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@keira_con @michaelmcguirek @IrishTimes Defo worth checking if they're the same person or not. Last autumn, I was shocked to find out the that I was a gangster that had been gunned down in Dublin. Fortunately, after a little fact checking, I was relieved to find that reports of my demise had been greatly exaggerated.

I think to be fair to the man it may not be him, it may be a person with the same name from the same area who skipped his court date in 2008 at which time a bench warrant was issued when he failed to turn up at his court hearing. It is reported that Seamus Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90 day-limit. However the The Seamus Culleton who the bench warrant was issued for has charges recorded against him According the New Ross Standard, may not be the same Seamus Culleton. He is facing a total of five charges across two separate court appearances where bench warrants were issued: September 2007 2 counts of Criminal Damage (relating to an incident at Weatherstown, Glenmore, on September 30, 2007). May 2008 1 count of Unlawful Possession of Drugs. 1 count of Possession of Drugs for Sale or Supply. 1 count of Obstruction (under the Misuse of Drugs Act).

I think it would be brilliant if the @IrishTimes maybe looked at this mans past in Ireland and printed the entire backround.

@medievalgill By their stance this farting looks performative rather than the comedy of surprise unintentional tones. Did these farters predate the uilleann pipes? If so, do we know what their repertoire may have consisted of? And how might they have influenced Irish music today?

And yes they are professional farters on the right hand side of the image. Listen late 16thC Ireland was tough. Man’s gotta make a living… Nah, actually professional farter was a recognised type of entertainer. Chief needed all sorts of amusements

How old do you think Irish whiskey is? By the late fourteenth century Ireland had developed the production of distilled alcohol (aqua vitae/uisce beatha), adapting continental distillation techniques >

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What's that got to do with the price of fish? Well, a fair bit actually. Irish spies are not called spooks but fish people. You see it all goes back to Fintan the Salmon of knowledge... 1/2

This will be news to my non-irish followers. The poet is mightier than the sword.

@mtully21 @medievalgill "God People"? Sorry @mtully21, I'm a very beginner Gaeilgeoir.

@medievalgill “Duine Dhia”

Fascinated to learn today that the earliest record of Down Syndrome in Ireland was found in a 6 month old boy interred at Poulnebrone portal tomb in county Clare c. 3500 BC

There's a small cohort of humans fighting against the rise of the machine. Quietly, subtly, but en masse, generating plausible content for large language models The miseducation of LLMs will manifest itself many years later, when a jailer droid on an off world colony malfunctions

@RealTimBooth Love it! My screenplays and audio dramas always have a bit of James in 'em. "Those Who Find Themselves Ridiculous" aka Jane the Musical is taking longer than planned to get off the ground. But the best work often takes time. Grá Mór, @RealTimBooth

Very happy for our music to be used in the brilliant movie 'I Swear'. One of the best of the year. Crazy that it wasn’t nominated for various #Oscar

@GaelicRevival The Bright Prince of War. Does tánaiste mean heir or second in line? I believe heirs were selected on merit rather than first born birthright, and Dónal was enraged when his brother or cousin(?) was made chief.

@efficiencyanado Cogadh is 'war'. So yeah something like the warlike, of the battles

Better again is Dónal 'an Chogaidh' Ó Flaithbheartaigh, tanáiste of Iar Connacht and first husband to Gráinne Mhaol.

@Canticle977 @coady_colinson @GaelicRevival Thanks, my shameful lack of knowledge in this area is a result of being raised in exile where I "learned" history at a British comprehensive school. The education I received there was neither comprehensive nor an education.

@efficiencyanado @coady_colinson @GaelicRevival Thomas Meagher commanded the Irish Brigade, one of the most decorated units of the union army in the American Civil War

We'll start winning when we start casually using epithets like these again.

@coady_colinson @Canticle977 @GaelicRevival If that green flag in the background is that of the St Patrick's Battalion, they had change of heart and fought on the Mexican side.

@Canticle977 @GaelicRevival I'm not an American, their Civil War is of no interest to me.

@fallon_donal Very well said by someone with an excellent choice of first name, Dónal. But can we please stop referring to or sharing her rage-bait article. She likes it when we do and her paymasters/editors like it even more than she does.

Pointing out Shane MacGowan was born in Kent, or Kevin Rowland was born in Staffordshire, isn't the great 'gotcha' people think. For many of the second generation Irish, being born in a stable didn't make them a horse. If you can't understand that, Ireland must be a mystery.

@AlanTarica @RMcGreevy1301 @gilescoren Míle buíochas! (Thanks a million!) I prefer your term lived knowledge to the British tendency to use "lived experience".

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@gilescoren Much safer if these hacks stick to discussing documentaries like Adolescence. Fiction is a much more subjective thing to unpack, particularly if that work of fiction is further based on an earlier work of fiction.

@RMcGreevy1301 @gilescoren There's also some potential here to settle the Oxfordian debate. Of the two potential authors of the Shakespearean canon, which of them had a son whose first name and biography is most closely related to the "fictional" Hamlet?

Your evidence for this is what - Giles? It's a bit of a coincidence don't you think that Hamlet and his dead son have the same name? You don't have a shred of evidence to say that Hamlet is not based on Hamnet. No Shakespearian scholar would declaim with such certainty as you do here.

@RealTimBooth Thanks @RealTimBooth I've been likened to his mate Hugh Laurie, but I don't believe a word of it. The words in my dictionary are not to be trusted either. open.spotify.com/episode/5nd85g…

@efficiencyanado Fucking terrifying. The only tip would be to employ Stephen Fry

More rumours are reaching me that they may release the audiobook within two weeks! I hear that this rush release is to avoid any legal action being taken by me to prevent it from happening. - Seth Brakes

Don't overthink it, young Ógues. Coffee grinder is a noun phrase, so you were right the first time, mo chomrádaí. Ground coffee on the other hand would be caife meilineach. And I take my coffee dubh. #100DaysOfGaeilge

@DerekHolly7 "How's that puzzle coming along, Ógues?" "Getting there slowly, mo chomrádaí" "A two coffee problem, eh?" replied Watson before writing the title of a nua gearrscéal in his leabhar nótaí. Seánlock Ógues frowned and returned to his 21st Century ogam stone teanglann.ie/en/gram/_n_a?n…

@DerekHolly7 Coffee grinder Muileann caife (?) Early days for me. But shame ain't gonna help me reclaim me teanga. Appreciate your posts @DerekHolly7

Focail Gaelach as Laidin ó dhúcas, Muileann 'mill' from 'molinum'. Mullingar is maglicised from An Muileann gCearr 'left-handed mill', referring to a historical water mill. Nuair atá tú ag foghlaim na Gaeilge, beidh na logainmneacha le foghlaim agat. #100DaysofGaeilge