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@JC_1901 @TirChonaillAbu @RobLooseCannon His family came from Cushendall Co. Antrim

@TirChonaillAbu @RobLooseCannon Family is likely still of Scottish origins but moved to Dublin (probably 18th century) and became peasants and assimilated with the Irish, like many Dubliners with Scottish surnames

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…

@LuanHanratty @Sherelle_E_J Terrible fish

@Sherelle_E_J Ok, but I draw the line at eating coalfish

Fish lovers are being told to buy hake instead of cod as the population plunges. Let’s get one thing straight. It is *stupefyingly ridiculous* that cod is a national British dish. Why is a fish that is caught in Norway/Russia/Iceland and processed in China and then deep fried to mask its watery, insipid texture considered the epitome of Britishness? While we are reviving Cornish hake, why don’t we end this bewildering habit of catching world-class seafood like spider crabs and langoustines and shipping it straight off to Europe because ewww “we don’t like the look of it”. Also what about delicious, meaty gurnard, abundant in English waters yet immediately exported to France and Spain? I had one in Cornwall once, and it was the most glorious fish I have ever tasted. I for one would be thrilled to see it in the supermarkets and restaurants.

@smylie37 @cyculcc Yes like the Dutch and Danish?

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@TonesOfMusic Jesus and Mary Chain. Teenage Fanclub

Name two bands that should have done MTV Unplugged Soundgarden Smashing Pumpkins

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone. Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year? Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit? Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it? Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite? It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

@NilSatisNews Beto has experience of scoring in Derby makes a nuisance of himself

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Wee bit of sad nostalgia this morning. Driving down the road and get stuck behind a black taxi, doing about 20mph, in their usual fashion. I got to reminiscing. Oh for the glory days before the ‘glider’ when hand signals and lip reading were used to determine routes 🧵1.

Very good thread. It is critical to follow the facts and the data about vaccines and vaccine safety and not be ideologically driven. Selective use of data to support false anti-vaccine narratives costs lives, as we have seen already with the measles virus outbreak in the US.

@smccourt1992 @donal_brenna St. Enda's?

@donal_brenna Not a single GAA club in north Belfast owns or manages its own facilities.

Lots of talk from soccer folk about ‘leveling the playing field’ because UKG commit to Casement monies. Just as a reminder: - There are 28 public dedicated GAA facilities across the North of Ireland. - There are 45 public dedicated soccer facilities in North Belfast alone.

@EFCdaily_ No that ship has sailed too many injuries

Richarlison back to Everton: Yes or No? 🤔

@Stevie13648521 @Briansmyth99 @deptinfra @JohnODowdSF Does not seem to matter which minister is in charge DFI do what they want

@Briansmyth99 @deptinfra @JohnODowdSF yet again. Absolutely useless.

@lemonchlo Always the case when Moyes was in charge :)

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@RobChadwick8 @EvertonBlueArmy More like Ancichebe lol

@EvertonBlueArmy Beto has Marcus Bent vibes.

Anyone else have a feeling Moyes gets the best out of Beto & DCL?