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When did St.Patrick become a Bishop

Dane Pestano — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:59:14 GMT

Hi everyone, Are there any St Patrick experts here? I'm writing a short summary of his life using only his Confessio and Epistle but I am not certain what date

Erasmus exchange this autumn? Archaeology courses at Kalmar

Raimund Karl — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:30:09 GMT

We are offering from this autumn some brand new campus courses in English, specifically designed for exchange students from EU countries (Erasmus or free

Re: ~IAI > Ireland's name, Was: Proposed orig in for the names Gaei

S?amas ? Sionnaigh — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:09:28 GMT

Hi David, ? I personally have come to favour more and more some sort of relationship between the population name F?ine and the socio-military group name

Re: ~IAI > Ireland's name, Was: Proposed orig in for the names Gaei

David Stifter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:45:35 GMT

... Just a wild guess: if "f?an" "war-band" is derived from PIE *weyh1- "?chase, pursue, suppress", "f?ini" could be a derivative of this. David

Re: ~IAI > Ireland's name, Was: Proposed origin for the names Gaeil

Séamas Ó Sionnaigh — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:26:27 GMT

Hi all, In relation to the name of Ireland, as far as I remember from various sources the most favoured the development was Proto-Irish *Iweriū (or *Iwerjon-)

Re: ~IAI > Ireland's name, Was: Proposed origin for the names Gaeil

Janet Crawford — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:59:01 GMT

Thanks David and Patrick. I've forwarded the responses on to Peter. Janet ... From: David Stifter To: Iron-Age-Ireland@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January

Re: ~IAI > Proposed origin for the names Gaeil/Gwyddelod/Féine.

David Stifter — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:52:59 GMT

This idea goes back to Eric Hamp,if I am not mistaken. I seem to remember that it was published in Etudes Celtiques a few years back. I am not sure that his

Re: ~IAI > Ireland's name, Was: Proposed origin for the names Gaeil

David Stifter — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:46:10 GMT

... This is merely coincidental, just as well as the French name of Wales = Gales and the name of the Spanish province Galicia < Callaecia, and the name of the

RE: ~IAI > Ireland's name, Was: Proposed origin for the names Gaeil

Patrick Brown — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:27:24 GMT

Didn't see Blood of the Irish, so I can't comment on that. But the similarities between Gael and Gaul are coincidental. If you trace them back through earlier

Ireland's name, Was: Proposed origin for the names Gaeil/Gwyddelod/

Janet Crawford — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:17:03 GMT

I don't know how many of you watched Blood of the Irish whose premise of the Irish coming from Spain has been disproved these last couple of months by new DNA

Proposed origin for the names Gaeil/Gwyddelod/Féine.

Séamas Ó Sionnaigh — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:22:17 GMT

Proposed origin for the names Gaeil/Gwyddelod/Féine. There existed a population group in Ireland, widespread across the island, whose name derived from a

~IAI > Re: The Féine

Séamas Ó Sionnaigh — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:53:06 GMT

... Féine is presented as an overall pre-historic population name for what became the Connachta/Uí Néill in the midlands and west, and the Eoghanachta in

Re: ~IAI > Re: The F?ine

S?amas ? Sionnaigh — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:54:46 GMT

Hi Kieran, and thank you for that, would be much appreciated. ? I know that in ?Prehistoric and Early Ireland? by Daibh? ? Croinin, F?ine?is presented

Re: The Féine

jordanknie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:46:24 GMT

... Féine ... associated ... of ... of ... to ... of ... and ... military ... was ... came ... freeborn ... thereof. ... settlements ... of ... Seamus, Not

The Féine

Séamas Ó Sionnaigh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:04:10 GMT

Hi All! And firstly sorry about the length (and complexity) of this mail. I'm currently writing up my family history (the Ó Sionnaigh) and among several