Breoghan: The Legendary Celtic King of Irish and Galician Mythology

A Real Person of Real Places and Real Times. 

This may be an interest place to begin ones Iron Age study of Ireland, Britain, and western Europe.

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Bird and Bear Were Titles Given to the Last Romans in "England"

 Ireland, Irish, Merlin, Revise your history. Celtic people in Main in about 500 AD. A ruler became Merlin the bird. The name of Arthur the bear was Owin. The dead Princess Diana was related to the Stewarts and so, fairly closely related to Arthur and not just bearly.

                                                                                                    Richard Sheehan

King Arthur II and I, One of the videos.

 King Arthur II & Prince Madoc's voyage to America in AD 562. This You Tube video includes: 562 AD, Irish, Iceland, Vikings, and a trip. Where there is a II  there is likely to be an interesting I.                                                          

     

               Let's find the history in them both.  Some newly presented evidence about Irish presence in North America. Historians in Iceland have already told us that when "Vikings" arrived in Iceland that they found Irish there when they arrived. Now a powerful Welsh investigator is telling us much more. We have a lot to learn. Just learning to spell Arthur was not easy for me.

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Irish Confederate Wars

History With RCS: The Eleven Year War. Scots, Catholics, Protestants, greed, fear, and cruelty brought to Ireland by English

              The Irish Confederate Wars lasted from 1641 to 1653. Seems the Irish called them the Eleven Year War.

                I am new to these happenings and am emotional as I read of them, but will continue to try to bring more of an honest story to you.

             

              I do kind of get that the cause of this "rebellion may well be lack of self-government and of sharp Irish awareness of that lack. Outside of Ireland a wide spectrum  other reasons and causes. English fear and greed may be among them.

                Let me try to express the nature of some of my ignorance. I have heard that the "rebelling" Irish were Catholic. Was there not a Jew or an atheist among them? I have also heard that some those rebellious Irish were English! How can that be? Were they English Catholics living in Ireland, or what? At the time of this Eleven Year War, of what did the Kingdom of Ireland consist? Which Scots were not against a free Ireland? Which Protestant colonials figured in this conflict?

                So, among the "rebelling' Irish Catholics there were English? And against them was the Kingdom of England? the Kingdom of Ireland? Some Scots?
And some Protestant colonials?

 

                Oh, it kind of got under the skin of an Irishman or two that the English idea of "plantation" was to come to Ireland, take Irish land from Irish families and plant English there. This was not done with sweetness. The Irish who lost their land were left not only with out a roof, but also without the food their land provide. They were left without stock or crop or door or roof. They were left with some emotions and some memories.

                Are there any good movies or film about these goings on?

                Can you tell something about these happenings? anything? I do not think that there is anything wrong with the "Comments section below. Use it to help me. You can do so anonymously.



                                                                                                                by Richard Sheehan

 

A Very Short Little Old Back-story.

History With RCS: Mago Bill animates my connection to history, and more.

                Mago Bill connects me to to the history of Ireland, and from there to history far and wide. "He" helps me to get far back into ancient history and prehistory. And, it seems that, there is a very far back.
* He seems to help me to explore time and space.
* He helps me to see aspects of the ageless wisdom teaching anew.
* He helps me to fresh views of governance, politics, and philosophy.

                Mago Bill was my paternal great grandfather.

                Mago is a very old Irish name, probably picked up from the Phoenicians or the Carthaginians. In the US the name seems to have given Mago some trouble. For there he began to sign his name M. William Sheehan.

 

Mago in Ireland

                The name Mago has been found in county Clair and all over Ireland for hundreds of years. A historian writing in Ireland in 1691 writes of a count Mago. Another historian writes of a Mago county in the Ireland of of 1829. There seems to have been a barony of Mago in Kerry. There have been Irishmen who have claimed to be sons of Magog. Could that have anything to do with the price of beans?              

 

 

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Mago Bill

History With RCS: Mago Bill, a Munster Man?

 

                I have posted a lot about Mago Bill and have even had a couple of Mago Bill blogs. One of the Mago Bills I have written was probably born in County Munster, but may have arrived in America before he could toddle. He was my great grandfather M. William Sheehan.

 

                 Sheehan is a fine and interesting surname, but Mago often attracts me more.Spanish speaking friends tell me that in Spanish mago means magician and the like. Some also tell me that "the three kings'' or "three wise men" of Christmas are called magos and that each of them is a mago. This seems interesting to me but may have been of no interest at all to my great grandfather.

 

                However, I have been told that before Rome came of age and in the early days of Carthage, that Mago was an important family name among the Carthaginian Phoenicians. I see that Magos where friends and family of a famous guy by the name of Hannibal.

