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Good to hear from you. I'd noticed you were going hammer and tongs at northern stuff, which has lots of editors who are, erm ... passionate. You once gave advice to stay away from controversies like Talk:Holodomor and the like - so the only time I risked my tonsils in the Irish-British shouting match was to question the origin of the term British Isles. Amazingly, progress was made when User:sony-youth turned up. WP works.

Any progress on siege of Smerwick, or is it still in the Dingle article?

And how you getting on with Canny?--Shtove 21:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Didn't see that Irish Times correspondence over Raleigh at Smerwick. I remember you writing that new research casts doubt on his presence there, and I mentioned this on his talk page. But the new DNB states that he was there - a reliable source and all that {supposedly... many other entries in it are riddled with errors} - so I posted it here Walter Raleigh#Ireland.--Shtove 12:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:IRA

Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Republican Army Erin Go Bragh 09:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The end of the mediation cabal on the term Volunteer is ending in two days.

The mediation process is ending in two days - you have two days to have you final say and 1. show any proof that Volunteer is a rank and 2. leave your final vote in coming to a consensus here. Thank you.--Vintagekits 22:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Kingsmills

I've no objection to removing the tag whenever suits (providing Vintage has no objections?) - great work there Dorney Weggie 23:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm happy with the article as it stands. Good work both of you.--Vintagekits 23:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

well done

Good work on Raymond Gilmour. Certain to survive AFD now, thanks to your input. — coelacan talk — 04:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello J!

Sorry to take so long to get back to you! Are you getting tired of Wiki, or is someone giving you unnecessary grief? Anyway .... what I usually do is cut and paste my talk page from the "edit this page" section, and place it in a new box titled FergananimarchiveI, or II, et cetera. Then when its secured go back and delete the old stuff. Was going to do it for you but thought that might be a bit rude.

If you have time, I would appreciate your thoughts on Ireland. And lastly, happy new year! 007! Wo-hoo! Fergananim 14:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi J. Not too bad, thanks, but unfortunetly no better. Just take things on a day-by-day basis and hope to try new treatment soon.

I am very sorry for not completing Irish Bruce Wars 1315-1318. As with several other of my articles, it was one I wrote in one burst of energy; now I get tired just thinking about finishing it! But I do hope to; the more I research (sic) that era the more fascinated I am by just how much was going on here!

Could you show me what you mean by 1346 in Ireland as an article? My mind's a bit foggy today. Which is generally why I try to keep my articles and edits down to bite size.

Tog go bog e? Heck, I'll take it anyway I can get it! Fergananim 15:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

P.S.

Thanks for that; the mind wanders on me from time to time. Let me know what you think of this 1347 in Ireland; am I going into too much depth, wandering too much from other Year's in style? Fergananim 17:22, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

PPS

Hi J! I often drive across the Sally Gap to avoid the M50/Red Cow etc. That day they hadn't forecast any snow so I kinda found myself up there and was struck by the beauty of the place! Regards (Sarah777 00:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC))

Taig

I left a query at Talk:Taig that you may want to respond to. Thanks.--House of Scandal 13:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade

Which version of Bandit Country were you using when referencing this article? I don't have a copy, but I can see there's two different versions, and I'm planning to cleanup the references including proper citations including the ISBN number, and I can't do that without knowing which copy you were using. Thanks. One Night In Hackney 11:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion on An Phoblacht

On the assumption that you have not seen this ongoing discussion on the suitability of citing An Phoblacht in articles, you might be interested in contributing at Talk:Diarmuid O'Neill.--Major Bonkers 17:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Read the bonkers ref: - the Sunday Independent can be quoted to support a claim of "fact"? In relation to NI????? I relation to Irish political issues there is no "no pov" policy or "consensus" of any kind - it is the simple dictatorial imposition of majority pov by crass censorship. FACT. (Sarah777 22:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC))

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

Just after finishing extensive revising of the above article. I aim to keep on at it over the coming weeks and submit it for peer review. Would very much appreciate your thoughts. Fergananim 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Nollaig Ó Muraíle

No article on Mac Fhirbhisigh would be complete without one on Nollaig. We're not short on good historians here in Ireland, but for my money Nollaig is head and shoulders above many. Besides citing a few more of his works, and maybe adding a photo, this article is nearly complete. Fergananim 23:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

J, you're a gent. Sincerest thanks. Hopefully I'll be well enough (if only for a while!) to finish the long-promised Irish Bruce Wars for yourself and us all. Fergananim 11:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

