ARTICLES

hell-fire and harlots
November 6th 1998
In our continuing forway into the history of the Irish Hell-Fire club, we find a curious, if tenuous link between its founder, Richard Parsons (the first Earl of Rosse) and Jack Parsons, rocket scientist, and head of the 1940s Californian Ordo Templi Orientis...

no smoke without fire
October 30th 1998
Overlooking Dublin city from the south west, is a foreboding ruined hunting lodge known as the 'Hell-Fire Club'. Was it the site of 18th century - and perhaps modern day 'Satanic' and occult debauchery, or merely a party house for "Bucks" with too much time and money?

straddling two worlds
October 23rd 1998
Blather surveys the problems within Irish cryptozoology, and introduces a new character to forteana - Dublin's Scaldbrother...

georgian archetypes
October 16th 1998
The Virgin Mary continues her travels, her social calendar rivalling that of Irish President Mary McAleese...

no threat whatsover
October 9th 1998
All sorts of Irish almost-aerial phenomena is afoot - between UFO *predictions* for Christmas, and mystery parachute drops in Waterford...

klaatu barada nikto
October 2nd 1998
An accidental powering up of the Blather-HQ TV leads to a lengthy quasi-theological sermon on the 1951 movie *The Day the Earth Stood Still*, Jesus H. Christ and the Beatles. . .

fishy tales
September 25th 1998
The coelacanth - a living fossil fish has been found alive and well in Indonesia...Jon Downes expounds on Loch Ness pinnipeds, and Peter Lakbar does some detective work on the latest claims concerning the Seljord lake monsters, in Norway.

Coincidence or Synchronicity?
September 18th 1998
Blather manages to cobble together connections between Sharon Stone, leprechauns and *Finnegans Wake*, amidst a storm of apparent synchronicity. . .

Look, is it a Seal or Not?
September 11th 1998
Great debates are afoot concerning some 10 seconds of video footage of what is being claimed to be the Loch Ness Monster. Is it merely a seal, or isn't it? Or does it matter?

Waterford's Ghouls
September 4th 1998
The Waterfowl issue: Stories of hauntings in Waterford City, and Blather teeters between the Banshee and Herring Gulls. This is followed by some 'official' comments from the GUST expedition, along with some Blatherskivian photographs of eh. . . ducks.

Gubu Norge
August 28th 1998
Just a week back from his farcical foray into deepest Norway, the young Blatherskite expounds upon lake monsters, primeval serpents, apparent Irish satanism and the high drama of the GUST expedition.

Lethal Lutra
August 21st 1998
Due to many Blatherskite excursions around Ireland, and expeditionary forays into the National Library, many odd and unexpected phenomena have raised their serpentine or furry heads. Stories of weird otters savaging Co. Leitrim residents are only the tip of the iceberg. . .

Mammoth Tails
August 14th 1998
Back in the UnCon98 reports, Blather promised a commentary on *Mammoth Hunt -- In Search of the Giant Elephants of Nepal* by Colonel John Blashford-Snell. And now, we finally deliver on the that promise.

Myth on the Loose
August 7th 1998
Blather's author, despite cooling his heels on a Norwegian lake, doesn't fail to bring the esteemed readership a distinctly odd tale, from no less that his own home turf of Co. Wexford.

Negative Capability
July 31st 1998
Some explanatory theories on the mystery 'Z' of the previous issue are explained, rumours are let fly about the arrest of certain Irish ufologists and their altercations with the U.S. Navy, and Blather employs some Keatsian quotes.

Alphabeti Reticulans
July 24th 1998
No news from Boyle yet, but Blather draws together some reports on recent UFO flaps, meteor showers and anomalous bumps in the night, while drawing the readership's attention to Mr Dutton's *Global UFO Activity -- A Study of Tactical Techniques*.

On the Boyle
July 17th 1998
Things have come to a head *again*, in Boyle Co. Roscommon, with some of the regular suspects appearing in the national press, making all matter of claim and UFO prediction.
Blather pedantically nitpicks. . .

Weird Achill
July 10th 1998
As well as sharing some bemusement on the national radio appearance of a Co. Louth abductee, Blather explores the fortean phenemona of Achill Island, such as lake monsters, stigmatics, mysterious dog-poo and fish falls. . .

Silly Season: Monsters, UFOs, etc.
July 3rd 1998
That pinnacle of journalistic reliability, *The Star*, regales us with tales of a Donegal lake monster, we hear apocryphal UFO reports from Derry, and ponder over stories of terrible beasties in Gougane Barra and Dingle.

Below Scottish Lochs and Churches
June 26th 1998
Reports of suppressed Nessie footage from the 1930s raise their heads, a mailing list about the cabinet of curiosities below Rosslyn Chapel is announced, several people lose their heads in Dublin and tale a of a wee hoax in the USA. . .

Prophecies Fulfilled
June 19th 1998
Blather's lackadaisical UFO forecasts prove to be surprisingly accurate, with new reports of HibernUFOS in Boyle. Also, reports on the Derrynaflan alleged UFO sighting and Bogus Social Workers in Co. Wicklow.

A Mothman Retrospective
June 12th 1998
Pleasantly surprised, decidedly enlightened and greatly amused by that old fortean classic, John Keel's *The Mothman Prophecies*, Blather delivers a brief little natter on winged humanoids and MIB harassments.

Irish UFO Season Declared Open
June 5th 1998
The National Annual Summer Irish UFO Splurge seems to be underway, with a sighting in Tipperary. All the latest on the Humpty Doo poltergeist from the esteemed Paul Cropper, and the bizarre tale of man who downgraded himself from the status of Jesus H. Christ to a mere John the Baptist.

Hotrocks or Humbugs?
May 29th 1998
On this week's show, Blather gives forth more information and much speculation (much of it idle) on alleged Irish meteorites and their associated craters, which have been showing up in less than conclusive circumstances. . .

Rocks from Irish Skies
May 22nd 1998
Blather finds mention of not one, but two alleged Irish meteorite landings in recent news, the latest on the roving Virgin Mary, her holiness Ms. Shirley MacLaine, and a followup on the House of Prayer goings-on in Achill. . .

UFOs and Humptydoo
May 15th 1998
Blather celebrates its first birthday, with a local UFO, a difference of opinion on the Humptydoo poltergeist, and an endeavour to re-commemorate an alleged UFO crash that preceded Roswell by 50 years. . .

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