Comments on: A Celtic Chronology

By: Ceilidh

Ceilidh — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:55:14 +0000

This page is by far the best organized and best place for information on these subjects I have seen yet. This will definately help my research. “Myth is what we call other people’s religion” - you got that right! Love the sayings at the top of the pages!

Awesome work!

By: Aine MacDermot

Aine MacDermot — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:48:36 +0000

Most of this section is the work of Gerard Moran, mirrored here so it doesn’t disappear from online as so many things do. It was imho the best chronology I’d ever seen and worthy of mirroring. I’ve added a few things to it, too.

By: Peter Roche

Peter Roche — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:48:39 +0000

The correct original title of Berleth’s (great) book is The Twilight Lords: An Irish Chronicle.

Though I believe I’ve seen recent re-issues of it where they have changed the sub-title.

By: Jack McGee

Jack McGee — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:18:48 +0000

To All:
I’ve been doing some research on my grandfather. One of the things I was told was that he would recite a poem entitled “The Red Branch Knights”. Anyone out there know where I might learn the poet’s name and where to find a copy on line perhaps?
Thanks

By: N. Mann

N. Mann — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:55:51 +0000

Looking for John Rochford/Roachford Clinckett of England and Barbados (perhaps The Netherlands earlier).

By: Kenneth Robison

Kenneth Robison — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:20:36 +0000

You all have a incorrect statement in the section for the Vatican. You all say that Myles Keogh commanded the Battalion of St. Patrick, Keogh was only a Lieutenant in one of the Companies stationed at the port of Ancona. The Battalion commander was Major Myles W. O’Reilly. A brief history of the Major can be found online. There is a good history of this Battalion that was written by G.F.H. Berkley in 1929, and is titled “The Irish Battalion in the Papal Army of 1860.”
Kenneth H. Robison II.

By: Will Hannon

Will Hannon — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:59:02 +0000

The biggest mistake the Irish people ever made was supporting James II at the Battle of the Boyne.James abandoned the battlefield like a true coward, and left his army who were already in deep trouble due to his tactical blunders to their fate.The Irish themselves nicknamed him “James the shit” for galloping away from the field.
I’m a Canadian of mostly Irish ancestry (and some distant English Protestant roots) but I have to say that it’s no surprise to me that my Irish ancestors suffered(very sadly) the full force of the Penal laws for so long.The English never trusted Irish Catholics not to plot with their enemies the French(I have French roots to) against them.Over time Englishmen began to associate Catholicism with invasion by foreigners and outside interference by Rome in their affairs of state.