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In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature by JP Mallory review

Edit The Irish Times 07 May 2016
He returns to that subject in this latest valuable study written in his characteristic accessible and witty style ... But You Did Not Come Back ... (When I was at school the scheme of a first colonisation by Cesair, granddaughter of Noah, and her companions, who all drowned in the flood, followed by successive invasions of Nemedians, Partholonians, Formorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha Dé Danann and Milesians, was still fairly seriously taught.)....

Foodfile: Something fishy about this year’s Blas winners

Edit The Irish Times 09 Oct 2015
Liam, Ronan and Fintan, the three brothers behind Quinlan’s Fish, have added the Blas na hÉireann supreme championship to their impressive haul of awards this year ... Two varieties of their smoked salmon earned the highest accolade at Great Taste, but it was their Kerry crab that triumphed in Dingle ... Space was also made available for the much talked about Milesian restaurant in Castlegregory to showcase its work on the taste trail ... ....

Introducing the Ancient Greeks review – the culture that shaped our world

Edit The Guardian 12 Apr 2015
This invaluable study of the 2,000-year legacy of the ‘Greek miracle’ reveals why the west will be always in the country’s debt. Statue of an ancient Greek goddess on the island of Santorini. Photograph. Alamy. Natalie Haynes. Sunday 12 April 2015 09.00 BST ... And no wonder they were so obsessed with the sea ... Hall covers her subject in such detail that we even discover the impact Milesian geography might have had on its philosophy ... comments ... ....

East Belfast schoolgirls write an ode to their city’s ‘nicer side’

Edit The Irish Times 12 Mar 2015
Wouldn’t it be great for Van Morrison to hear Taylor Blackstock and her classmates chorally reciting Song of Ashfield, muses the 13-year-old schoolgirl – or even for Morrison to try the song himself? ... Song of Ashfield references numerous landmarks and people who have the stamp of east Belfast ...   ‘Birth of Song’ ... “Amergin literally means ‘Birth of Song’ and he was a Milesian king who ousted the Tuatha Dé Danann ...  .   ...  ....

Heracleitus of Ephesus - "The Obscure One"

Edit About.com 10 Feb 2015
Heracletus is one of the most interesting of the Presocratic thinkers. We know very little about his life. He was born before 500 BCE in or near Ephesus, a city situated in what was then called Ionia (now Turkey) ... Certain ideas and themes are prominent. Fire ... This would makes sense of another fragment. ... For he says, ... The early Milesian thinkers (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) talk about the cosmos and nature rather than the human world....

Anaximander (c. 610 - c. 46 BCE)

Edit About.com 15 Dec 2014
Anaximander of Miletus is traditionally considered the second of the preSocratic philosophers, the first being Thales who tradition has it was Anaximander's teacher ... The Unbounded ... Thales has posited water as the "first principle" of things ... it is ageless ... Along with his fellow Milesians Thales and Anaximenes, Anaximander helped reorient philosophical thinking away from religion and mythology and towards scientific enquiry....

Thomas Davis – an inclusively radical nationalist

Edit The Irish Times 21 Oct 2014
Thomas Davis is a patriot for our time ... Dillon succeeded Davis as president of the Historical Society ... . which may embrace Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter – Milesian and Cromwellian – the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates.” The Nation’s print-run sold out on the first day of publication, October 15th, 1842, and within a short time had a higher circulation than any other newspaper in Ireland....

An Irishman's Diary: Thomas Davis – an inclusively radical nationalist

Edit The Irish Times 21 Oct 2014
Thomas Davis is a patriot for our time ... Dillon succeeded Davis as president of the Historical Society ... . which may embrace Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter – Milesian and Cromwellian – the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates.” The Nation’s print-run sold out on the first day of publication, October 15th, 1842, and within a short time had a higher circulation than any other newspaper in Ireland....

Les Miles says LSU will play both Brandon Harris and Anthony Jennings on Saturday

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Aug 2014
While all signs point to Tanner McEvoy being Wisconsin's quarterback against LSU on Saturday, LSU coach Les Miles says his team will use two quarterbacks. Brandon Harris and Anthony Jennings were listed as the co-starters at quarterback on LSU's depth chart Monday. "We will play both quarterbacks," Miles said via TigerBait.com ... Miles also used the term "deceptively honest" on Monday, something that's truly a Milesian term ... - - - - - - -....

Take 75: Great Solos In Blue Note Records History

Edit National Public Radio 29 May 2014
NPR Jazz Live. Video. Blue Note At 75, The Concert. Blue Note At 75. Cause For Celebration. The Iconic Blue Note Records At 75. Blue Note Records has been many things over the course of its 75 years ... One constant running throughout its history is improvisation ... Enjoy. Piano ... —PJ. James P ... Johnson ... 1 ... The Miles influence is most audible on the title track, where Hagans' spacey first salute is colored by the distinctively Milesian Harmon mute....

The Nels Cline Singers: Macroscope (2014)

Edit All About Jazz 27 Apr 2014
By TROY COLLINS,. Macroscope is a first for guitarist Nels Cline's ironically named band, The Nels Cline Singers, in more ways than one ... b.1969 ... Serving as the eclectic record's centerpiece, the epic "Seven Zed Heaven" clocks in just over eleven minutes, escalating from angular Milesian funk to a coruscating wall of sound that subtly traces a historical line from seventies fusion to eighties no wave, buoyed by Cline's virtuosic salvos....

Jazz breaking news: Rising star trumpeter Verneri Pohjola signs exclusive three-album deal with Edition

Edit Jazzwise Magazine 25 Feb 2014
Leading UK jazz indie label Edition Records has signed Finnish rising star trumpeter Verneri Pohjola for an exclusive three-album contract ... “He has a wonderful tone ... Really fantastic!” ... Pohjola’s unique tone blends a Milesian sensitivity with an abrasive power matched to a broadly progressive musical outlook ... – Mike Flynn ....

Galicia’s Carlos Nuñez, ‘the Jimi Hendrix of the bagpipes,’ plays here Wednesday

Edit The Miami Herald 30 Jan 2014
Carlos Nuñez is far more than “the Jimi Hendrix of the bagpipes,” or the “the seventh Chieftain,” an honorary member of the legendary traditional Irish band ... The truth is richer ... It is also personal ... “The ancient Lebor Gabala Erenn [The Book of Invasions], written by monks, tells the story of Ireland and talks of the coming of the Milesians [Iberian Celts],” he says ... We had a mission ... ....
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