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Dec 8, 2023 22 tweets 12 min read
🧵 of some European classics that have Gaelic language adaptations in medieval Irish manuscripts

“Scéla Alaxandair Maic Pilip" (Tidings of Alexander, son of Philip) is an early medieval Irish saga recounting the deeds of Alexander the Great.

Preserved in the Book of Ballymote.
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"Gabhaltais Shearluis Mhoir" (The Conquests of Charlemagne) is a medieval Irish account of Charlemagne's 9th century campaign against the Moors in Spain.

The text has been preserved in the Book of Lismore.
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Dec 6, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
33% of Indians (now the fastest-growing minority in the Six Counties) declared their national identity to be 'British only', compared to just 1.7% who declared themselves 'Irish only'.
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Chinese: Over 10x as likely to declare 'British only' than 'Irish only'

Filipinos: Nearly half declared 'British only'

Hong Kongers: Nearly 60% declared themselves as 'British only'

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Nov 13, 2023 18 tweets 10 min read
🧵Anglo-Irish Relations and WW2 Neutrality

Lately, Ireland has gotten a lot more slack due to its neutrality during WW2, more so than say Finland’s WW2 position or any other neutral country in that time period

But why was Ireland neutral? And how does this relate to Anglo-Irish relations?
Image 18 years prior to WW2, Ireland had just asserted it’s right to nationhood in an armed struggle. When the Treaty was still being drafted in 1921, Aodh de Blácam (half English) wrote the following pages on what Sinn Féin hopes for Ireland’s future standing in the world & with Britain


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Sep 20, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
Throwback to early 2010s when Sinn Féin were giving presentations about banning fluoride in water by a woman who started a 'Stripping against Fluoride' campaign which Luke Ming Flanagan seemed to endorse...



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Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley was the one who introduced the bill to try ban Fluoride in Irish water and also tried to speak about the dangers of 5g in the Dáil
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Sep 19, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
Given the recent attention to this, a reminder that in April 2021, RTÉ released a programme ‘The Burren: Heart of Stone’ where they depicted the ‘original Irish’ as Nigerians with blue context lenses

This was 100% politically motivated as TG4 did a similar programme (DNA Caillte) in 2020 and depicted the ancient Irish as hippies you’d see at Body and Soul music festival

The geneticist was also retweeting things about ‘white privilege’ and BLM etc

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Sep 5, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
🧵Thread of 10 books to read to understand what went wrong with Ireland after the year 1923

1+2: Desmond Fennell “State of Nations since 1960s” and “Heresy”
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3. Mary E Daly

Industrial development and Irish National identity

Explains failures of Dev’s protectionism and how it was faux-protectionism Image
Jul 26, 2023 23 tweets 12 min read
In 1666 after the Great Fire of London, the Irish under the Duke of Ormonde sent over 30,000 cattle to aid Londoners

To show the Irish his thanks, the 2nd Duke of Buckingham passed the “Importation Act 1667” to crush the Irish cattle trade

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In the 1600s, Londoners were the biggest market for Irish beef and the Importation act thus destroyed this market.

The Navigation Acts (1660,63, 73,96) also made it hard for the Irish to export to any market other than England
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Jul 10, 2023 31 tweets 16 min read
Thread of Irish Colleges found around Europe.

Most of them were set up during the Counter-Reformation era.

1. Irish College in Paris, founded 1578, closed briefly during French Revolution (original library lost)

Today it hosts Polish seminary + Irish cultural centre

2. Irish Franciscan College at Louvain, Belgium, founded 1607, active by Irish Franciscans until 1987

“Dochum glóire Dé agus Onóra na hÉireann" (for the Glory of God and Honour of Ireland) = inscription on wall (and motto of Dev’s “Irish Press” newspaper)





Apr 17, 2023 16 tweets 7 min read
In relation to this tweet, I’d like to do a thread to all the RW guys on twitter who repeat this take that the Irish should stop quarrelling with the British State

The British State (not people, who I wish well) has 9 times throughout history tried to ethnically cleanse… The Irish in Ireland for its own geo strategic interests and as recent as the 1990s.

The first was of course the Normans, Statues of Kilkenny etc but we won’t bother to really count that since Gaeldom still lived ImageImage
Apr 17, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
Illustration is of a painting where Captain Otto O’Breen (O’Brien) welcome Czar Peter of Russia into his home in Rotterdam in 1717.

