re: #526 Backwoods_Sleuth

Totally OT but I’m rather chuffed today.

I just finished reading “In Praise of Bees” by Kristen Gleeson. It’s set in 6th Century Ireland and includes a lot of Gaelic Irish.

I’m chuffed because, while I am nowhere fluent in the language yet, I only had to look up a handful of words that I didn’t recognize.

Yay me!

The Patron Saint of my Da’s ancestral home (on his mom’s side [Murphy]) is Ballyvourney where Saint Gobnait loosed hives of bees to drive off cattle rustlers.

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