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3 May: Feast of the translation of St Patrick's arm. Relic kept separately but put in reliquary on Feast Days. Brought from Downpatrick to Rome by Cardinal Papparo in 12th C. From 1870, in Belfast. 📷St Patrick's arm reliquary. ©my photos. In @UlsterMuseum saintpatricksbelfast.org.uk/our-parish/rel…

Letter in Irish Times on Protestant mother & baby institutions - plus medical, including Protestant and Irish Times, opposition to Noel Browne's Mother & Child Scheme. Most academics are from a Roman Catholic background and many are limited by that horizon.

Lizzie O'Farrell Played key role in the Rising. Worked as a courier & nurse inside the GPO, tended to wounded (including Connolly). Most famous moment on 29 April 1916, she walked out under a white flag & Red Cross armband to deliver Pearse's surrender to British General Lowe.

Irish People React to Zionist Outrage Over RTÉ Not Broadcasting Eurovision:

One of the things I like about running is, it's very democratic. A regular person can huff and puff along at half this guy's pace, and feel how utterly extraordinary you have to be to do a 2:01 marathon.

A key element of this engagement often overlooked was the Irish ability (& willingness) to fight on hard open ground away from the cover of trees or narrow passes. John Norreys noted this at the Battle of Mullaghbrack in 1595-yet the myth persists into the modern historiography

BREAKING: Alan Shatter Accuses Bosco Of Being Antisemitic

‘Up to a quarter of a million British crossed over to Ireland between 1586 and 1700, most of them to Ulster—a greater number than crossed the Atlantic from the Iberian Peninsula between 1500 and 1600.’

Israelis harassed L’Espresso magazine so much claiming the vile israeli soldier photo is fake, they published the full video | via @MareLontano

OTD (ish) 1598 As Tyrone parleyed w. crown, intelligence from Irish camp 'Tyrone hath lately received letters of good encouragement from the King of Scots, promising him underhand a supply both of men & munition at his need, to continue this rebellion' #nineyearswar

While scores of mostly closet ORM supporters held key media and academic posts and lectured about paramilitarism the movement still had an armed wing. Sources: my own research and 'Lost Revolution'. See my film Sticking to their guns: youtube.com/watch?v=cy5ZsZ…

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

Mainistir na Búille Some of the carved capitals in the Cistercian abbey. The carvings were believed to be done by an Irish mason known as the Ballintober Master, who worked here between 1216 and 1225. Shown is a dog and a cock fighting over an object.

4 April: St Corc of Cell Mór Ua Níalláin/#Kilmore, "big church", Oneilland, Co. #Armagh. Probably linked with Armagh. Described as a 'cruimthir', presbyter or priest in MartG. 📷St Aidan's CofI, Kilmore ©MEBQuilter via @FindaGrave

Hiding someone based on their religion?

@DHSCgovuk I fully support the Resident Doctors. You have money for 19,000 ACP posts, which we do not need, to work as medically unqualified doctor replacements. No-one buys your lies that there’s no money to train doctors or pay them properly. Stop wasting taxpayer money on ideology.

BREAKING NEWS Michael Murphys yellow card has been upgraded to a red and will therefore be suspended for their Ulster Championship opener V Down Of course this is an April Fool, Michael does what he wants and gets away with it 👍 Come at me Donegal fans 🎣 😁

Annual budget for Greater Manchester’s NHS is £8.5bn. Roughly equivalent to NI’s settlement. But GM is 1/3 larger than NI. NI is an oil-guzzling old banger. It will never deliver value for money while ignoring sensible cooperation and economies of scale with the rest of Ireland.

Dublin had a Hollywood worthy folk hero that was like a cross between Rob Roy and Robin Hood. Redmond O’Hanlon was born around 1640 in Poyntzpass, on the Armagh and Down border. Theres a good pub quiz question for ye about Z`s in Irish place names! Anyway Redmond came from the old Gaelic nobility, O’Hanlons of Orior, who had ruled from Tandragee Castle before their lands were seized in the Plantation of Ulster. Educated in English schools, and fluent in Irish, English and French, he was a soldier, a gentleman, and sometimes styled as a “Count” after a spell of service in France. I`ve been called one of those a few times. But the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 fecked up any hopes of him regaining his family’s inheritance. The loyalist families who fought for Charles I returned to Ireland only to discover their estates were transferred into the hands of those pesky English and Scottish colonists. Like most posh boys of the era, forced to ensure existence without the safety net of magic beans his ancestors had already stolen from other families, Redmond O’Hanlon decided to reclaim his inheritance through some sexy theft and cunning. He ran a protection racket across Ulster, demanding “black rent” from landlords and merchants. Pay the toll, and O’Hanlon’s men would leave you unmolested. Refuse, and you risked losing your cattle, your goods, and possibly your life. He even issued passes to peddlers and travellers, guaranteeing safe passage through his territory. Folklore describes him slipping into Dublin taverns or joining searches for himself under false identities. Its unknown whether he wore a fetching Zorro mask, but I live in hope. What set O’Hanlon apart was not only his military discipline, he commanded a small army of outlaws, but his dashing gentleman theif persona. Ladies and limp-wristed lords whithered in ecscatcy at his well-mannered intimidation. At least thats how I remember it. He was said to give enemies three warnings before resorting to unaliving them. God I hate that word. But it was his generosity to the poor won him the protection of peasants accross the country. But his list of enemies was formidable. The Protestant landlords despised him for the tribute he extorted and the humiliation of being bested by a dispossessed Irish Catholic. Unsurprising to any Catholics, the Catholic Church hated on him too after Archbishop Oliver Plunkett (total lightweight, but sound) allegedly ordered priests to denounce him from the pulpit. Ballads would later claim he even struck down the Duke of Ormonde, James Butler, in 1679, almost certainly apocryphal bullshit, but it just shows how thoroughly he haunted the imagination of the authorities. And among his most bitter foes was Henry St. John, a landowner who had profited from the O’Hanlons’ dispossession. Tragically St. John’s son died pursuing O’Hanlon’s men, and St. John himself was later shot dead after mistaking O’Hanlon’s gang for would-be kidnappers. But when your rugged face glares from wanted posters outside Dublin Castle with a price on your pretty head and greedy militias are out for ye you know the end is near. On 25 April 1681, while visiting Hilltown in County Down, Redmond O’Hanlon was betrayed, murdered in his sleep by his own foster-brother, Art MacCall O’Hanlon! Typical paddies acting the sleeveen bought off with a pardon and £100. Redmond’s head was spiked on the gates of Downpatrick Gaol as a warning. Alas £100 for head is overcharging even by 21st century standards. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

Tom Maguire (28 March 1892 #Cross Co #Mayo-5 July 1993). Comdt Gen in W Command IRA, led S Mayo flying column. Anti-Treaty in Civil War. 17 yr old brother executed in it. TD Mayo S-Roscommon S. VP Sinn Fein. Supported Continuity IRA dib.ie/biography/magu… thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs…