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Asarlaí is an Irish word meaning "wizard" and is roughly pronounced a-SAR-lee.
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My main fields of work on Wikipedia are Irish history, mythology, geography and place-names.
I have also compiled a Romanic→Germanic wordlist for English, which among other things should be useful for Plain English writing.
Contributions
[edit]The following is a list of articles that I've created, made major additions to, and/or substantially re-written. Articles I've started are marked with a star (*).
Ancient and medieval Ireland
[edit]- Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland
– wrote much of the article (stats)
- Gaels; Gaelic Ireland
– wrote most of the Culture and society section (stats)
Gaelic festivals
- Samhain
– wrote much of the article (stats)
- Imbolc
– wrote much of the article (stats)
- Beltane
– wrote much of the article (stats)
- Lughnasadh
– wrote much of the article (stats)
Ancient sites
- Navan Fort – wrote much of the article (stats)
- Hill of Tara
– expanded in May 2019
- Hill of Uisneach – wrote much of the article (stats)
- Newgrange
Mythology
- Lebor Gabála Érenn
- Tuatha Dé Danann
- Donn – wrote much of the article (stats)
- Fianna – wrote much of the article (stats)
Colonial-era Ireland
[edit]- Portadown massacre – wrote much of the article (stats)
- Irish Rebellion of 1641
- Clandeboye massacre
- Plantations of Ireland – wrote the East Ulster section
Modern Irish history
[edit]- Drumcree conflict
– wrote most of the article (stats)
- Ulster loyalism – wrote most of the article (stats)
Irish revolution
- Timeline of the Irish War of Independence
- Easter Rising
– expanded in March/April 2016
- First Dáil – wrote much of the article (stats)
- The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922)
- Partition of Ireland
– re-wrote and expanded in April/May 2021
- Sack of Balbriggan – wrote most of the article (stats)
- Burning of Cork
– re-wrote and expanded in Aug 2012, helping raise it to B Class
- Bloody Sunday (1920)
- Bloody Sunday (1921)
- Black and Tans
The Troubles
- Timeline of the Northern Ireland Troubles
- 1969 Northern Ireland riots – helped to expand and re-write in Feb 2011
- 1970 Battle of St Matthew's
– wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1970 Falls Curfew
– wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1971 Operation Demetrius
– expanded in Dec 2011
- 1971 McGurk's Bar bombing – wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1972 Bloody Sunday
- 1972 Bloody Friday
- 1972 Battle at Springmartin*
- 1972 Operation Motorman
- 1975 Tullyvallen massacre – wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1976 Reavey and O'Dowd killings – wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1976 Kingsmill massacre
- 1981 Altnaveigh landmine attack
- 1983 Harrods bombing
– expanded in Dec 2013
- 1987 Loughgall ambush
- 1988 Milltown Cemetery attack
– expanded in March 2013, helping raise it to B Class
- 1988 Ballygawley bus bombing* – started and wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1990 Downpatrick landmine attack
- 1990 proxy bombs – wrote most of the section on the October 1990 bombings
- 1991 Craigavon mobile shop killings – wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1992 Teebane bombing*
– started and wrote most of the article (stats)
- 1993 Castlerock killings
- 1993 Greysteel massacre
- 1994 Loughinisland massacre – wrote much of the article (stats)
- 1996 London Docklands bombing
– wrote most of the article (stats)
- 2001 Holy Cross dispute
– wrote most of the article (stats)
- Military Reaction Force
– wrote most of the article (stats)
- Glenanne gang
- Republican Action Against Drugs – wrote most of the article
- Partitionism – wrote most of the article
Places
[edit]- Place names in Ireland
- Armagh – wrote the History and Townlands sections
- Croagh Patrick
- Downpatrick – wrote the Early history section
- Slieve Donard – wrote most of the article (stats)
- Slieve Gullion
- Slieve Croob
- Slieve Commedagh*
- Slieve Snaght
- Slievenamon
- Slievecallan
- Paps of Anu
- Lough Erne – Name, mythology and folklore
- Lough Neagh – Mythology and folklore
- Ram's Island
- Croghan Hill
Other articles and lists
[edit]- Timeline of the European migrant crisis – expanded in May 2016 (before & after)
- List of Irish-language given names
- List of longest placenames in Ireland
- List of Irish round towers
- List of wars in Great Britain*
- Ulster English – wrote most of the Vocabulary section
- English language spelling reform – wrote most of the lead and History section
- Spelling Reform step 1 (SR1) – wrote most of the article
Maps created
[edit]User pages
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- User:Asarlaí/English spelling reform
- User:Asarlaí/Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English
- User:Asarlaí/Sandbox