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Okay, so this is what happens when you spend four days up to your ears in dissertation work and ignore the world outside. Apparently there has been shit going down at the Rath Lugh encampment of the police violence and fire brigades kind? Anyone have proper updates?

jarsy?

(I'm not sure I can convey the gut punch that is surfacing for a breath of air from a study of ogham and Irish and whether the pre-Christian filí knew Latin and lskadfjas; even-as-I-whine-I-love-my-country to find out about this.)

ETA: For the bewildered and foreign, context, in (very) brief: the gubmint is building a motorway through the Tara/Skryne valley. Yeah, that Tara. The Hill of Tara Tara. Yeah. I'm not doing that meme, but this is something I haven't blogged about. I should.

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Yeah, all I've heard is what's on the news, except the normal archaeologists-complaining-about-the-fucking-hippies-giving-us-a-bad-name stuff.

I mean, at least they're bringing attention to the stupid government policies, but they never seem to mention that the archaeology is done. They finished digging last year. There's nothing left to protect, except the landscape itself, which would be ruined even by rerouting the road and GAH. Such a mess.

No kidding. On this issue though, I actually side with the hippies (apart from, you know, the stupid shit like digging tunnels under Rath Lugh, WTF WERE THEY THINKING). We could keep digging until the cows come home and probably not learn anything groundbreakingly new, sure. But... it's THE FREAKING TARA COMPLEX. Jeez. Why not build a Starbucks outside Newgrange and a shopping mall around Stonehenge whilst you're at it, assholes. Ugh.

Oh man, I just spooged all over a reply to your other post there. Man, apparently I was repressing some kind of a thing, and it went ALL OVER THE SHOP.

Everything I know about Irish mythology* I learned from Artemis Fowl, and I still know that's a bad idea.

*Well, not everything...

What I was going to add to the first line before I accidentally hit "send";

When the reports of changeling babies start coming in, I'll be one of the people going "I told you so".

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