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   "Searles O'Dubhain"  wrote in message   
   news:PKqdnZFFFeCmcDLZnZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@comcast.com...   
   > "1X2Willows" wrote   
   >   
   > > This site has links to the shields and the meanings of the symbols on   
   > > them for many of the Irish family names. I found the meanings of the   
   > > symbols to be remarkably consistent with meanings I'd derived from   
   > > studying the ancient traditions of Ireland. Check it out and discover   
   > > the values that your family embraced and symbolized, and for which its   
   > > members were and are known:   
   >   
   > Heraldry is fun, exciting, has nothing whatsoever to do with   
   > celtic culture and even less with 'druid spirituality'.   
   > Please help minimize irrelevant Crossposting to ASD   
   >   
   >   
   >>> Irish family names are inherently tied to Celtic culture through   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Irish family names are, while Heraldry is not. - but either way:   
   >> All postings by Charles Devane (fake name "Searles O'Dubhain")   
   >> are considered irrelevant in ASD   
   >> Please minimize irrelevant Crossposting to ASD   
   >   
   > The links that were provided allow a person to more fully investigate and   
   > appreciate their Irish roots. That's why they were posted to both Druid   
   > newsgroups.   
      
   The group you keep posting to -- despite dozens of polite requests   
   not to do so -- was founded with an explicit focus on pan-celtic 'druid   
   spirituality' devoid of any one single tribe's- or national issues.   
      
      
   > I find it particularly ironic that one of your fake names is based on   
   > heraldry and a shield (even if it is Swiss and not Celtic). :-) LOL!!!   
      
   [rest of your ego driven Hucksterisms snipped]   
      
   I can only suppose you refer to my 'Nick' 1X2Willows.   
   Contrary to you, Mr. Wannabe Irish Charles Devane living in the US   
   with no legal proof for your delusions, I have never in my life claimed   
   my given name to be any different from what it is, (meaning One next   
   to Willows) nor have I ever claimed our family's legitimate coat of arms   
   or charge to be an expression of "celtic culture".   
      
   Furthermore, I've never assumed the title "Druid" based on self-initiation   
   like you did, and I also do not call myself a "Celtic Reconstructionist"   
   with the implication of saving the real Celtic Culture from extinction   
   which you obviously do; by using your US made remote control and   
   yer nose buried in old tomes which lack all relation to the living present.   
      
   I'd be more than interested in the opinion of real Irishwomen and -men   
   about the subject of Heralrdy in Irish Culture, its roots, distribution   
   and material evidence before the Victorian era.   
      
   Dan   
      
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