#Lord of Leinster

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#OTD in 1641 – Rory O’More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O’Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh.

The Irish Uprising of 1641 was a long-term result of the “plantation” policy of Tudor and Stuart monarchs under which Ireland was aggressively colonised by Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. From the mid-16th century, Irish landowners were dispossessed to make way for the settlers and a vicious cycle developed whereby rebellion against the English government was followed by further…

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The Irish Princess and her dynastic marriage to a Norman that helped shape Europe. Aoife, Princess of Leinster -> Catherine, The Princess of Wales. The Princess of Wales is Aoife, Princess of Leinster and Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke 26th Great-Granddaughter  via her paternal grandfather’s line.

** Aoife or Eva, Princess of Leinster, played a pivotal role in the history of Ireland and the Norman expansion. She was the daughter of Diarmaid MacMurrough, King of Leinster, who sought the help of the Normans to secure his throne and defeat his enemies. As part of this alliance, Aoife married the Norman leader Richard de Clare, known as ‘Strongbow,’ on 25 August 1170. This marriage marked the arrival of the Normans in Ireland, just 104 years after their conquest of England by William the Conqueror.

Through their daughter, Isabelle de Clare, The 4th Countess of Pembroke, the union of Aoife and Strongbow forged a lineage that would shape the future of European nobility. Isabelle became an ancestor of nearly every reigning monarch across Europe. Within a few generations, her descendants included much of the European aristocracy, including all the Kings of Scotland since Robert the Bruce (1274–1329) and every monarch of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom since Henry IV (1367–1413). 

Family Line

Aoife MacMurrough, Princess of Leinster and Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Painting of their wedding, depicting the political and cultural consequences. 

Isabelle de Clare 4th Countess of Pembroke m. William Marshall 1st Earl of Pembroke. 

Eve Marshall m William de Briouze, born  Pembroke Castle.

Eve de Briouze m. William de Cauntelo, Coat of Arms

Millicent de Cauntelo m. Eon la Zouche, Coat of Arms

Eva la Zouche m. Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Lord Berkeley, buried St Mary's Church, Portbury. 

Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Lord Berkeley m. Catherine Clivedon

Sir John Berkeley m. Elizabeth Betteshorne, burial location.

Eleanor Berkeley m. Sir Richard Poynings, burial tomb.

Eleanor de Poynings m. Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland

Lady Margaret Percy m. Sir William Gascoigne 

Anne Gascoigne m. Sir Thomas Fairfax - Gawthorpe Hall, family seat.

William Fairfax m. Anne Baker - Gilling Castle, family seat. 

John Fairfax m. Mary Birch - Master of the Great Hospital at Norwich, Norfolk

Rev. Benjamin Fairfax m. Sarah Galliard - Preacher at Rumburgh, Suffolk.

Benjamin Fairfax m. Bridget Stringer - died in Halesworth, Suffolk.

Sarah Fairfax m. Rev. John Meadows - died in Ousedon, Suffolk.

Philip Meadows m. Margaret Hall

Sarah Meadows m. Dr. David Martineau

Thomas Martineau m. Elizabeth Rankin - buried at Rosary Cemetery, Norwich.

Elizabeth Martineau m. Dr. Thomas Michael Greenhow - died in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Frances Elizabeth Greenhow m. Francis Lupton

Francis Martineau Lupton m. Harriet Davis

Olive Lupton m. Richard Middleton

Peter Middleton m. Valerie Glassborow

Michael Middleton m. Carole Goldsmith 

Catherine Middleton m. Prince William of Wales

*Catherine is also a descendant of Aoife via her mother Caroles maternal line.

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Francis Crozier and O'Connell's chariot

In early September of 1844, Francis Crozier was between jobs, having gotten a year's leave from the Admiralty, and was just beginning to plan his upcoming trip to France and Italy. In the meantime, however, he was spending some time in Dublin with his family.

This meant he was in just the right place at the right time (or, as he may have felt, the wrong place at the wrong time) to experience a historic event: the parading of Repeal politician and statesman Daniel O'Connell through the streets of Dublin on a huge gilded chariot.

(Illustrations taken from the Illustrated London News.)

The ‘chariot’, 3 metres high and 4.5 metres long, was specially made for O’Connell’s glorious re-entry into the city, and modelled on the triumphal cars of ancient Rome. It was upholstered in purple silk and blue wool and adorned with gilded mouldings and decorative overlays, depicting shamrocks and stylised classical foliage. The sides showed Hibernia with the increasingly familiar national iconography of harp, round tower and wolfhound. On the back was a representation in gold of a harp surmounted by the word ‘Repeal’, summarising O’Connell’s campaign for repeal of the Act of Union. (x)

In May of that year, O'Connell and his son had been found guilty on conspiracy charges and sentenced to a year in prison. They'd appealed the verdict to the House of Lords, and their appeal was granted on September 4th, 1844. They were released after serving three months in Richmond Bridewell penitentiary.

On Saturday, September 7th, O'Connell was paraded through the streets of Dublin on his gilded throne-chariot, drawn by six "splendid grey horses" and surrounded by "a crowd of around 200,000 citizens." Several guilds were also represented in the long parade, as well as town council and corporation members and the Lord Mayor. Their route took them from the penitentiary (now the Griffith Barracks Multi-Denominational School) to O'Connell's home on Merrion Square.

If the Crozier house, which was located at 2, Sandford Place, was near where we find Sandford Parish Church today, this was a bit of a walk away. But the crowd clearly made itself felt throughout the city, because on Monday, September 9th, Francis Crozier wrote to James Clark Ross:

What think you the decision of the house of Lords, it has been & is considered here a great victory for Dan – Such a set of Ruffians as were perading [sic] about here on Saturday they say that they Dans people may now do anything as he can get them clear – I did not see one drunk man nor one that looked the least like a gentleman although I suppose he has many adherents that are so by both

Whether Crozier happened to catch sight of O'Connell and the triumphal procession itself isn't clear, but as he gives no description of the spectacle, he may not have. Accounts in the Illustrated London News bear the latter assertion out: "It is a fact worthy of notice, that there was not, in the immense assemblage, a single individual intoxicated; each guild was followed by a temperance band […]," and though excitement continued through the evening, "everything passed off with the utmost quiet."

Leinster (which includes Dublin) was a stronghold for O'Connell and the Repeal movement, but the movement had met resistance in the predominantly Protestant, largely Presbyterian, Ulster. For his own part, though he had publicly stressed common cause and appreciation for Protestant Repealers, O'Connell had privately expressed disdain for the Presbyterian support for the United Irishmen, and for Protestantism in Ireland itself.

Crozier, an Ulsterman and a Protestant, was evidently not very impressed with "Dan" O'Connell and his followers, nor with the handling of the House of Lords:

I must confess that I think the house of Lords have signed their own death warrant as a house of appeal by leaving the case in the hands of a few mountebank political Lords.

A quotation of unclear origin that's often attributed to Sophia Cracroft states that Francis Crozier was an "indifferent speller" and a "horrid radical". If she did say (or write) that, it's difficult to know what sort of radicalism she had in mind.

At the time of Francis' and his siblings' baptisms in the late 18th century, the Crozier family belonged to the Banbridge First Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church—but had, as one of "only four or five" Presbyterian families in town, taken the minority position of not supporting the United Irishmen. Later, Francis' brother Graham became a vicar in the Church of Ireland. Overall, the Croziers come off as fairly solidly establishment. And while we don't know much about Francis Crozier's politics and he may have espoused views Sophia Cracroft would find radical, we do know that he was—unsurprisingly, given his origins—not a Repealer.

Sources:

MSS 284/364/17: Letter from Francis Crozier to James Clark Ross September 9th 1844 (SPRI)

The Illustrated London News, September 14th 1844, pp. 164-6

The Croziers of Banbridge by Olga Kimmins on The Thousandth Part

O'Connell's Chariot on A History of Ireland in 100 Objects (by An Post, The Irish Times, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Royal Irish Academy)

Icebound in the Arctic (2nd edition 2021) by Michael Smith

Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1989) by R. F. Foster

Griffith Barracks (Wikipedia)

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K you can now reblog. If you find places to read any stories without links as actual text for free, please let me know!

1933

January 1933 Under Arctic Ice by Harry Bates The Floating Island of Madness by Jason Kirby The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Murray Leinster

March 1933 Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson Lords of the Stratosphere by Arthur Josephus Burks The End of Time by Wallace West The Death-Traps of FX-31 by Sewell Peaslee Wright Wanderer of Infinity by Harl Vincent Invasion by Murray Leinster

October 1933 (PDF) The Orange God by Nat Schachner A Race Through Time by Donald Wandrei (PDF) Burroughs Passes by Kenneth James Anything Can Happen! by Peter Gordon From the Wells of the Brain by Paul Ernst Don MacKinder's Model by F. S. Howard-Burleigh The Coffin Ship by Desmond Winter Hall Fire Imps of Vesuvius by Nat Schachner Ping-Ting by Charlton Lawrence Edholm Where Four Roads Met by Gladys St. John-Loe Callahuaya's Curse by P. H. Fawcett

November 1933 (PDF) Beyond the Sphinxes' Cave by Murray Leinster The Lovely Ghost by Stuart Jackson Prisms of Space by Robert H. Leitfred In the Shadow of the Tii by D. W. Hall [as by Ainslee Jenkins] Dead Star Station by Jack Williamson The Man from Cincinnati by Holloway Horn Plane People by Wallace West My Lady of the Tunnel by Arthur J. Burks Telegraph Plateau by Harl Vincent

December 1933 (PDF) Land of the Lost by Charles Willard Diffin The Machine that Knew Too Much by A. T. Locke The Invading Blood Steam by Paul Starr The Purple Brain by Hal K Wells Ancestral Voices by Nat Scachner Last Sacrifice by J. Gibson Taylor Jr. Farewell to Earth by Donald Wandrei Terror Out of Time by Jack Williamson The Demon of the Flower by Clark Ashton Smith

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The Union of the Gaelic and Normans; The marriage of Strongbow (Richard de Clare) and Aoife, Princess of Leinster by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870). It was originally commissioned for the House of Lords in Westminster but is now displayed and owned by the National Gallery of Ireland.

