Éamann Mac Donnchada
@almagroschool.bsky.social
Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Translations, mainly academic https://cregannatranslation.com/
Politics: Crude Marxist
Translations, mainly academic https://cregannatranslation.com/
Politics: Crude Marxist
"You're interested in history"
"I *am* history"
late period Robert Plant is excellent value
www.cbsnews.com/video/full-i...
"I *am* history"
late period Robert Plant is excellent value
www.cbsnews.com/video/full-i...
Full interview: Robert Plant
Rock and roll legend Robert Plant, the former frontman for Led Zeppelin, sits down with Robert Costa to talk about his latest album, "Saving Grace."
www.cbsnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"You're interested in history"
"I *am* history"
late period Robert Plant is excellent value
www.cbsnews.com/video/full-i...
"I *am* history"
late period Robert Plant is excellent value
www.cbsnews.com/video/full-i...
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Has the NLR given the party line yet on the name?
Has Tariq?
Has Tariq?
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Has the NLR given the party line yet on the name?
Has Tariq?
Has Tariq?
I argued in the substack a while back that you couldn't really say that Ireland was particularly antisemitic, more that it was in love with itself. Well....👇👇👇
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Dublin’s Herzog Park set to be ‘denamed’ by city councillors over Israel connections
Chief Rabbi says Jewish story deserves not to be ‘whitewashed or erased’
www.irishtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I argued in the substack a while back that you couldn't really say that Ireland was particularly antisemitic, more that it was in love with itself. Well....👇👇👇
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Top work, as usual. Lots of similar political discourse in Spain too.
New substack; how talk of "the country" often serves a right-wing purpose: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-country
"The country"
"The country" often does not mean the whole of the people.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Top work, as usual. Lots of similar political discourse in Spain too.
Pedro Sánchez speaking in English. Bang on about the centre right abandoning its values in order to win votes but ending up without votes or values
La historia no la escriben los algoritmos, la escribe la gente.
Somos la vanguardia de un nuevo comienzo que trae esperanza y mejora vidas.
Mientras la derecha se rinde a la extrema derecha y pierde valores, nosotros defendemos la democracia, la libertad y la justicia.
🗣️ Pedro Sánchez
Somos la vanguardia de un nuevo comienzo que trae esperanza y mejora vidas.
Mientras la derecha se rinde a la extrema derecha y pierde valores, nosotros defendemos la democracia, la libertad y la justicia.
🗣️ Pedro Sánchez
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Pedro Sánchez speaking in English. Bang on about the centre right abandoning its values in order to win votes but ending up without votes or values
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@almagroschool.bsky.social has swears! They've used 791 profanities in their last 11,134 posts.
🥇 "fucking" (144 times)
🥈 "fuck" (135 times)
🥉 "shit" (113 times)
🥇 "fucking" (144 times)
🥈 "fuck" (135 times)
🥉 "shit" (113 times)
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
@almagroschool.bsky.social has swears! They've used 791 profanities in their last 11,134 posts.
🥇 "fucking" (144 times)
🥈 "fuck" (135 times)
🥉 "shit" (113 times)
🥇 "fucking" (144 times)
🥈 "fuck" (135 times)
🥉 "shit" (113 times)
November 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I see a considerable amount of hating Rosalia from ppl from normally sensible ppl at the other place. I ascribe this to 1. inability to process the fact that a popular artist has profound religious beliefs and 2. Related snobbery, a feeling that they're above that kind of tastelessness
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I see a considerable amount of hating Rosalia from ppl from normally sensible ppl at the other place. I ascribe this to 1. inability to process the fact that a popular artist has profound religious beliefs and 2. Related snobbery, a feeling that they're above that kind of tastelessness
Spain's government is constantly chided for supposedly slacking on defense spending when in fact it's fire hosing money at the local defence sector. Could the real problem be that it declines to kiss Trump's arse?
Spain’s Council of Ministers has given the green light to the signing of the execution order for the mid-life modernization of the F100 frigates, ‘Álvaro de Bazán’ class 🇪🇸
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Navantia to Modernize F100 frigates to Extend Their Lifespan Until 2045 - Naval News
Spain's Council of Ministers has given the green light to the signing of the execution order for the mid-life modernization of the F100 frigates, 'Álvaro de Bazán' class.
www.navalnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Spain's government is constantly chided for supposedly slacking on defense spending when in fact it's fire hosing money at the local defence sector. Could the real problem be that it declines to kiss Trump's arse?
This has done well by modest standards so worth boosting again I think
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This has done well by modest standards so worth boosting again I think
🤣
Muscular Christianity.
