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Dr Gillian Kenny
@medievalgill
Historian of Ireland | Agent @donaldwin_ | Probably reading old, weird stuff | adjunct prof @ucd
Apr 14, 2023 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
We are TIRED of this. We have literally had negative stereotyping of the Irish (by certain English) for ALMOST A THOUSAND YEARS NOW.
Thread (from a pissed off historian) ‘This race is inconstant, changeable, wily, and cunning.’
Gerald of Wales in the twelfth century (admittedly more Welsh but still part of a colonising force)
May 16, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Reading about how a future king of Tara was expected to be able to “rub his wheel against the stone penis of the Lía Fál”

Wheel of his chariot that is

Here’s a pic of the Lía Fál at Tara which probably isn’t the Lía Fál but that’s a whole other issue Image The Lía Fál (called the Stone of Destiny, no less) is said to have been brought to Ireland by the Tuatha de Danaan - one of 4 magical objects which they brought with them from 4 cities they had lived in.
Feb 9, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Ah good morning Twitter. I’m currently reading an article on “Sleep related erections through the ages” (yes really) and thought I’d share a bit as it’s...well, you can make your own judgements > Plato excused penile wilfulness because “in males the nature of the genital organs is disobedient and self-willed, like a creature that is deaf to reason, and it attempts to dominate all because of its frenzied lists”

I wonder what he called his little, crazy friend? >
Jan 25, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I have come across a series of interpretations of famous figures as they would look today.
Here’s Julius Caesar looking like he enjoys a flat white and works as a senior manager in Google Anne Boleyn, annoyed at having to actually even look at you if you’re not a Protestant. Also...where’s my fucking Uber energy is big here
Dec 22, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
#Solstice baby There are cloaks everywhere and one man has come as a pirate which is awesome
Oct 30, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So because all the stuff about Samhain being touted about across the airwaves etc is basically a pile of rubbish...
Let’s go back to basics shall we and start calling the day what it should be called...The Feast of Mongfind.
Who? Well...
According to c11th C The Death of Crimthann, Mongfind was a powerful witch Queen who is said to have died at Samhain.
Of what?
Jun 11, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I’m standing outside Salisbury Cathedral and there’s a man bullshitting a woman about medieval history.

He’s literally using the few bits of knowledge he has to try and get laid.

I am staring at her and rolling my eyes like a mad woman👍

She looks bored stiff,I have hope He’s just said that the Magna Carta was signed “here at this Cathedral”

My
Face
Is
A
Picture

RUN AWAY FROM HIM NICE LADY

Ugh now he’s pointing out ‘architecture’