Aoife was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster. In 1168 her father arranged her marriage to Richard de Clare (Strongbow) in return for military assistance from the Anglo-Normans. It marked the beginning of the Norman conquest.

Through Aoife and Richard’s daughter, Isabel de Clare, Countess of Pembroke, within a few generations their descendants included much of the nobility and royalty of Europe, including all the monarchs of Scotland since Robert I (1274–1329) and all those of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom since Henry IV (1367–1413).

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Holidays 7.14

Holidays

Bastille Day (France)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Black Country Day (UK)

Comedy Celebration Day

Corkboard Day

Drukpa Tshechi (Sikkim, India)

Emmeline Pankhurst Day (UK)

Fete Nationale (Guadaloupe, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna)

Hondurans’ Day (Honduras)

International Non-Binary People’s Day

International Nude Day

International Sister Cities Day

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (Republic of Ireland)

Mad Pride Day

National Be Nice to Bugs Day

National Break Free From the Big Three Day (Bad Habits, Relationships & Stale Mobile Plans)

National Car Wash Day

National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Honor Based Abuse & Forced Marriage (UK)

National Joey Day

National La Chancla Day

National Marco Day

National Nude Day (New Zealand)

National Psychologist Appreciation Day

National Reese Day

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Pandemonium Day

Quatorze Juillet (France)

Sage Plant Day (French Republic)

Shark Awareness Day

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SpongeBob Day

Sunflower Day (Japan)

Tape Measure Day

Unaine Day (Elderly Women’s Day; Kiribati)

Victims of the Nice, France Attack Day

Victoria Day (Sweden)

World Chimpanzee Day

World Orca Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Macaroni & Cheese Day

Macaroni Day

M&Ms Argument Day

National Grand Marnier Day

National Mac and Cheese Day

Roasted Chicken Day

2nd Friday in July

Collector Car Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]

Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

Kilburn Feast begins (Yorkshire, England) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

National Motorcycle Day [2nd Friday]

Sea Festival begins (Jūras Svētki Sākas; Latvia) [2nd Friday]

Wayne Chicken Show begins [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

White Cloud’s Birthday & Tatanka (Bison) Festival begins (North Dakota) [2nd Friday thru Sunday]

World Kebab Day [2nd Friday]

Worldwide Art Day [2nd Friday]

Independence Days

Ijivate of Rikuchar (Declared; 2015; subsequently dissolved) [unrecognized]

Montenegro Statehood Day Holiday (Montenegro)

Republic Day (Iraq)

Feast Days

Birthday of Osiris (Egyptian God of Agriculture)

Boniface of Savoy (Christian; Saint)

Bona-Venture (Christian; Saint)

Camillus of Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)

Cow Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Deusdedit of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Ellegua’s Day (Pagan)

St. Ferdinand III (Positivist; Saint)

First Sermon of Lord Buddha (Bhutan)

Gaspar de Bono (Christian; Saint)

Goat Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Gustav Klimt (Artology)

Humphrey Bogart Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Idus of Leinster (Christian; Saint)

John Keble (Church of England)

Kateri Tekakwitha (a.k.a. Lily of the Mohawks; Christian; Saint)

Libertus (Christian; Saint)

Matariki (Maori New Year; New Zealand)

Nachi Himatsuri (Fire Festival; Japan)

Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (Christian; Saint)

Procopius (Christian; Saint) [Czech Republic]

Samson Occom (Episcopal Church (United States))

Whamop the Rental Magician (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 32 of 60)

Premieres

Anchor’s Aweigh (Film; 1945)

The Big Sick (Film; 2017)

The Blair Witch Project (Film; 1999)

Brazil, by Jimmy Dorsey (Song; 1939)

The Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling (Novel; 2007) [Harry Potter #7]

Easy Rider (Film; 1969)

The Flying Mouse (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Film; 1943)

Foul Play (Film; 1978)

Gunpowder Milkshake (Film; 2021)

Horehound, by The Dead Weather (Album; 2009)

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Film; 1965)

Johnny Bravo (Cartoon Series; 1997)

Licence to Kill (US Film;1989) [James Bond #16]

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Film; 2023)

Muppets from Space (Film; 1999)

The Pride of the Yankees (Film; 1942)

The Stan Freberg (Radio Series; 1957)

Venus, by Shocking Blue (Song; 1969)

War for the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2017)

The Wearing of the Grin (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

X-Men (Film; 2000)

Today’s Name Days

Goswin, Kamilus, Roland (Austria)

Kamilo, Marcelin, Miroslav (Croatia)

Karolína (Czech Republic)

Bonaventura (Denmark)

Joel, Joosua (Estonia)

Aliisa, Alisa (Finland)

Camille (France)

Roland, Camillo, Goswin (Germany)

Akylas, Nikodemos, Nikodimos (Greece)

Ors, Stella (Hungary)

Camillo, Giusto (Italy)

Loreta, Oskars, Ritvars, Selgars (Latvia)

Eigilė, Libertas, Vydas (Lithuania)

Solfrid, Solrun (Norway)

Bonawentura, Damian, Dobrogost, Franciszek, Izabela, Kosma, Marceli, Marcelin, Marcelina, Stella, Ulrych, Ulryk, Ulryka (Poland)

Angelina (Russia)

Kamil (Slovakia)

Camilo (Spain)

Folke (Sweden)

Priscilla (Ukraine)

Alton, Camden, Cameron, Camron, Camryn, Kameron, Kamryn, Ventura (USA)

Cami, Camilla, Camile, Camille, Camillus, Camilo, Came, Kaamil, Kami, Kamil, Kamila, Kamilla, Kamille (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 195 of 2024; 170 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 28 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 27 (Guide-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 25 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 25 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 15 Lux; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 1 July 2023

Moon: 9%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 27 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Ferdinand III]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 24 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 24 of 31)

Calendar Changes

July (a.k.a. Quintilis or Iulius; Julian Calendar) [Month 7 of 12]

Ur (Primal Strength) [Half-Month 14 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 7.28)

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Holidays 7.14

Holidays

Ann Hutchinson Memorial Day

Bastille Day (France)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Black Country Day (UK)

Comedy Celebration Day

Corkboard Day

Crop Circle Origin Day

Day of the Russian Post

Day of Tax Office Workers (Belarus)

Drukpa Tshechi (Sikkim, India)

Emmeline Pankhurst Day (UK)

Fete Nationale (Guadaloupe, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna)

Fish Farmers Day (Tajikistan)

Hondurans’ Day (Honduras)

International Non-Binary People’s Day

International Nude Day

International Sister Cities Day

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (Republic of Ireland)

Mad Pride Day

National Be Nice to Bugs Day

National Break Free From the Big Three Day (Bad Habits, Relationships & Stale Mobile Plans)

National Car Wash Day

National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Honor Based Abuse & Forced Marriage (UK)

National Joey Day

National La Chancla Day

National Marco Day

National Newt Day

National Nude Day (New Zealand)

National Psychologist Appreciation Day

National Reese Day

National Tape Measure Day

National Tax Day (Indonesia)

Pandemonium Day

Quatorze Juillet (France)

Sage Plant Day (French Republic)

714 Day (California)

Shark Awareness Day

Silver Day (South Korea)

SpongeBob Day

Sunflower Day (Japan)

Tape Measure Day

Unaine Day (Elderly Women’s Day; Kiribati)

Victims of the Nice, France Attack Day

Victoria Day (Sweden)

World Chimpanzee Day

World Orca Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Macaroni & Cheese Day

Macaroni Day

M&Ms Argument Day

National Grand Marnier Day

National Mac and Cheese Day

Roasted Chicken Day

Independence & Related Days

Bastille Day (France)

Ijivate of Rikuchar (Declared; 2015; subsequently dissolved) [unrecognized]

Montenegro Statehood Day Holiday (Montenegro)

National Day (Tahiti)

National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) [Sunday closest to 7.11]

Republic Day (Coup d’Etat; Iraq; 1958)

2nd Sunday in July

Barn Day [2nd Sunday]

Disability Awareness Day (UK) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Uruguay) [2nd Sunday]

Festival of the Giants begins (Fête des Géants; France) [Sunday after 7.5]

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (National Day of Commemoration; Ireland) [Sunday closet to 7.11]

World Rollout Day [2nd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 14 (3rd Week of July)

Captive Nations Week (thru 7.20) [3rd Week]

Every Body Deserves a Massage Week (thru 7.20) [3rd Full Week]

Operation Safe Driver Week (thru 7.20)

Parenting Gifted Children Week [3rd Week]

Roman Mercanus (Ancient Roman Market) [thru 7.19]

Sports Cliche Week (thru 7.20) [Week of MLB All-Star Game]

Festivals Beginning July 14, 2024

Bastille Day Military Parade (Paris, France)

Black Hawk County 4-H and FFA Fair (Waterloo, Iowa) [thru 7.18]

BVI Emancipation Festival (Road Town, British Virgin Islands) [thru 8.10]

