Everyone thinks Bram Stoker in 1897 was the Irishman who brought vampires out of Romanian folklore into the mainstream, but Le Fanu scooped him by 25 years.

It's a quick read, about three hours.

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First up is the Roscommon SFC quarter-final between local rivals Padraig Pearses and St Brigid’s at 2pm. That will be followed at 4pm by the meeting of Kilmallock and Patrickswell in Round 4 of the Limerick SHC.

A local archaeologist has said that the find, which is estimated to weigh between 22kg and 25kg, could be the “one of the biggest” of its kind ever recorded in Ireland.

Bog butter is an ancient form of preserved dairy or animal fat and can be found in the cool, oxygen-poor depths of Ireland’s peat bogs. Finds are common in both Scotland and Ireland. The practice of storing butter in bogs dates as far back as the Iron Age and is recorded as taking place as recently as the 16th and 19th century.

Archaeologist Paula Harvey, who visited the site of the discovery, said that local man Alan Moore was digging a drain when Micheal “spotted this big slab of something that didn’t look normal, didn’t look natural”.

Bogs, sometimes referred to as Ireland’s first fridges, did the trick preserving butter for centuries as Ms Harvey can verify having tried a “sliver” of this most recent find.

read here for my Really Good Idea about how we can solve the defense shortage: https://lemmy.ml/post/17574247

The cant-be-bothered-reading-ulysses-will-read-dubliners of my Really Good Idea is: we get 5-20% of the population into a volunteer militia. They carry light arms and train part time. The militia pays for itself because they do valuable volunteer labour like Marx said they would.

• Say the non-military volunteer labour they do is 100 hours a year for the first three years, then 40 hours a year in subsequent years. But let's call it average 50 hours a year because I won't do harder maths than that on a Sunday.

• Say 12.5% of our population is in the militia = 672,500 brave souls

• equals 33,625,000 volunteer labour-hours per year

NOW he said, jabbing with a finger the table, we have another pressing issue besides the defense gap. Not lynching Bono, I'm talking about childcare costs.

• 331,783 sprogs in childcare say the CSO – for about 15 hours a week, 50 weeks a year is about 250 million hours of sprog-tending

• At ratios of about 5 Big People to each Darling Child that's about 50 million hours of Labour

Recapeen: 50 million hours of childcare to be done, the People's Militia has 33,625,000 volunteer labour-hours to donate to the country

We can take a massive bite out of the current prohibitive cost of childcare. The vetting would be the same: people you can trust with a gun you can trust with a child.

They wouldn't HAVE TO wear uniforms and carry arms during the volunteer-work but it would probably be a good idea for purposes of humour.

Is grúpa den eite chlé é Misneach a ghníomhaíonn chun athghabháil na Gaeilge a thiomáint chun cinn agus todhchaí na teanga a chinntiú.

Chun ballraíocht a ghlacadh linn, lean an nasc thíos 👇👇

https://www.misneachabu.ie/glac-ballraiocht-linn/

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