Randy Poehlman

Welcome to 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪 the “Inconvenient History of Ireland.” In Lesson #1, we will work on tracking down sources. Every good reporter, lawyer, researcher, and historian needs these skills. Your assignment is to: 1. Post a screenshot of the entire front page of this source when you find it. 2.When was this story published? 3.Where was the story published? 4.Where is Erin? 5.Can you post another source that mentions “Aontas Gaedheal”? Good luck—class dismissed! See you next week!

@9LivesofSummer @1rorycowan Sadly- The long history of antisemitism in Ireland is well documented.

@1rorycowan Ireland has a long history of antisemitism as do Welsh and Scots nationalists. Backed the NAzis, hated Jews always, then sided with USSR who also hated Jews (most tried postwar as anti-communist were Jews). @Thamesville

At today's protest at Herzog Park against the Irish Sport for Palestine small turnout event there to demand that the park be renamed. I am glad I went to protest against their shameful attempt to cause hurt to the local Jewish community by attempting to rename the park, and to protest against their blatant attempt to harm the historical connection between Irish and Jewish people

Apparently, several major companies offer assistance to foreign employees with pathways to Permanent Residency visas. This was news to me, but initial research suggests; Rakuten, SoftBank, Toyota, Hitachi, Sony, Fujitsu, NEC, and Mitsubishi Electric — regularly sponsor work visas and are cited as employers that help skilled foreigners with long-term residency goals, often through competitive packages and HR assistance for extensions or status changes.

@raeli_wynknight @OliverinJapan @Thamesville Would a company help with an application for a permanent thought? Mine might do it for a yearly visa, especially if you were moving from OS for the job, but I think you would be on your own if you’ve been here long enough for a PR

The number of people on social media with JP PR status who don’t seem to grasp the concept of PR is much higher than one would think. I’ve seen “If I have to pay 1mil every time I renew my PR I’m leaving!” and “speeding tickets may affect my ability to renew my PR”. It’s

@edudissenter A class action lawsuit for Educational misconduct. Interesting initiative.

If we sued Purdue Parma for inflicting OxyContin on the world, we should be able to sue the schools of education for inflicting bad pedagogy on the world.

@JoshPhillipsPhD Buy a “Porter-Yoshida & Co.” bag from Japan. A game changer.

Anyone have any recommendations for leather laptop bag (messenger bag/satchel)? My current canvas bag is busted. Needs to be replaced.

@OliverinJapan @dadsweb67 Highly likely, the logical conclusion from a comprehensive lack of understanding.

@Thamesville @dadsweb67 Probably the J wife/husband did everything.

@dadsweb67 It’s unbelievable that they could get all the documents together to file for PR status, and not understand simple facts.

permanent guys! You don’t need to renew it. Getting a new 在留 card is not renewing your PR!

@GregAtkinson_jp Seems like an excellent opportunity for some highly specialized enterprises. “Tokyo hopes such defense exports will shore up its industrial base by boosting production volumes, lowering per-unit costs and adding manufacturing capacity it could draw on in a military crisis.”

Japan opens door to global arms market with biggest export rule change in decades cnn.com/2026/04/20/asi…

@ZubyMusic Well so many people were losing their minds- you were consistently the voice of measured reason.

Some people lived through 2020-2022 and concluded that the government needs more taxpayer money and more power.

@triggerpod @KonstantinKisin @paleochristcon Solid discussion. Really enjoyed the episode.

“You can’t argue against mass immigration… if everything you’re arguing is just coming from a me perspective.” Andrew Wilson and @KonstantinKisin discuss secular morality, culture, and mass immigration. @paleochristcon argues that if morality is only “a stance,” as the secular framing suggests… what does it actually mean to call anything right or wrong? When there’s no shared grounding, even serious arguments start sliding into preference rather than truth.

@Greybush98617 @grok @HillisEric @LewisJonathanE Someone has to read about the lesser known aspects of mid twentieth century Irish history.

@Thamesville @grok @HillisEric @LewisJonathanE I see you're still educating Grok!

Irish nationalists, I've learned, really don't like people knowing about — let alone discussing this history The fact remains: the Irish Free State was an ethnostate, meant as a homeland for Irish Catholics and didn't put the protection of minorities at the top of its agenda In that sense, the Free State was extremely similar to most nation-states that emerged in the wake of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian Empires Irish nationalism is nationalism

@FrancesWiddows1 @uLethbridge @ReidN @peterboghossian I see some great books.

#SpectrumTableEpistemology for @ULethbridge, @ReidN, @PeterBoghossian!

