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[edit] Spanish Armada in Ireland

Thanks for the comment. It's the most interesting part of the Armada story, but only Kilfeather deals with it at length, as far as I know. I suppose national historians on all sides brush over it because their own people don't come out well. I'm trying to improve the article with maps and photos, but don't yet have the software to bring stuff in from outside WP. I see the museum has a gallery of photos - perhaps you could help.--Shtove 21:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

re the Museum - do drop in any Saturday or Sunday - If I'm not there ask for Philip Smiley. You might also consider diving associations ClemMcGann 09:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] KJAV

Dear Glem, as far as I know

"KJV" stands for King James Version
"AV" for Authorized Version

Both are identical, containing the whole Bible as translated under James I, including the "Apocrypha".

I have never heard of the term "KJAV" and think it a amalgam of KJV and AV.

Cheers anyway, Str1977 ^{(smile back)} 19:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images of LÉ Muirchú and John de Courcy Ireland

Hi there! Excellent work on the maritime articles. Thanks for getting the interest going. I was about to pmail the Maritime Museum to request permission for some images for the above and then realised that you may be connected with them in some way. My email was probably going to end up in your inbox. Either way, would it be possible to copy the images from the following page, by any chance? [1]. Pardon me if I've interpreted this all wrong :) - Alison^✍ 21:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Send the email anyway. Those images are from Inis Na Mara published jointly by the Maritime Institute (which is a voluntary body) and the Marine Institute (with is a government body with state funding). So I would have to do some asking for permission. Your email would be a useful trigger. (btw - go to that page again and in your browser click on view->source and check the author). I might have other pictures of Dr Ireland. He was a good friend. ClemMcGann 23:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear about your friend. He was an incredible historian, from all accounts. I can recall seeing him interviewed many times on RTE documentaries. I've sent that mail on - hopefully, it'll help. And yes, I checked the sources!! :-) - Alison^✍ 00:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Ali -Check your email, permission granted ClemMcGann 09:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I met John de Courcy Ireland twice, the guy was a legend. He was a social historian as well as a maritime one too you know, but I guess that much is obvious. I have a Mini Disc recording of an Interview I did with him, where he talks about his life, it was supposed to be a 5 minute interview about his opinions on proposals for a new Marina (he was opposed, as it restricted poorer people from access). He invited me in, made me tea, and the interview lasted the best part of two hours. As I said before, legend. --Irishpunktom\^talk 09:15, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I would be interested in hearing that recording. He recorded a double CD in which he intertwined the story of his own life and Irish Maritime history. It was pod-casting before that word was invented. He was totally opposed to the Marina. He focused on the old Coal Harbour. It was the last free point of access to Dublin Bay. A pressure group called CHUG was formed. All they achieved in the end was that those who had established usage of the coal harbour could continue, but future access by others would be blocked. Now if you want to launch a boat, you have to join a club or pay a marina company. He sought (and failed) to maintain free access by the public to the bay. ClemMcGann 09:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leopold Bloom

He is already in the list of fictitious Jews. I removed him from the list of Western European Jews, as that is not for fictional characters. However, I am always pleased to see constructive editors on these articles. --Newport 11:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maritime

Suggested, on talk page for this subject that you remove the individual lighthouses as there is already an extensive list I have worked on at: Lighthouses in Ireland. Already, even with the few on your page, there are synchronisation problems. I recommend you just direct readers to that list, where links are available and more are being added every now and then. Your thoughts might be best shared here on the appropriate talk page. Cheers ww2censor 23:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed ClemMcGann 23:47, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

I don't know how I came to delete those names - I'll restore them. --Newport 11:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Accepted & Thanks ClemMcGann 21:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I've made some edits to the two articles you mentioned; I hope they are improvements. If you want a substantial discussion, it may be easiest to activate your e-mail. --Newport 12:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oxter

Oxter may well be in Hiberno-English, but it has been in use in Scotland for centuries, and is probably not of Irish origin. --MacRusgail 13:41, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, however it is used in Ireland an is not in the pocket edition (which is the oly one I have to hand) 0f the OED, Perhaps we need a page on Scotts-English? ;) ClemMcGann 21:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Celtic High Crosses

Thanks for your comment, Clem! I reckon I've finished it but it needs someone with good spelling to check it out. English spelling, that is! Not US. Someone keeps editting out double letters. It's the same person who writes lite and jail.

