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Lough Corrib
I think that the Buries had been marrying native Irish for so long that their sense of identity changed.
frankbeswick, on 06/05/2022
Lough Corrib
As far as I am aware, over the centuries they "acclimatised " and blended in to consider themselves Irish. This was more especially when The Normans were no longer the ruling house.
Veronica, on 06/05/2022
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
Similarly the potatoes are grown in that soil and the cattle are reared on it.
Veronica, on 06/05/2022
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
Irish butter is made with cows' milk reared on Irish soil so you would not be able to replicate it really.
Veronica, on 06/05/2022
The Original Name of God
Re-reading your wizzley brought to mind something perhaps related, perhaps unrelated to names for God.
Since the Sherlock series created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, I feel like I hear "it is what it is" quite a bit. Some internet sources ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/04/2022
Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way
Re-reading this wizzley calls to mind your comment about drink cures and life-sweetening non-cures on Veronica's Balnamoon Skink wizzley.
What chronic illnesses can drink cure? I notice on the above-mentioned wizzley that you spell the drink ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/04/2022
Harpers Ferry West Virginia
Additionally, from the advanced hydrologic prediction service information on the National Weather Service (NWS) site, it notes no specific impacts until 40- and 43.5-foot crests, whose floodwaters respectively reach the Harpers Ferry train depot ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/04/2022
Lough Corrib
Is it known why the Bourke/Burke/de Burgos family decided in 1333 -- date mentioned in your fourth paragraph under your subheading The Lough in History -- that they were Irish, not Anglo-Norman?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/04/2022
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
The recipes that caught my attention around St. Patrick's Day did get made -- as such heart-warming crowd-pleasers -- in April and May.
Do you all remember that I first made the leek and oatmeal soup with double spinach because I didn't have ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/04/2022
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
Yes there is a large Scottish influence in the North of Ireland. We have seen whisky with porridge in Scotland, ,N Ireland and Isle of Man
Veronica, on 06/04/2022
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
I was unaware of this tradition of putting whiskey on porridge. But the thought pleases me. Maybe the Northern Irish take seriously the venerable Scots dictum, Lord save me from the illness that whisky cannot cure. I have such an illness,but ...
frankbeswick, on 06/04/2022
Lough Corrib
I think that it depends on how high up the beach you are. Much of the upper reaches of Southport beach is never covered by the tide.The rest of the beach has a marine fauna,of which razor clams are common,so it must be a habitat exposed to brine.
frankbeswick, on 06/04/2022
Indian Samosa A Long Journey
This bowl system is incorporated in a thali which is a large steel plate with often walled edges. The bowls contain dal or lentil soup vegetables, sweet such as kheer or rice pudding, a number of vegetable curries, curd, paneer curry and dry ...
pateluday, on 06/03/2022
Indian Samosa A Long Journey
I've been meaning to ask you about the arrangement of bowls for Indian meals. Particularly the image below your subheading Samosa in India is full of so many bowls of what I guess to be dressings, gravies or sauces.
Might there be an ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/03/2022
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
One American visitor was quite taken with how the Northern Irish put whiskey on their porridge at breakfast. I informed him this is a Scottish tradition which obviously as N Ireland is very Scottish, has travelled with them. He took a photo to ...
Veronica, on 06/03/2022