The Irish

see, if you were listening to yr second captains football podcast youd hear it in the intro twice a week

(they do social/political stuff every now and then fyi, not to a great degree or anything tho)

You are literally the third person to recommend this to me in the last ten minutes!

we cant all be wrong

Richie sadlier will be president of ireland some day, mark my words.

it's a good podcast

I think probably most of us have seen this already, but for those who haven’t:

This letter in today’s ⁦@IrishTimes⁩ https://t.co/wqR6Bi1kSz pic.twitter.com/XWfvYE34BG

— Hugh Linehan (@hlinehan) December 21, 2019

‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. I love this photo. pic.twitter.com/RyiENzbgb9

— Davenant (@SirWilliamD) December 23, 2019

this Inge Morath pic is incredible. That it is a 20th century social history pic full of rich detail that is unmistakably from a long gone era and also looks like it could have been taken only yesterday - is just one of its many qualities.

Thanks to both of you there - that letter is amazing, and so is the photo - my mother would have been 9 at the time.

There was a follow up to the letter: nb, it’s tough reading

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mother-grieving-loss-of-all-three-children-says-there-is-too-much-space-around-me-now-1.4122965

I see Liveline has spoken for the nation. Wtf is number 10?

Your high points of the last decade!! ⁦@RTENewsNow⁩ ⁦@rteliveline⁩ ⁦@rtenews⁩ pic.twitter.com/dGyRUp4xPF

— JOE DUFFY (@joeliveline) December 23, 2019

"closure of head shops" not especially conducive to highs I would have thought

Despite heavy rain, the wrenboys were out in force in Dingle collecting for charity.

The west Kerry town is one of the last strongholds of the St Stephen's Day tradition that is believed to have pagan origins | Read more: https://t.co/dwWItCbqYD pic.twitter.com/wA4RFoprYv

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 26, 2019

So, this is when that Wenceslas dude did all that looking out at the snow, eh?

Byrne aged quickly, like many Irishmen.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 December 2019 21:42 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

:(

I went from top pretty boy to getting stopped for police line-ups between the ages of 17 to 22. This is definitely a thing!

hmph its prettier i get

Depends very much on yr genes & lifestyle same as anyone else, there’s lots of variation in my own family

Is aoibhinn libh é a fheiceáil
https://i.postimg.cc/6QC2VWSd/D32-E87-DC-8068-42-A1-968-D-5-BC90-E0-A7661.jpg

Come Out Ye Black n Tans No. 1 in Ireland, No. 3 in Britain ... Fine Gael got their answer .... https://t.co/3rOa8XiyEN

— The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 (@wolfetones) January 9, 2020

this was retweeted by my main homey RLB. I always remember the Wolfe Tones - Rifles of the IRA album hidden at the back of the record shelf, like it might be illegal to own it!

Did RLB really retweet thT It’s not on her TL

oh no it's someone using a play on her name, forget it.

these bloody twitterers and their hilarious spoonerisms!

Ten years ago: man slips on ice in Dublin. More with @rtearchives https://t.co/96jTx8I501

— RTÉ (@rte) January 8, 2020

have you not seen the plaque!

a terrible shame that an American company had to be the one to do it

have you not seen the plaque!

this was retweeted by my main homey RLB. I always remember the Wolfe Tones - Rifles of the IRA album hidden at the back of the record shelf, like it might be illegal to own

That 'Let the People Sing' album is a common sight in charity shops in Glasgow - or was.

Are you joking? Please be serious. Where is it?!?!

it's some 'viral marketing' courtesy of Coors Light

https://images.app.goo.gl/TGYVgZiV6QkGpbhp7

Rifles of the I.R.A. is the fourth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones.

The cover shows the band members dressed in the traditional dress of the IRA. The folk singer Christy Moore said of the cover, "I equate that particular record sleeve with Foster and Allen, dressed up as leprechauns. It was the very same thing. It had the same significance at the time.

C Moore wasn't impressed with that album cover

it is quite comical. as are the tones tbh - not that i don't know half their catalogue

The Wolfe Tones are playing in a pub near me in upstate NY. Should I go see them?