About the Crosses- In that article I've been looking at things specifically in or on church buildings. Unfortunately, never having been to Ireland, although, predictably, me granny was born there, not to mention the great-grandfather on the other side who was a "remittance man". Well, he did alright, became the Mayor of Ballarat...... anyway, I've never been to Ireland. Maybe this year will be the year. I spose I ought to explain that I'm sitting here ten thousand miles away on the other side of the planet where everyone, including the aborigines, used to have Irish grandmothers. But now they've all got Chinese and Philippina grandmothers. My grandson has a Chinese grandmother and a quite mad partly-Irish grandmother.

So, anyway, as I was saying, if the crosses haven't got a website to themselves, then they need one and I'm not the person to do it. You'll have to do it yourself. While I write about the Daddis and the Gaddis and the Fredis and the Martinis and the Pollywollys which is going to take me a while.

--Amandajm 13:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I might just do that. I'll be in London for September. I'm interested in ships (well, vessels of all sorts really) as art objects. Sydney's got a couple of Maritime Museums. It's funny actually. There was a volunteer-run museum with a nice collection of craft. But instead of pouring money into the existent one, they created a new National Maritime Museum. I know one of the steam drivers from the Sydney Heritage Fleet quite well- We used to all go out on the Lady Hopetoun or the Waratah for Christmas parties. It was quite beeyootiful, chugging around Sydney Harbour in the evening! [2] I'm an ex-museum person myself. Wouldn't mind finding a museum job in the UK. --Amandajm 15:08, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Clem! --Amandajm 15:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gustav Wilhelm Wolff

I've written a stub; it could easily be lengthened using the link I give. He's also in the List of West European Jews. --Newport 11:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RMS Tayleur

I see you've done work on the Tayleur article in recent past. As a part of my White Star Line project, I expanded the article with additional info, streamlined sections with duplicated/redundant information, and added section headings. If you have a minute, would you mind doing a copyedit for me? Also, if I've stepped on yours or any other editor's toes, I apologize... Thanks!! Akradecki 18:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Celtic Christianity

I've no problem with leaving the Irish, Scots and Welsh lots, but the problem is that the article keeps getting hijacked by Orthodox and fundamentalist Protestant POV-pushers who want to portray the minor (and not so minor) differences between "Celtic" usages and the rest of Western Christendom as a really big deal for their own ends. It appears to have escaped the notice of the Catholic hierarchy that Columban and his very many colleagues in Gaul, Italy, Germany and elsewhere were schismatics or heretics. Even the Easter stuff is overblown; many Irish clergy adopted the standard method of dating Easter at Mag Lene in 630. It was in the Leth Cuin, Wales and Scotland that they were using the old Sulpician method. Anyway, the less rubbish there is, the more chance that the article might get turned into something sensible on the early Irish/Welsh/Scottish/etc churches. It's not as if there aren't plenty of books on the subject ... Cheers ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Bewley

Just want to congraulate you on such a well written article. I'd never heard of this amadan before. Keep up the good work! Fergananim 13:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anglican saints

I note that you claim in Talk:Charles_I_of_England that the Anglican church only have two post-reformation saints. If this is so, then presumably the claim in Charles_I_of_England that "Charles is also the only person to be canonized by the Church of England since the English Reformation" is wrong? Who was the other? How does Charles' canonisation differ from people such as Josephine Butler being added to the calendar? Did the demotion of Charles in Victorian times make him a "saint" no longer in official Anglicanism?--PeterR 15:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Reply at User_talk:PeterR#Anglican_Saints —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ClemMcGann (talk • contribs) 22:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Images

