Happy Saint Pats day.

The "Tain" (the Irish book which is the oldest work of written literature north of the Alps)
describes a Europe of such savagery that I would prefer to live in present day Baghdad.
Peter.

Everybody knows that Ogham is a coded form of the Roman Alphabet.

No Ogham on my keyboard I notice.

Peter.

Everybody knows that Ogham is a coded form of the Roman Alphabet.

No Ogham on my keyboard I notice.

Peter.

Where did you get this fantasy from?

The "Tain" (the Irish book which is the oldest work of written literature north of the Alps)
describes a Europe of such savagery that I would prefer to live in present day Baghdad.
Peter.

I wasn't talking about Europe, I was talking about Ireland.

As a nation we don't seem to think things through a lot.

On the one had we celebrate the old Irish Astronomers and claim their great achievements as our own. On the other had we hail their destroyer as a hero who brought civilisation .... despite him having ended the civilisation we so celebrate when it suits us. Just a slight lack of joined up thinking there no?

If you guys want to start up a philisophical forum, then go ahead, this is an astronomy forum and let's stick to that, okay?

Paul