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Post by trescuinge on Feb 21, 2016 18:19:38 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Feb 27, 2016 14:18:47 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 27, 2016 15:11:39 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Feb 27, 2016 15:48:19 GMT -5
Was Lovecraft of Welsh descent?
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Post by deuce on Feb 27, 2016 15:59:13 GMT -5
Was Lovecraft of Welsh descent? Not to any degree that I know of. Almost all English with a little bit of Irish. HPL admired Arthur Machen, a Welshman, greatly. REH brought up the fact (in WT) that HPL had used Gaelic (as opposed to Welsh/Cymraeg) as the "primal" tongue in Britain for his classic The Rats in the Walls. HPL was amazed anyone had spotted that and started the correspondence.
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Post by deuce on Mar 1, 2016 11:09:17 GMT -5
A shout out to any Welsh members or those Welsh at heart. The most famous scene in all of literature concerning St. Davy's Day: "For I am Welsh, you know..."
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 5, 2016 19:43:45 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 6, 2016 19:04:19 GMT -5
This looks great. It just finished up at the British Museum and now is going to the National Museum of Scotland.
I visited the British Museum 5 years ago. I had a day but could have spent a month there.
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 6, 2016 19:17:14 GMT -5
Breton music and dance,
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Post by deuce on Mar 6, 2016 21:57:11 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 13, 2016 13:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 14, 2016 12:09:01 GMT -5
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Post by arcadian on Mar 17, 2016 21:04:09 GMT -5
Somewhat disjointed article about recent skeleton find under an Irish pub: "“The DNA evidence based on those bones completely upends the traditional view,” said Barry Cunliffe, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Oxford who has written books on the origins of the people of Ireland. DNA research indicates that the three skeletons found behind McCuaig's are the ancestors of the modern Irish and they predate the Celts and their purported arrival by 1,000 years or more. The genetic roots of today's Irish, in other words, existed in Ireland before the Celts arrived. “The most striking feature” of the bones, according to the research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal, is how much their DNA resembles that of contemporary Irish, Welsh and Scots. (By contrast, older bones found in Ireland were more like Mediterranean people, not the modern Irish.)" www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/17/a-mans-discovery-of-bones-under-his-pub-could-forever-change-what-we-know-about-the-irish/There were people and then there were other people seems to be a traditional account. Devils' in the details. Happy St. Patrick's Day.
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Post by trescuinge on Mar 30, 2016 14:34:32 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 1, 2016 14:52:43 GMT -5
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