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SaintPav wrote: ↑Sun 14 Mar 2021 5:58pm
Only St Kilda
Exactly. You just have to laugh.
Someone up there, down there or around here seems to have a permanent grudge against our club.
Dear me.
If it's someone up there then they may not be happy we have used the name "The Saints" and St Kilda which was never the name of a saint at all.
From the following article it looks like St Kilda Victoria was named after a boat, which was named after an island off Scotland which was actually misspelt and started of as Skildir, an old Norse word meaning 'shield.' This has been mis-recorded on a Dutch map from 1583, which has the name as Skildar. These same charts were revised and updated by the Dutch Government in 1592, Skildar now being misrecorded as S.Kilda.
As the Dutch were among the foremost seafarers of this time period, many other countries would base their own official charts on those of the Dutch. British chart makers who used this 1592 map as the basis for their own work, simply assumed that S.Kilda was an abbreviation of St Kilda, and recorded it as such themselves.
St Kilda in Melbourne was named after an old wreck of a New Zealand ship 'Our Lady Of St Kilda' which was moored and abandoned there.
However, there is actually a Gaelic sporting club in Ireland called the ST KILDAS, and they play teams with names like NHMAITIU in County Sligo. I don't know much about them except that the area is a Gaelic speaking place (and yes, I have been there thirty years ago.) I asked an Irish friend of mine (who can't speak Gaelic) about the providence of those teams but he said that St Kilda isn't in Ireland at all and it doesn't make sense. I then showed him a picture of the scoreboard and he was surprised. He couldn't tell me about the other team either, but another mate of mine who can speak Gaelic did. It is a team called 'St Mathew' (NH means Saint or St in Gaelic).
I don’t believe that’s a real team. It was the school team from the drama “Normal People”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the school they attend is named after us.
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SaintPav wrote: ↑Sun 14 Mar 2021 5:58pm
Only St Kilda
Exactly. You just have to laugh.
Someone up there, down there or around here seems to have a permanent grudge against our club.
Dear me.
If it's someone up there then they may not be happy we have used the name "The Saints" and St Kilda which was never the name of a saint at all.
From the following article it looks like St Kilda Victoria was named after a boat, which was named after an island off Scotland which was actually misspelt and started of as Skildir, an old Norse word meaning 'shield.' This has been mis-recorded on a Dutch map from 1583, which has the name as Skildar. These same charts were revised and updated by the Dutch Government in 1592, Skildar now being misrecorded as S.Kilda.
As the Dutch were among the foremost seafarers of this time period, many other countries would base their own official charts on those of the Dutch. British chart makers who used this 1592 map as the basis for their own work, simply assumed that S.Kilda was an abbreviation of St Kilda, and recorded it as such themselves.
St Kilda in Melbourne was named after an old wreck of a New Zealand ship 'Our Lady Of St Kilda' which was moored and abandoned there.
However, there is actually a Gaelic sporting club in Ireland called the ST KILDAS, and they play teams with names like NHMAITIU in County Sligo. I don't know much about them except that the area is a Gaelic speaking place (and yes, I have been there thirty years ago.) I asked an Irish friend of mine (who can't speak Gaelic) about the providence of those teams but he said that St Kilda isn't in Ireland at all and it doesn't make sense. I then showed him a picture of the scoreboard and he was surprised. He couldn't tell me about the other team either, but another mate of mine who can speak Gaelic did. It is a team called 'St Mathew' (NH means Saint or St in Gaelic).
I don’t believe that’s a real team. It was the school team from the drama “Normal People”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the school they attend is named after us.
Never heard of it, but you could be right. I was just searching up the Sligo GAA website (gaelic football and hurling) and couldn't find either of the clubs' names in it. And neither was the sponsor on that scoreboard - no mention of any sports shop in Sligo by that name. http://www.sligogaa.ie/Competition-Team ... ?cs=Senior
EDIT: And yep, you are right. It's from a new popular Irish TV show.
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SaintPav wrote: ↑Sun 14 Mar 2021 5:58pm
Only St Kilda
Exactly. You just have to laugh.
Someone up there, down there or around here seems to have a permanent grudge against our club.
Dear me.
If it's someone up there then they may not be happy we have used the name "The Saints" and St Kilda which was never the name of a saint at all.