Derry Township Agricultural Fair (New Derry, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.20]

Heritage Fire (Asheville, North Carolina)

IFT FIRST: Annual Event and Expo (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.17]

Feast Days

Birthday of Osiris (Egyptian God of Agriculture)

Boniface of Savoy (Christian; Saint)

Bonaventure (Christian; Saint)

Brian Selznick (Writerism)

Camillus of Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)

Clooties in Wells Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Cow Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Day of Horus (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Deusdedit of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Ellegua’s Day (Pagan)

St. Ferdinand III (Positivist; Saint)

Festival of Millennial Fairy Olympics (Shamanism)

First Sermon of Lord Buddha (Bhutan)

Gaspar de Bono (Christian; Saint)

Goat Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Gustav Klimt (Artology)

Humphrey Bogart Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Idus of Leinster (Christian; Saint)

John Keble (Church of England)

Juliette Wytsman (Artology)

Kateri Tekakwitha (a.k.a. Lily of the Mohawks; Christian; Saint)

Libertus (Christian; Saint)

Machelm (Christian; Saint)

Marco de Gastyne (Artology)

Mike Esposito (Artology)

Nachi Himatsuri (Fire Festival; Japan)

Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (Christian; Saint)

Procopius (Christian; Saint) [Czech Republic]

Samson Occom (Episcopal Church; United States)

Ulric of Zell (Christian; Saint)

Whamop the Rental Magician (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 32 of 60)

Premieres

All Our Yesterdays, by Natalia Ginzburg (Novel; 1952)

Anchor’s Aweigh (Film; 1945)

Barnyard Baseball (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

The Big Sick (Film; 2017)

The Blair Witch Project (Film; 1999)

Brazil, by Jimmy Dorsey (Song; 1939)

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Benjamin Spock (Health Book; 1946)

The Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling (Novel; 2007) [Harry Potter #7]

Easy Rider (Film; 1969)

The Flying Mouse (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Film; 1943)

Foul Play (Film; 1978)

Glory Road, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1963)

Gunpowder Milkshake (Film; 2021)

Hello, How Am I (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Horehound, by The Dead Weather (Album; 2009)

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Film; 1965)

Johnny Bravo (Cartoon Series; 1997)

Licence to Kill (US Film;1989) [James Bond #16]

Main Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Film; 2023)

Muppets from Space (Film; 1999)

Popeye the Sailor (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1933)

The Pride of the Yankees (Film; 1942)

The Stan Freberg (Radio Series; 1957)

Stuart Little, by E.B. White (Novel; 1945)

Venus, by Shocking Blue (Song; 1969)

War for the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2017)

The Wearing of the Grin (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

X-Men (Film; 2000)

Today’s Name Days

Goswin, Kamilus, Roland (Austria)

Kamilo, Marcelin, Miroslav (Croatia)

Karolína (Czech Republic)

Bonaventura (Denmark)

Joel, Joosua (Estonia)

Aliisa, Alisa (Finland)

Camille (France)

Roland, Camillo, Goswin (Germany)

Akylas, Nikodemos, Nikodimos (Greece)

Ors, Stella (Hungary)

Camillo, Giusto (Italy)

Loreta, Oskars, Ritvars, Selgars (Latvia)

Eigilė, Libertas, Vydas (Lithuania)

Solfrid, Solrun (Norway)

Bonawentura, Damian, Dobrogost, Franciszek, Izabela, Kosma, Marceli, Marcelin, Marcelina, Stella, Ulrych, Ulryk, Ulryka (Poland)

Angelina (Russia)

Kamil (Slovakia)

Camilo (Spain)

Folke (Sweden)

Priscilla (Ukraine)

Alton, Camden, Cameron, Camron, Camryn, Kameron, Kamryn, Ventura (USA)

Cami, Camilla, Camile, Camille, Camillus, Camilo, Came, Kaamil, Kami, Kamil, Kamila, Kamilla, Kamille (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 196 of 2024; 170 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 9 (Ji-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 8 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 7 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 16 Red; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 1 July 2024

Moon: 57%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Ferdinand III]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 25 of 94)

Week: 3rd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 24 of 31)

Calendar Changes

July (a.k.a. Quintilis or Iulius; Julian Calendar) [Month 7 of 12]

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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR June 09 

STS. PRIMUS AND FELICIAN, MARTYRS, June 9

ST. EPHREM, DEACON AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH-This Syriac deacon sang the mysteries of the Lord so beautifully that he earned the title, “the harp of the Holy Spirit.” A Doctor of the Church who is celebrated as the greatest hymnographer of the Christian East, Ephrem’s feast day is June 9.  

B. ANNA MARIA TAIGI, MOTHER

St. Columba, 521-597 A.D. Born probably in Donegal Ireland of royal descent he studied at Moville under St. Finnian then in Leinster at the monastery of Clonard under another St. Finnian. He was ordained before he was twenty-five and spent the next fifteen years preaching and setting up foundations at Derry, Durrow, and Kells. Possibly because of a family feud which resulted in the death of 3000 and for which he considered himself partly responsible he left Ireland at 42 and landed on the island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. There he built the monastery which was to become world famous. With SS Canice and Comgall he spread the gospel to the Picts; he also developed a monastic rule which many followed until the introduction of St. Benedicts. He died on Iona and is also known as Colm, Colum and Columcille.  

St. Baithin, 598 A.D. Abbot and cousin of St. Columba, also listed as Comm or Cominus in some lists. Baithin was abbot of Tiree Abbey in Ireland, succeeding St. Columba as abbot of lona in Scotland in 597. He wrote about his saintly cousin and is said to have died on the anniversary of St. Columba's death.  

St. Cummian, 8th century. Benedictine bishop of Ireland also called Cumian or Cummin. He traveled to Bobbio, in Italy, and remained there as a monk.  

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Gran Hambruna Irlandesa

«El Todopoderoso, de hecho, envió la plaga, pero los ingleses crearon la Hambruna.»

—John Mitchel, 1861.

—> Entre 1843 y 1844, llega a Inglaterra la noticia de que los campos de patata de Estados Unidos y Canadá han sido asolados por una misteriosa enfermedad.

Los barcos provenientes de Baltimore, Filadelfia y de la ciudad de Nueva York transportaban el cultivo a Europa, ignorantes de su condición, y para mediados de agosto de 1845, la enfermedad había alcanzado gran parte del norte y centro de Europa; Bélgica, los Países Bajos, el norte de Francia y el sur de Inglaterra.

—> 16 de agosto de 1845: The Gardeners' Chronicle and Horticultural Gazette informa de una plaga de carácter inusual en la isla Wight. El 23 de agosto comunica la noticia de una terrible enfermedad que se ha desatado entre la cosecha de patatas. En Bélgica, se dice que los campos están «completamente desolados».

—> 11 de septiembre de 1845: El Freeman's Journal notifica la aparición «de lo que se llama cólera en las patatas de Irlanda, especialmente en el norte». El 13 de septiembre, The Gardeners' Chronicle anuncia oficialmente la aparición de la plaga de la patata en Irlanda.

Muchas de las patatas se habían vuelto negras y se habían podrido, con las hojas marchitas. Más de la mitad de los irlandeses, sobre todo los de las zonas del noroeste —las más concentradas—, dependían exclusivamente de la patata (la avena y el ganado habían dejado de ser accesibles por sus precios).

Los fallos de la cosecha irlandesa eran relativamente comunes —aunque solo la situación de 1741 era siquiera comparable—, por lo que el Gobierno británico, en ese momento dirigido por el tory Robert Peel, tardó en darse cuenta de la gravedad.

De hecho, una semana después, una consulta del Gobierno concluyó que, aunque había habido fallos, la recogida era inusualmente abundante y podría compensar la pérdida.

Un mes después, otra consulta revelaría que la pérdida era mucho más grave en 17 de los 32 condados irlandeses. Entre un tercio y la mitad del cultivo había sido destruido.

El Gobierno encargó buscar una cura para la plaga, pero fracasó.

[No sería hasta 1882 que se descubriría que, si se esparcía una solución de sulfato cúprico sobre el protista Phytophthora infestans antes de infectar la raíz, se podía evitar la enfermedad.]

Agotadas las opciones por esa vía, se dieron cuenta de que tenían dos posibles soluciones: 1. Detener las exportaciones del grano que cultivaban los terratenientes de Leinster y era vendido a Gran Bretaña (en 1844 habían sido exportadas 294.000 toneladas de grano, y en 1845, 485.000) o 2. Importar más alimentos, a pesar de los múltiples problemas, como el miedo de los países a la plaga de la patata, que había causado que prohibiesen la exportación de comida, o la Corn Law, que debía proteger a los granjeros locales mediante la prohibición de las importaciones foráneas de grano.

La primera medida fue exigida por múltiples personalidades —entre ellos, Daniel O'Connell—, en una reunión con el Lord Teniente de Irlanda. Sin embargo, el Gobierno lo descartó al concluir que con eso no sería suficiente para alimentar a toda la población irlandesa.

Aun así, para la Historia ha quedado como una de las grandes traiciones de Gran Bretaña hacia Irlanda, aunque todavía estamos empezando.

Se terminó por derogar la Corn Law, con tal de impulsar la importación de alimento desde América para hacer frente al problema. En Westminster, los opositores de Peel le acusaron de estar utilizando la plaga para derogar la ley, o incluso de exagerar los efectos de la enfermedad de la patata en Irlanda.

