that Baxter and All Creatures has set up is not just reasonable its a medical god send frankly as your pet has damn near everything you need before you walk out the door without costing you a fortune. You folks are awesome. Lastly Dr Sherman at Oak View Animal Clinic. Dr. Sherman has had the misfortune of being with us through loss. She will now get to be work with us through the good fortune of life. We like her and her staff, the fact they have different payment options in a medical area that’s cost can quickly become exorbitant is beyond helpful and the fact that she is beyond competent is frankly an added bonus. It’s nice to have An Dun filled with the sounds of canines again. The Last Confederate Surrender I wrote this just before my wedding. June 12, 2004 at our sister site of Techography.com. I’m republishing it here both for posterity, and because this weekend is my wife and I’s eight year anniversary. I look back now and I can see a visible difference in my writing. I can also see a difference in myself. That’s for another time, however. Bear in mind this was written several years ago so the phrasing is appropriate. I did not post that weekend. I will not be posting this one. Somethings are worth celebrating privately. History tells us that that June 23, 1865 was the date the last Confederate General Surrendered his command. I”m afraid its just not so. The real date is June 12, 2004. Thats the date I surrender (I”m a former 18th Georgia Infantry Re-enactor) my freedom to a Northern born individual, a former Union Re-enactor for the 155th Irish of Western New York. The Battle for Fox Green Beach This story was originally written by me at our sister site Techography.com June 5th, 2006. As so many of my work, the original article is no longer in the archives there. I republished it here in May of 2010. I bring it back around every June as a remembrance to the D-Day Invasion and for those whom have gone before. It’s that time of year again, to bring it back to the front page. The time to Remember. Always, Remember.-BS I mentioned before I owned a picture of that painting. (You can too But mine has more history as I got mine from the now dissolved Navy Aviation Ordnance School out of Oceania, VA.) I received it from my father, a US Naval veteran, at age 7. It has hung on walls in my homes ever since, and in my bedroom as a lad. I never knew that years later I would be inspired to write about those units, that beach, that day. Maybe he did. Water. My father and uncles told me once that at sea the ship becomes an island, and the water becomes all encompassing. It surrounds the Landing craft, reminds you of that old poem “Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink…” The wind is cold, the spray is miserable. The clothes are soaked through, and the landing craft is pitching and yawing like a kite in a windstorm. The boys vomit from the roller-coaster affects of the seas and smashing waves that jar your teeth out of your head. The place, is Normandy, the beach is Fox Green. Welcome to the Invasion Green River Every year since 1962, the Chicago River has been dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick’s day. Nowadays, both the dyeing and a big parade take place the Saturday before the 17th. (Next year, they’ll coincide when the 17th falls on a Saturday.) It’s a uniquely Chicago tradition that tips its hat to the central role the Irish have played in the city’s history. For a few hours every year, the architectural landmarks that line the Chicago River acquire an aquatic front yard that’s as vibrant as the neon green relish of a genuine Chicago hot dog. The actual dye is orange. It turns green when it’s churned into the water. The discovery of this phenomenom was made by members of Chicago’s pipefitters union back in 1962, and the union has been dyeing the river for St. Pat’s ever since. The natural green of the river can be seen to the right, awaiting its transformation into the hypergreen to the left. 1962, over 100 pounds of dye were dumped into the river, leaving it green for days. Now, only 40 pounds are dispersed, but because the river was reversed to run backwards away from the lake, even one day later, the entire river for many blocks to the west remains a single shamrock-colored fairway. Chicago’s mania for St. Patrick’s green is pervasive. Above is the fountain in Daley Plaza. St. Patricks Day: About St. Patrick and his Day I first published this at Techography on March 17, 2007. I’ve reposted it here for posterity and your reading pleasure!