User:Asarlaí

This user is Irish and
lives in Ireland.

This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 3 months and 19 days.

30K+This user has made more than 30K contributions to Wikipedia.

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 26 This user has created 26 active template pages on the English language Wikipedia.

PlainThis editor prefers
Plain English.

tough, though, through, thoughtThis user supports
English spelling reform.

This user is male.

This user participates in
WikiProject Ireland.

This user remembers the
Holocene Epoch

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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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Timeline of Ulster Volunteer Force actions
  • Timeline of Ulster Defence Association actions
  • Timeline of Irish National Liberation Army actions
• 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

• 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

• 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

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User pages

Asarlaí
is a Member of the Secret Cabal.^†

• User:Asarlaí/English spelling reform
• User:Asarlaí/Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English
• User:Asarlaí/Sandbox