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@23Finto @EwanMacKenna they will need 3 million

@EwanMacKenna There’s an active plan in the pentagon to send in half a million ground troops Now I don’t he’s that insane but the fact it’s an option on the table says enough

Donald Trump literally has no out in Iran. Said since start it'll be his Vietnam. Not in terms of body bags returning (even he isn't insane enough for ground invasion) but instead it'll be oil, petrol and food hyperinflation and then shortages that mean people turn. His ego means he won't back down, his idiocy means he can't win.

@LindaAn65053363 @itsjohncrotty @johnmilbank3 😂 - we were waiting for that punchline!

@itsjohncrotty @johnmilbank3 The Irish have more in common with. But, again, petty, historical grievances overshadow such things. (3)

We might have to face an independent Scotland and Wales. It would be terrible for English identity, which is partially Celtic. Our recourse then would be double: 1. rejoin the EU and 2. Within that set up a British-Irish alliance (including all Ireland) like the Nordic Alliance.

@KeithMillsD7 What were they supposed to do?

The Irish state gave a "special position" to the Catholic Church on ots constitution and turned a blind eye to the consequent impact of Ne Temere on the Protestant population. I know because I am the result of a "mixed marriage". I was raised RC but never had any affinity to it.

@JamesBoyceTweet @LewisJonathanE Gaelic mo thóin

@LewisJonathanE And of course, the state & its institutions were captured entities by the Catholic Church for the greater part of the 20th century, resulting in 🇮🇪 being a theocratic gaelic nationalist state.Northern ireland for the same period was a theocratic Protestant regional 🇬🇧 state!

There may not have been an official policy of driving out Protestants on behalf of the Free State, but there certainly was an ethnonationalist project that meant to ensure that the Irish Catholic majority (which had been oppressed historically) was empowered. This often came at the expense of the Protestant minority, not just in terms of rural (and urban) violence. But things like making Irish the language of government, which limited Protestant participation in the civil service; the The Ne Temere Decree; and the harsh discourse used by Irish republicans against Protestants — something that Irish Protestants were very familiar with and caused them great worry Diarmaid Ferriter and Robin Bury, two scholars I admire, have done some excellent research on the decline of Protestants in Southern Ireland As far as missing the mark, in what way was (Free State) Ireland so different from, for instance, post-Ottoman Albania or post-Austro-Hungarian Hungary? Both emerged as nation states with ethnic majorities and ethnic minorities. The nationalist state-building project in both countries was centered more on majoritarianism than on protecting minority rights. This is not a moral judgment, so much as an observation as how nation-states function

@justmewhistling @Cavanwhiskey @LewisJonathanE What has that to do with the state?

@Cavanwhiskey @LewisJonathanE Pressure by the family and the church, which consisted of the local priest being brought in to “lay down the law “ as I heard it described as by a friend.

@NicholasOShaug1 😂

@neilojim1972 And Grace O'Malley becomes Gráinne Ní Mháille?

@anfothadh Yes, but you may have noticed I'm writing in English....so he remains Tibbot, Hugh does not transform into Aodh, nor does Feagh morph into Fiach. If you want to translate it all into Irish, sure there's a project for you

OTD 1595 As the war escalated, Gráinne Ní Mháille sought to retrench her position with the crown, offering to serve 'at their own charges at sea upon the coast of Ireland in Her Majesties wars upon all occasions' as 'true and faithful subjects' #nineyearswar

@arisroussinos Hard weather makes strong men

It takes being away from Ireland for a while to remember, and fully appreciate quite how vile its weather actually is

@eoinmauricedaly In suffering lies growth

It rains 230 days a year where we live. Barely habitable

@neilojim1972 a historian of early modern Ireland with no Irish Gaelic - come on! a small bit of research into names is not hard

@anfothadh Yes, but my Irish is non-existent, so I'll be staying on safer ground

@neilojim1972 Tiobóid na Long was his name

Her son Tibbot Ne Long was courted by both sides but he chose to serve with crown forces in Connacht under Sir Conyers Clifford, and fought at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. He was knighted in 1603 and was later made 1st Viscount Mayo.

@danobrien20 Bottleneck ahead!

They also do a no migration scenario. In that case, population peaks sooner and the decline to 2100 is much larger.