- BS I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for father the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a priest, of the settlement [vicus] of Bannavem Taburniae; he had a small villa nearby where I was taken captive. I was at that time about sixteen years of age. I did not, indeed, know the true God; and I was taken into captivity in Ireland with many thousands of people, according to our deserts, for quite drawn away from God, we did not keep his precepts, nor were we obedient to our priests who used to remind us of our salvation. And the Lord brought down on us the fury of his being and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth, where I, in my smallness, am now to be found among foreigners. St. Patrick, The Confessio The person who was to become St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Wales about AD 385. His given name was Maewyn Succat, and he almost didn’t get the job of bishop of Ireland because he lacked the required scholarship. Far from being a saint, until he was 16, he considered himself a pagan. At that age, he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village. During his captivity, he became closer to God. Easter Rising: The Beginning of the Troubles This story was first published by myself on March 3rd 2007 at Techography. I republished it here in 2010. – BloodSpite On Easter Monday, shortly after noon, Patrick Pearse and a band of ill armed and ill prepared poets and romantic patriots rose in rebellion took control of the General Post Office incentral Dublin and several other strategic sites around the city. The Irish Republic was proclaimed in Dublin, and the insurgent Tricolour suddenly broke upon startled eyes flying from the flagstaff above the General Post Office in the very heart of the Irish capital. The Fields of Athenry I first wrote this back in 2010. I have reposted it for our Irish Heritage Month – BloodSpite Without a doubt this is my most favored Irish song. It’s not really traditional, having been written in the late 1970′s. However, the story behind is as saddening as the lyrics. More after the Jump The Orangemen of Ulster (I first posted this on March 10, 2007 at Techography.com it has been reprinted here for posterity and your enjoyment) The Orangemen are a peculiar amalgam of history, anger, controversy, patriotism, and pain. It was founded in the same County that my own family heralds from… Armagh. It’s no surprise that we settled in Ellijay then, the Apple Capital of Georgia. The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal organization based predominantly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the Commonwealth, Canada and in the United States. The Blood of Cú Chulainn This one is a fairly new one, as it was just written in 2010. As with our other March stories we thought we’d share it once again! – BS 2013 UPDATE: Video corrected Irish history is more than just words on paper. Like so many civilizations past we tend to put our stories, our mythos in to song. Many have heard the songs of Ireland and found them any array of reactions from distinctive, to beautiful, to addictive. Music is not merely a form of expression for the Irish. It’s a way of reliving our past, and it is probably one of the few mediums in which blood has not been shade amongst ourselves. The son of the god Lugh and Deichtine, Cú Chulainn was originally named Sétanta . He gained his better-known name, Cú Chulainn, as a child after he killed Culann’s fierce guard-dog in self-defense, and offered to take its place until a replacement could be reared. This is a story oft told me as a young lad More on Cú Chulainn after the jump The Protestor, or the Blackbird? Managed to get my hands on yet another good SR-71 story this week. Enjoy! Cloch na Blarnan: The Blarney Stone (I first wrote this March of 2011. I’ve reposted it this month for our Irish Heritage celebration. Enjoy! – BS) It’s been said that we Irish are blessed with the “gift of Blarney” or gift of speech. Which is why we make such great story tellers, writers, authors, poets and actresses. Renowned for such wit and humor as that which came from the likes of Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and others. For we Irish, words and language are so very important… My grandfather once told me that if a picture is worth 1,000 words then it takes 1,000 words to paint a picture. But this Irish gift of wit doesn’t come out of thin air, so the legends say, but rather from solid stone! St. Patricks Day: About St. Patrick and his Day I first published this at Techography on March 17, 2007. I reposted it here in 2010 for posterity and your reading pleasure! I imagine it will be a yearly thing- BS I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for father the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a priest, of the settlement [vicus] of Bannavem Taburniae; he had a small villa nearby where I was taken captive. I was at that time about sixteen years of age. I did not, indeed, know the true God; and I was taken into captivity in Ireland with many thousands of people, according to our deserts, for quite drawn away from God, we did not keep his precepts, nor were we obedient to our priests who used to remind us of our salvation. And the Lord brought down on us the fury of his being and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth, where I, in my smallness, am now to be found among foreigners. St. Patrick, The Confessio The person who was to become St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Wales about AD 385. His given name was Maewyn Succat, and he almost didn’t get the job of bishop of Ireland because he lacked the required scholarship. Far from being a saint, until he was 16, he considered himself a pagan. At that age, he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village. During his captivity, he became closer to God. Danny Boy (or Londonderry Air) I originally wrote this in 2010 here. While I try not to