From the archives...

I thought that it would be an appropriate way to begin this blog with something from my personal archives of olden-year. Third year UCD to be precise, so that was 2011-2012.

Here are my initial notes verbatim from Microsoft Notepad file of the day:

Idea for funny thing.

St. Patrick was a founding member of the SDLP and perhaps leader.

Use Letter as a letter against Bloody Sunday and Muirichú propaganda battles against the druid

as battles against Unionist Party ministers.

Non sectarian, socialist, labour left-of-centre Christian party.

Of course they couldn't be sectarian, what with the Reformation not hapening [misspellings left in for authenticity, I mean I'm a historian--ed.] yet. Perhaps have
the sectarianism based on the Pelagian controversy instead.

There you are now. Having completed a BA in single subject history in University College Dublin (and as of today, an MA in Early Modern History at the same institution) the number of times I have written about St Patrick is ludicrous. For this particular idea to come to fruition, it would require re-reading both St Patrick's Confessio and that letter to whoever it was of the Christian-persecuting variety as well as Muirichu's Life of Patrick. Following that the reading of much mid-twentieth-century Northern Ireland history and biographies of the SDLP leadership.

Now, I'm all in favour of research particularly if the end result is well-written history or comedy. However, St Patrick again as well the SDLP... I must've been mad. It sounds funny though all the same.

Welcome one and all (more than likely the emphasis will be on the former) to the Historical Sketches Symposium, the comedic arm of the Boyle Research Society (as of yet unestablished and underfunded).