POLL: who is your favourite Irish historical hunk?
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Seán Mac Diarmada is listening to you talk about your day. He doesn't suggest patronising solutions to your problems, he just touches your shoulder, tells you it's warm and asks if it's ok if he takes his shirt off. https://twitter.com/stephie08/status/1168985051603906561?s=19
Casement: if your girlfriend/boyfriend ain't Casement, you're single to me. https://twitter.com/bhearnon/status/1168987043290112000?s=19
Seán Heuston is carefully nursing nine sad puppies back to health, wondering if he'll ever meet a girl kind enough to rub lotion onto his massive, aching biceps. https://twitter.com/stephie08/status/1168987736658841602?s=19
When Aodh Rua looks in your eyes, and you’re looking back in his, everything feels not quite normal. Because he feels stronger and weaker at the same time, feels excited... and at the same time terrified. But he knows the man he wants to be. https://twitter.com/TheKavOfficial/status/1168988963169820672?s=19
Fellas. Before you grab that razor - think. https://twitter.com/Gerard_K_Hynes/status/1168990971008364545?s=19
We like big Butts and we cannot lie. https://twitter.com/MatthewHolmesBL/status/1168993146568675330?s=19
This wanted poster for Michael Collins redefines "wanted".
MacDonagh doesn't know much about fancy restaurants or foie gras, but he'd sure love to hold your hand and watch the sunset behind Dun Briste, his coat over your shoulders as you share a bag of hot, salty chips. https://twitter.com/mise_seire/status/1168995324989464578?s=19
John Devoy has been fighting bareknuckle all his life, but nothing scares him more than telling you how he feels. He never dared hope that the world could be as wonderful as you make it. https://twitter.com/bakesalot30/status/1168996270498861059?s=19
Dubhghlas reaches for the same book as you do in the library. You explain that you need it more because you have an essay deadline. So does he. You agree to study together, shyly giggling. His hand touches yours. You hop on him. https://twitter.com/roisinod/status/1168998180983386112?s=19
Larkin is reading that book you casually recommended to him, and wiping a single tear away. https://twitter.com/chip_daley/status/1168999460090916864?s=19
Mallinn accidentally meets your nephews and nieces and their dogs when you are going on a walk after a picnic on your first date. They all love him. https://twitter.com/SheilaRyan41/status/1169000780193550336?s=19
You're about to get on board the plane to meet that good-on-paper Englishman, but you hear a sound. Jimmy is running through airport security. He wants to tell you that he's sorry for not listening to you and loves you as much as he loves freedom. https://twitter.com/Bubblenoma/status/1169001716785852419?s=19
When Patsy texts you back, it's always the right mixture of witty and touching. He's not too cool to use an exclamation mark, especially when he's being supportive.
https://twitter.com/Chicken_Caoimh/status/1169002027667656705?s=19
Boru answers the phone. It's a wrong number. They have phone sex. https://twitter.com/TheKavOfficial/status/1168999413265707008?s=19
Frank Ryan won't leave you cryin'.
It's a pretty ring he's out m buyin',
So don't be fussin', don't be sighin',
Do you wanna be Mrs Ryan? https://twitter.com/Melissawithafa1/status/1169001034246774785?s=19
When Fitzy hugs you, his aftershave smells amazing and he hasn't used too much of it. You hold on a minute too long. When his lips touch yours, they are the softest you have ever known. https://twitter.com/Nialas_Dubh/status/1169007301337989122?s=19
O'Mahony is just here to give sensual, hour-long backrubs and drink coffee... and it looks like they're all out of coffee. https://twitter.com/sbriercliffe/status/1169015552762925056?s=19
Ceannt. Even. https://twitter.com/EoinRonan_/status/1169017737601007621?s=19
Donal Cam normally just wears a hoodie and canterburys. He got dressed up because he heard you might be here tonight. https://twitter.com/RobertO43203598/status/1169020656085819392?s=19
Napper Tandy tells you that one doesn't look at the mantelpiece when one pokes the fire. You think he's making a dirty joke and tell him so.

He points at the fireplace. You see a glimmer.

It's a pair of diamond earrings and tickets to a thing you like. https://twitter.com/dublinbypub/status/1169021216247750656?s=19
Unknown Fenian Prisoner has interrupted your football game to sing "You're Too Good To Be True" for you. He's even got the school marching band to play the horns bit.

As they try to take him away, he does some lighthearted capering. https://twitter.com/CaoimheNicD/status/1169012114100502530?s=19
Ernie O'Malley bought a Portuguese phrase book to learn how to talk to you.

When you tell him that you don't speak Portuguese, he apologises and says he just assumed you were Brazilian because you're so intoxicatingly beautiful.
https://twitter.com/Chicken_Caoimh/status/1169006571038359557?s=19
Michael Fagan has written "you up?" in rose petals and candles outside your house. https://twitter.com/SineadBrennan1/status/1169001665246244864?s=19
Skeffy has written you a sonnet. The first letters of each line spell a secret message: "you are so pretty". https://twitter.com/SineadKK/status/1169137947217747968?s=19
A thrilling current of fizzy electricity runs through your body when O'Donovan Rossa holds your hand. Shyly, you look down... and realise that you are both flying over the city. https://twitter.com/freejournalism/status/1169005247651618817?s=19
Robert Emmett takes you to the rooftop, the secret place he goes when he's sad. He's never taken anyone here before.

Somewhere below, a pianist is playing "Claire De Lune" over the police sirens. You both dance as the moonlight breaks through the clouds. https://twitter.com/Maebhcon/status/1168987991857147905?s=19
Tom Crean was able to walk through that artic storm because the thought of seeing your smile again kept him warm. https://twitter.com/ZaeliKane/status/1169257981743116293?s=19
Thomas Ashe was the inspiration for Zap Brannigan's uniform in Futurama. https://twitter.com/padraigfd/status/1169008806292021248?s=19
There was no action in Beckett's plays. He saved all the action for the seomra codlata. https://twitter.com/lingading79/status/1169201501039992837?s=19
Myles Keogh may not be as rich as he is handsome... but he has "heart frontage". https://twitter.com/TheKavOfficial/status/1168987364074708992?s=19
Henry Joy McCracken? Henry Joy ag bualadh craiceann, dar liom. https://twitter.com/Northern7oul/status/1169011581335801858?s=19
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