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Táin Bó Cúalnge -- The Irish Cattle raids.
http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/Cooley/ ^
| 1st century AD.
| sstaylor (translation, Vassar College)
Posted on 04/16/2014 6:22:40 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
Everything you want to know about Cattle raiding, water rights, grazing rights, oppressive governments and misguided people.
Provides a nice break from the current Bundy news cycle monopoly.
Táin Bó is the base of several Irish stories involving cattle and politics, of which Táin Bó Cúalnge is but one, 'The Cattle Raid of Cooley'.
TOPICS: Agriculture; Books/Literature; Government; Poetry
KEYWORDS: cattle; cattleraidofcooley; epigraphyandlanguage; fartyshadesofgreen; godsgravesglyphs; ireland; politics; tainbocualnge
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04/16/2014 6:22:40 PM PDT
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Usagi_yo
To: Usagi_yo
Read it many years ago - the Thomas Kinsella translation.
"Why were the Pangs of the Men of Ulster? It is soon told!"
Great stuff!
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O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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04/16/2014 6:30:52 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Noumenon
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posted on
04/16/2014 6:41:46 PM PDT
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DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Is that a ping list or just a private ping. Cause Noumenon is a really cool name.
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04/16/2014 6:51:29 PM PDT
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Usagi_yo
(Islamunism = Facism + Islam : Islamunist = someone that adheres to Islamunism.)
To: Usagi_yo
Private ping to another Son of the Auld Sod.
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04/16/2014 6:55:50 PM PDT
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DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Thanks. I’m still trying to grasp nomenon part of (phe)nomenon.
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04/17/2014 8:07:37 AM PDT
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Usagi_yo
(Islamunism = Facism + Islam : Islamunist = someone that adheres to Islamunism.)
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05/02/2014 6:31:47 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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