Time Travel Question : Medievalish 2

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

The Celts of Ancient Ireland

The first historical record of the Celts was by the Greeks about 700 BC, the Celts were a loose grouping of tribes that lived in an area north of the Alps around the Danube river in central Europe. Over the next few hundred years they spread east and west across Europe. The Celts first arrived in Ireland about 500 BC, there is no reliable information on how or when the Celts became the dominant…

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Victoria + Costumes

Queen Victoria’s blue & golden jacket in Season 03, Episode 05.

Europe, Irland, Connacht, Galway - webcam 

Connacht Presented An Irish Holiday Special at The Fallout Shelter

An Irish Christmas at The Extended Play Sessions

Connacht Presented An Irish Holiday Special at The Extended Play Sessions Fallout Shelter in Norwood MA on December 8, 2023.The group features Johnny Coe, Stuart Peak, Wynter Pingel, Michael McDonagh, and Steve Devany, with special guests that include Jerry Lehane and Peter O’Halloran from the Dogmatics, Jane Monahan, and step dancers.It was a night filled with traditional joyful Christmas songs…

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Sean Bothar (Old Road)

Follow the path of Sean BotharA haunted place where once stood homesFeel the ghosts of An Gorta MórLingering among the tumbled stones Too poor to answer the immigrant callToo weak to throw an American wakePut to work building useless wallsIn the mountains above Corrib’s Lake This old road lined with hazel and gorseFamine cottages with the family namesBears the hoof prints of the pale rider’s…

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Eva of the Nation by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: A rather bleak looking Georgian House with 8 windows to the front is titled "Killeen House (Residence of Eva of the Nation). Situated in Tynagh, Co. Galway it makes one wonder who was Eva, should her name have been Aoife and what is it like now? Photographer: Irish Tourism Association Photographer Collection: Irish Tourism Association Photographic Collection Date: 1942 NLI Ref: NPA ITA 490 (Box III) You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

Source: The Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend by Miranda J. Green (1992)

Handball Connacht Title for Ella Sweeney & Runner up for Daniel Finnerty - Well done !

Congratulations to Ella Sweeney who won the Girls U16 Connacht B Championship in Mulranny recently . Ella representing Galway beat Sarah Boyle from Roscommon in the final ! Well done Ella ! Well done to Daniel Finnerty who was runner up in the U17 Boys B Connaught championship recently in Newport . Daniel representing Galway was narrowly beaten by his Leitrim opponent in the tie breaker . See…

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Rathcroghan | Tulsk, Co Roscommon

Rathcroghan, Cruachan Aí, is known as the Ancient Capital of Connacht, where the festival of Samhain (Halloween) is said to originate. This majestic landscape is the oldest and largest unexcavated Royal Site in Europe.  The Rathcroghan landscape boasts over 240 identified archaeological sites, spanning a staggering period of over 5,500 years of human history. It is the location of numerous…

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Victoria + Costumes

Queen Victoria’s white & silver dress in Season 03, Episode 03 & 05.

Europe, Irland, Connacht, Galway - webcam 

Ireland, July ‘21

Connacht at The Fallout Shelter

Connacht plays the Fallout Shelter

Connacht at The Extended Play Sessions – Fallout Shelter in Norwood, MA. on February 23, 2023.This internationally renowned group features Michael McDonnagh, Johnny Coe, Wynter Pingel, and Stuart Peak. They were joined by special guests Stephen Devaney and Rick Danforth.It was an evening of world-class Irish traditional music performed impeccably by this talented group of musicians to the delight…

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