| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2013-08-06, 8:56 PM | Message # 16 |
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| Another striking example of defensive earthworks is Black Pig's Dyke, which cuts across much of Northern Ireland in huge line. It was effectively a barrier erected by the Ulster kings to protect against invasion.
Like many historical features, it has a mythical story attached to it.
Folklore claims that the dyke was created by a schoolteacher who was also a magician. He was tricked by a rival and turned into a large black pig. This great pig was then hunted across the southern border of Ulster, tearing up the ground with his huge tusks as he ran.
The available evidence tells us that the dyke was built between 300BC and 300AD.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/norther....u]
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| Culzie | Date: Saturday, 2013-08-24, 2:21 PM | Message # 17 |
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The present day Irish go on about the bad Brits but even away back before religion had a hold the Celts were throwing their weight about. Their policy was assimilate,get out or die. They MASTERED most of Ireland. Their language and mores had to dominate. Has anything changed?
Probably early Mesolithic Man prised out cockles and clams from the estuary mud but the low-lying country of the Lagan and its tributaries - where dense thickets of oak,willow and alder,entangled with thorns,formed the habitat of bears,wolves and wild boar. Higher ground was more easily cleared for grazing and its here that the first settlements have been found, Just beyond Shaw's Bridge to the south of Belfast stands the Giant's Ring,one of the finest prehistoric monuments of Ulster.
It was the Celtic-speaking Irish or Erinn,who had mastered most of Ireland by the beginning of the Christian era,who called this crossing-place Beal Feirsde. The name literally means the mouth of,or approach to,the sandbank or crossing. In the early Christian era this region was ruled by the Ulaid,a warrior caste of the Erinn,though it is likely that most of the inhabitants were the mysterious Cruithin,a people closely connected with the Picts of northern Britain.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| Baliar | Date: Wednesday, 2023-12-20, 4:54 PM | Message # 18 |
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