—> Noviembre de 1845: £105.000 en maíz son importados desde Estados Unidos, y £46.000 desde Gran Bretaña. Debido a una ley de 1838, denominada Irish Poor Law, estas ayudas solo pueden ser distribuidas desde los asilos de pobres repartidos por el territorio irlandés y organizados por consejos locales denominados Law Unions.

Sin embargo, Peel era consciente de que no tenían la capacidad suficiente para hacerlo efectivo, así que estableció una comisión temporal de ayuda. Esta organizaría la distribución del alimento y su precio, aunque aquello no evitó que hubiese gente que tuviese que dar sus ropas y muebles para conseguir comida.

En un principio, muchos irlandeses no quisieron aceptar su caridad, pero terminaron por no tener otra opción. También se organizaron trabajos locales que, en su pico, tuvieron contratados alrededor de 140.000 personas. Pese a que los salarios eran muy bajos, lograron mantener a la mitad de ellas.

Las medidas del denominado como programa de ayuda de Peel lograron alimentar a más de un millón de personas durante un mes, aunque apenas había inanición en 1845. Paradójicamente, serían estas las que causarían el desmantelamiento del Gobierno tory en julio de 1846, al mismo tiempo que la comisión de ayuda enviaba malas noticias desde Irlanda.

—> Primavera de 1846: Se planta una cantidad mayor de patatas con tal de asegurarse de que la plaga no se repita. Sin embargo, ya en julio, la comisión envía un mensaje a Londres en el que lamenta que la previsión de la cosecha de ese año sea incluso más descorazonadora que la del anterior; la plaga ha aparecido antes y sus destrozos son mucho mayores.

El nuevo primer ministro whig —una especie de «liberal»—, John Russell, había acusado a Peel el año anterior de exagerar la situación por las pocas muertes. Su razonamiento era que habría cosecha suficiente que no hubiese sufrido los efectos de la plaga como para alimentar a la población y que no hubiese problemas, así que encargó a la Comisión que controlase la situación y repasase los efectos de las medidas de 1845 antes de implementar las suyas.

—> Mediados de agosto de 1846: Russell pone en marcha su plan en el Parlamento: la importación de alimento puede ser dejada a los mercaderes locales (la mayoría había dicho que no lo haría a no ser que se les ofreciesen las garantías necesarias; solo en Cork, Donegal y Kerry una pequeña comisión de mercaderes locales se aseguró de proporcionar el maíz con permiso de Londres) mientras que el Gobierno se ocupará de ofrecer empleo para proporcionarles un sueldo para que puedan comprar su propio alimento.

Se continuarían los planes de trabajo de Peel, aunque el sueldo tendría que estar restringido a la media local. Seguía siendo bajo; entre 8 y 10 libras al día, que no llegaban para sostener a una familia, y, por si fuese poco, el pago solía retrasarse.

Para marzo de 1847, habría apuntadas aproximadamente 750.000 personas.

—> Otoño de 1846: La cosecha vuelve a fracasar en la isla, aunque en una mayor proporción que el año anterior.

—> Diciembre de 1846: La falta de comida y dinero se traduce en que, en las zonas dependientes de la patata, la gente se muere de inanición. Un informe de Cork de la época describe cómo la Hambruna se ha vuelto tan terrible que muchos son enterrados sin siquiera «juicio o ataúd», y cómo un doctor en particular investiga tres cuerpos; dos correspondientes a niños muy jóvenes que habían llegado «a pasitos» al poblado, muertos de hambre, dando a conocer la noticia de que su madre había fallecido y de que su padre «no les ha hablado en cuatro días y está frío», y el otro a una madre cuyo hijo había fallecido también hacía tiempo, todos roídos por las ratas.

Aun así, el Gobierno se negó a permitir que la comisión de ayuda extendiese el reparto de comida fuera del Munster occidental y Donegal, creyendo que sus medidas funcionarían.

El Illustrated London News comenzó a publicar grabados a modo de imágenes de las víctimas a partir de 1847.

Mucha gente viajaba a las ciudades para obtener ayuda. Al principio, los ciudadanos eran generosos, aunque, según fueron pasando los meses, la hospitalidad fue sustituida por el miedo. La mayoría de los mendigos eran atraídos y confinados por la noche en los mercados, para ser subidos a carros a la mañana siguiente y dejados a gran distancia de las ciudades. Una gran parte perecía al no tener adonde ir.

Los niveles de crimen, de forma inevitable, se duplicaron entre 1846 y 1847.

—> Invierno entre 1846 y 1847: Solo la caridad logra mantener viva a miles de personas.

Los sacerdotes católico repartían alimentos entre los locales; la Sociedad de Amigos recolectaba dinero en América y Gran Bretaña, y un grupo de empresarios londinenses reunían dinero, incluyendo £2.000 de la Reina Victoria (y aquí está la anécdota del sultán otomano que pretendía donar una cantidad mayor, £10.000, pero no se le permitió porque «no se podía donar más que la Reina de Inglaterra», aunque, si entro en todo lo que se decía desde el lado británico, no acabo nunca).

Los terratenientes, por otro lado, estaban en extremos opuestos: algunos rechazaban las ayudas, aprovechando la oportunidad para desalojar a pequeños arrendatarios de sus terrenos; otros ni siquiera vivían en Irlanda, y algunos se llegaron a arruinar intentando mantener a sus arrendatarios.

Durante este tiempo, varios miles de personas murieron, ya fuese de enfermedad o de inición.

En esos meses, las migraciones a América en masa comenzaron (antes de la Hambruna también las había; 50.000 personas por año, pero sobre todo del Úlster y Leinster: personas que se podían permitir pagar el pasaje), hasta hasta el punto de que, entre los dos años, hubo aproximadamente 350.000 irlandeses que abandonaron la isla.

Solo el 3% tuvieron sus billetes pagados por el Gobierno o sus terratenientes.

—> Primavera de 1847: El Gobierno acepta que su política ha fallado de una forma catastrófica. Para este momento, la Junta se ha gastado £5.000.000 en ayudas, sin esperar que los impuestos puedan compensarlo. Es desmantelada en marzo para restituir una versión similar al esquema original de Peel.

Sin embargo, en un principio, el Gobierno seguía sin querer proporcionar la comida cocinada; debía de darse cruda para que los irlandeses la preparasen. La comisión insistió, entre ellos, su líder, sir Randolph Routh, que destacaba sus esfuerzos por conseguir que los mercados aceptasen el plan de la sopa, argumentando que también economizaba su comida.

El Gobierno establecería entonces las cocinas de sopa para alimentar a los irlandeses. Las juntas de empleo público fueron desmanteladas, y las cocinas de sopa comenzaron proporcionar raciones a 780.000 personas en mayo, cifra que alcanzaría los 3 millones en agosto.

La comida no era de gran calidad nutricional, y tampoco había una gran cantidad de ella. Las raciones terminaban siendo menores a las recomendadas para cada edad, aunque era algo que decidían los comités locales.

En algunas zonas, la gente era rechazada por parecer saludable, y en otras ni siquiera obtenían una ración completa. Hubo personas que terminaron en los juzgados para luchar por su derecho a la comida.

En otras, los terratenientes y comisionados locales aumentaron la ración, e incluso la duplicaban para los más necesitados. Hay registros de que, en algunas, el número de raciones entregadas excedía a la población local.

Sin embargo, hay un consenso de que, incluso con las importaciones, el Gobierno no gastó ni de cerca lo suficiente en las cocinas de sopa. En estos años, uno de los distribuidores de Belmullet (donde, al contrario de lo que aparece en el fic, el asilo de pobres no se construiría hasta 1849. Sin embargo, debido a la que Irish Poor Law solo autorizaba a los asilos a repartir la ayuda, me parece algo extraño que no hubiese, aunque fuese, algo similar) protestaba por seguir viendo cadáveres famélicos, aunque insistía en estar haciendo todo lo que podían con sus recursos limitados.

Las distintas enfermedades comenzaron a ser un problema, y era común que los doctores y comisionados muriesen también por estas.

Los que emigraban las llevaban consigo, y, en promedio, el 40% de los que embarcaban en los «botes ataúd» moriría en la ruta o justo después de la llegada.

—> Junio de 1847: Las nuevas medidas de ayuda se publican como una extensión de la Irish Poor Law. Una cláusula de William Gregory exime de la ayuda a cualquiera que poseyese más de un cuarto de acre de tierra. Esta es bastante malinterpretada, y muchos de los que necesitan de la ayuda son rechazados —los agricultores pobres deben prácticamente ceder toda su tierra a los arrendadores para poder acceder a la ayuda—, y los terratenientes la utilizan para desalojar a miles de labradores indeseados de sus tierras.

—> Octubre de 1847: Ante el éxito de la cosecha, se supone que lo peor ya ha pasado; las cocinas de sopa se cierran —solo se dejan abiertas aquellas que se consideren estrictamente necesarias—, y se depende de solo los asilos de pobres como fuente de ayuda, a pesar de que la mayoría ya supera la capacidad de personas para la que están preparados y se han vuelto nidos de enfermedades.

La aproximación del Gobierno estaba lejos de la realidad. Si bien la cosecha de 1847 no había sido afectada por la plaga, la mayoría de la gente había sido contratada por la juntas de empleo y no había trabajado en sus campos, por lo que apenas se habían plantado y, por tanto recogido, patatas.

Y el invierno de 1847 a 1848 se cobraría más víctimas que el anterior, con la llegada definitiva de la fiebre y la disentería, que se declararían como epidemias. En Dublín, se daría por concluida en febrero de 1848, aunque en muchas zonas continuaría por uno o dos años más.

Mucha gente murió por estar debilitada por el hambre y la malnutrición.

