Talk:Biddy Early

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this was my first wikipedia article to submit! exciting!! please edit and discuss any changes that should be made. i know there is a lot of uncertainity about what happened to her son and how she got her bottle, so not much is mentioned about that..

It might be improved if you add some references and work on style issues. I'll try to find the time to come back and help.Trilobitealive 04:46, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Anectdote removed from article

13:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC)13:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC)~~A I remember my father (Edward Flynn of Borheen, Ennis)speaking about Biddy in an affectionate way as I was growing up. She was one of the only people in the region to help the poor for nothing, where the clergy and all the other professionals were not willing to. One story goes that the Priest giving Mass at the Pro Catheral(St Peter & Pauls)in ennis one sunday morning spoke out against her and low and behold she heard about it. It seems that she made a promise that the priest would never pass her door. The Priest in question had to go to Tulla now and again to say Mass, and the next time that he was in his Pony and Trap going to Tulla. The Pony came to a stop right before Biddy's house and refused to go any further so the priest had to turn around and return to Ennis. It happened a few times more so in the end he retracted what he had said about Biddy from the pulpit, so from then on he had no problem of passing her house. My Mother and Father (Nell & Neddy Flynn) used to have session evenings at our home in the Borheen, Ennis. And we kids were supposed to be in bed asleep, but I would have the door opened a bit to listen to the stories and music. One of the best story tellers was a man by the name of Staker Hanlan from near the railway Bridge on the Tulla Road. Removed to talk page Trilobitealive (talk) 19:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup

I've just completed a major cleanup of this article. I mainly worked toward giving it an encyclopedic tone (and have therefore removed the "essay-like" tag), but also fixed mechanics and formatting (including citations) and added a few internal links. There are several place names that I think might be worthy of at least stub-class articles, but I didn't add the red links because I'm not sure whether the places are notable enough or not. The most pressing issue (as usual) is the references. There are several very nice references cited at the end of the article, but without inline citations there is no way to know what information came from where, not to mention what information doesn't have any reliable source at all. If this one problem could be fixed by someone with knowledge of the cited books, I think this could be a really nice article. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any further assistance. -- edi(talk) 07:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Looks like you've taken the time to improve this article a lot.Trilobitealive (talk) 00:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

• No reference to speaking shelta has being given, but seems consistant with online sources. However the sentance aspect "the language of ancient mystics" has being romoved. The wiki page on Shelta makes no reference or suggestion that Shelta is a mystical language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.197.186 (talk) 13:40, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Date of Biddy's death

I attempted to improve the footnote added by an anonymous editor on Jan 9, 2012 that takes issue with the April 1874 death date in the Old age and death section. Being unfamiliar with Biddy's life and not having the time to research the issue, I am leaving further clarification to other editors. Eric ^talk 21:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Map Locations

I altered the map coordinates for Dromore such that they correspond to the townland near Feakle rather than the woodland amenity north of Ennis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.79.55.162 (talk) 17:37, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

"falsely" accused

I know it's not PC nowadays, but I take issue with a FACT-based article stating that someone was "falsely accused" - used frequently in witch trials cases. Unless there is a FACT-based source that clearly establishes this, use if "falsely accused" is an OPINION. As is, in this case, the attribution of the reason for the false accusation.

I suggest that opinion words of this nature be removed, and replaced - if sourced - with a statement of who claims it was false.

Just an assumption that witchcraft is not real does not mean an accusation must have been false. Mastakos (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2024 (UTC)