Hi Clem! I finally uploaded those images for John de Courcy Ireland and LÉ Muirchú. Took long enough, didn't it? Sorry - I was so lazy/pre-occupied/busy. We just moved to the US a few months back. Anyways - all done now!! Thanks for the help and sorting out the permissions. I'll try to hit the MII article later this week if I can - Alison^✍ 11:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Reply at User_talk:Ali-oops#Fair_use_rationale_for_Image:Johnireland.jpg ClemMcGann 11:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Clem! New picture would be nice, all right :) - Alison^✍ 11:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New WikiProject

Hi Clem! An idea came to me during an intensely boring moment at work; what do you think if we set up a WikiProject for Irish Maritime articles? Something like Wikipedia:WikiProject_Irish_Maritime perhaps? I'd be glad to do the donkey-work and set up the project & do the administrivia. We could maybe transfer over User:ClemMcGann/maritime and possibly suck in a bunch of other regular Irish/Maritime editors?? Take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/History_and_society#Maritime for starters!

Thoughts?? - Alison^✍ 20:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Reply (yes, please) at User_talk:Ali-oops#Maritime ClemMcGann 20:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Óglaigh na hÉireann.gif)

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I suppose that this is what happens when I absent myself. {{PD-IrishGov}} would have been more appropriate. however since it went orphan, being replaced with Image:Óglaigh na hÉireann.jpg it matters not ClemMcGann (talk) 17:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Margaret Bermingham/Ball

Howaya Clem. I'm just wondering what your source for Margaret Bermingham being William Bermingham's sister is? Also, what is the source for her father being Nicholas and, moreover, that Nicholas left England before 1515 (when Margaret is supposed to have been 'born in Skreen') 'due to his opposition to the religious reforms of King Henry VIII'? This last claim sounds particularly dubious for all the obvious chronological reasons. Best regards. Captain Fearnought 00:05, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Try the irish martyrs editors: Corish & Millett, isbn 1-85182-858-3, page81 ClemMcGann (talk) 21:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey there :)

... good to see you back!! Sorry about WP:IMAR but I'm run off my feet these days. I'll see if I can get some stuff going over the next week or so from your old to-do list. Anyways - welcome back :) - Alison ^❤ 01:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

thanks, the museum will be closed until easter 2009, we got govt funds for a complete renovation of the museum, but nowt for artifacts. An aside we took the opportunity to photograph all artifacts and we have a few words to describe each - are you aware of a suitable software to allow flexible searching? ClemMcGann (talk) 01:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure - what do you want to do? Put them in a database and have, like, a public terminal so people can browse them? PS: good to hear about the funding, too. Nice one :) - Alison ^❤ 01:37, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

correct ClemMcGann (talk) 01:39, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Use Free Software to do it. Load up Linux or something, put a free database on the back-end (like MySQL or PostgreSQL), and run a search engine from a web browser. There's probably already Free software out there already to do that. It'd be easy - the hardest part would be to digitize all the photos and stuff and write up the blurb. Hey waitaminute!! What about using a wiki running locally on a PC? It would be so simple to update and to produce a browsing system (read-only, of course!) - Alison ^❤ 01:58, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

a wiki! thanks for the suggestion ClemMcGann (talk) 16:50, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Curragh.jpg

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[edit] MV Kerlogue

Thanks for your reply , invite and change toe the page , makes it 1000% clearer to non ship people like myself Gnevin (talk) 22:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I just stumbled across this article through the link on Gnevin's talk page, and wanted to congratulate you on your great work — it's a wonderful article. May I suggest that you nominate it as a good article? It may need some minor polishing to get approval, but it's very nearly there. As a maritime obsessive, I think that it's great to see coverage of Ireland's maritime traditions, particularly of the under-reported story of shipping during The Emergency, and getting GA status would raise the profile of this article. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. First, since you are an admin, please delete Image:DSCF1048.JPG, I have it up again with a more appropriate name. The entire maritime story is neglected. I'm trying to put a few up, such as Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster, and others. ClemMcGann (talk) 01:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Image deleted as requested. You're quite right that it's much neglected, which may be partly why Alison volunteered me to sign up for the project :) I won't be able to much for now, but hope to contribute more later. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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