—> Otoño de 1848: La plaga vuelve a la cosecha, destruyendo la mayor parte del cultivo. Con los asilos mejorados, las muertes no son tan numerosas como en el anterior.

—> Invierno de 1848 a 1849: La epidemia de cólera se ceba con toda Irlanda (especialmente ciudades como Drogheda, Galway, Belfast, Limerick, Waterford, Kilkenny y Cork) y Gran Bretaña, sin distinción de clase social. Sin embargo, siguen saliendo más perjudicados los irlandeses; el Gobierno aún no se ha retractado de considerar el final de la Hambruna un año antes.

Durante el siguiente, el Gobierno intentó convencer a los agricultores de acostumbrarse a nuevos cultivos, y, aunque tuvo éxito en algunas áreas, muchos no quisieron hacer el cambio. La Sociedad de Amigos compraría y harían funcionar una «granja modelo» para enseñarles nuevos métodos agrícolas.

El brote de cólera pareció cesar en mayo.

—> Otoño de 1849: Vuelve la plaga, aunque no con la misma intensidad que el año anterior. Sin embargo, el invierno volverá a ser complicado por el regreso del cólera, junto a la discusión sobre aislar a los enfermos.

Los asilos seguirían manejando la ayuda, lo que dificultó determinar cuál fue el fin de la Hambruna, que terminaría de forma gradual.

Se acuerda que fue entre 1849 y 1850, cuando los asilos tuvieron la capacidad de cuidar a los indigentes, aunque la emigración continuaría (en menor medida) entre 1848 y 1852.

Los gastos durante la Hambruna fueron un total de £8 millones; £7 millones de los impuestos irlandeses y £1 millón de los terratenientes, que constituye entre el 2 y el 3% del total del gasto público del Gobierno durante esos años.

Algunos académicos dudan si el pobre estado financiero de Gran Bretaña podría haber permitido un gasto mayor, pero, a su vez, tenemos los datos de que el Gobierno estaba invirtiendo £100 millones en una guerra con el Imperio otomano en esos mismos años.

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Así que... se podría decir que la cita de John Mitchel no va muy desencaminada.

Aunque aquí tenéis los datos para juzgar.

Podría continuar con más datos sobre la Hambruna, como el tema de la migración, o incluso el preludio y los efectos posteriores (que también están incluidos en el libro del que saco la mayor parte de la información), o incluso añadir algunas de las «bonitas» citas que los diferentes miembros del Gobierno británico tenía dedicaban a los irlandeses en esas etapas tan duras, pero yo creo que esto es suficiente.

Con los simples hechos presentados de una forma objetiva —como en el libro—, basta. O eso creo.

Mañana seguramente publicaré el Glosario de enfermedades y daré por zanjado este fic.

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The images did not turn out as well as I had hoped as the light passing through the stained glass was overpowering.

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#OTD in 1771 – Birth in Dublin of Thomas Reynolds, United Irishman whose information enabled authorities to arrest Leinster Committee in 1798.

Thomas Reynolds was a United Irishman whose information enabled authorities to arrest Leinster Committee in 1798. It was as a direct result of a crucial meeting at Frescati on 24 February 1798, that Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s revolutionary plans were betrayed by Thomas Reynolds. By March 1798, the United Irishmen had been infiltrated by spies. At this time, members of the Leinster Committee were…

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Lord Carberry's Moraine at Bray by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: After the excellent detective work yesterday, we are happy to present another early aircraft for your perusal. Indeed we will keep with a "transportation" theme right up to the end of the week! Between them, Niall McAuley, BeachcomberAustralia, and Carol Maddock were quick to pin-point the three main unknowns here (subject/place/date). The subject it is almost certain that this is the Morane-Saulnier H of John Evans Carbery, 10th Lord Carbery. And probably the man himself. The place is the Woodbrook Estate near Bray. And the date is 18 July 1914 - when a display of aerial acrobatics was put on by Carbery. That is only a fraction of the story however. As "looping the loop" over the lawn of a friend's house is probably the LEAST interesting thing the man seems to have done.... Photographer: Thomas H. Mason Collection: Mason Photographic Collection Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910. Likely 18 July 1914 NLI Ref: M24/60/9 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Isabel de Clare 4th Countess of Pembroke (1172-1220 AD).  Anglo-Irish women of the nobility in profile...

Isabel de Clare’s life is largely known in detail for her proximity to people in her life during the late 12th & early 13th centuries of Medieval England.  Her parents and ancestors were of noble & royal extraction.  Her husband rose through the ranks from son of a relatively minor noble to being the man regarded as the best knight and most trustworthy nobleman in all of the Angevin Empire and a powerful statesman who ruled in England in all but name for a brief period.  In death he was lionized as the “greatest knight who had lived” and their children would either become nobles & warriors in 13th century England themselves or marry into other noble families of note.

All of this overlooks just how important, strong and capable Isabel was of her own merit.  Something her husband and indeed Anglo-Norman law at the time recognized.  Despite its male dominance, there were women capable of being major power players in the ranks of nobility & royalty and Isabel played a contribution to that.  Her life offers us a unique glimpse into a noble woman’s life during the High Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Royal Roots, Birth & Early Life: 

-Isabel de Clare was born circa 1172 AD, somewhere in Leinster (southeastern), Ireland.  From the start she was a symbolic & physical bridge between two cultures.  She was the result of a political but dutiful marriage, and her physical being would be of crucial importance in later years.

-Her father was Richard FitzGilbert, also known as Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1130-1176).  Richard would be best known to history by his nickname Strongbow.  He was an Anglo-Norman nobleman of the De Clare family.  The De Clare or Clare family originated in Normandy and came to England where they accompanied William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy who would become the first Norman King of England.

-The first Richard FitzGilbert (1035-1090) was a companion of Duke William and distant kinsman.  They both shared a common ancestor in Richard I of Normandy (932-996), Count of Rouen & Duke of Normandy.  The name De Clare was from the Norman French for a place name, to be from or “of” said location.  As a reward for being companion to Duke William in the Norman Conquest of England. Richard FitzGilbert like other Norman nobles was granted landholdings in England, becoming the new English nobility which replaced the Anglo-Saxons of old.  Richard’s particular land holding was in centered in the town of Clare in Suffolk England which made him the first Lord of Clare.  He also gained territory in Tonbridge in Kent, England.

-Over the generations the family expanded its holdings in England and in the Welsh Marches, Anglo-Norman controlled portions of southern Wales.  Strongbow’s father Gilbert de Clare (1100-1148) became 1st Earl of Pembroke under King Stephen of England, gaining control of important parts of the Welsh Marches, including the Pembroke peninsula in southwest Wales.  He also held Striguil in southeastern Wales on the River Wye, forming the strategic border between England & Wales.  

-Gilbert de Clare was married to Isabel Beaumont, a former mistress of King Henry I of England & daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester & his wife Elizabeth de Vermandois.  Elizabeth was a French noblewoman was the paternal granddaughter of French King Henry I (1008-1060) of the House of Capet.  While her maternal grandfather Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois (1028-1080) was a descendant of Charlemagne and the Carolingian dynasty of Franks.  Also, by virtue of Henry I’ of France’s marriage to Princess Anne of Kiev, Strongbow and subsequently Isabel de Clare were direct descendants of the Kievan Rus’s royal ruling House of Rurik which ruled Medieval Ukraine & Russia.  Also confirmed among their ancestors from this line were Swedish royalty, Polish tribal royalty & possibly Byzantine Greek royalty, if the debated connections regarding Anne of Kiev’s purported paternal grandmother (Anna Porphyrogenita) are indeed true.

-Isabel de Clare’s mother and the wife of Strongbow was Aoife MacMurrough of Eva of Leinster (1145-1188) an Irish princess who was daughter of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster.  Ireland at the time was not ruled by one king but was instead made up of several feudal petty kingdoms, Leinster being one of them located in the southeast of the country, a land of rivers, hills and the famed Wicklow Mountains.  Aoife’s and subsequently Isabel’s ancestry in Ireland went back to various Irish petty kings & even the vaunted High Kings of Ireland, who ruled as a somewhat symbolic overlord of the other petty kings.  This included her paternal ancestor through Brian Boru, High King of Ireland & King of Munster and founder of the O’Brien dynasty who defeated the Vikings at their settlement in Dublin in 1014, taking the area back for the Gaelic natives of Ireland after years of Viking rule.  Though Brian Boru died in the process.

-Isabel de Clare’s parents came together in the 1170′s following a power struggle in Ireland between her maternal grandfather Dermot MacMurrough & then High King of Ireland, Rory O’Connor who worried that Dermot would become too powerful as King of Leinster, so he launched an invasion of Leinster, this forced Dermot off his throne and into exile in 1166.

-Dermot’s exile took him to the court of Henry II, King of England & Duke of Normandy who was in France at the time, trying to hold together his many French possessions (Normandy, Brittany, Aquitaine, Anjou etc.) which made up his Angevin Empire.  Henry would not personally partake in restoring Dermot to the throne in Ireland, but he did authorize Dermot to negotiate and make mercenary use of some of his Anglo-Norman nobility and their knightly retinues.  Strongbow would be one of these Norman nobles Dermot would negotiate with.

-Strongbow promised to assist Dermot in the recapture of his throne, in exchange for Aoife’s hand in marriage and kingship of Leinster upon Dermot’s death, co-ruling with Aoife to give it air of legitimacy among the native Irish.  The Norman invasion of Ireland commenced in small waves as early as 1169 with Strongbow himself arriving in 1170 where his Anglo-Norman forces, some 200 mounted knights and 1,000-foot soldiers teamed with earlier Norman war parties from the prior year, they took the port city of Waterford, once a Viking a stronghold.  Here Aoife & Strongbow were married, uniting the Irish royalty with Anglo-Norman nobility in a political manner.  