add anything to my original posts when I re-post them I do try to correct spelling, punctuation, etc. I also have a bad habit of adding new pictures upon occassion. Otherwise you should find little, to no differences between the reposted material, and the original. – BloodSpiteDanny Boy is one of over 100 songs composed to the same tune. The author was an English lawyer, Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929), who was also a songwriter and radio entertainer. In 1910 he wrote the words and music for an unsuccessful song he called Danny Boy. In 1912 his sister-in-law in America sent him a tune called the Londonderry Air, which he had never heard before. He immediately noticed that the melody was perfectly fitted to his Danny Boy lyrics, and published a revised version of the song in 1913. As far as I know, Weatherly never set foot in Ireland. Read the rest of this entry » Bloody Sunday: An apology almost 40 years in the making I wrote this in June of 2010, not long after the published apology from Britain. It was a hard time in those days, and the events and the handling of those events have only made the chasm wider over the years. This apology, I think, was a good first step in the right direction for both countries to come to a peaceable impasse. It was however, several years late in the coming. – BS Broken bottles under children’s feet Bodies strewn across the dead end streets But I won’t heed the battle call It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall Sunday, Bloody Sunday U2, Bloody Sunday January 30, 1972 The Bogside area of Derry, in Northern Ireland. On one side over 15,000 civil rights protesters against British rule. On the other, British Para’s, the cream of the British Army. In the outcome over 27 people shot, and 14 dead. This was the time of Troubles in Ireland. “… it is expedient that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely the events on Sunday 30th January 1972 which led to loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day, taking account of any new information relevant to events on that day” Resolution of the House of Commons, 30th January 1998, and of the House of Lords, 2nd February 1998 The world has changed since those days. Do not take this apology lightly my peers. Let us not return to those days of Belfast and yon. There need be no violence on this day. The point is made. They have admitted their errs. Use it to your advantage and push, politically, diplomatically for the freedom you have fought for. But if we’ve learned one thing in these past years, is that bloodshed never washes away bloodshed. Be better than that. Be Irish. A tribute to the victims: The Coffin Ships (I first wrote this March of 2011. I’ve reposted it this month for our Irish Heritage celebration. Enjoy! – BS) Coffin Ships are a rather sad part of Irish history. Originating during the Great Irish Famine, and of course the prison ships to Botany Bay. The first vessel with Irish convicts for Botany Bay arrived in Port Jackson on 26 September 1791. They were called “coffin ships,” because so many poor souls had been dying on them as of late, leaving behind widows and orphans and broken families. Typically untrustworthy vessels, these ships were purchased literally from salvage yards (where they awaiting dismantling) by unscrupulous owners who had no intention of repairing them. Sailors who agreed to serve on board these floating wrecks typically knew nothing of the dangers until they were well out at sea, vagabonds, and those desperate for work (of which there were plenty) quickly volunteered. Concerned only with profits, these same ship owners heavily overburdened the ships then insured them against expected losses of cargo. They were quite literally worth more at the bottom of the sea than upon it.
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Gach bliain ó 1962, tá an Abhainn Chicago curtha daite glas chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Faoi láthair, idir an dathú agus paráid mór a chur ar siúl ar an Satharn roimh an 17ú. (An bhliain seo chugainn, beidh siad ag an am céanna nuair a thiteann an 17ú ar an Satharn.) Tá sé ina traidisiún uathúil Chicago go leideanna a hata ar an ról lárnach na Gaeilge a bhí i stair na cathrach. Ar feadh cúpla uair an chloig gach bliain, na sainchomharthaí ailtireachta go líne an Abhainn Chicago fháil ar clós tosaigh uisceach go chomh bríomhar is an relish neon glas de Chicago madra te fíor. Is é an dath iarbhír oráiste. Casadh sé glas nuair atá sé churned isteach san uisce. An teacht ar an phenomenom rinne baill de Chicago pipefitters aontas ar ais i 1962 , agus tá an aontas éis ruaimniú an abhainn do Naomh Pádraig ó shin i leith. Is féidir leis an glas nádúrtha na habhann a bheith le feiceáil leis an gceart, ag feitheamh ar a chlaochlú isteach sa hypergreen ar an taobh clé. 1962, bhí dumpáilte os cionn 100 punt de ruaime isteach san abhainn, fhágáil glas le haghaidh laethanta. Anois, ach £ 40 scaipthe, ach toisc go raibh droim ar ais an abhainn a rith ar gcúl ar shiúl ó na loch, fiú lá amháin ina dhiaidh sin, tá an abhainn ar fad do go leor bloic ar an taobh thiar le tseamróg-daite fairway amháin. Tá mania Chicago do glas Naomh Pádraig forleatach. Os cionn an tobair i Daley Plaza.