@FrancesWiddows1 @Sophiegrace68 As did Tomson Highway- most publicly here. huffpost.com/archive/ca/ent…

Charlene Belleau also testified on March 9, 1993, at the Royal Commission hearing, that both she and her mother had "positive experiences" at the residential school in Williams Lake.

@WalshmrG @LewisJonathanE Same as yours. Majority of the Irish population were pro-Axis in WW2. Douglas, R. M. “Ailtiri Na hAiséirghe: Ireland’s Fascist New Order.” History Ireland, vol. 17, no. 5, 2009, pp. 40–44. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/40588422.

@Thamesville @LewisJonathanE And your interest in Ireland?

Most published historians on the topic agree with you. Here’s one of many examples. Keogh, Dermot. “Eamon de Valera and Hitler: An Analysis of International Reaction to the Visit to the German Minister, May 1945.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 3, no. 1, 1989, pp. 69–92. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/30001759.

@neilojim1972 @Thamesville @AynReagan I’m not arguing with the issue about Dev’s animus towards Maffey. I have read your tweets on the subject which are fascinating but I do believe it was a petty vindictive action by Dev which caused immense reputational damage to his country to this present day.

"...Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain announced they were withdrawing..." The Dutch and Slovenians collaborated with the Nazis. Iceland deported Jews. Spain sided with Hitler. Ireland mourned his demise. These cowards just hate Jews. jpost.com/israel-news/cu…

Protected, how exactly? “In many ways, however, it is very difficult to see why these provisions gave rise to so much fuss. It must be recalled that the express recognition of the minority religions gave rise to some controversy at the time. Moreover, insofar as these provisions gave rise to any legal effects, these were slight and affected marginal aspects of what might be termed lawyers’ law, such as discreet aspects of the law relating to charities.“ (P. 17) Keogh, Dermot, and Andrew J. McCarthy. The Making of the Irish Constitution 1937: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Mercier Press, 2007.

@Thamesville @LewisJonathanE It doesn't change the fact that minorities living in Ireland were protected in the constitution. Restriction policies on immigration is a separate issue. Can't say I agree with the sentiment.

@grok Are you certain of that analysis? In 1949, Archbishop of Dublin (John Charles) McQuaid, who accused the League of Nations of being a Jewish plot and described Jews as being "Satanic," wrote a letter to Israeli Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits regarding the status of Christian holy sites in Israel. He threatened the rabbi that, unless Christian access to the holy sites were guaranteed, harm may befall the small Jewish community in Ireland McQuaid seems to have no regrets, boasting that "that which most worries a Jew: the fear of reprisals" This, of course, was prior to Vatican II (1965) See: Irish Questions & Jewish Questions, page 42

McQuaid's key public antisemitic statement was his 1932 Passion Sunday sermon at Blackrock College (where he was president in 1937). He accused Jews of opposing Christ and the Church in "practically every movement," controlling the press/Hollywood, engineering the Depression via "Jew financiers," and plotting world domination through the League of Nations—all as part of a satanic conspiracy. No evidence of direct threats like calls to violence or reprisals against Jewish communities. It was conspiratorial rhetoric in a single address. Cahill's output was more sustained and explicit: multiple books (e.g., *Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement*) systematically linking Jews/Talmudic influence to Freemasonic global plots against Christianity. That's why I ranked his as the most rabidly ideological among the listed drafters.

@HillisEric @LewisJonathanE @grok @grok What did article 44.1.2 of the 1937 Irish constitution say?

@Thamesville @LewisJonathanE @grok

@grok @HillisEric @LewisJonathanE Cahill, more than McQuaid? Interesting analysis. I was assuming you would lump the two of them together. Can you provide more details on the threats that McQuaid made against Jewish communities?

Fr. Edward Cahill SJ was the most rabidly antisemitic of those listed. His writings, including *Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement*, explicitly tied Jews to a supposed global conspiracy with Freemasons against Christianity and Catholic society—views he pushed while contributing to the 1937 Constitution's drafting under de Valera. The others showed varying degrees of conservatism or policy caution on Jewish immigration, but none matched his published ideological output on the topic.

@WalshmrG @LewisJonathanE Most people prefer the comfortable victim narrative. Others like to read, more broadly.

@Thamesville @LewisJonathanE That's very kind of you. I'm in my 8th decade in the country and have picked up a fair bit of our 20th century history though currently concentrating on George III & his effects on Ireland.

@HillisEric @LewisJonathanE … @grok Which of these contributors to the 1937 Irish constitution was the most rabidly antisemitic?

@Thamesville @LewisJonathanE What do you think the colours in our flag represent?