Greenway photo by John Kelliher
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Hungry July
July is the month before the Harvest comes in. In the days before copious imported produce, farmers and housewives worried about making last year’s stocks last through to harvest time.
Here is what Kevin Danaher’s The Year in Ireland has to say. This account is from 1841
This year, 2024, we’ve had a poor summer after a wet winter and spring. Fodder for cattle and grains and vegetables for us all are a cause of concern.
If we think we’re badly off we need to take a look at our poor forefathers in the years before it all went so disastrously wrong for them in the 1840s.
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A Few More from Ard Churam
Some singers and audience on June 27 2024
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A Definition
From The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
auctioneer n. someone who proclaims with his hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue
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A Fact
In 1568 the Catholic Church condemned the entire population of The Netherlands to death, for heresy.
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