RE:Scottish Civil War

The only reason all the links direct there are because wikipedians have made this happen since the existence of the page. This problem should be fixed by fixing the links, not by distorting historical terminology. Wikipedia can't be introducing new terminology; Scotland does not have "Scottish Civil War". This article is about one 17th century set of conflicts where, comparatively, Scotland wasn't as divided as it had been in - say - the Wars of Scottish Independence of the Jacobite rebellions. Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 00:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you got the point I was intending to make. You say Comparing the intensity with other conflicts is a bit pointless, I say exactly. But trying to make the internal and external conflicts of this period The Scottish Civil War does exactly the opposite. Older historiography has dumped the term English Civil War upon those events - that is unfortunate, but Scottish historiography has no such evil, and wiki shouldn't try to reverse this just to match antiquated English terminology. Like I said, the only book I can find to have the term "Scottish Civil War" is about the Bruce/Stewart/MacDonald/Carrick/Mar/Ulster Irish-Balliol/Comyn/MacDougal/Galloway/Buchan/English crown conflict and the Wars of Independence. BTW, I've fixed all the links, as you requested. Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 02:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Edits et cetera

Just read your note. Actually it was what the likes of yourself and others have had to endure that enraged me. Checking back on wikipedians whom I had'nt heard from for months or years brought home the depressing fact that many of them have signed off as the abuse and vandalism is too much to put up with. What ideas do you have? What can we do to improve matters? If not on wiki as a whole, how about just on Irish articles? Fergananim 17:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I never got round to thanking you

For sending me these link [1] and this [2] - truely shocking stuff from the upholders of "law and order". anyway thanks again!--Vintagekits 13:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

INLA

You seem to be a regular contributor to the article, can I get your input here please? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 13:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Dated cleanup tags

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add tags, but merely dates those that are already there. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 11:59 21 March 2007 (GMT).

Sorry should have been left for User:Shtove re Battle of Affane. Rich Farmbrough, 12:11 21 March 2007 (GMT).

Old IRA page

They should at least semi-protect the article to prevent anon users from vandalising articles.--padraig3uk 11:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Flag Issue in Infoboxs

This may interest you here.--padraig3uk 12:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Scots, Attacotti and Deisi

Hi Ciarán . I would like your opinion on the above short addition I made to Prehistoric settlement of Great Britain and Ireland. Cheers. Fergananim 14:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade

Thanks for starting this page, should have done it myself but never got round to it. If you create articles which may be of interest to the IR WikiProject in future, would it be possible for you to leave a message on the project talk page? Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 03:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I know about the "what links here" problem, I've been asking if there's a solution to it over at the Village Pump. If it's just you that wants to check, you can change the namespace to just (main), that gets rid of all the talk pages. It's not just the IR articles though, it's any project that has a tasks template included in their talk page template I've just seen. I'll probably change the template to the tasks template isn't transcluded, just make it a link instead.

The best I can find on tense is here and here and WP:TENSE. Past tense does seem to be used pretty much everywhere except timelines for some strange reason. But if you look at say this version of a Chronology it's written in past tense. If prose is written in present tense it doesn't tend to look right in my opinion, whereas if it's stubby sentences you can get away with it. However I've no objections to it being changed back. Not sure where Kevin is up to with it, he's keen to help out with the project but like a lot of people he's lacking source material, and I thought the article needed improving so it would be a simple enough task for him. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 05:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm planning on doing some work on it myself, including stuff like Four Square Laundry and Brendan Hughes bugging the Brits. One thing to be careful of is mention of Gerry Adams, as if you see over at his article's talk page that's a huge argument about how his "alleged" IRA membership is to be dealt with in the article, and I'm thinking the likely end result will be that's he mentioned in his own article and the List of IRA Chiefs of Staff, but mentioning it in other articles may be very problematic. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 20:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Well I know that and you know that and seemingly everyone else knows that, but the editor in question was even insisting that the article said "Gerry Adams has never been in the IRA" and then something like "but these allegations have been made that he has...". One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 21:09, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Joseph McGarrity

I know you said you'd be very busy until August, but if you get a chance can you have a look at this for me please. It's recently created, and from what little I know he's a semi-important figure in things, but I lack source material and I'm thinking you will probably have some. I've listed it on the WikiProject tasks list as well naturally, but the more help the better. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 04:55, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem, just I know you've done plenty of work on pre-1969 era activities, so thought I'd mention it to be on the safe side. Galway is an administrator, and like you say difficult. Note that he went back to the "libellous" claim re Moloney, despite Adams claiming the material was libellous almost five years ago now, and done nothing about it. And similarly, I know of no legal action of any other author who's made similar allegations and they aren't exactly thin on the ground. I've given up on Adams for now, as I know some of the NI editors will make sure the IRA stuff goes back in asap, and I'm not finding that discussion a worthwhile use of my time.

Just one quick thing, you don't have any objections to the proposed move of Official IRA to Official Irish Republican Army do you? I know it's not technically the correct name, but Wiki and acronyms in page titles don't mix too well, and all the other incarnations are the same way. Thanks. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 07:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Spanish war

I thought about this some more and my thinking is that titling the article connolly column is misleading. The article points out that the grouping of volunteers under this heading is a disputed historical fact. While thats what the name has passed into history as I think having a subsection connolly column and expanding the entire article to discuss both IRA motivations and the background of some volunteers and their known motivations would be more fair. Defeat of the leftwing in 1930s sealed the fate of IRA in launching the S-Plan and into arms of German power center. So I would favor a merge into the newer article of the connolly column stuff. 82.16.126.168 21:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)