By Lacie on Saturday, January 23, 1999 - 10:08 am:
*waiting with baited breath* .. not a pleasant thing, is breath that smells like bait .. LMAO .......... Acc . when i cant sleep, i love to read the *little history* ... my occasional sleepless nights have outdone your entries into the deapths of history .... *sigh* .. give me something to read early in the wee hours of my morning .... or you will force me into all night chatting LMAO ..
By Accasbel on Saturday, January 23, 1999 - 01:05 pm:
Yes. I have been having these huge guilt trips about the lack of action.
People email me saying the nicest things.
I hope to get going on it again during February. I'll try to get back to a weekly update.
'kay? :)
By Lacie on Saturday, January 23, 1999 - 10:52 pm:
kay *smile*
By Lacie on Monday, March 22, 1999 - 11:22 am:
still waiting ... *sigh* .. story of my life !!!
By Accasbel on Monday, March 22, 1999 - 06:22 pm:
Same here
I'm afraid that the Business Story of Modern Ireland keeps me doing techie things night and day, 7 days a week at the moment.
Any short breaks are for family
*sigh*
By Mstree on Monday, September 6, 1999 - 03:45 am:
Sleep working again? If you did not get the rude phone calls interrupting late at night techie things you might get more time and in*SIGH*ts for the family. I think that people do survive without the additions...and a few subtractions have been good this year. *G* Let's see...how many guilt trips have you been on since the first of the year? I never enjoyed that kind of travel, myself...or with family either! LOL A good friend once advised me that he needed time to 'cavort'a bit in life or he began to take himself too seriously and it was a spiritual death to do so. You know what? I took his advice and it was some of the best advice I was ever given. *S* I have been busily 'cavorting' at Tir happily ever since-after. And what did I worry about last week? Can't remember...got too much to worry about today! *Hugz to Accasbel and family*~~~
By Guest on Thursday, November 30, 2000 - 04:39 pm:
what exactly was the Tanistry?was it utilized in ireland?
By Shae on Monday, December 4, 2000 - 09:58 am:
The word is derived from the Irish word Tánaiste. The Tánaiste was second-in-command to the king or abbot, and Tanistry was the practice whereby leadership of the tuath or abbey was assumed by the Tánaiste on the king's or abbot's death.
By Guest on Wednesday, December 13, 2000 - 05:27 pm:
who elected the kings?
By Guest on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 02:04 pm:
why don't you go on with the "smaller social history"?It's so interesting!
By Shae on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 02:19 pm:
According to early Irish law, any man who could trace his ancestry back for four generations could establish his own tuath and declare himself king. That's why so many Irish texts have "so-and-so" son of . . .son of . . .and so on. However, a king also had to have a certain number of cattle and other goods, and his house had to be a certain size, so not everybody who could trace their ancestry could become king unless they were wealthy enough. Kings were elected by the people of their tuath. It is estimated there were about 120-140 kings in Ireland during the early medieval period, so we're probably all descended from royalty! Francis J. Byrne wrote a book called "Irish Kings and High Kings" which covers the subject very well. I'm fairly certain it's out of print but you might be able to get it online. www.abebooks.com is a good source.
By Guest on Monday, January 1, 2001 - 09:17 pm:
had the kings any bodyguards? And did they wear a crown,or any other symbol of their rank?
By Guest on Tuesday, January 2, 2001 - 03:59 pm:
when it comes to Irish kings i don't know a thing. i do know that kings in Europe wore a codpiece(the article of clothing three inches bellow the belt.) that was decerated with jewels. this served as a dowery.
By Shae on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 09:45 am:
Judging by the number that were bumped off by their kinsmen, it seems unlikely that Irish kings had special bodyguards. They didn't wear a crown but their status was indicated by their attire. Kings were allowed wear several different colours (five, I think, but I can't remember) and they could wear gold brooches.
By Guest on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 11:08 am:
didn't the queen wear a minne, a diadem?
what was the aradach fionn?
By Shae on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 01:37 pm:
I don't know the answer to your second question. I'll try to find out.
No, queens didn't wear diadems because there weren't any queens. The wife of the king was just that - his wife (or wives). Medb of Connaught is often called Queen Medb but, as far as I know, the appelation is fairly recent. The only other queen of which I'm aware is the Morrígan, which translates as Great Queen or Phantom Queen.
By Guest on Friday, January 5, 2001 - 05:28 pm:
so the wife of a king was just like any other woman,wasn't she?
By Guest on Sunday, January 7, 2001 - 12:53 am:
she had a bit more power, but yes she was
By Guest on Monday, January 8, 2001 - 03:23 pm:
What kind of power had she? And what about the "ius primae noctis"?
By Shae on Monday, January 8, 2001 - 03:31 pm:
Well, she was like any other woman of her class which, being the wife of a king, would have to have been fairly high. It would have been unusual for a king to marry a woman of a class lower than his own.
By Lacie on Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 03:21 pm:
Accasbel ... still waiting.
By Celt on Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 11:58 pm:
well nobody can say you aren't patient, Lace...or persistent *LLL* Jan 23,1999?
By Accasbel on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:22 am:
Like a good docter, Lacie, you must have patients :)
By Nurseratchet on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 02:31 pm: