plus this one - this explains exactly the weirdness of Ireland's various aristocracies podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I wish I could go back and listen to the full six-part Conquest series for the first again, it is just fantastic from start to finish, but there are lots of other episodes around the same time that are also brilliant. The one Naomi did with your man in Howth Castle is exactly the what you're after

highly recommend @naomiohreally.bsky.social & Tim McI's The Irish Passport podcast episodes on the history of this kind of thing

An acquaintance was showing me a funny video on his phone yesterday and I noticed that his WhatsApp had two interestingly-named groupchats:

The Lads
The Lads (No Declan)

something you'd seldom do in spoken English, unless you're rude. probably something also to do with only ever experiencing Irish in an educational context

This latest series of Blue Lights is a cut above most TV cop shows. A really well done slow burn psychological thriller with many topical strands carefully woven in.

RTÉ drama where someone goes missing

Yes that's exactly the episode I discovered. Literally thousands left Armagh for Mayo in 1795 after the Battle of the Diamond. Apparenly I'm descended from one of them. I had no idea

Blackberries or sloes?

if Humphreys had said 'I'd like to distance myself from Ivan Yates, I don't think negative campaigning has a place in Irish politics etc', you can bet your bottom dollar the IT, Indo would be crowing about how Presidential she sounded. But she clearly took her cue from him. #aras25

probably because they removed it as a default ansd never advertised how to change it back. The majority of users, being filthy casuals, would not go to the trouble of looking under the hood

And she made no pitch to FF voters! can't see that going down well with the middle ground

honestly thought that Humphreys was better than this. All she is doing is mudslinging. I'd have thought she would have been smart enough to leave that to her proxies. #aras25

an even more cynical person would say that the perpetrators of this crime have learned from the perpetrators of that crime having faced no consequences

to cut a long story short, I now have reason to believe that *both* my mother and father's lines were displaced, one way or another, by the Ulster Plantation.

don't let anyone tell you that you can't do Irish genealogy 'because the Custom House burned everything' or because of 'pre-Famine brickwalls'. You can get through to the 17th & 18th centuries and what you find is usually horrifying

did a bit too much genealogical research and now all I want to do is listen to Lankum and drink whiskey

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time

unreal. like if it was brought to his attention in Sept, and he paid Donald straightaway, it's have never been a story and not many people would have cared, right? Incredibly poor handling