8 Apr 1537: Quentin Cogly #Dominican, bishop of Dromore briefs Paul III that many #Irish sees are vacant, some bishops had been tinged by schism & many #English appointees were absentees.
He proposes he be constituted a roving bishop (johnArmagh)
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: `The Táin Bó Cúailnge is an epic from #Irish#mythology. It is often called "the Irish Iliad". The Táin tells of a war against Ulster by Queen #Medb of Connacht and her husband King Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge. Due to a curse upon the king and warriors of Ulster, the invaders are opposed only by the young demigod, Cú Chulainn.
The Táin is traditionally set in the 1st century in a pagan heroic age.
Source: Táin Bó Cúailnge - Wikipedia
A view of the #Irish Franciscan College of St. Isidore's #Rome from the garden side - what is now Via Francesco Crispi. Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé, c. 1818
The garden is still there & is still a lovely place to walk..
I hope to do so on Tuesday next.
7 Apr 1649: Sir James Ware important #Irish antiquarian is exiled to #France from #Dublin as a royalist #otd, but he actually made his way to #London fairly quickly (Ulster Museum/British Museum)
4 Apr 1631: Patrick Fleming hagiographer & future martyr pays 2,100 florins for the site of the #Irish#Franciscan College Prague #otd (JMcC - the seal of the college)
#InternationalMermaidDay: „#Ireland does have its own mer-people, they are called merrows, from the old #Irish murúch, or murdúchann, and were described in the Lebor Gebála Érenn as siren-like. So far as I know, they were sea creatures, and not lake-dwellers.“
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
3 Apr 1607: The Bull of Paul V founding the #Irish#Franciscan College at #Leuven issued #otd But they had to subsist - as witnessed by this licence to import fish tax-free from #Irish fishing boats anchored at S. Vliet, 1628 (now in @ucdarchives
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2 Apr 1564: b. William Bathe #Irish#Jesuit, musicologist, proponent of method for rapid language learning at #Drumcondra#Dublin on Easter Sunday #otd (eebo). He died in #Madrid in 1614.
#FairyTaleTuesday: The #bogan (buckawn, bòcan, bauchan) is a #Scottish (occasionally #Irish) folkloric figure. „This shape-shifting night sprite was a trickster, occasionally helpful but usually malicious.“ The bogan even immigrated to America with those he server – or haunted.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
RT @claudiopozas
As it is, hobgoblins still carry too much of their previous, militaristic baggage, to fully reflect the new/old origin and abilities. I'd like to see what they were like before Maglubiyet got to them and remade them in his image. (Pictured: Buckawn counter from @1PlatinumDragon)
30 Mar 1689: Richard Talbot cr. Marquess & Duke of #Tyrconnell by James II in #Dublin#otd (NPG) Talbot was architect of the recatholicisation of the #Irish establishment
26 Mar 1638: d. Leah Mawe, wife of Bishop William Bedell of #Kilmore#otd Bedell oversaw the translation of the #Bible into #Gaeilge#Irish (ECC) Their children together included William, a son-biographer of his father.
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: In #Irish#mythology, the term ‘Trí de Dána’ refers to the Three Gods of Art; Goibniu the smith, Luchtaine the carpenter, and Credne the goldsmith. Could the stone head from Corleck Hill with its three faces represent this trio of skilled craftsmen/deities, after which the hill of its resting place was named?`
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
23 Mar 1606: d. St. Toribio de Mogrevejo, Arcbishop of #Lima#Peru on Holy Thursday, not only did he baptise St Rose of Lima & St Martin de Porres but he walked 10,000kms of his vast diocese.
His cause was much promoted by Luke Wadding of #Waterford & the #Irish friars
“A poet, who had been trained as a seer, gorged on the flesh of a just-killed bull, then slept wrapped in its bloody hide in an attempt to divine through dreams the identity of the next king. Should the poet fail, the punishment was death.” This #Irish and #Scottish ritual was called bull-sleep (bull feast, tarbhfleis) and was one of the great divination rituals of the ancient #Celts. Sometimes the poet’s vision was cryptic, as when the king CONAIRE appeared as a naked man surrounded by BIRDS, approaching Tara. At that moment Conaire, whose mother was a bird, dreamed that he should approach Tara naked, thus fulfilling the prophecy.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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RT @Modquokka
To forsee a future King, Celtic tribes would see a Bard gorge their fill on flesh of fresh killed bull, then sleep; its bloody hide wrapped about them to be blessed with bull-sleep and its dreams of divination. #FolkloreThursday
Noel Ignatiev's book "How the Irish Became White" has everything to do with why #Irish people support the #Palestinians and Americans of Irish descent support #Israel.
18 Mar 1640: Thomas Wentworth, now Earl of Strafford, returns to #Dublin#otd to preside over the #Irish parliament which had opened on the 16th.
(Nationa Trust images)
18 Mar 1626: Francis Lavalin Nugent of #Westmeath, founder of the Irish Province, becomes the guardian of the #Irish#Capuchin house at Charleville #France#otd
17 Mar: A hymn to St. Patrick in Flemish. Possibly late17th/18thC From the archives of St Anthony’s #Irish#Franciscan College #Leuven now housed in @ucdarchives