In the Dark

Well, workwise, that’s me just about done for the year 2019.

I received the `official’ Christmas card shown above from the President of the Maynooth University, Professor Philip Nolan, earlier this week so I thought I’d share the picture as a Christmas card to my readers (both of them). The phrase on the card means `Happy Christmas’ (though, as the Welsh `Nadolig Llawen’, the Happy comes after the Christmas). Sometimes you find the phrase Nollaig Shona Duit which means `Happy Christmas to you’.

There’s quite a similarity between the Irish word for Christmas, Nollaig, and the Welsh word Nadolig. That’s not surprising because we are talking about two Celtic languages. But are both related in some way to Noel?

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