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@NicholasOShaug1 @dalipolitial Galway did take part in the Confederation so they were rebels too - p.s. there are Welbys in Galway said to be escaping the reformation in England

@anfothadh @dalipolitial In fact we are told there was a lot of English immigration into Ireland before the Reformation – English Catholics of course.

OMG, he was also Irish?

@RobLooseCannon I'm a Fahy, and my aunt once told me we were distant relatives of Dominic Fahy

There are almost a million people of Irish descent in Argentina. We're not entirely sure, because the Irish who arrived in the 19th century were routinely classified as "Ingleses" in official records, filed away under British. Most wouldn't correct this either, as being English got you further in Buenos Aires than being Irish. Argentina is, by some distance, the largest Irish community in any non-English speaking country on earth, and the fifth largest Irish diaspora population in the world. From 1803 to 1815, Irish farm labourers had been feeding British soldiers through the Napoleonic Wars. When peace came, grain prices collapsed and landlords switched to cattle, which required far fewer hands. Then the Famine came. And across the water, Argentina was advertising for lads who could handle livestock. Argentine government agents arrived in the Irish Midlands selling the pampas as "the finest region under the southern cross." The greatest wave of emigration ran from 1850 to 1870, pulling predominantly from the coastline of County Wexford and the townlands around the Westmeath-Longford border. Most were single Catholic men in their twenties, non-inheriting sons who knew they would never see a deed in their own name if they stayed. They arrived as shepherds and rural labourers, working the "halves" or "thirds" system. You received a portion of the wool clip and the new lambs in lieu of wages. Do it long enough without dying, and you could rent land. Do that long enough, and you could buy it. The sheep-farming boom of 1840 to 1890 gave the Irish social mobility on the pampas. Men who had arrived with nothing ended up owning estancias. Father Anthony Dominic Fahy, a Galway-born Dominican, became the central figure. The Pallotine and Passionist orders followed, and the Sisters of Mercy established schools across the province. In remote areas where there was no state infrastructure worth mentioning, the Irish clergy were often the only institution that functioned. In 1875, a Galway priest called Patrick Joseph Dillon founded a newspaper in Buenos Aires called The Southern Cross, and it's still going today. Under the editorship of Father Federico Richards in the 1970s and 1980s, it was one of the few publications in Argentina willing to report on the junta's human rights abuses. One of the more interesting figures to pass through it was William Bulfin from Birr, County Offaly. He arrived in Argentina in the early 1880s, worked as a gaucho, married on a ranch owned by an Irish landowner, then ended up writing for the paper under the pen name "Che Buono" before buying it outright. A committed Irish nationalist, he established a branch of An Conradh na Gaeilge in Argentina before returning to Ireland. His son Eamonn, born in Buenos Aires, enrolled at Patrick Pearse's St. Enda's School and later fought in the 1916 Rising. One of Che Guevara's forebears, Patrick Lynch, was born in Galway in 1715. Three universities now have Irish Studies chairs: del Salvador, La Plata, and La Pampa. The Fahy Club runs Irish language classes for descendants. GAA clubs operate across the country, with two leagues playing Gaelic football and hurling. This community largely came to think of itself as Argentine through assimilation, particularly after the Falklands War of 1982, which drew a sharp line between British identity and Argentine identity and forced a choice. But the names remained. Duggan, Lobos, San Antonio de Areco. There are whole towns named for Irish families on the Buenos Aires pampas. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@dalipolitial @NicholasOShaug1 The Lynches were old English merchant tribe in Galway who pleaded with the new English that they had kept English custom and had not been contaminated with Irishrie

@NicholasOShaug1 Yes. His father said: "In my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels". And the famous t shirt was designed by an Irishman, Jim Fitzpatrick, in 1968, working from a photograph by Alberto Korda.

@FortressLugh 4xggrandfather was from Laghdacán / Lydacan 5 miles from where I live. Lynch tribe merchants from Galway town bought castle there after Cromwellian period

Ernesto Che Guevara was of Irish ancestry on his father's side. Ernesto Guevara Lynch. He was a descendant of Patrick Lynch, who was born in Galway but migrated to Argentina after a military defeat by the forces of Cromwell. Che was well versed in all of Irish history, knew every historical battle, and the legends, which he learned from his grandmother This would serve as a part of his inspiration to engage in direct military conflict later in life.

@NicholasOShaug1 Yes his 4xggrandfather hailed from a place 5 miles from where I live called Laghdacán / Lydacan, bought by Lynch merchant tribe of Galway a couple of generations before that again

@FortressLugh Is cuma linn faoina ndeirtear as Sacs-Bhéarla : go maire Gaeilge na hÉireann, na hAlban, agus Oileán Mhannan!

Calling Old Irish, Old Gaelic is entirely reasonable given that the language was spoken natively in both Britain and Ireland. The Gaelic language has been spoken natively in Britain since at least the 2nd century AD, but as I theorize, it developed across regions of both from the proto-Celtic period. Calling the language at that point Irish is therefore not geographical accurate. This is a growing view. Some years ago when I pointed this out, it was scarcely heard of. Now, a quick search of Old Irish will mention it is also known as Old Gaelic.

@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

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