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From: (Hugh McKiernan)
Subject: Re: Local knowledge, generalities, etc (was Re: Marriage recognition)
Date: 8 May 2002 09:45:14 -0700
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"Sean MacLochlainn" <> wrote in message news:<HYWB8.12275$>...


>
> Once again, you show what a piss-poor adversary you really are.
>
> Sean


What a hoot!
Did you always treat people who tried to educate you in this way? I'm
not your adversary. Far from it.
What I, and a few others, try to do here is help, and you constantly
respond little like a bold little schoolboy with repetition, misquotes
and jibes. If you have an arguement try adding a little logic, Sean.
The syncratic method is good.
You might be pleasently surprised to find that there are actually
people willing to help who will happily transcribe and/or translate
from the Old Irish texts for you if you would but ask a question or
two.
For example what kind of a "MacLochlainn" are you? Do you know what
O'Dugan, O'Donovan, O'Clery, Keating and MacFirbisigh had to say about
the name, it's meaning and various origins? Or what is said in the
Annals of Ulster, Connaught, Inishfallen, Loch Cé, Tigernach and
Munster or the books of Ballymote, Leinster, Leacan et cetra?
Would you like to compare the first and third editions of the Annals
of the Four Masters?, or see your pedigree as treated by the various
genealogists and how they differ. Or maybe the history of your
ancestral lands collected by the ordnance office in the eighteen
thirties?
Its up to you Sean. You can stay in playground if you like but I'm not
coming out there. There is always another publication to read or new
research to be done. It's twenty years since I first started reading
the facsimiles and first editions housed here and I'm as interested as
ever. I'm far too busy to play with you but if you have something
serious to ask or offer I'll listen.

H.

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