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And she married the man who gave his name to the Voynich manuscript! What a strange, small world history can be.
by bbctol 10y ago
And she married the man who gave his name to the Voynich manuscript! What a strange, small world history can be.
- wuschel 10y agoThe Irish are a small hyperconnected, global community. Having lived in Ireland for a while, the statement above does make me smile, but does not surprise me anymore.
- seanmheff 10y agoSo true. As an Irishman living in Canada, it does not surprise me in the least when I bump into a fellow Irishman and we know some of the same people. My Canadian friends always think this is strange.
- stinkytaco 10y agoKind of ironic, since I'm a Canadian living in the US and and every time it comes up, people tell me about who they know that lives in Canada. I realize they are just being polite, they don't expect me to know these people, but I can't help but feel that it's a little ridiculous. How the hell would I know Frank?
- dmix 10y agoMy girlfriend always does this to people when she finds out they went to x university. "Oh do you know this or that person". A university with 100k students. Some people's brains don't consider scale/space when hearing a familiar connection. :p
- eschutte2 10y agoIt happens. I was once in SF talking to a total stranger from LA (pop ~4m) and when I mentioned I grew up in Dallas (pop ~1.3m), she said "oh, do you know [X]?" And I did.
- kgwgk 10y agoHow is this relevant? It seems she was born in Cork to non-Irish parents and returned to England when she was a child. Did she keep a connection to the Irish community? Had her husband any other connection to Ireland?
- theoh 10y agoIt's spurious to attribute it to Irishness. More to do with Eminent Victorians than any fantasy of Ireland as a distributed global village.