Sliocht mo Shinsir mé, Nár lige m'oidhreacht le sruth, guímh chun Dé

Ní brí go céasadh

Foras na beatha í an fhulaingt, Forás anama is ea a seasamh

@CiaranMurchadha In suffering lies meaning and growth

We live in an unwise age. No matter how plentiful they are, the sensuality of this world is finite, both its good & its bad. Worldly pleasures, often conflated with happiness, are dependable on finite components, & hence incomplete and lacking. Material fulfilment is temporary in its very nature and the physical pleasures cannot be maintained, for it’s ever in constant flux & change, so you, too, become imprisoned in its ever-changing chains. Even when wealth and good health are at one’s disposal. One cannot eat continuously, for example, just because food is plentiful and tasty, for you’ll soon be full, & without wanting. Eating continuously is not sustainable. Everything that one builds will inevitably wither away in time, and all those beloved to one will either leave one or one will leave them, just as every accumulated wealth, big or small, will one day be left behind. It is foolish to prefer what is finite and perishable to everlasting life, perpetual happiness and infinite rewards.

@danobrien20 @EU_Eurostat Fertility delayed is fertility denied

Yesterday's publication of @EU_Eurostat's long term demographic projections were interesting. But the Irish numbers are, frankly, batty. Births have been falling since 2010, yet the projection is that they (suddenly) rise again to mid-century. The massive projected decline in net immigration is more plausible, but that will only happen if government limits the very high rates of worker and student visa issuance since 2022. There's little sign of that. Incidentally, one of JP Morgan's top wall street economists joined my this week to discuss the economic outlook. Among other things, he said Ireland needed to reduce immigration owing to capacity constraints. Listen here. on.soundcloud.com/TcrsHQrNmpmdws… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/784dI0… YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/watch?v=qkVSns…

@Nicodemuslong1 @KatyKray73 @KarenElke9074 Irish English or Irish Gaelic?

@KatyKray73 @KarenElke9074 An added complication though is that London itself was exposed to a lot of Irish speakers.

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@RaoulMcLaughlin @FortressLugh Geal - Goídel explanation is modern comparative linguistics analysis

@anfothadh @FortressLugh Do the Scots use the word 'Gael' for 'White'? I know their Celtic comes from here. Is it the Lebor Gabála Érenn that introduces the Goídel explanation or the Annals?

Goidelic almost certainly developed along a continuous zone which stretched across both Ireland and Scotland in the late Bronze Age. Pictish represents a third archaic form of Celtic which was somewhere in between Goidelic and Brythonic. The only Pictish word recorded by Bede was the place-name, Peanfahel, a place along the Antoine Wall. The name means, Wall's End. While "Pean" is a P-Celtic form, meaning "head, end" "fahel" is not a Brythonic form. It is very likely cognate with Welsh "gwal" ("wall") and Gaelic, fàl ("hedge, fence, enclosure") and cognate with Latin vallum. Alternatively it could be borrowed from Latin. More on that later. In either case, the sound development of Pictish "fahel" shows it to be closer to the Goidelic form. The H is used in the spelling in part of represent an elongated vowel sound. The name is recorded also in a Brythonic form, Penguaul, and also a Goidelic form, Cennfàil. The Goidelic form, other than the initial "P" instead of "C" is the nearly exact same sound, while the Brythonic form not only varies in vowels but changes an "F" for a "G" In Old Celtic, there were initial "W" sounds. For instance, proto-Celtic *weras" ("man") becomes Old Gaelic *fer but Welsh *gwr. Some surviving Pictish name lists seem to show that it did not follow either. Gaelic Fergus was Pictish Urgust. If so, Gaelic "fál" and Welsh "gwal" should be Pictish "ual/wal". This is also true if the word had been borrowed from Latin. Vallum is pronounced with a W - not an F. Also, why would Britons not use a Latin form when the Pictish did? This seems nonsense. So, either at this stage in the Pictish language the initial "U" or "W" was shifting to "F" under Gaelic influence, or the form is purely borrowed from Gaelic, which would show Gaelic presence and influence in the Edinburgh region as of the 7th century.

@griffin_ke33611 @FortressLugh It's not absolute - it's evidence, and the evidence is overwhelming. It's likely the dominant group before they called themselves 'Goídil' were called 'Féní' or something similar - and 'fénachas' was their code of conduct/laws as the laws would be more narrowly known later

@anfothadh @FortressLugh Absolutes in linguistics - lol. The idea that Gaels did not have a name for themselves sounds like just more Anglosphere hubris. Really, before Wales became a refuge of P-Celtic speakers it may have been a refuge for Q-Celtic speakers reinforced by contacts across the Irish Sea.