As if to underline the point. Well done Steve!

Indeed there is Congal Claen and such ignorance is equally indefensible!

Cheers for the kind words. Tho’, I think you may be being slightly unfair to many of the other Unionist posters. Would you also agree that there are many Nationalist posters who do not appreciate, the British aspect to their heritage?

I feel our heritage should be uniting us rather than dividing us. The question then is whether that union is Ireland wide or British Isles wide.

Ardent loyalists (or true blue Ulstermen as they are occasionally wont to be known) are a source of rich pickings. One day I’d like to open a museum showing them in their full demented glory

….of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.

Aye indeed, Oolster Scoots – and that’s where Joyce really got his inspiration!

….Also, just to add ‘Niall of the Nine Hostages’ was the chieftain who supposedly kidnapped St Patrick from Britain (or from where ever) and brought him to Ireland.

…..UMH is gas!

BTW, Floorsucker = ‘hoover’…. aka ‘vacuum cleaner?’ ……great stuff!

…..has the Oolster-scoots definitive novel been written yet. Come to think of it….’Finnegans Wake’ was sort of written in Ulster-Scots when read aloud.

ie…riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend

lol. Absolute comedy genius! I tip my hat to you sir!

Strange that?

Does anyone apart, from obsessive ethno-facsists, find this stuff relevant?

umh, ffs stop trolling! Surely there is some weird loyalist site where you can post this crap.

And for Jasus sake will the rest of you stop encouraging him. Bayfor aye gie mee floorsucker oot.

Don’t worry you’re there…

“Genealogical records show a Njall Glundubh b. circa 850 A.D. in Norway and married to Lund Verch Echach.Parents of Njalsdatter & Muirchertach na G-Cochaill Criceann MacNEILL.

From this man Niall Glundubh the Ulster O’Neills take their surname not from Niall of the Nine Hostages. The first to take O’Neill as his surname was one Domhnall, born circa. 943 A.D. “Descendant of Niall” referring to his grandfather Niall Glundubh.”

It seems Umh’s research skills appear greater than his detractors ;o)

You gotta feel sorry for them, the poor deluded fools. Whatever happened to loveulster by the way?

Your search – njall glendubh – did not match any documents.

T’Internet says I do not exist.

Help me!

…and cryptic?

What’s gaelic for irony?

Paisley!

I would imagine the laughing and fingerpointing at the ignorant and primitive Ulster Scots must be similar to the laughing and finger pointing at the ignorant and primitive gaelic speakers in past centuries. Something that their descendents are still quite annoyed about. What’s gaelic for irony?

That would be the ‘backwoodsmen’ who voluntarily have a cross community power sharing arrangement despite there being only 2 nationalist councilors out of 15.

“Who’d have thought that Larne council would stand accused of appeasing Fenians on the 12th of July? Is it April Fools’ Day? …picador”

Who accused the Council of ‘appeasing fenians’. This and many of the other comments in this thread says more about the inherant bigotry of most of the posters on Slugger and their easy stereotyping of ‘loyalist Larne’, than anything else.

“Well if my theory is correct, it renders more than my posts. There’s actually more evidence that Ulster was influenced by the Norse than a simple red-hand symble. There’s also a Njall Glundubh born in the middle 9th century, Norway, who is probably an ancester of the O’Neill’s, but the O’Neill family deny this, because they want to maintain a history of pure Irish stock.”

Newsflash:
Martin O’Neill held a press conference today at Villa park to deny that he has illegally approached Rosenborg midfielder Njall Glundubh. O’Neill admitted being an admirer of the player but added that he wanted to buy British to give a homegrown backbone to the team.

Arsene Wenger, meanwhile,is homing in on Main Rouge Caen’s hot young prospect Patrice, saying that he’d never, never, never buy British.

Wise up man, you’ve probably got a bit of O’Neill in you too.