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🧵THREAD: There is nothing green about the Emerald Isle this St Patrick's Day

Did you know Ireland has the lowest ecological integrity in Europe?

Our native and natural ecology has been torn away for commercial gain
irishevs.com/reforestation-…
#ClimateCrisis #StPatricksDay2023 A map showing the ecological integrity of Europe. Countries
Ireland is three years past deadline to send long-term climate strategy to European Union

The government has repeatedly fallen short of promises to get the important strategy finished
jrnl.ie/5983785
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
The Government’s purchase of carbon credits covers up their consistent failure to act in the face of the Climate Crisis

Costing taxpayers, worsening public health & perpetuating climate imperalism

Utter greenwashing:
irishevs.com/irish-governme…
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency A graph showing greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland between
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Happy #StPatricksDay2023 from St Patrick's Square, Edinburgh, 1914☘️In the background below the spire, the original row of 18th c. tenements of St Patrick Street, for which the square is named. But why was a street in Presbyterian Edinburgh named for the Irish patron saint? 🧵👇 St. Patrick Square from the South, image from 1914 by J. R.
Well the simple answer is it probably wasn't. It was most likely named for Patrick Tod, a local merchant and landowner. It wouldn't be the first or second saintly Edinburgh placename to have a strictly civic root; see also St. James's Square and St. Ann Street 😇
Those original tenements - demolished in the 1930s - had been built in 1782 by the late James Carfrae, the proprietor of a suburban house and garden known as Cabbagehall.
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On #StPatricksDay2023 I want to shout out to my compatriots from #Ireland producing some of the most incisive, compelling, and agenda-setting scholarship in global constitutional law today. Read them, follow them, connect with them.

A loooong (but very incomplete) thread 🧵
A few quick starting notes for a global audience.
I often think constitutional law research by Irish scholars is so rich because of our unique context, in a constitutional system that has one foot in colonialism and conflict, and one (today) in the rich Global North.
#Ireland's war of independence, civil war, 1922 Constitution, partition, and 1937 Constitution (still in force) sets our experience apart from the gradualist constitutional development of e.g. #Canada, #Australia, #NewZealand, but has commonalities with other states (e.g. India).
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