#Donegal

*THREAD* "Research into the "illegal" legal system established under the First Dáil aids a more complex understanding of a key moment in our revolutionary past."So here's a short thread about
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David McNarry wrote in the Newsletter today about unionist outreach to the nationalist community. Any outreach & attempts to bridge the divide are enormously welcomed but doing so would require
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1. The #KerryBabies. What happened to the Gardai who took Joanne Hayes' false confession? 2. Superintendent John Courtney was promoted to Chief Superintendent (after a period of desk duty). Courtney
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My @UKRI_News project, #ActsofUnion, explores mixed marriage & love 'across the divide' in Ireland. Starting tomorrow, every day in February ( month), I'll tweet about 'transgressive' lovers. Some , some
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Breaking: 5 people have died with #COVID19.69 new cases confirmed. @VirginMediaNews Ronan Glynn: Over the past 14 days, 226 cases have arisen in Kildare, Laois and Offaly - that's almost
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I didn't want to harp on about this, but given Mary Lou McDonald's hypocritical stance that her TD's should not face questions into their recently revealed conduct/public utterances, it's time
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-Thread -Celtic Football Club and It's Importance to the Irish Identity. Celtic Football Club was founded in 1887 by Irish Catholic Priest Brother Walfrid in Glasgows East end, the destination
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In talking about 20th-Century Irish history, we should probably avoid sharp distinctions between Church, State, and Society, as though these were discrete entities, rather than things so organically interwoven that
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#OTD in 1612, the Bishop of Down and Connor, was executed alongside another priest, Patrick O'Loughran. The execution was gruesome and as a statement of state power and legal theatre,
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Thread: Ireland was neutral in WWII & at the time the name of the State was Éire. The war has always been known as ‘The Emergency’. As it broke out
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Thread: I’ve put together a list of some of Ireland’s most important museums & libraries. Each has an important collection & is currently reopening. As a country with 20% of
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Small distractions from It All, a thread: my dad once rented Midnight Cowboy because he thought it was a western my mum once drunkenly demanded that the mayor of a
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Good evening!It’s that special time of the year when I round up some lovely/heartwarming/moving/daft/silly things that happened during the year. If ever there was a year where we needed to
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New Thread! 'Wolves In Ireland: A Natural & Cultural History'! I will be using my new book of the same name by Kieran Hickey as my main reference point! If
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Long thread available on FB - https://www.facebook.com/SEFF.Victims/posts/2237424639714523https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/sinn-fein-mla-orlaithi-flynn-slammed-for-twitter-tribute-to-hunger-strikers-39892801.html?fbc
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THREAD: there are 100 Irish writers in The Art of the Glimpse. Many you'll know - James Joyce, Sally Rooney - some you won't have read or heard of. This
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