From the following article it looks like St Kilda Victoria was named after a boat, which was named after an island off Scotland which was actually misspelt and started of as Skildir, an old Norse word meaning 'shield.' This has been mis-recorded on a Dutch map from 1583, which has the name as Skildar. These same charts were revised and updated by the Dutch Government in 1592, Skildar now being misrecorded as S.Kilda.
As the Dutch were among the foremost seafarers of this time period, many other countries would base their own official charts on those of the Dutch. British chart makers who used this 1592 map as the basis for their own work, simply assumed that S.Kilda was an abbreviation of St Kilda, and recorded it as such themselves.
St Kilda in Melbourne was named after an old wreck of a New Zealand ship 'Our Lady Of St Kilda' which was moored and abandoned there.
However, there is actually a Gaelic sporting club in Ireland called the ST KILDAS, and they play teams with names like NHMAITIU in County Sligo. I don't know much about them except that the area is a Gaelic speaking place (and yes, I have been there thirty years ago.) I asked an Irish friend of mine (who can't speak Gaelic) about the providence of those teams but he said that St Kilda isn't in Ireland at all and it doesn't make sense. I then showed him a picture of the scoreboard and he was surprised. He couldn't tell me about the other team either, but another mate of mine who can speak Gaelic did. It is a team called 'St Mathew' (NH means Saint or St in Gaelic).
I don’t believe that’s a real team. It was the school team from the drama “Normal People”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the school they attend is named after us.
Never heard of it, but you could be right. I was just searching up the Sligo GAA website (gaelic football and hurling) and couldn't find either of the clubs' names in it. And neither was the sponsor on that scoreboard - no mention of any sports shop in Sligo by that name. http://www.sligogaa.ie/Competition-Team ... ?cs=Senior
EDIT: And yep, you are right. It's from a new popular Irish TV show.
SaintPav wrote: ↑Sun 14 Mar 2021 5:58pm
Only St Kilda
Exactly. You just have to laugh.
Someone up there, down there or around here seems to have a permanent grudge against our club.
Dear me.
If it's someone up there then they may not be happy we have used the name "The Saints" and St Kilda which was never the name of a saint at all.
From the following article it looks like St Kilda Victoria was named after a boat, which was named after an island off Scotland which was actually misspelt and started of as Skildir, an old Norse word meaning 'shield.' This has been mis-recorded on a Dutch map from 1583, which has the name as Skildar. These same charts were revised and updated by the Dutch Government in 1592, Skildar now being misrecorded as S.Kilda.
As the Dutch were among the foremost seafarers of this time period, many other countries would base their own official charts on those of the Dutch. British chart makers who used this 1592 map as the basis for their own work, simply assumed that S.Kilda was an abbreviation of St Kilda, and recorded it as such themselves.
St Kilda in Melbourne was named after an old wreck of a New Zealand ship 'Our Lady Of St Kilda' which was moored and abandoned there.
However, there is actually a Gaelic sporting club in Ireland called the ST KILDAS, and they play teams with names like NHMAITIU in County Sligo. I don't know much about them except that the area is a Gaelic speaking place (and yes, I have been there thirty years ago.) I asked an Irish friend of mine (who can't speak Gaelic) about the providence of those teams but he said that St Kilda isn't in Ireland at all and it doesn't make sense. I then showed him a picture of the scoreboard and he was surprised. He couldn't tell me about the other team either, but another mate of mine who can speak Gaelic did. It is a team called 'St Mathew' (NH means Saint or St in Gaelic).
I don’t believe that’s a real team. It was the school team from the drama “Normal People”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the school they attend is named after us.
Never heard of it, but you could be right. I was just searching up the Sligo GAA website (gaelic football and hurling) and couldn't find either of the clubs' names in it. And neither was the sponsor on that scoreboard - no mention of any sports shop in Sligo by that name. http://www.sligogaa.ie/Competition-Team ... ?cs=Senior
EDIT: And yep, you are right. It's from a new popular Irish TV show.
And as the forum expert on all things GAA, I can tell you the boy can play.
In that thread I was the sole respondent too. LOL!
BTW I went to the GAA second semi final replay between Meath and Dublin at Croke Park back in 1991 - which was another draw. Great skills. Great memories - no all seater stadiums back then, it was like standing in the outer on the gravel at Moorabbin or the Lake Oval back in them days.
