Wormley

To Hell or Connacht : The official reply to the plea “Where will all those starving people go?”, was, “Let them go to Hell or Connacht.” Connacht was, at that time, a barren and impossible place to exist, regarded as a useless hell hole by the official British. This is yet another in the long list of clearly genocidal quotes from ruling Britain. Famine Ships: There must have been much angst in the old wooden ship sailing days. So many sayings reflect those fears. McGuiness adds to the most familiar. “The devil to pay.”, is the modern corruption of, “The devil to paye and no pitch hot.” Pitch is tar. Paye is a verb akin to pave, as in to apply tar, but not on a surface, rather into cracks for sealing. The single long wooden member that is the spine of the wooden ship, from which all cross supports diverge, and which is the very lowermost edge of the ship in the water was called the ‘devil’. It was so called because it was not accessible at sea, being covered by flooring. If it leaked then the sailors were, “between the devil and the deep blue sea”. An alternate form of ship building, distinctively Irish, was the stretching of animal skins over wicker basket-like frames forming boats called ‘currachs’ and ‘hookers’. Apollogia : Apologia is the correct spelling, yet this spelling, with license, is better, given obvious references to Apollo, Daphne and the Pythian games. Boreas also had a difficult catch, but fared better. Cupid had two kinds of arrows. The sharp golden tipped brought love, the dull lead tipped arrows brought aversion. The oak was a very important, actually the most important, druidical icon. The oak, having very deep roots and a very conductive physiology, draws lightening. It gets hit and distorts from the damage. It was viewed as a conduit to the gods who adorned it with mistletoe, mistletoe, a flowering plant that magically grows in thin air.

Regeneration :