Travelling backroads between Kilmichael and Inchegeela, I spotted this little fellow. I stopped to yield right of way.
I had not realised that the legs were so spindly.
Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise
Often, I have seen a deceased hedgehog on the road.
Travelling backroads between Kilmichael and Inchegeela, I spotted this little fellow. I stopped to yield right of way. I had not realised that the legs were so spindly.
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![]() ‘Launderette’ was, and continues to be, one of those play words among our family members. ‘Minestrone’ is not pronounced ‘Min Ess Throw Neigh’. It rhymes with stone and is simply ‘Mine Strone’. Elsewhere an egg may be boiled, hereabouts it becomes a ‘baldy egg’ I am sure that there are a few more that will only come to mind after I hit the ‘post’ button. ‘Launderette’ is pronounced as ‘Lawn Der Et eeee’ as if to rhyme with the former Chelsea goalkeeper, Peter Bonetti. Maybe it is because of this word play, but I have never had difficulty with the spelling of these words. But if ‘Launderette’ is to be misspelled, I would have thought ‘Launderet’ was more probable than ‘Launderett’, but I was wrong. Brand Awareness, Yes |
Last Friday, I spotted this memorial plaque at the corner of Lower Abbey Street and O’Connell Street in Dublin. On Saturday, I returned to St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork as it was too dark the previous Wednesday to photograph the headstone marking the grave of General Tom Barry and his wife Leslie. |
OPTION 1 The Irish-speaker has reason to be paranoid. Maybe he needs to learn from the Godfather and keep his friend close and his enemies closer. Maybe the Irish speaker just has to keep his back to the wall. Maybe looking in two directions is not enough – he has to do a full 360 to look in all directions. | “Both - two similarly |
I tweeted a photograph of this sign when I was in Dublin on Friday. When I saw the name, I was immediately brought back in time to teenage years, to when it was fun to make play on names. Days when it was a laugh to call a house and ask for John Wall, and then Mary Wall and when told they were not there to ask if any of the Walls were there. When answer was in the negative, the obvious question was how the roof was staying up. Easily amused. Annette Curtin was a name used to liken something to see through – it gets worse. About ten years ago, I was working on a project and copied on some emails from Mike Hunt – that name also brought me straight back to teenage humour and discussions as to why not Michael Hunt or Mickey Hunt. Hugh Jarse was another such name to bring a smile back then – and now in memory. |
“slab noun 1 a thick flat rectangular piece of stone, etc. 2 a thick slice, especially of cake. 3 an outer plank sawn from a log. verb (slabbed, slabbing) 1 to cut or make into slabs. 2 to pave with concrete slabs. slabbed adj. |
When in Dunmanway last week, I took a ramble through the old graveyard off the Kilbarry Road and spotted this headstone. I learnt that there was a 1st Western Division of the Free State Army – something new for me. I could not recall very many memorials or headstones spotted for members of the Free State Army in the Civil War and so decided to explore further. IrishMedals.org has a list, in date order, of National Army men killed during the Civil War but 28 August 1922 only has a listing of an ambush in Co. Mayo in which Private Charles Sullivan died. Wikipedia Timeline has no listing for that date. Going back to my daily email from Stair na hÉireann, I still found no reference to Captain Burke. This lunchtime, I went over to the reopened City Library and quickly found the article below which confirmed that Captain Burke was on horseback and was killed from the first volley of shots at Castlemaine – which was the second of five ambushes encountered by the National Army column that day. It was interesting to see that the article is noted as ‘Passed by Censor’ – I had not realised that there had been censorship in the Civil War. Going back to the web, the report contents are mentioned in The Civil War in Kerry by Tom Doyle. Then I realised that IrishMedals.org page has the death of James Burke in July 1922 – not August. | IN “Capt. Burke who was killed at Castlemaine, was educated at the Presentation Brothers College and University College Cork. He fought as a brave soldier through the Irish war. His death at the hands of his own countrymen is deeply deplored.” |
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