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@tomasocarthaigh @tim4life88 @matthew_shanks1 Considering the vast intermingling of these islands over the past millenia, we all have Celtic Briton in us

@Beast_Mode_No1 @tim4life88 @matthew_shanks1 But, your not Welsh.

Just like Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands are BRITISH! 🇬🇧

@tomasocarthaigh @tim4life88 @matthew_shanks1 Seeing as the Welsh are the remanants of the Celtic Britons after Germanic and later Norman invasion. Prydyn, Prydain, Cruithin, Picts, Brython, Britton, Pretanni, Britanni, British all cognates or deriviations of an older term. The names Walsh and Wallace also mean Welsh.

@Beast_Mode_No1 @tim4life88 @matthew_shanks1 Thats all Greek to me! 😜 (BTW Britain then meant... Welsh!)

When you glamorous people of violence, and think its edgy to support Kneecap, what did you think was going to happen. They will use the exact same excuse that SF PIRA will give. Was there an alternative?

Dick Van Dyke turned 100 years old a few months ago and is no longer allowed to play with LEGOs.

@marekjanous @RickGenie Geographic limitations? Unlike Afghanistan at least the Falkland Islands are in the Atlantic, even if the south. In any event the UK didn't trigger Article 5, hence no call for NATO to help.

@RickGenie No pretence needed on your part. You have no idea of NATO geographic limitations. And the EU doesn’t really require your take on what it is or isn’t.

Britain could lose the Falklands because of weak leadership. It's not the 80s anymore, there's no Thatcher in charge and the UK is a depressing shell of its former self. If Argentina simply walks in and takes over, possibly soon with Trump's approval, what exactly will Keir Starmer do? Send an angry worded letter? Would he even care at all?

@marekjanous @NiohBerg Right, so the French didn't supply Exocet missiles to the Argentinians which ended up being used against the UK forced? The EU is not a military alliance, it is an economic one, albeit trying to be more

@NiohBerg Interestingly, until Brexit, any military threat to the Falklands would oblige the whole EU to help… 🤔

@BabakTaghvaee1 What a load of bollocks. The Argentinian armed forces are in a worse state than 40 years ago

BREAKING: Argentine military sources indicate the armed forces are preparing for a potential large-scale operation aimed at recapturing the Islas Malvinas/ Falkland Islands from the United Kingdom, with what they describe as a green light from the United States. Not only did the U.S. prevent the United Kingdom from blocking Argentina’s procurement of F-16A/BM multi-role fighter jets, but it is also said to be supporting Argentina’s plans regarding the future of the Falklands.

@NiohBerg Argentina would need an army, navy and force capable. Just like the UK's it's a vast shadow of what it once was. Difference now compared to 40 years ago is that the islands are properly defended now

@tim4life88 @tomasocarthaigh @matthew_shanks1 Seeing as Ptolemy in the 2nd century called the largest island Megale Brettania, which in English means Great Britain, the name long predates the far later union. Funnily enough his name for Ireland when translated means Little Britain. Talk about humiliating yourself. A amadáin

@Beast_Mode_No1 @tomasocarthaigh @matthew_shanks1 We're talking about the term Great Britain, not Britain. Go on, I'll wait for your next reply till I totally humiliate you.

@MichaelPalmerNI For losing fat or losing calories? HIIT and heavy weights etc. may burn more calories but slower intensity long steady state cardio burns more fat 🤷‍♂️

Far too much cardio. That is actually having the opposite effect.

@hispanista_MX Cuetta and Mellila are Moroccan then?

Las Malvinas son argentinas y Gibraltar es Español

@tim4life88 @tomasocarthaigh @matthew_shanks1 The term British was actually brought back into use by James I to refer to his subjects long before that union

@tomasocarthaigh @matthew_shanks1 Britain is English, Welsh and Cornish. Great Britain was coined when Scotland joined the Union and will cease to exist when they leave.

@tomasocarthaigh @matthew_shanks1 British is the nationality of the United Kingdom to which Northern Ireland is a part. Why do the Irish like to confuse geographical terms with geopolitical?

@matthew_shanks1 Britain is English, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish. Just so @matthew_shanks1 knows... Four independent friendly nations is the way forward, move on from the past.

The Falklands have been the Falklands since before Argentina was Argentina. 🇬🇧

@IFBMedia Neither. The FAI broke away. They made their bed.

Here’s one for you 👀 Would you rather? (A) An All Island League OR (B) An All Ireland Football Team Don’t just give me an answer I want reasons, rationale and logic not any nonsense! Best answer wins a prize (don’t expect anything much)

On April 24, the world remembers the victims of the Armenian Genocide. This map shows which countries have officially recognized it through their national legislatures and which continue to deny it.

@thomas_eilveis @danobrien20 The US has experienced mass immigration since then, obviously a large portion of that being Irish emigrants

@danobrien20 It's amazing to think that the population of the island of Ireland today (~ 7.4 million) is roughly the same as what it was 200 years ago. The 🇺🇸 1820 census recorded a population of only 9.6 million. Today is ~340 million.

This analysis finds that Ireland's population crash (from the Great Famine) to 1961 was the second largest in human history anywhere in the world over the past 2,000 years. Post-Columbian contact Peru to 1600 was slightly larger.

@johnaquaspeed @danobrien20 Ironically Ireland suffered 3 famines in the 19th century, with one either side of the Great Famine

@RobLooseCannon It also puts to bed your claim about being classified as English getting you farther seeing how the absorbed Welsh colony still retains its identity even if lessened.

@RobLooseCannon What's more amazing is the following. Just goes to show that the main reason for the fall in Irish speakers was always the Irish themselves. Hard to blame the bad ol' Brits in anti-British Argentina 🤷‍♂️

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…