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Dear Alisdair Not sure if I am about to help or hinder, but I think that the traditional story regarding how Loughmoe was acquired by the Purcel's can be...
sanger_keith
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Jul 21, 2009
5:51 pm
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Alasdair this was the discussion I found with local anecdotes on it, including photos of sign posts! Simon http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php? ...
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simonchadwick
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Jul 21, 2009
7:43 pm
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Dear Keith, Yes, the value of the story is more in the lexical information it presents. Some toponyms are explained by using words that are similar in form to...
Alasdair Codona
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Jul 21, 2009
10:53 pm
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Dear Alasdair Agreed, although if a traditional tale is likely to be right it can provide pointers. Anyway, as I was in the NLS this morning and had time on my...
sanger_keith
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Jul 23, 2009
12:19 pm
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Dear Keith, I'm glad you know your way around those records. I did get the reference online and intended to go in and have a look but I can safely say that it...
Alasdair Codona
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Jul 24, 2009
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Dear Alasdair Well I don't know my way around the records quick enough not to have an afterthought. I also notice that I cannot spell 'check' although I was...
sanger_keith
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Jul 24, 2009
7:59 am
1225
Dear Keith, You're right to bring up the French and Latin. The best spelling as far as the vowels of first syllable are concerned is the 'Luaghma' form found...
Alasdair Codona
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Jul 24, 2009
3:04 pm
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Another spelling - anglicized? What do you think of the 'n' - a transcription error? I don't have access to the original source, just this snippet. - Karen ...
tro_tant
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Jul 27, 2009
12:19 am
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Dear Karen, Scribes are prone to mixing up their M 'n' Ns. Even so, Loughney is an alternative spelling for Lough Neagh. I wonder if Loughmay was getting...
Alasdair Codona
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Jul 27, 2009
12:43 am
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Not just scribes but transcribers reading errors not to mention re reading the transcript and setting it up for printing and of course the ever present 'proof...
sanger_keith
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Jul 27, 2009
4:22 pm
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A chàirdean, Just forwarding the contents of an e-mail I received today. Music Network is inviting venues, promoters, musicians, ensembles and community...
Alasdair Codona
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Aug 19, 2009
4:25 pm
1230
A chàirdean, This was on the news yesterday in Scotland. ...
calumcille
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Aug 28, 2009
3:35 pm
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Alasdair, have you looked at the other roundels which also contain sequences of Is and Os?...
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simonchadwick
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Aug 28, 2009
4:12 pm
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Dear Simon, I haven't seen pictures of any other roundels, I'm afraid, being entirely reliant on the online photographs such as those at the web addresses I...
calumcille
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Aug 28, 2009
4:51 pm
1233
Here's some forwards from my thoughts earlier this year, I have not...
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simonchadwick
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Aug 28, 2009
6:52 pm
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Hi Simon, The Stirling Heads roundels...is this what your talking about?? I have been out of the loop of late... ...
Chad McAnally
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Aug 28, 2009
8:44 pm
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Dear Simon, I am not a fan of drawing barlines across the knotwork carved into standing stones myself either. If you draw barlines wherever you want over a...
calumcille
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Aug 28, 2009
10:47 pm
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The artist in me says that the II symbol is a space to separate the grounps of I's and O's so that attention isn't drawn to the pattern. That is, a different...
harpharpharp
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Aug 29, 2009
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Damn! Yahoo garbled my pretty pictures. You get the idea. Pete Wilson...
harpharpharp
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Aug 29, 2009
2:13 pm
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Dear Peter, That's a clever idea that would deal with the question of why the II and O symbols aren't doubled up and why the II symbols are almost always kept...
calumcille
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Aug 29, 2009
5:19 pm
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Notice the patterns with this interpretation, the spaces are to point out the 1101 pattern similar to Bryt Odidawg, 0010 0010 1101 1101: 101 1101 0 1101 0 1010...
harpharpharp
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Aug 31, 2009
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This is indeed a fascinating development! I rather like the idea that the II represents a third sonority. When I've tried to boil down some of the...
ckeithcollins
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Sep 17, 2009
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I came across this very interesting recording of Irish piper James C. McAuliffe - I had not heard his stuff before. The thing I noticed was his use of the...
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simonchadwick
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Sep 19, 2009
9:12 pm
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Dear Simon, Well done for spotting that. It's lovely that so much of this stuff is online and allowed to influence people. I liked the tale of the gatling...
calumcille
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Sep 22, 2009
6:09 pm
1243
Dear Simon, It appears your instincts about the roundel markings not constituting music may be founded. In a previous message to the group, I have already...
calumcille
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Sep 23, 2009
2:29 pm
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Thanks for this useful analysis Alasdair. The main thing I have felt is missing from this whole subject is a balanced analysis of the possibilities. Briefly,...
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simonchadwick
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Sep 24, 2009
10:39 pm
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Dear Simon, I see this design as a kind of European 'magic circle' and I'm not much of a fan of a lot of attempted musical steganography. On the other hand,...
calumcille
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Sep 25, 2009
8:50 pm
1246
It seems that the papers of Dr James MacDonnell are curently on deposit among the private papers collections in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland...
sanger_keith
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Oct 15, 2009
9:09 pm
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Thanks for posting this, Keith. This is enormously helpful. I was looking for his papers. I may end up going over there to look up these papers sometime...
tro_tant
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Oct 19, 2009
1:35 pm
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A chàirdean cḥir, Meala-nàidheachd air na Heymanns a tha an diugh a' cuimhneachadh an 33mh ceann-bliadhna p̣saidh aca. Bidh iad cuideachd a' frithealadh...
calumcille
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Oct 30, 2009
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