Vox Hiberionacum

Is there anything to be said for saying another mass?

@DrCiaranMcDonn God only knows. Keating is the OG Enya of Irish Prehistory. I have always been partial to the 17thC criticism of his work as "an ill digested heap of very silly fictions".

A question for @ChronHib @VoxHib and other early med/early modern Ireland scholars. Is Geoffrey Keating saying that the Fire of Tlachtga festival began at Samhain, rather than the #Samhain festival itself began at Tlachtga?

Feckin Morto.

@urbanprehisto Im so sorry. Some of us are absolutely mortified.

Is the new Visit Ireland advert suggesting Halloween was invented in Ireland in the Neolithic?!

About time. The Romans have been waiting 2000 years.

That rising moon is so red, a gaggle of druids in a passing chariot just gave me the finger.

Saddened to hear of death of Prof David Dumville. Someone who I never had the privilege of meeting but who was nevertheless a huge influence on me. His work on Patriciana was and remains refreshing, relevant and subversively irreverent. Sympathies to Dr Downham.

@AidanOSulliva15 Oh I see some, but they're few and a lot still to develop. Notice blackberry bushes are the same, half of them are still red and smaller than usual. The annals would have commented on it... the birds went hungry this year.

@VoxHib No sign, you’d see the berries by now surely?

Another poor year for sloes at my usual place in Wicklow, no sloe gin making this autumn, so.. @VoxHib - how’s yours?

@OsgurOCiardha @Robin_C_Douglas I think 'pagan' as a word has done a lot of heavy lifting in the past and present. No peoples in prehistory ever had a monopoly on the lived experience of the agric cycle or traditions. Post Reformation outdoor rituals seemed very 'pagan' to early antiquarians observing.

@Robin_C_Douglas Could it not be reversed as well, that the conversion of Imbolc, via "St Brigid", and the associated traditions (rituals) which still survive are not in any way Christian and are in fact entirely pagan? (ag fanacht ar @VoxHib mé a chéasadh)

Ní staraí mé, ná baol air, ach táim réasúnta cinnte go bhfuil ⁊ go raibh tréithe "págánacha" ag deasghnátha fud fad na hEorpa...

Seeking help on an Irish place-name from Inishark island with possible origins in early medieval devotion... cloċán á coingleo @ChronHib @VoxHib

@AidanOSulliva15 @JackmanNeil @digginggardener @AskAnArchDay @ElvaBJohnston @papgleeson @Shaz_arch @JODarchaeology What Aidan said. Irl very much part of the empires frontier. They could get what they needed without invasion. It just doesn't make economic sense. Plus, classical refs to irl and its peoples are almost all derogatory and unflattering as barbarian 'others'. Not desirable at all.

@JackmanNeil @digginggardener @AskAnArchDay @ElvaBJohnston @VoxHib @papgleeson @Shaz_arch @JODarchaeology They could have easily, but didn’t - and we’ll never know why not for sure. But they didn’t invade Scandinavia either, and lots of traded Roman stuff there too. Ireland was part of the Roman world really, but not occupied

#AskAnArchaeologist great question any Roman specialists from across the sea able to answer?

Haven't seen a Spanish circumvention of an English Defence like that since 1588 AD.

We are appealing to members of the public to provide information about 2 Early Bronze Age axeheads (2150-2000 BC) posted anonymously to the Museum in June. Found in Westmeath, their location is crucial for archaeological context. museum.ie/en-IE/News/App…

@timoconnorbl What have you gone and done now?

Also. 22kg of Butter. That was a community level winter hoard that never got where it was supposed to. "Donnachadh, where did you put it?. Seriously? You had ONE fuckin' job..."

Where would be without Bronze Age Historians...

@MesolithicMe Surely there's a few boat travel ones being pitched as we speak.

@VoxHib Now fearing for a glut in railway based travel programmes hosted by ex Tory ministers!