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Category Archives: Around the world
Come on you boys in green
Given the continuing success of the Irish team in the 2015 Cricket World Cup, it seems timely to look at cricket in the old days. In Ireland, for a period in the nineteenth century, cricket was the most widely played … Continue reading
Posted in Baker's Flat, Ireland, Kapunda, Migration, South Australia
Tagged Baker's Flat, come on you boys in green, COYBIG, cricket, cricket world cup 2015, identity, Irishness, Kapunda, sport
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Archaeological curiosities in Finland
In Finland recently for a few days, I spent a very happy morning in Aboa Vetus in Turku, Finland’s only archaeological museum. From what I can gather (I have barely a word of Finnish), the museum was a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Around the world, Excavation, Folk traditions, Museums, Travelling
Tagged Aboa Vetus, archaeology, concealed cats, concealed pigs, dead cats, dead pigs, dolls house, excavation, Finland, mediaeval times, museums, Turku
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Halloween – Samhain
Here’s something to frighten the life out of you – a lantern for Halloween in the traditional fashion, hollowed out of a turnip. On display in the Museum of Country Life, Turlough House, Mayo. The door’s on the latch The … Continue reading
Posted in Around the world, Folk traditions, Halloween, Ireland
Tagged Halloween, Samhain, the door's on the latch, turnip lamp
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No Irish need apply
After recalling the old stories about 1950s London when boarding houses and shops had signs in their windows that No Irish Need Apply, I thought I might have a little trawl through the nineteenth century South Australian newspapers on Trove. To be perfectly … Continue reading
Posted in Migration, South Australia
Tagged Irish jokes, matrimonials, No Irish Need Apply, racism
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The beginnings of bureaucracy
In 1845, the colony of South Australia was less than ten years old. But already, files were being created and documents saved as a bureacracy took its first steps alongside the colony. Here’s a letter that made me smile. Dated 18 July … Continue reading
Posted in Around the world, South Australia
Tagged bureaucracy, flagstaff, letters, South Australia
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