“Fili meant ‘seer’, so it is not beyond the realms of possibility that part of their role revolved around the foretelling of the future. In fact, originally the Fili may have served many functions, such as sorcerer, judge, keeper of law, chieftain’s adviser as well as poet and storyteller.
At some point, these responsibilities seem to have been divided, with the Brehons specialising in the legal aspects, the Druids taking on the religion and ritual, and the Fili concentrating on history and poetry.“ #Celtic
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
House on Owey Island where my great grandparents Manus and Mary O'Donnell lived. Mount Errigal standing above the clouds in the background.
County Donegal, Ireland.
Prime example is the guy, Ronald Plasterk, who almost became Prime Minister of the Netherlands.. patented under his name the cancer medicine he didn't invent, then earned 32 million Euro when selling his company. Amsterdam Medical Center and researcher who did the work, got nothing.
Now he resigned his candidacy with a "I did nothing wrong, acted with integrity". And under hypercapitalism what he did is indeed normal, the norm. 😡
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: Crannogs were in use in #Ireland from the middle Bronze Age into the seventeenth century. A crannog is an artificial island constructed from brush, timber, clay, peat and stone, often supported by timber piles. Large stones were added to their edges, probably to protect them from the force of the water. The surface would have been topped with a fine layer of earth and sand. The old Irish word is crannóc, from crann, meaning ‘tree’ and óg, meaning ‘young’. It is not known if this term refers to the island itself, or the structures built upon it.
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
#Boycott as a concept and a tool of #directaction also has its roots in colonized #Ireland, when an English land agent named Charles Cunningham Boycott — working on behalf of a landowner in #CountyMayo in northwest Ireland — extorted massive rents from tenants, those unable to pay were met with violence.
A movement began in 1880 whereby Boycott’s employees stopped working …
#Celtic#WyrdWednesday: In ancient #Ireland „the role of a physician was a hereditary one. He passed down his skills and knowledge to his offspring, and often to apprentices living with the family. In later years, this wealth of information was written down in manuscripts and books. The most famous of these is the Book of the O’Lees.“
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/p/march-wise-woman-or-witch
A little tour of the Greystones coastline from my OneWheel. (Decided to treat myself to a crepe and make the most of the dregs of the good weather from this week.) :)
Interesting: I just tried following someone on mastodon.ie with an unlocked account and it got turned into a follow request.
Has mastodon.ie silenced me?
If so, I’d like to know why.
CC @mastodonie
PS. This won’t affect you if you’re already following me. It will mean my posts would get hidden from the public timeline and wouldn’t show up in trending posts, etc., on your instance. Hence “silenced.”
@jonoabroad A block is one thing (and, at an instance level, should be communicated with a reason). Shadow-banning/silencing without reason at the instance level is another (and should also be communicated). Twitter had better transparency in communicating some of these things (and allowing for appeals) than some fediverse instances.
@rolle Serbia hoilaa vasta.. Suomen kalsarijoiku on vielän näkemättä. Skabat onpolitisoinu enemmän kuin koskaan,mutta koitan kuunnella kolmannella koravala esiityksiä. Tämä Irlannin ei ollu laisinhuono näkemättäkään. Norja tähän asti IMO paras.
