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Month: July 2018

Irish Genealogy - Seeking Your Irish Ancestors

Seeking Your Irish Ancestors – Irish Genealogy Tourism

Posted on July 30, 2018November 14, 2019 by Lora O'Brien

It’d be fair to say that the Irish have always had a bit of a wanderlust. Which goes someway to explaining why Irish Genealogy is so popular. Sometimes, our travel has been caused more by necessity than the desire to see new sights. Although I guess if your sights at home were as horrific as…

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Beef Stew Cooking

Irish Pagan Magic – The ‘Tarbh Feis’

Posted on July 24, 2018November 14, 2019 by Lora O'Brien

It means ‘bull feast’. FYI.  “A bull-feast is gathered by the men of Erin, in order to determine their future king; that is, a bull used to be killed by them and thereof one man would eat his fill and drink its broth, and a spell of truth was chanted over him in his bed….

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Drinking Whiskey

Irish Pagan Magic – Piseoga

Posted on July 16, 2018September 25, 2019 by Lora O'Brien

A group of friends sit around a table.  Scratch Scratch Scratch. “Ah, me nose is itchy”, says one.  A few light punches are exchanged, and all is well again. Did you understand this exchange?  Do you actually believe that an itchy nose is the sign of an impending fight, and that a mock fight should…

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Portrait of Aleen Cust, Ireland's first female veterinarian

Ireland’s First Female Veterinarian

Posted on July 4, 2018September 25, 2019 by Lora O'Brien

Veterinarians have been around for quite a while now. From the Egyptian king Piyadasi, who made medicines available to animals as well as humans in 1900 BCE, and the Roman ‘Veterinarius’ who were mostly military doctors just for animals – we can trace the development of the field to the first official organisation – when…

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Worties - Irish Cabbage for Medieval Cooking

Irish Medieval Cooking – Worties

Posted on July 2, 2018September 25, 2019 by Lora O'Brien

‘Worties’ was the common name in Ireland, from the English ‘wortes’, which were vegetable greens and members of the onion family, such as cabbage leaves, spinach, beet greens, leeks, wild garlic leaves and so on, as well as some of the leafy herbs used for seasonings, like borage, parsley, and sage. When cooked together with…

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