Author: Aodh Ó Siadhail
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Arabic Food Over 300 Years and 1300 Kilometres
I’ve done a lot of work cooking Arabic food, and had to do very little research to get there, because Nawal Nasrallah has done an incredible amount in translating medieval Arabic cookery books. Two of these are Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, which is a translation of a 10th century Baghdadi cookbook compiled by Ibn…
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The Medieval Poetic Forms Project
This is a new meta-project, provoked in equal part by the difficulty I had in composing verse in the Welsh cywydd form, and by the Laurel Sponsored Prize Display at Strawberry Raid V in which I talked about that and other poetic forms. The plan is to work my way up to the cywydd by…
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A Deibhidhe
A Deibhidhe I’ve written up the rules of the deibhidhe form. It’s not an easy one to write in; the first couple of lines are easy, but the constraints increase as you go. For the first line, you just need seven syllables and some alliteration. By the time you get to line 4, it needs…
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As The Sea Opposes Building (A Sonnet)
In this post I’m going to present a sonnet as I wrote it, and then make it more period-appropriate.
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Irish Medieval Poetry Forms: Deibhidhe
As part of what will become the The Medieval Poetic Forms Project, I’m digging into Irish Medieval Poetry Forms. There are many; a lot of the surviving texts are poetry, or at least poetic. I’ve poked triads before, too. The form I’m currently looking at is called deibhidhe, which I’d pronounce as “JAY-vid-the”, approximately (or…
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Strawberry Raid Sestina
Strawberry Raid Sestina For the Laurel Sponsored Prize Display at Cudgel Wars last year, I wrote a set of triads. For the same at Strawberry Raid this year, I wrote a sestina. Sestinas are a slight step away from my usual sonnets, but still use iambic pentameter (although my metre isn’t strong in any case).…
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Strawberry Raid V, 2026
This isn’t so much an event report as an index post, from which I can link more posts as I make them. You can expect posts on: Thoughts on Camp Coordination Teaching Cooking by Doing Cooking The Medieval Poetic Forms Project Sestinas, with one I wrote at the event Being Present at Events International Visitors…
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