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”
November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🤣
Next up from Mahmood; a diet of thin gruel and dressing in old jute bags for asylum seekers
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Next up from Mahmood; a diet of thin gruel and dressing in old jute bags for asylum seekers
De Ábalos en una celda de Soto del Real a Gamal Abdel Nasser y la presa de Asuán: @enricjuliana.bsky.social pasa revista a la escena política española. Decepcionado estoy de que no haya conseguido incluir también alguna referencia al Kuomintang 😉 www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
Peugeot en desguace, Anotop en Debod
El centro de gravedad de la política española vuelve a situarse en Catalunya
www.lavanguardia.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
De Ábalos en una celda de Soto del Real a Gamal Abdel Nasser y la presa de Asuán: @enricjuliana.bsky.social pasa revista a la escena política española. Decepcionado estoy de que no haya conseguido incluir también alguna referencia al Kuomintang 😉 www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
Otoh, Manchán was a fine man and whatever worked for him and the wife in his final days is great. Otoh, a heap of pound shop mysticism, including a death doula from Cork !
archive.ph/ttOxt
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November 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Otoh, Manchán was a fine man and whatever worked for him and the wife in his final days is great. Otoh, a heap of pound shop mysticism, including a death doula from Cork !
archive.ph/ttOxt
archive.ph/ttOxt
es "Hostigar 24/7 a la mujer de Sánchez y, si eso mete suficiente presión psicológica a Sánchez como para obligarlo a dimitir, estupendo."
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
es "Hostigar 24/7 a la mujer de Sánchez y, si eso mete suficiente presión psicológica a Sánchez como para obligarlo a dimitir, estupendo."
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👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
if you screen all the men in Britain you'll certainly save some lives, you'll also submit many to completely unnecessary medical interventions with nasty side effect. It may be rational for YOU to get checked but it's not rational for the govt to mandate it for everyone
Millions of middle-aged men will be denied routine prostate cancer checks, with a new NHS screening programme instead focusing on 30,000 with a cancer-causing mutation
Millions miss out on prostate screening while most at-risk get checks
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
if you screen all the men in Britain you'll certainly save some lives, you'll also submit many to completely unnecessary medical interventions with nasty side effect. It may be rational for YOU to get checked but it's not rational for the govt to mandate it for everyone
anecdote from Argentine sociologist Juan Carlos Torre, which explains, at least in part, why Catalan nationalists are often angered by Argentine immigrants. Arg ppl have a level of cultural confidence and self-esteem not common in LatAm and tend to be unimpressed by local identity squabbles
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
anecdote from Argentine sociologist Juan Carlos Torre, which explains, at least in part, why Catalan nationalists are often angered by Argentine immigrants. Arg ppl have a level of cultural confidence and self-esteem not common in LatAm and tend to be unimpressed by local identity squabbles
thru gritted teeth judge Peinado calls 4 witnesses favourable to Sánchez's wife. they testify that her activities at Complutense Uni were normal. Nevertheless, I think in the current judicial climate she's likely to be sent for trial and convicted of sth. Evidence doesn't matter at this state
Cuatro testigos aseguran que Begoña Gómez registró el dominio de su cátedra y firmó pliegos siguiendo las normas de la Complutense
Cuatro testigos aseguran que Begoña Gómez registró el dominio de su cátedra y firmó pliegos siguiendo las normas de la Complutense
El juez Peinado ha escuchado al personal vinculado a la universidad que la defensa de la mujer del Presidente del Gobierno propuso citar hace un año, después de que le obligara a hacerlo la Audiencia de Madrid
dozz.es
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
thru gritted teeth judge Peinado calls 4 witnesses favourable to Sánchez's wife. they testify that her activities at Complutense Uni were normal. Nevertheless, I think in the current judicial climate she's likely to be sent for trial and convicted of sth. Evidence doesn't matter at this state
or to put it another way, "Let's do thousands of biopsies for no reason"
🔺UPDATED: Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
or to put it another way, "Let's do thousands of biopsies for no reason"
totally agree, if a reply raises your blood pressure just block. Saves everyone a lot of time and grief.
Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
i also liked the fact that most of us who had come from the other site had the mentality of not giving "bad actors" the benefit of the doubt on here , and told all to block, not mute, an move on
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
totally agree, if a reply raises your blood pressure just block. Saves everyone a lot of time and grief.
"They need us more than we need them" 😬 www.ft.com/content/22db...
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"They need us more than we need them" 😬 www.ft.com/content/22db...
This is insanely interesting. My paternal grandfather might have known a USMC Civil War veteran or two in Galway
I'm very pleased to formally launch "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map" with location/bio info on 720+ women & men receiving U.S. pensions in Ireland-significantly more than previously thought: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map
An interactive map with biographical info and addresses of 700+ women, men and children who received U.S. pensions in 19th century Ireland.
storymaps.arcgis.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is insanely interesting. My paternal grandfather might have known a USMC Civil War veteran or two in Galway
Really
Kemi Badenoch is a gift to us all. A gift to anyone who just fancies a bit of a laugh, and a gift to those with any kind of imposter syndrome or low self-confidence.
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Really
The party today called Sinn Féin was founded in 1971 and has no connection with the lads below. The article should have been clearer about this
#OTD 1905 Arthur Griffith is generally regarded as having founded Sinn Fein.
In this article, Kirsty O'Rourke looks at the origins of the party and its founder:
In this article, Kirsty O'Rourke looks at the origins of the party and its founder:
The origins of Sinn Féin - The History of Parliament
In a series of two blogs, our Public Engagement Assistant, Kirsty O'Rourke, will discuss the 20th century history of Sinn Féin. In this first blog, Kirsty
historyofparliament.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The party today called Sinn Féin was founded in 1971 and has no connection with the lads below. The article should have been clearer about this