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Thread: some Irish names for wild animals Starting off with a favourite. Jellyfish is known as 'Smugairle Róin', which translates as 'Seal Snot' Bats have a few names in Irish
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Anne StayAtHome
DrAnneMurphy
Interesting thread on advantage, complicity and being used by the Establishment.https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1267155127196176387 You’ll notice there’s been relatively little written about 2nd and 3rd gen Irish complicity. But the
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Irish Archaeology
irarchaeology
Thread: Some Irish names for birds....The Irish for the Goldfinch, one of Ireland's most colourful birds, is 'Lasair Choille' which roughly translates as 'bright flame of the forest' Photo: Sue
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❌Missy Killion- Rudicil ❌
MissyKillion
Did you know ?The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political
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Edward Madigan
MadiganEdward
On this day in 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Unionist MP and former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, was shot dead outside his home in Belgravia. His assassins,
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Mike Burke
meburke4
What the Irish government has been long trying to do—with even more urgency after the 2008 meltdown—is build better resiliency in the Irish economy. That means balancing foreign investment into
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Jennifer Rankin
JenniferMerode
Incredible admission by leadingTory Brexiteer Steve Baker. They were told to vote for WA without reading it “on the basis Michael Gove articulated: we could change it later”.So they voted
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Margaret Leahy
gardenngather
Day 36 is International Seed Day so I thought I'd share some tips on seeds. My preferenced sources for seeds are 1. Seed I save 2. Irish organic seed 3.
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vladimirlem0n
Irih people were not slaves try againhttps://twitter.com/HiIamaperson3/status/1248836457663471617 Calling Irish people slaves muddies the reality of their colonial oppression as well as ignores that Irish have very much taken part in
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Donal Fallon
fallon_donal
On one level the career of Eoghan Harris makes perfect sense - he has always been with whoever was 'putting it up to the Provos' as he viewed it, which
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(((Frances 'Seriously Unwell' Coppola))) 🌷🌷🌷
Frances_Coppola
I know I said this yesterday, but... In 1847,at the height of the Irish Famine, there were crop failures across Europe. European countries banned grain exports. The UK Govt, which
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Danny Boy
Care2much18
Cheltenham Festival truthers on here have some interesting talking points. "It should have been canceled" is the one I'll agree with but there's some morally obtuse arguments being made on
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Bill Holohan
BillHolohanSolr
Ever wondered how it came about that in Irish legal history before the establishment of the State, the ultimate Court in Ireland was the UK House of Lords? Well, 215
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Elinor Elliot
ElliotElinor
Living in "deep England" for a decade has been an education. Principally in how Englishness attempts to elide Irish culture, when it isn't engaging in outworn and superannuated stereotypes. I
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Medb MacDaibheid
MMacdaibheid
Is the UK the same as England/Britain? Does it matter? UK, hun? If you’re alarmed that Paul Mescal is called British then it should alarm you when people say we
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Charles Mount
cmount1
The medieval colonisation of Ireland1 of 11/ My thoughts in relation to the issue of whether #Ireland was colonised in the #medieval period set out in a twitter thread.The International
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