![]() We would of course have had people with blue eyes regardless of John Tyndall’s run in with Baron Rossmore, but we may not have known how or why we have blue eyes. The name Cortolvin Hills appears on the 1841 map, but Tyndall left Monaghan and Ireland in a hurry, making a fortune as a surveyor in the burgeoning railway industry in England. Tyndall, a teenager at the time,insisted that the historic name of Cortolvin Hill was the name that he would submit. Master Tyndall was dutifully mapping out the Rossmore estate and bumped into the Baron who was quite keen that the site of his new castle was referred to as Rossmore Hill. This very accuracy was a cause of conflict between young master Tyndall and Warner William Westenra better known as Baron Rossmore, Lord Lieutenant of Monaghan and Member of parliament, all in all a big cheese. The maps made at that time are still acclaimed to this day as the finest produced in terms of their accuracy. Tyndall joined the service in 1839 and was stationed in Monaghan. John Tyndall was a 19th century Irish physicist who commenced his career as a surveyor for the first great ordnance survey of Ireland between 18. Coldplay stopped performing their song ‘Green Eyes’ because Chris Martin had written it about a girlfriend before he met Gwyneth Paltrow and she, consciously un-couplet-ed it.īlue, like green, does not appear as a true pigment in eyes, it is an optical illusion called Tyndall Scattering. People with green eyes do not have any green pigment in their eyes, its an optical illusion. It is the most popular colour in Islam and features in almost every predominantly muslim countries flag. Green is the symbolic colour of Ireland and worn by our Olympic, football and rugby teams. This turned out to be unfortunate, as orpiment is an arsenic sulphide mineral and is incredibly toxic, so even if Tut had been alive when they buried him the arsenic would have got him in minutes. The Egyptians took the use and adoration of yellow/gold to a whole new level and started using orpiment to make the colour for royal use and tomb paintings. It appears in cave paintings, made from ochre. Yellow was established from the earliest times as a sign of eternity, hope and wealth due to the sun and gold having the same colour. The colour orange has nothing to do with the Dutch Royal House of Orange –Nassau or that area in the Netherlands.Both of those derived from a corruption of the spelling and pronunciation of the Celtic water god Arausio, which is quite bizarre when you think about it, Ireland, the ancient home of the Celts was finally subjugated in 1690 by William of Orange, who got his name from a Celtic water god… Orange is the only colour that is both a noun, the fruit, and an adjective, the colour. The Robin Redbreast actually has an orange breast. Up until the 13th century, before English people had actually seen an orange they had no word for that colour, and called it yellow red, or light red. Orange is one of the youngest colours that we have, in terms of it’s use in the English language at least. It was rumoured that a dragon was filled with blood and fire and that if it’s belly was pierced by an elephant’s tusk, the evil blood could be used as a pigment. This red was used to denote the devil, the fires of hell and Liverpool FC. Later on certain deep shades of red became a symbol of evil or danger in paintings and the darkest reds were made from sandarac, which was known as ‘dragon’s blood’. The cave paintings of Pettakere in Indonesia, Chauvet in France, El Castillo in Spain and Coliboaia in Romania all date to approximately 30,000 years ago, they all feature similar hand stenciling and animal pictures, and they are all painted in shades of red. Red is the oldest colour pigment used by humans. ![]() ![]() Here, in order are the colours of the rainbow, which story about which colour isn’t true …. So this week’s odd one out was inspired by the rainbow I saw on the way into work today. We have enough sandwich recipes to last us until Christmas and, my stars, the things we’ve learnt about saints would fill an ark….if there was such a thing….which there wasn’t. We are a little taken aback here in Monaghan’s 4th largest workwear store at the reaction to the last two blog competitions.
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