ireland

I used to love taking photographs on a film camera, especially of old, forgotten places. Blogs like Abandoned Ireland enthralled me, with their ethereal depictions of old dwellings and businesses lost to time itself. Sometimes I think I should go back to taking photographs like that again – and...

Crikey :oops: "In 2004, a ten-year-old boy from Northern Ireland found an Ouija board. Discarded by a river in County Derry, the object was cursed, and proceeded to invite a throned demon called Tyrannus into the boy's life. Hellish visions, paranormal poltergeist activity, and -- ultimately --...

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It’s not every day that fishermen find the remains of a rocket stuck in their net. However, that is precisely what happened to a group of Cork fishermen earlier this year. Remarkably, the origins of the rocket are still shrouded in mystery as the launch it was thought to have been from has since...

A pouca, or in Irish púca, usually refers to a magical being--a "water sprite,” or "mischievous fairy”--a word adapted by Shakespeare for his character Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. [It is said that this] air is about the death of one such spirit. There is a story that this tune was heard by...

Missing medieval manuscripts. Just 300 out of thousands of medieval Irish-language manuscripts still exist Lavishly illustrated German manuscript containing the Arthurian romance of Wigalois. Picture: Leiden, University Library THU, 17 FEB, 2022 - 19:00 MICHELLE MCGLYNN Thousands of medieval...

I got reminded about this U/L fron the supermarket/train code video I dropped in Good Stuff Online and figured it could do with it's own thread... I know it's come up here in passing before but I'm going way back and don't recall it being explored. The story is that Irish pubs in the UK cira...

Irish History (Fin) ‏@irishhistory 5h5 hours ago My new book will be launched in the Cobblestone Pub, Smithfield, Dublin 7, tonight, 19 May, at 7.30 - speakers, singers and a great night. In the late summer of 1348, the greatest killer in recorded history – the Black Death – struck Ireland...

Dublin Horror Society This is a group for any Horror Movie Fans to get together and see the latest Horror films in Cinemas, and maybe even get together for a few drinks after the movie. Also any other Horror related activities welcome too! http://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Horror-Society/ You can...

Spontaneous Human Gallstones? All accounts of spontaneous human combustion follow the same pattern, and I'm surprised nobody's noticed a simple connection. Here's an experiment. Take a large dinnerplate and place a few small articles on it made of wood, plastic, paper, etc. Place a cocktail...

Maybe this should go in New Science but I think I'll park it here.

Falmouth and its pyramid 11:10am Saturday 22nd August 2009 By Stephen Ivall Pyramids throughout Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly feature strongly among almost 200 pyramids across Britain and Ireland that are featured in the first book on the subject, ‘Up to a Point’ which has just been...

Read this on BT Yahoo news and thought others might find it interesting too: *As an aside, I hadn't heard that statement before. Is it well known and I just missed it?!

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Does anyone have any, especialy in the Cork or Munster area?