Found while cleaning the toilets in the National Museum. We should be thankful they didn’t run short of loo paper…
“The discovery of an ancient manuscript in a bog in the midlands has been described by the National Museum of Ireland as of “staggering importance… fragments of what appear to be an ancient psalter, or Book of Psalms, were uncovered by a bulldozer in a bog in the south midlands last Thursday.”
“It is estimated that it could be between 1,000 and 1,200-years-old and staff at the museum said yesterday its discovery was an Irish equivalent to that of the Dead Sea Scrolls”
eircom.net/ireland.com: Discovery in midlands bog ‘of staggering importance’
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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.
fantastic news that.