I found a bunch of their records in the bookshop of one of the local libraries a few years ago.

bloody hell ...they still get about a bit! I can't remember much about their sound tbh.

Room for a Mighty Mighty Bosstones collaboration while they're in the States

my wife saw them play at a midtown pub a few years ago (dragged by a friend, she had no idea what to expect) and said it was a good show but also a little alarming in its political fervor.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:37 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

like, if that sounds like yr bag.

twouldnt be mine

I see Come Out Ye Black and Tans is supposedly number one here too now? Diaspora i assume, confirms the most obvious Eurovision theory of them all.

This poster doesn’t hold back!

Anti-recruitment poster in Enniscorthy (c. 1909): "Join the Army. Sell your souls, your country, and your God for the Saxon shilling. Join England's hireling murderers. Go to India, to murder women and children and shoot down men who are fighting for liberty." https://t.co/RdV1T0o94x

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) January 7, 2020

This poster featured heavily in Unionist political literature after a copy was reproduced by the Union Defence League ('Irish Facts' Vol. III) for propaganda purposes. pic.twitter.com/PVt9dDcsgG

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) January 7, 2020

My great granddad was one of them Irish sellouts for the Saxon shilling! He got quite badly disabled at Gallipoli and was lucky to survive because the ambulance ship that rescued him was taking sniper bullets or something. My historian minded uncle who has the full story is currently dying of prostate cancer and the NHS can't operate on him because his kidneys are gone, but I'm it was a good story iirc but i just can't remember most of it.

Maybe we can get #ComeOutYeBlackAndTans to number 1 in China too. pic.twitter.com/4Cj5fUViLU

— Des Bishop 毕瀚生 (@Desbishop) January 9, 2020

Aertel chic
https://i2.wp.com/www.theglassmagazine.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MSK_RobynLynch-21.jpg

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0114/1107299-election-announcement-tracker/


Ádh mór dúinn

Ireland's rail network, 100 years ago vs now. Seriously. pic.twitter.com/8bO8p7dFfG

— Dr Shaun O'Boyle 🏳️‍🌈 (@shaunoboyle) January 22, 2020

looks even worse than what the Beeching Cuts did to the UK.

That’s hardly the worst thing about it

https://youtu.be/SW-tdaO2s9o

the mid 20th century rolling stock with asbestos lined ceilings at least had comfy chairs with enough knee-space for anyone over five ft tall. Although that won't save you from an insufferable Gleeson clone! How did that crap how so many credits at the end?

That wasn’t a Gleeson clone, that’s him!

it just goes to show, never give up hope - keep chasing those dreams!

Absolutely dying at this shite

Varadkar’ s FG, campaigning on anti-British “small Country” ticket down 7 points. https://t.co/b2oQZEcQbF

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) February 1, 2020

amazing analysis, seems to take in all of the wait what

im sure he'll be bothered enough to come back and explain that he believes that the 7 lost by fg were specifically turned off by that, but they are a totally different 7 that went to the lads

truly the worst of all possible gaffes by the indian fella, whose name isnt even oreilly

Leo is such a fan of the Brits that they had a totally unnecessary row with half the country about the RIC commemorations.

Lewis Goodall is in Ireland for the election

When Labour said they were mass canvassing they got it all wrong pic.twitter.com/iW83VXn7h4

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) February 3, 2020

Ireland, Red C poll:

SF-LEFT: 24% (+5)
FF-RE: 24% (-2)
FG-EPP: 21% (-2)
GREEN-G/EFA: 7% (-1)
LAB-S&D: 5% (+1)
SD-S&D: 3%
AONTÚ-*: 2% (+1)
S-PBP-LEFT: 1% (-1)

+/- vs. 16-22 Jan

Fieldwork: 25-30 January 2020
Sample size: 1,000
Polling average: https://t.co/Pjh0Ruzgg3#GE2020 pic.twitter.com/rGMCEcTeZs

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) February 1, 2020