Celtic Connections - Catholic Radio Broadcasting Irish Style
Part 1.
Irish Catholic broadcasters Paul MacAree and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy share their thoughts and ‘compare note’s’ on Catholic radio, Irish style. While Catholic radio broadcasting has been an exploding mission around the world, to this day Britain has no Catholic broadcast media. It is only in recent years that Ireland has begun Catholic broadcasting. Fr. Eamonn McCarthy, Priest Director of Radio Maria Ireland - and Paul MacAree, head of EWTN Catholic Radio for Britain and Ireland, are ‘pioneers' in the field - and would say that God has given them a ‘mission’ in the the exciting and growing medium of Catholic radio Broadcasting, Irish style!
Part 2.
Polish Photographer Konrad Paprocki was an official photographer for the Pope at the recent World Meeting of Families in Dublin. Paprocki recounts how in 2003 an elderly Irish couple in Killarney, County Kerry, took him into their home when he was a homeless, penniless immigrant and assisted him to realise his dream to become a professional photographer.
Host: Kathy Sinnott and Paul MacAree with Fr Eamonn McCarthy and Konrad Paprocki
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Runic inscriptions
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A runic inscription is an inscription made in one of the various runic alphabets. The body of runic inscriptions falls into the three categories of Elder Futhark (some 350 items, dating to between the 2nd and 8th centuries AD), Anglo-Frisian Futhorc (some 100 items, 5th to 11th centuries) and Younger Futhark (close to 6,000 items, 8th to 12th centuries).The total 350 known inscriptions in the Elder Futhark script fall into two main geographical categories, North Germanic (Scandinavian, c. 267 items) and Continental or South Germanic (German and Gothic, c. 81 items). These inscriptions are on many types of loose objects, but the North Germanic tradition shows a preference for bracteates, while the South Germanic one has a preference for fibulae. The precise figures are debatable because some inscriptions are very short and/or illegible so that it is uncertain whether they qualify as an inscription at all.
The division into Scandinavian, North Sea (Anglo-Frisian), and South Germanic inscription makes sense from the 5th century. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, the Elder Futhark script is still in its early phase of development, with inscriptions concentrated in what is now Denmark and Northern Germany.
The tradition of runic literacy continues in Scandinavia into the Viking Age, developing into the Younger Futhark script. Close to 6,000 Younger Futhark inscriptions are known, many of them on runestones.