#Gaelic

Thinking about how in Scotland we still think it's "mental" when folk "start bouncin up massive hills"... When actually, working people have had a long relationship with “outdoors” in Scotland.
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Welcome back to #BellendMania! Day 9 today. It's the Semi-Finals for the Inter-Gaelic Championship and the Second Round for the Americas Championship. Some great matches again today. All competitors in
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The Irish for a chow-chow is seabha-seabha. A Kooikerhondje, better known as a Dutch Decoy Dog, is Madra Cluana Dúitseach in Irish. No alliteration but still an 11/10. An English
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Thread: Much has been written about diets but the food of our Irish ancestors is not well known. The Great Hunger (Famine) of the 1840s, when over a million died,
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1 - Welcome friends: it's TARTAN time! So plaid you're here.This pattern probably brings to mind highlanders, private schools, & grunge music. But there's a lot more to it.To understand
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Thread: Halloween, as the world knows it, is an Irish invention from ancient Irish-Celtic roots. It’s correct name is Samhain & marks the end of the Harvest. It was culturally
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This week (by popular vote!) we’ll take a look at the Annals of Connacht. This unique manuscript (RIA MS C iii 1) records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland
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Many Scots, while owning Scotland's role in slavery, still take the stance that "normal" or "working class" Scots got no advantages from the fortunes made with enslaved labour, or any
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10 things Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney didn't know about @Wrexham! #WxmIsAmazing #Deadpool THREAD 1 Pwll y Wrach Wxm's got its own dead pool - it's called Pwll
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Let us commence Round 1!! #SexiestRuins Round 1, Bracket A! Holyrood Abbey vs Dryburgh AbbeyHolyrood was an Abbey but also freelanced as a Royal residence and as a Parliamentary palace
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Let's talk about #AssassinsCreed Valhalla's #DLC by Learning aboutDRUIDS!They didn't keep records, Romans (Julius Caesar) did on them (2-3) talking about their Class(4-5), practices (6-8) & Beliefs (9-14)!#ACFacts: 3,6,7,8#A
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Topic: 8 Famous Criminals Episode 5 (Jacques Mesrine) Highlight: Jacques Mesrine was known as France's public enemy No 1, a pathologically violent gangster who claimed to have killed 43 people
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"Turn your walk into a herstory treasure hunt". Wherever you are in the world, share examples from your walks of street art and landmarks which celebrate women. Tag with @womenslibrary
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I saw some comments this morning that Scotland and Scottish people should address their own imperial history, so I thought I'd make a wee list of some of the existing
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I’ve been on a symphony binge-fest recently and I wanted to share some awesome music, so every day for the next 50 days I’m gonna tweet one of my favourite
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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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