 

                Magos were well known traders, navigators, and military leaders of Carthage. Carthaginian traders and navigators came to Ireland for a variety of reasons. The main reason was probably tin. In the Bronze age and beyond tin was important because without it there was little bronze. The Irish of the day were metal workers, craftsmen, and artists. They were also miners, alchemists, poets, lovers, and impressionable for hearing the name Mago so often from the visiting Carthaginians that they began to name their male child, Mago. From that time and centuries on the name Mago was from time to time quite popular on the Island. 

 

                The name Mago and Mago Bill have, from time to time, has influenced and inspired my research and writing of history.

 

                On this Mago Bill site you may expect essays dealing with Ireland, the Irish, Mago Bill and much more as you may have already discovered.

 

                Thanks for your visit and thank you for reading this essay which I have written for you.

 

                More to come,

     

 

                                                        bye for now

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Your Vocabulary and the Irish Land Wars

 Irish history and Your Governance

                The Irish Land Wars are the source or the introduction of a powerfully effective word in the English language. In 1850 Irish persons formed the the Tenant Rights League in Ireland to demand reform in the land law of Ireland. A law not of democratic origin. This organization was followed by about 40 years of unrest in Ireland, and to some learning and reform.

                The word in question was derived from the name of a landlord so disliked that he was refused labor to harvest his crops, as well as refusal to to service shops, laundries, and other facilities. This social excommunication of Mr. Boycott, this landlord, led to his name being used to describe these refusals. Boycotts have worked well as a nonviolent protest measure.

                Know you know the meaning of "to boycott," "boycotting," and more. The Word is "boycott"

                We can be more aware that we are responsible for ruling ourselves. We can be more aware of out responsibility for self-governance. In Ireland a name for self rule has been Home Rule. It does seem best to begin governance at home. One's town, county, water district, and country are examples of places for home Rule. You can blame your wife, your father, your mayor, and your president, but that often turns out to be a waste of energy. Where you are concerned you are the authority and the boss, and the doing is yours to do. You will have your results. We all have responsibility and we all have learning to do. That learning is easier when we do it together.

 

                We can learn more effective doing by observing the doings of others. that's history. You can check out the Home Rule League of Ireland for some instructive history. You may find out things just by reading on here. You may learn something of practical civics or social organization. You can also report your understandings in "comments" below. "Comments" can also be a good place to ask questions. You can check out Gandhi on social organizing and the use of resistance. Well reasoned and well presented have been important parts of useful social measures. U. S. citizens have plenty to learn about the use of our Constitution and the use of democracy. There is much of interest to learn of the structure and function of our actual governments.

                We can become more effectual citizens by learning about the uses pf politics and of our history. History is were we can begin to learn of what has worked and what has not. As we learn to observe and to practice taking care of ourselves (self-governance), we may find it useful to learn more of and from our own histories as well as from the histories of others. 

                We can call politics the way we co-operate to get our governance working well.

                Well, what do you know about the verb "to boycott?" You may remember that every verb is an action word. You can learn more about the: when, where, why, and how of boycott online. You may report your interesting and useful findings here in the "comments" section just below.

 

                Thank you very much for reading.

                Your Vocabulary and the Irish Land Wars

 

 

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Chickamauga Wars: the earliest U.S. war?

History With RCS: Our American ancestors, right from 1776, warred about as much we war now. I hope to give you some short histories of a few of those wars in the future.

                Right now here are a few words on the "Chickamauga War:"

                The history books talk a bit about the Chickamauga War, but I like to say wars, because Chickamauga wars started early and lasted long. Some call them the Cherokee Wars. When Cherokee ancestors protected their families and territory from the violence of our ancestors, our ancestors killed them; killed them man, woman, and child; killed them and took their homes and land. Ancestors, theirs and ours, killed each other. Our ancestors often proved to be the better killers. 

                Still the Cherokee people, with the sometimes help of other peoples such as the Muskogee and Shawnee, actively resisted for nearly a century. In some history books those wars continued for only about 20 years.

                Much of those struggles took place in what we might call the northern tier of the  southern states; states like Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina.

                Mostly the Cherokee depended on their native allies, but they also allied themselves with the Kingdom of Great Britain to protect themselves from invasion and occupation by Americans. 

                The Cherokee, it may well be remembered, are one of we called the civilized tribes. They were called civilized for a variety of reasons; reasons such as their life style and their way of dealing with others.
                

                They were also one of the first tribes to widely intermarry with Europeans. They may well have intermarried with Europeans well before the first colonies were established in North America. The Cherokee, I believe, have long established bloodlines with Portugues, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and others.

                During much of the most severe strife between Cherokee and American an important Cherokee leader was Dragging Canoe.  

                The Cherokee are distant relatives of the Iroquoi and spoke and Iroquoian language. They probably migrated south from Iroquois territory around the Great Lakes in pre Columbian times. So, the Cherokee probably dispossessed others to claim territory in what are now US states.

                I plan to write more about our wars.

                Was Nancy Ward a news paper Cherokee?





                                                                                            by Richard Sheehan