-Children would of course cement this marriage with the birth of Isabel probably in 1172 and her brother Gilbert.

-Dermot’s gamble paid off, his Norman mercenaries overwhelmed the forces loyal to High King Rory O’Connor.  The Gaelic Irish military in terms of arms & armor were no match for the Anglo-Normans who sported the most high-quality weapons and armor of their day in Western Europe.  Dermot was once again agreed to be King of Leinster in agreement with O’Connor.  However, his deals with his new son-in-law Strongbow & the other Anglo-Normans unintentionally and unbeknown to them opened the door to the start of England’s several centuries of involvement in Ireland...  

-Dermot would die in 1171 shortly after the retaking of the kingdom, leaving his son and son-in-law (Strongbow) to claim kingship of Leinster.  His son and Aoife’s brother claimed it under traditional Brehon law while his deal with Strongbow left it as part of the dowry for marriage.  

-Meanwhile. Henry II of England was concerned about his Anglo-Norman nobles over in Ireland. Strongbow in particular had through marriage and acquisition of lands, begun a private colonization of Ireland.  Other nobles who took part in Dermot’s operation did so too.   This resulted in Henry and Strongbow making a deal, in exchange for keeping Leinster and the restoration of Strongbow’s English, Welsh & French landholdings, he would surrender the ports of Wexford, Waterford & Dublin to royal authority directly.  He’d also be required to assist Henry on campaign in France against rebels.  He was made in title by Henry II, Lord of Leinster & Justiciar of Ireland (chief justice).  Henry II arrived in Ireland in late 1172 for a six month stay where royal troops directly loyal to him took over the key cities of Wexford, Waterford & Dublin from the earlier Anglo-Norman mercenaries.  All the Anglo-Norman nobles who gained land in Ireland during the initial invasion were forced to pledge fealty to Henry II as Lord of Ireland in exchange for their right to keep their newly colonized lands.  Likewise, the native Gaelic kings were to pledge fealty to Henry II as their feudal overlord, essentially ending the now meaningless institution of High King of Ireland.  Waves of Anglo-Norman, Welsh, & Flemish colonists began to settle and establish new English towns in Ireland.  Some established relations with the Gaelic Irish, intermarrying, becoming a new cultural group which would expand, ebb and flow over the centuries, the Anglo-Irish.  Thus began a fusion of Anglo-Norman architecture, warfare, language and with a gradual cultural assimilation of Gaelic customs that began to blur the differences overtime until the early Anglo-Normans became just accepted as Irish.  Nevertheless, politically the longer lasting implications of England’s occupation of Ireland had begun.

-Isabel de Clare was born into this new political realty, her maternal ancestral homeland permanently transformed within a few years due to her maternal grandfather’s personal struggle to regain power in his homebase.  None of the the participants, including her parents & grandfather had the slightest notion of the longer-term implications of their decisions.  Isabel & her brother were, nevertheless, the flesh and blood realty of this new political & cultural fusion.  Meant in part as political bridges between two worlds.

-Strongbow intended for his son Gilbert to inherit Leinster and the various holdings in Wales, England and Normandy.  His own death came about in 1176 following an infection of the leg.  He was buried in Dublin, with his tomb & effigy still found Christ Church Dublin.  Aoife took charge of her children’s upbringing hoping to ensure their inheritance.  She was by many accounts fierce in this regard, she was also seemingly well-educated for anybody in that time period but especially a woman, a trait she passed on to Isabel.  She is also said to have led Anglo-Norman & Irish loyalist troops into battle against those who tried to take Leinster from her, she earned the nickname Red Eva.

-Gilbert de Clare, died as a teenager around 1185.  Thus, all the inheritance remained with his mother Aoife and would by right of Anglo-Norman law pass on to his nearest relative, his sister Isabel and any man she would marry.  

-Aoife died in 1188 by some accounts, this left the teenage Isabel orphaned without and without her brother.  She was, nevertheless, rightful heir to Leinster, the castles in Wales & England that had belonged to her father and paternal grandfather (Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke).  She was the 4th Countess of Pembroke in this line after her brother’s brief tenure.  Isabel, became a royal ward of Henry II personally.  Meaning he would ensure the safekeeping of her legal inheritance and person.  He entrusted this to Ranulf of Glanville, Justiciar of England.  She was therefore kept in London for her safekeeping.

-In practical terms this royal wardship was essentially a foster home for orphaned nobility until the king could marry them off to some other noble.  Sometimes, other nobles would be entrusted as their personal guardian and be tasked with arranging the marriage of the ward to another noble, sometimes to their guardian’s child or even the guardian themself for personal gain.  This would of course require the king’s blessing.  

-Isabel was described as beautiful, kind & intelligent “the good, the wise and courteous lady of high degree.”  She was among the wealthiest heiresses in the Angevin Empire (Henry II’s personal empire which through conquest, inheritance and diplomacy included all of England, parts of Wales, Ireland and most of Northern & Western France).  She was well educated like her mother and could speak her father’s language of French, the courtly language of the English royalty and the Anglo-Norman nobility at the time.  She could also speak her mother’s native Irish (Gaelic) & Latin, the language of clergy, diplomacy and government bureaucracy.  This coupled with her bloodlines would be of tremendous political import, meaning she could navigate the Irish and Anglo-Norman cultures she was born of.  Rather than her education in language, courtly manners, warfare, diplomacy and politics being perceived as a threat to any husband, it would have likely been seen as a great asset.

-Her hand in marriage was promised by Henry II, to one William Marshal in 1189.  Marshal was himself an Anglo-Norman noble born and raised in England around 1147.  He was the son of a relatively minor noble in England’s West Country with his mother coming from a more distinct Norman family.  He came of age through training as a knight with his mother’s relative in Normandy, enduring a six-year apprenticeship in knightly warfare, court etiquette & the arts.  He saw some combat but was assigned to the personal service of England’s Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and then the service of her and Henry II’s son, Henry the Younger.  They bonded especially in the late 1170′s by becoming famous knights on the European knightly tournament circuit that was just blossoming at the time.  Marshal became perhaps the most renowned tournament knight of all, capturing or unhorsing some 500 knights.  Henry the Younger would eventually die after Marshal served him for over a decade loyally.

-Marshal then found himself in Henry II’s personal service and during a war against the King of France who was briefly joined by Henry II’s son and heir Richard where he personally unhorsed Richard with a lance, killing the horse but sparing the prince.  Supposedly, the only man to do so.  After Henry II’s death, Richard rose to the throne of England & Normandy.  He was preparing to go on Crusade to the Middle East and liberate Jerusalem from Muslim rule.  He would in time be known as Richard the Lionheart.

-Despite Marshal’s recent opposition with King Richard, the new monarch kept Marshal in his service.  He also fulfilled his father’s promise to wed Isabel de Clare to William Marshal.  This would make Marshal not only a wealthy and increasingly influential knight but by right of marriage make him now one of the wealthiest landowners & nobles in the Angevin Empire.       

Marriage, until death do you part;

-William Marshal & Isabel de Clare were married in August 1189 in London.  There was an age difference, she was not quite 18 and he was in is early 40′s.  Despite the political nature of the marriage, it appears to have been a genuinely happy one by all accounts.  Neither party appears to have been unfaithful to one another.  The written records show a great mutual appreciation for one another and produced 10 children, 5 sons and 5 daughters over the next several decades.  

-Marshal was technically by right of marriage, Earl of Pembroke but he would not officially acquire the title in his own name until 1199, a decade after his marriage.  Nevertheless, he was overlord of Leinster and Striguil and set about making improvements to the castles both he had acquired in England & France for loyal service to the monarchs but his marital gains in Wales & Ireland.

-For the first decade of marriage, William was in service to Richard the Lionheart, particularly when he was gone on Crusade, he stayed behind as a member of the ruling council.  This kept him in England, Wales & France mostly, with little attention to affairs in Ireland.  Isabel for her part focused on raising a family and supporting her husband as he navigated politics.  Though his wartime commitments to defending England from rebels & the French throne often kept them separated.  Isabel, appears to have been like her mother before devoted to ensuring the cultured learning of her children.

-Affairs in her native Ireland wouldn’t be pressing for the Marshal family until around the year 1200, during the reign of Henry II’s youngest son with Eleanor of Aquitaine, John.  John became king after the death of his eldest brother Richard who had returned from years in the Crusades and then a captive in Germany from a rival monarch, found himself campaigning against Philip II of France (his father’s rival) to regain territory that had been lost under John’s regency of throne.  John was eventually back in Richard’s good graces when the Lionheart died of infection from a crossbow wound fired by a rebel soldier in southern France where Richard was campaigning to suppress a revolt.

-John was now King of England and had a reputation for being paranoid, highly emotional and making rash decisions, making him more unpredictable than his older brothers and father.

-Marshal found himself both in John’s good graces and bad graces at various times over the years.  He and Isabel were turning to press their rightful rule in Leinster in the early 1200′s despite John’s warnings he not to do so.  John like his father Henry II had been concerned about Strongbow now worried Marshal and Isabel would be too powerful and independent in Ireland. Indeed, in the two decades since the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Anglo-Norman nobility who settled there had become accustomed to their own relative autonomy.  Loyalty to the king was in name but in practice, so long as they didn’t rebel against the king, they were basically free to do as they please.  John’s predecessors did little to enforce this and initially John was more concerned about England & France.

