1622.  A RELATION OF THE   Most Lamentable Burning oF the Cittie of Corke in the West of Ireland,  with the Most Doleful and Miserable in the Province of MONSTER BY THUNDER AND LIGHTENING  WITH the Most Doleful Accidents when fell out of  last of May 1622 after the prodigious Battle 1612 of the Birds Called Stares….

 

https://durrushistory.com/2014/01/13/irish-public-discourse-is-like-watching-a-flock-of-starlings-veering-wildly-in-one-direction-1698-and-then-suddenly-in-another-the-phenomenon-in-cork-1/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2012/10/05/dutch-etching-thousands-watch-starlings-in-cork-square-c1700/

 

 

 

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