The Czar presented him with a presented him with a magnificently cut glass cup, and a golden medal commemorating the battle of Elbing (East Sea) Image The painting was by Dutch artist, Rechussen, depicting the event. There is a large group of persons in Otto’s house, and the Czar is seated in an armchair at the table, on which is the open box, which had contained the glass and medal.
Apr 17, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
lol ImageImage if u want article - tl;dr minor mentions of Irish in 1st and 3rd crusades though not by notable amount, after that there is more mentioning of participation afters 1220s, particularity 5/6th crusades

archive.ph/y1lmd
Apr 16, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Illustration of Dunmoe Castle from Picturesque Ireland (1885) vs the ruins today.

Destroyed during the 1798 rebellion. Cromwell shot at it with canons on his way along the Boyne moving from Drogheda to Athboy.

Shows how fast the sands of time and entropy move. ImageImage Ruins of Dunboy Castle, site of a famous siege in the 1602 when 143 men of O'Sullivan Beare's forces held the castle for 11 days against 5,000 English, eventually breached after extensive artillery bombardment, 58 surviving defenders hanged

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Apr 6, 2023 21 tweets 8 min read
Irish Libs love to whip up a frenzy over schools operating under the ethos of the Catholic Church but this literally amounts to reading Alive-O, singing songs, maybe a Marian statue of some sort in school

You don’t even read a Bible or Catechism in Irish “Catholic” schools

🧵 Image At most you do a Nativity Play, preparation work for your First Holy Communion in 2nd class and your Confirmation in 6th class but this is mostly time off school to sing songs and then later getting money from your relatives and have a party in a pub - it’s very watered down Image
Mar 15, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Just found out Black Hoteps are claiming that they wuz the real Irish and Scottish Jacobites



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3:15 “Cromwell is actually a Jewish name, adopted by Ashkenazi”
Mar 7, 2023 33 tweets 15 min read
Borris House Borris, County Carlow - built in 1741 and ancestral home of the McMorrough Kavanagh family in Tudor Revival Style

🧵 The McMorrough Kavanagh descend from Domhnall Caomhánach who was the eldest son of Diarmait Mac Murchada - king of Leinster who brought the Normans in to reclaim his throne in 1169 after he was disposed by High King Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair and forced to exile
Mar 7, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Found it quite funny that whenever an English King is disposed, they go to Ireland to relaunch

- Harold Godwinson son’s
- Robert Duke of Normandy and de Bellme family
- Plantagenet Pretenders after War of Roses like Lambert Simnel
- King James II and Jacobite line Inverse of this is Túathal Techtmar using the Romans & Britain to reclaim Irish High Kingship

Túathal was the son of Eithne Imgel, daughter of the king of Alba (Britain or Scotland) - she fled Ireland when pregnant to Britain when her husband Fíachu was overthrown and gave birth
Mar 7, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Robert Kee interviewing an elderly Stephen Fuller, the only survivor of the Ballyseedy massacre. Fuller went on to join Fianna Fáil and became a TD for Kerry North.

Fuller never once mentioned the Ballyseedy incident from a political platform and stated later that he bore no ill-will towards his captors or those who were involved in his attempted extrajudicial killing. He did not want the ill feeling passed on to the next generation.
Mar 6, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Bar the opening line and some other minor segments - the actual meat of Dev’s 1937 constitutions is arguably one of the most secular in the world which shows how Fianna Fáil pivoted away from their initial radicalism near the end of their first term in government Garrett Fitzgerald - a champion of Liberal Ireland - even admits so
Mar 6, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Four things that define the Irishness of Derek’s son ImageImageImageImage Clip of Commitments and Father Ted via Granville Thorndyke video

Need to get few cans with the lads and rewatch lot of Irish media pumped out in this period have a giggle at the subversive messaging - particularly all the Anti-Catholic movies made by Weinstein’s studios too
Feb 5, 2023 13 tweets 7 min read
1. Ireland is a Nation, not an economic zone nor some numbers game.
2. Not all immigrants are the same, for example Africans have the highest unemployment rates, with studies by UCD scratching their heads to discover why.

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"The unemployment rate for Africans living in Ireland is 5-8 times higher than western Europeans and 3-5 times higher than Eastern Europeans." -Dr. Ebun Joseph

She of course just blames it on racism
Jan 12, 2023 27 tweets 10 min read
Imagine if Fianna Fáil in 1960s made it so TV could only be through Irish - no Béarla at all

Imagine the impact of generations growing up listening to Gaeilgeoirí in their sitting rooms than talking Anglos

Instead they let the Fake-English accents from Dublin 4 takeover

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Desmond Fennell on Dublin 4 , 2nd page on “radio voices”

Full chapter in book: t.me/IrishBooks/264



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