-Marshal & Isabel helped develop the town of New Ross in Leinster, an English town separate from the Gaelic towns nearby, it was peopled with English & Welsh colonists, many of whom were part of the Marshal family retinue and to whom they owed their feudal allegiance.  The castles of Kilkenny, Trim & others were developed and expanded by Marshal & Isabel.  

-Meanwhile, Marshal earned John’s ire for having paid homage to Philip II of France in exchange for retention of Norman lands after the French kicked John’s English armies out of Normandy, forever losing his ancestral duchy of Normandy to France.

-Concerned of Marshal’s power in Ireland and anger over his dueling homages to John in England and Philip in France.  John organized for Marshal to come pay homage in England where he was duly placed under house arrest at the royal court.  Meanwhile his own Justiciar in Ireland, Meiler Fitzhenry who had his own ambitions on Leinster invaded using his own Irish & Anglo-Norman forces with John’s blessing.  John sought to teach Marshal a lesson and increase personal control over Ireland by having a Norman noble with more loyalty.  It also worked in Fitzhenry’s favor.  

-Marshal himself was considered fair if not especially popular among the Anglo-Normans already settled in Leinster under his rule.  While the native Gaels were less than enthused by him or any other Anglo-Norman lord.  Isabel, however, appears to have been the critical element & saving grace for Marshal.  Given her ancestry including the native Irish rulers of Leinster and the Anglo-Norman new elite, her command of language & diplomacy appears to have held things together while this Anglo-Norman civil war with the king’s blessing raged in Ireland.  

-in 1208 Fitzhenry’s men besieged Isabel (who was pregnant) and the Anglo-Normans who were loyal to Marshal all while Marshal himself and his sons remained personal hostages of King John.  Only thanks to an alliance between Marshal’s & Isabel Anglo-Norman loyalists with another rival of Fitzhenry, Hugh de Lacy (1176-1242) Anglo-Norman noble who was first Earl of Ulster did the war come to an end in Marshal & Isabel’s favor.  Isabel is said to have helped direct the defense of her castles under siege while de Lacy’s men came to their relief, defeating and capturing the men John had sent to assist Fitzhenry.

-Fitzhenry remained a noble in Ireland but he was removed as Justiciar.  Marshal was released by John, and he was allowed to reunite with Isabel.

-Isabel’s day to day to involvement in the civil war is hard to gauge but almost certainly if not the military matters, the diplomatic ones she learned from her Irish princess mother, along with her symbolic blood ties to the Irish & Anglo-Norman nobility of Leinster still held important sway.  As Marshal had said prior to his departure to his custody in England, all he had emanates from her.  This was mostly true in a political and legal sense, but he appears to have meant it in a romantic sense since she was his faithful wife & mother of his children, the vessel to his dynastic future.

-In the coming years, Isabel & Marshal looked to marrying off their children to important Anglo-Norman nobility.  Though successful in this regard and Marshal & Isabel have thousands if not millions of descendants today, none of their sons would bring about descendants meaning, their holdings in Ireland, Wales and England would transfer to other families since their daughters were married off into other noble families and hence the Marshal dynasty was short lived-in terms of male direct descendants.  All five daughters Maud, Isabel, Joan, Eva & Sibyl all had children that lived and went onto have descendants that live into the modern era, including members of the British royal family today as well as numerous people in America and elsewhere due to colonial descendants from English nobility.

-Marshal found himself back in John’s good favor and counselled him during the rough times of the First Baron’s Rebellion (1215-1217).  He also helped guide John to signing the famed Magna Carta, meant as a peace treaty to ensure certain royal guarantees for the rebellious nobility.  Making Marshal one of the Magna Carta “signers”, though the peace was broken shortly thereafter, and John died of illness during rebellion.  To make matters worse England’s civil war between nobles revolting against John’s excesses and those loyal to him, including Marshal now attracted the attention of the French king Philip II and his son Louis.   The rebel barons now swore fealty to Louis and asked he take over as King of England.  Marshal had been made guardian of John’s son 9-year son who was crowned Henry III, making him the 4th crowned King of England that Marshal would serve.  Marshal was styled as “Guardian of the Realm” and swore to defending England and its rightful king from the predations of the rebel barons and the French pretender.

-As regent he was now the head of the country in practical matters, yet he was also 70 years old.  Marshal would help Henry III and England’s royalist forces when the war when at age 70 and donning knight’s armor one last time he would lead a royalist force to defeat a combined Anglo (rebel)-French force in the Battle of Lincoln in May 1217.  This along with the English naval victory over France at Sandwich ended the war in the royalist favor.  Henry III was recognized by France at the rightful King of England and the rebels would be forgiven in exchange.  

-Marshal won the war for England but his old age was catching up with him.  He now set about as Regent of England on behalf of Henry III to try and restore the treasury which was drained under John.  He also reissued updated versions of Magna Carta, later cited by historians as a cornerstone moment in the gradual expanding of human rights and democracy, though the original document was narrow in scope and intended for the nobility and the preservation of their rights against royal abuse.  It would influence English common law and American Constitutional law in centuries to come.

-From 1217-1219 Marshal was the de-facto the ruler of England, he wasn’t always successful, but he did ensure some measure of peace and lay a foundation that Henry III’s other regents and the king himself could later build upon.

-Isabel remained faithful to the very when Marshal died at home near Reading England in May 1219.  She was said to have wept uncontrollably at his passing and could not walk during his funeral procession to London where he was buried in Temple Church.

-Nevertheless, evidence shows that despite her husband’s passing she immediately set about ensuring inheritance was due.  Writing the other regents that her lands in Ireland, Wales (minus Pembroke which went to their eldest son) and England were duly granted in her name.  She also negotiated with the French king to ensure inheritance of her Norman lands.  She even got William Marshal II, their eldest son the hand in marriage to Henry III’s younger sister Princess Eleanor, though this marriage would produce no heirs. 

-Isabel’s son William Marshal II was effective as agent managing her various estates, but illness caught up with her in March 1220 and she died in Wales ten months after her husband’s death.  She was buried Tintern Abbey near Striguil Castle, now Chepstow Castle which had belonged her father Strongbow and his father before him.  Her grave is there to this day alongside her mother Aoife of Leinster.  Though the abbey which the De Clare & Marshal families patroned is now in ruin, the grave markers are located on the ground.

-So passed a woman of high birth within the High Middle Ages of Western Europe. She was born of two different cultures and served as a living bridge immersed in the customs of both.  As a result, she was given a unique and rich in-depth education unusual for anybody for the times but especially someone of her sex.  Her life is mostly known for a seemingly peripheral role in relation to her family and acquaintances of great political importance but the evidence we have suggests she was regarded by especially her family and husband in particular as an absolutely vital and strong character in the events of the time.  She played a part in shaping the history of nations, by dint of her birth and by her cultured and determined character.   

[ebaeschnbliah]

The Liar Series - a summary

Disguise, mask, façade, lie .....

Already on their first meeting, at the beginning of ASIB, dominatrix Irene Adler tells Sherlock that every disguise reveals something about the one who hides behind it. The ‘Woman’ presents herself as the ‘naked truth’ while Sherlock (the virgin) tries to hide behind the mask of a vicar - a priest in the church of England. The word ‘vicar’ derives from the Latin ‘vicarius’ which can be translated into: representative, replacement, surrogate, dummy  (more here).

We are not a couple - Yes you are

First thing Irene arranges when she comes back from her hiatus is a secret meeting with John. When ‘the woman’ confronts John with a question about his jealousy regarding Sherlock, John negates a possible romantic relationship with his friend. Irene disagrees with great determination. Sherlock, who secretly followed John to the meeting place, overhears the conversation between John (the eternal friend) and Irene (dominatrix, ‘naked truth’, Mrs Sex, instructed by ‘Mr Sex’ Jim Moriarty).

Just a big old liar

Inside a London black cab Sherlock watches a short film, created by Jim  Moriarty. In his story the master criminal calls Sherlock ‘Sir Boast-a-lot’ and a ‘big old liar’. The next day, on Barth’s roof, Jim (Mr Sex ‘you should see me in a crown’) and Sherlock (sex doesn’t alarm me) talk each other into suicide. Both men end with a broken skull - like Irene with a bashed-in head in ASIB. And just like 'the woman’, at least Sherlock was able to fake his death as well and leave London.

Who are you?  

That’s what Sherlock asks after he wakes up in hospital. During his break-in into CAM tower, to retrieve delicate informations (X) from the keeper of ‘secrets and scandals’, he gets shot by Mary. Sherlock starts to investigate John’s wife inside his mind palace. The word ‘liar’ swirls arround her in various different sizes, surrounding her - but also Sherlock - like a cloud. Sherlock imagines that his observation takes place at the same location (Roland-Kerr Further Education College) where John shot serial killer Jeff Hope in ASIP, at the beginning of the story.

The lie of Leinster Gardens    

Sherlock asks Mary if she knows about the lie of Leinster Gardens while he leads her into a trap to expose her double identity in the presence of John. The first part of the unveiling takes place in front of and inside the twin houses at Leinster Gardens, which are Sherlock’s property. They were ‘demolished years ago to make way for the London Underground, a vent for the old steam trains’ and consist only of a fake façade. Projected on that façade appears a picture of Mary in her wedding dress. And that’s what Sherlock calls John’s wife as well - a  façade. 

