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Friday, November 20, 2015

Seventy Mayo Surnames

       This is a first for Q.E.D.  Estase thought about creating a separate blog just for genealogy, but doesn't intend that this should be material presented more than just occasionally.  The following is a miscellany of surnames from church records of Kilcoman, County Mayo.  These names were noted either because they seemed unusual in spelling or unique to me in some other way.  The dates of the records they were found in were approximately 1820-1840.

Aylesand/Begly/Beylagh/Birmingham/Bisgood/Bohan/Bourke/Cleary/Connelly/Conway/
Costelloe/Cribben/Cuddy/Cunningham/Donelan/Doude/Egan/Fahey/Farrington/Finn/
FitzGerald/FitzMorris/FitzPatrick/Foraker/Flaherty/Gafney/Galligan/Gilmore/Gissian/
Glynn/Gready/Greene/Griffin/Healey/Jordan/Keach/Kelikelly/Kogan/Korigan/Lavelle/
Lardner/Lawer/McGonagle/McGragh/McManus/Millet/Moffitt/Morrifsy*/Mortimer/Newd/
Newlon/Nicholson/Niland/Noone/Prendergast/Quire/Rahgan/Rabbitt/Rieby/Riely/
Rochefort/Shaugnefsy*/Shortcoate/Shower/Steed/Sylk/Tighe/Tuohy/Varrey/Vancil

*These names were entered into the records using the habit from the elegant eighteenth of writing or printing a double-S as "fs".

Saturday, November 07, 2015

Bill O'Reilly Agrees With Salon

          Going to Reagan White House malcontent Donald Regan and Kitty Kelley for research about Ronald Reagan seems like bad journalism to me.  But it is just what Bill O'Reilly did with his new book "Killing Reagan," which should have been called "Killing Reagan's Reputation."  When comparing the attitudes of conservative pundits towards Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley was considerably more impressed with the Gipper than was George Will, who tended to think Reagan left something to be desired as a statesman.  (This is a Will ideosyncracy.  Will loves conservatism, and thinks few exemplify it.)  So for Bill O'Reilly to act as though Will is an uncritical apologist for Reagan, going so far as to call Will "a hack," shows that not only is O'Reilly a poor journalist, he is also a hypocrite of the worst kind.  The same guy who thinks it's all right to act as though his audience are the only American patriots, selling "American Patriot" merchandise off his website, now has the temerity to insult George Will?  Now O'Reilly has the same verdict on Will as ueber-leftist Salon magazine.  Let's see how this partnership works out, folks.

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Lose Control

Refrain:Lose control
             With increasing pace
             Watched and bewitched
             Intent to erase
             Whatever they say
             These people are told
             Wan and bereft
             And set to explode

First Verse:  War is overdue
                    The time has come for you
                     To shoot your leaders down
                     Join forces underground
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Second Verse:  Oppose and disagree
                       Destroy demonocracy
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