Re: The Chant on the Dog's Grave

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:49:41 -0500, Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>>You mean a "1066" style version of "Tain Bo' Cuailge" (or however it's
>>spelled!)
>
>Impossible, plain and simple:
>
>"The Irish [1] of the time of the famous but entirely mythical Tain Bo
>Cuailnge were deficient in several vital respects. Viz. [2] they all
>lived in Bogs and wore no clothes;  they were not CofE and they had
>not yet considered joining the British Empire [3]. These rather
>crippling factors, i.e., being Scots [4] were enough to compel them to
>withdraw from History until they were able to come up with a better
>answer."
>
>So you see, since the Irish had no History to speak of, they couldn't
>possibly have partaken in an utterly historical "1066-style" story.
>
>[1] I.e., Scots.
>[2] I.e., viz.
>[3] Vid. "The Irish Question"
>[4] I.e., Irish.
>
>Padraic.
>
>Oh, yes, [NB: For "Scots", read "Irish" and vice versa]
Thanks for such a *memorable* answer!

Jeff

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