Tis Me Thread
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This is how I got it.. bought it from a friend of mine a week ago when he got his Full Set by Andreas..Wannabe-Piper wrote:Hey Maddes!
Ive got the same practise set! Rogge Polycatel! Just wanted to ask if that is a bagcover you have for your bag( my bag is standard black, yours is green) or is that how you got the set?
Before that, I had an older practise set with a wooden chanter, lent to me by the German Uilleann Pipes Society, which had a standard black bag also.. I don't know if Andreas manufactured the older polyacetal sets (it's like 5 years old now) with green bags or if it's a bag cover, but I'll ask the friend I bought it from if you want to know
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Is that Tom Kearney in the first pic? What set is he playing?
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Re: Tis Me Thread
Hackett!Uilliam wrote:F
NAME:Uilliam hAicéad in Gaelidhge
translated in English for MI5 CIA etc as Liam Hackett
Uilliam
Hell's bellows!
We all thought you were a 'celt' and it turns out yer a feckin Norman.
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Re: Tis Me Thread
mukade wrote:Hackett!Uilliam wrote:F
NAME:Uilliam hAicéad in Gaelidhge
translated in English for MI5 CIA etc as Liam Hackett
Uilliam
Hell's bellows!
We all thought you were a 'celt' and it turns out yer a feckin Norman.
Mukade
yep thats right they came frae Harcourt in Normandy wi William the Conqueror in 1066 and got right pissed aff wi the English so William de Haket went to Cashel in Tipperary in 1172 and founded the Franciscan Friary there in between a bit of rapine and pillage.
The effigies shown here are two of four which are preserved in Cashel, now set into the old town walls adjacent to the Church of Ireland Cathedral. Originally in the Franciscan Friary, they may be the burial slabs of the benefactor Sir William Hackett and of his wife and family.
I can trace my lineage directly back to him.Thanks to some research done by the Royal College of Arms.My mothers family are more Gaelic ,MacAdaimh(Adamson) frae Inverneshire they got pissed aff wi being harassed for being Calvinists so went to Athlone in 1638 and stayed there since.My GUncle George was Brigadier General wi the free State Army after a very active career wi the IRA in the Tan War.There is a memorial to him in Athlone and Athlone Castle was renamed after him.He was one of the 1st killed in the war of independance in 1922.My Grandad Willie(Pepper) formed the famous Moate Ceilidhe Band.
Which just goes to shew ye that there is no such thing as a "Celt".Celtic being a language common to many different tribes and long before any such thing as nationality was conceived.No one thought of themselves as Celt or Celtic...The peoples of Ireland are a real admix of Gael, Viking, Norman, English high and low born (Cromwell left a lot of his soldiers to settle..indeed most of the Arran islanders can claim ancestry back to Cromwells soldiers) Scots and on and on ad infinitum.Trade between Ireland and continental Europe and Scandinavia was brisk.I think there would be very few who could claim to be pure Irish simply because there is no such thing.no surprises there...
And this is the auld biddy down the street.Havnae clue who she is but she is probably related.It was a small gene pool.
Slán Go Foill
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Re: Tis Me Thread
Funny how words exist to define something that doesn't...Uilliam wrote: Which just goes to shew ye that there is no such thing as a "Celt".Celtic being a language common to many different tribes and long before any such thing as nationality was conceived.No one thought of themselves as Celt or Celtic...
No one thought of themselves as Celt because linguistics didn't exist at that time, that was just ignorance...
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Here's an interesting articleon the Irish Celt question.Uilliam wrote:Which just goes to shew ye that there is no such thing as a "Celt".Celtic being a language common to many different tribes and long before any such thing as nationality was conceived.No one thought of themselves as Celt or Celtic...The peoples of Ireland are a real admix of Gael, Viking, Norman, English high and low born (Cromwell left a lot of his soldiers to settle..indeed most of the Arran islanders can claim ancestry back to Cromwells soldiers) Scots and on and on ad infinitum.Trade between Ireland and continental Europe and Scandinavia was brisk.I think there would be very few who could claim to be pure Irish simply because there is no such thing.no surprises there...
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Re: Tis Me Thread
And don't forget The Basques:The peoples of Ireland are a real admix of Gael, Viking, Norman, English high and low born (Cromwell left a lot of his soldiers to settle..indeed most of the Arran islanders can claim ancestry back to Cromwells soldiers) Scots and on and on ad infinitum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/1256894.stm
Most of what we think of as Celts were really Basques!
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