Author: Dylan Foley
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Sligo, the Odyssey, and the Stream that Flows Backwards
A disguised kingdom: Ó hEoghusa’s Odyssey, and what it says about being unrecognised. Understanding Sligo Series -1 First published in 2017 and since updated. Sligo’s last untranslated native name, and the failure of Sligos heritage protection. The Waterfall There is…
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What Streedagh Still Holds
The Galeón Andalucía in Sligo, June 30th 2026 Article modified to correct errors on mass and scale in the first version. This research is ongoing! Four hundred and thirty-eight years ago, three ships of the Levant squadron drove ashore at…
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Digging in the Wrong Place : The Archaeological Value Chain
Indiana: Balloq’s medallion only had writing on one side? You sure about that? Sallah: Positive!Indiana: Balloq’s staff is too long.Indiana, Sallah: They’re digging in the wrong place! There is a particular conversation you only have while leaning on a shovel.…
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The Wrong Kind of Irish: Sligo, the West, and the Two Conquests of Ireland
Warning! book length essay – 26,689 words “The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity…
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The body has a moving edge
Second in a series. The first essay set out the ancient programme this work descends from — the ontology from Parmenides and Heraclitus, the method from Epicurus, and the argument that dualism is what froze the human sciences. This essay…
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An Ancient Method for a New Science
But those also who have made considerable progress in the survey of the main principles ought to bear in mind the scheme of the whole system set forth in its essentials. For we have frequent need of the general view,…
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Dublin’s Great Greenway Swindle
Featured Image : The Snow Ghost – Scooby Doo, 1969 How a Dublin-Controlled Civil Service in cahoots with politicians Has Systematically Blocked Western Rail for Fifteen Years — And Why They Want Your Railway Tracks for Cycle Paths “Mr. Greenway…
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Why Archaeologists Couldn’t Respond to SETI in 2014
The Unanswered Question In 2014, NASA published “Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication,” edited by Douglas Vakoch. The initiative called for archaeologists to contribute their expertise in understanding past cultures to help SETI researchers design communication strategies for extraterrestrial contact. It…
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Are We the Transmission?: The Archaeological Record Future Civilizations Will Discover
Introduction Four billion years of planetary history, the complete evolutionary record of life on Earth, from single-celled organisms to technological civilization. The geological transformations of a living world. The extinctions, the radiations, the slow accumulation of atmospheric oxygen. The emergence…