Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Sinister leanings

Ciotóg, it turns out, is the Gaelic for "left handed"... the original or underlying meaning being "the strange one". I, for one, would not argue with that.

I admit to a certain fascination with my vague Irish ancestries. Apparently if you go back a few generations you will find a link to the O'Bleege family, one of whom suffered an appalling agricultural accident with a baling machine. "Nobless" O'Bleege, he was known as, after that.

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