My lying wife

The second part of the unveiling takes place at Baker Street 221b. When Sherlock asks John “what is she?”, meaning Mary, the doctor responds with ‘my lying wife and the woman who’s carrying my child who has lied to me since the day I met her.’  At this point though, Sherlock is finally ready to go deeper and he urges John to accept Mary as their new client. As a result the A.G.R.A memory stick makes its first appearance. It is the beginning of a process in which Sherlock finally chooses to put down his ‘façade’.

You lied and lied  

That’s what Janine (diminutive of Jeanne=John) accuses Sherlock of, because he pretended to be her boyfriend (but no sex - that was never gonna happen) to retrieve letters, once written by Lord Smallwood to the young Helen Catherine Driscoll, more than 30 years ago and before his marriage with Lady Elizabeth/Alicia Smallwood (codename ‘love’). While Sherlock tries to obtain the evidence regarding this secret about Lord and Lady Smallwood, Mary tries to obtain evidence about another secret, concerning ‘Mr and Mrs Watson’. In the end it turns out that nothing is there to obtain at all, the cupboard is empty (an illusion almost like the elephat glass in Eurus’ cell).

The version of you I present to the public    

During Sherlock’s mind palace detour at Christmas 1884/85 in TAB, John’s Victorian version confirms to him that the way the great detective is presented to the public by his biographer/blogger, is not in accordance with the truth. The conversation takes place in a greenhouse, while both men are waiting to expose the ‘ghost bride’ who sent 5 orange pips to Mr Carmichael and threatened to kill him, just like Jim sent 5 Greenwich pips to Sherlock in TGG. And it is indeed Jim who hides behind the white veil of the bride, while Mary - foreshadowing her approaching demasking/death - wears already black.

You lie all the time

After drugged Sherlock had been brought to the house of John’s new therapist Elizabeth, in the boot of Mrs Hudsons fiery red Aston Martin and accompanied by the strains of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, he asks for John’s help in the Culveton Smith case. Just like Jeff Hope in ASIP, Smith is also a serial killer with striking teeth and a strong preference to talk to his victims. John insists on a medical examination of Sherlock (second opinion by Molly Hooper) and accuses him in the presence of his new therapist (who later turns out to be Sherlock’s secret sister Eurus) and Mrs Hudson, to be a liar who lies all the time ... ‘It’s like your mission’.

Lie or truth ... that’s a main topic in Sherlock BBC and maybe ‘lie or truth’ equals  Sherlock’s own question in TAB: ‘Poetry or truth?’ ... meaning, the lie lies in the poetry and the poetry (canon) hides the truth .....

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August, 2021

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.14

Holidays

Ann Hutchinson Memorial Day

Bastille Day (France)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Black Country Day (UK)

Comedy Celebration Day

Corkboard Day

Crop Circle Origin Day

Day of the Russian Post

Day of Tax Office Workers (Belarus)

Drukpa Tshechi (Sikkim, India)

Emmeline Pankhurst Day (UK)

Fete Nationale (Guadaloupe, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna)

Fish Farmers Day (Tajikistan)

Hondurans’ Day (Honduras)

International Non-Binary People’s Day

International Nude Day

International Sister Cities Day

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (Republic of Ireland)

Mad Pride Day

National Be Nice to Bugs Day

National Break Free From the Big Three Day (Bad Habits, Relationships & Stale Mobile Plans)

National Car Wash Day

National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Honor Based Abuse & Forced Marriage (UK)

National Joey Day

National La Chancla Day

National Marco Day

National Newt Day

National Nude Day (New Zealand)

National Psychologist Appreciation Day

National Reese Day

National Tape Measure Day

National Tax Day (Indonesia)

Pandemonium Day

Quatorze Juillet (France)

Sage Plant Day (French Republic)

714 Day (California)

Shark Awareness Day

Silver Day (South Korea)

SpongeBob Day

Sunflower Day (Japan)

Tape Measure Day

Unaine Day (Elderly Women’s Day; Kiribati)

Victims of the Nice, France Attack Day

Victoria Day (Sweden)

World Chimpanzee Day

World Orca Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Macaroni & Cheese Day

Macaroni Day

M&Ms Argument Day

National Grand Marnier Day

National Mac and Cheese Day

Roasted Chicken Day

Independence & Related Days

Bastille Day (France)

Ijivate of Rikuchar (Declared; 2015; subsequently dissolved) [unrecognized]

Montenegro Statehood Day Holiday (Montenegro)

National Day (Tahiti)

National Day of Commemoration (Ireland) [Sunday closest to 7.11]

Republic Day (Coup d’Etat; Iraq; 1958)

2nd Sunday in July

Barn Day [2nd Sunday]

Disability Awareness Day (UK) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Uruguay) [2nd Sunday]

Festival of the Giants begins (Fête des Géants; France) [Sunday after 7.5]

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (National Day of Commemoration; Ireland) [Sunday closet to 7.11]

World Rollout Day [2nd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 14 (3rd Week of July)

Captive Nations Week (thru 7.20) [3rd Week]

Every Body Deserves a Massage Week (thru 7.20) [3rd Full Week]

Operation Safe Driver Week (thru 7.20)

Parenting Gifted Children Week [3rd Week]

Roman Mercanus (Ancient Roman Market) [thru 7.19]

Sports Cliche Week (thru 7.20) [Week of MLB All-Star Game]

Festivals Beginning July 14, 2024

Bastille Day Military Parade (Paris, France)

Black Hawk County 4-H and FFA Fair (Waterloo, Iowa) [thru 7.18]

BVI Emancipation Festival (Road Town, British Virgin Islands) [thru 8.10]

Derry Township Agricultural Fair (New Derry, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.20]

Heritage Fire (Asheville, North Carolina)

IFT FIRST: Annual Event and Expo (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 7.17]

Feast Days

Birthday of Osiris (Egyptian God of Agriculture)

Boniface of Savoy (Christian; Saint)

Bonaventure (Christian; Saint)

Brian Selznick (Writerism)

Camillus of Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)

Clooties in Wells Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Cow Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Day of Horus (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Deusdedit of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Ellegua’s Day (Pagan)

St. Ferdinand III (Positivist; Saint)

Festival of Millennial Fairy Olympics (Shamanism)

First Sermon of Lord Buddha (Bhutan)

Gaspar de Bono (Christian; Saint)

Goat Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Gustav Klimt (Artology)

Humphrey Bogart Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Idus of Leinster (Christian; Saint)

John Keble (Church of England)

Juliette Wytsman (Artology)

Kateri Tekakwitha (a.k.a. Lily of the Mohawks; Christian; Saint)

Libertus (Christian; Saint)

Machelm (Christian; Saint)

Marco de Gastyne (Artology)

Mike Esposito (Artology)

Nachi Himatsuri (Fire Festival; Japan)

Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (Christian; Saint)

Procopius (Christian; Saint) [Czech Republic]

Samson Occom (Episcopal Church; United States)

Ulric of Zell (Christian; Saint)

Whamop the Rental Magician (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 32 of 60)

Premieres

All Our Yesterdays, by Natalia Ginzburg (Novel; 1952)

Anchor’s Aweigh (Film; 1945)

Barnyard Baseball (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

The Big Sick (Film; 2017)

The Blair Witch Project (Film; 1999)

Brazil, by Jimmy Dorsey (Song; 1939)

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Benjamin Spock (Health Book; 1946)

The Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling (Novel; 2007) [Harry Potter #7]

Easy Rider (Film; 1969)

The Flying Mouse (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Film; 1943)

Foul Play (Film; 1978)

Glory Road, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1963)

Gunpowder Milkshake (Film; 2021)

Hello, How Am I (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Horehound, by The Dead Weather (Album; 2009)

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Film; 1965)

Johnny Bravo (Cartoon Series; 1997)

Licence to Kill (US Film;1989) [James Bond #16]

Main Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Film; 2023)

Muppets from Space (Film; 1999)

Popeye the Sailor (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1933)

The Pride of the Yankees (Film; 1942)

The Stan Freberg (Radio Series; 1957)

Stuart Little, by E.B. White (Novel; 1945)

Venus, by Shocking Blue (Song; 1969)

War for the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2017)

The Wearing of the Grin (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

X-Men (Film; 2000)

Today’s Name Days

Goswin, Kamilus, Roland (Austria)

Kamilo, Marcelin, Miroslav (Croatia)

Karolína (Czech Republic)

Bonaventura (Denmark)

Joel, Joosua (Estonia)

Aliisa, Alisa (Finland)

Camille (France)

Roland, Camillo, Goswin (Germany)

Akylas, Nikodemos, Nikodimos (Greece)

Ors, Stella (Hungary)

Camillo, Giusto (Italy)

Loreta, Oskars, Ritvars, Selgars (Latvia)

Eigilė, Libertas, Vydas (Lithuania)

Solfrid, Solrun (Norway)

Bonawentura, Damian, Dobrogost, Franciszek, Izabela, Kosma, Marceli, Marcelin, Marcelina, Stella, Ulrych, Ulryk, Ulryka (Poland)

Angelina (Russia)

Kamil (Slovakia)

Camilo (Spain)

Folke (Sweden)

Priscilla (Ukraine)

Alton, Camden, Cameron, Camron, Camryn, Kameron, Kamryn, Ventura (USA)

Cami, Camilla, Camile, Camille, Camillus, Camilo, Came, Kaamil, Kami, Kamil, Kamila, Kamilla, Kamille (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 196 of 2024; 170 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 28 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 9 (Ji-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 8 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 7 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 16 Red; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 1 July 2024

Moon: 57%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Ferdinand III]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 25 of 94)

Week: 3rd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 24 of 31)

Calendar Changes

July (a.k.a. Quintilis or Iulius; Julian Calendar) [Month 7 of 12]