Surely that's something virtual. Not an actual goodbye, what with being exit-ed by grace alone.

Possible that Irish exit is domain of that non-musical, non-dancing, miserabilist strand of Irishness. Created by us to troll our diaspora compatriots.

Only if they knew the old joke about knowing you were in the right place once the second collection came round.

Some bishops are just such remarkably good value, in name and deed.

... England, presumably being given St David's as a consolation prize. He generated further rows there, and was accused (apparently accurately) of bigamy by the puritan Martin Marprelate tracts, later being removed from office and the priesthood, a very rare occurence. 3/

... warfare with the town corporation and his cathedral's dean, partly over money, but also because he actually tried to impose Protestantism, which didn't seem to go down well. He was solidly backed by Lord Deputy Grey and Walsingham, but in 1581 he seems to have given up and returned to ... 2/

Anyway, here’s Chris Dillow musing on similar themes, except with Science rather than creative cursing and obscene metaphors chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe...