@Dona21571Mc @Aldamir You’re too stupid to bother speaking to. Good luck with that.
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@thequiggers @Aldamir Irish Republicanism is ethno nationalism end of
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Unionists view Irishness as being geographical, republicans view it as ethnic…
Stormont Sources@StormontSources
🆕This week on the podcast @Saraita101 talks to us about Unionist identity We discuss Paul Doherty's resignation from the SDLP Then we also talk about the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis. 🎧 Available now
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@KarlaTweetsxxx @DropkickMangan Not in this one but many early houses, particularly in Dublin, were more female friendly than middle class pubs, with no bar and lounge segregation. This was to accommodate the street traders who would be waiting for things to sell arriving in the docks
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Charlie’s.
I’ve been there once. Dropped my brother off at 6.45am so he could grab a pint.
Now that dumbass is a director at Apple. I fucking shit you not 🤣
RareIrishStuff@RareIrishStuff
Early house pub, Cork City, 1980 Pubs opening at 7am. Early houses were an old tradition, a place for dockers and market traders to gather for an early morning drink. Footage: RTÉ Archives
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@MrVirtueSignal @HCH_Hill Northern Ireland’s economy is also entirely focused on the eastern side as well so I’m not sure what your point is?
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@HCH_Hill The reality is that De Valera's agrarian experiment of "frugal comfort" exported much of Donegal to the UK anyway.
It remains resolutely untouched by the Irish economic "miracle" that we are confidently told by Irish nationalism will transform Northern Ireland.
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I do think that despite it narrowing the demographic margin, the whole business would have been psychologically easier for all concerned if we had kept Donegal.
The Republic sans Donegal has a fairly regular shape one could get used to; with, it has a hole in it.
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Today marks 105 years of Northern Ireland! Here's to another 105 within the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
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@Dona21571Mc @Aldamir Perhaps spend more time reading carefully before you comment. He suggested republicans see it as ethnic. Unionism is not an ethnicity.
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@thequiggers @Aldamir All Republicans so nothing to do with any unionist
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@Aldamir @AhernHerbe8277 Big difference in political and social attitudes in North Antrim to the likes of more mixed Belfast even then no?
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@Aldamir @AhernHerbe8277 Driven by church of Ireland types more so than Presbyterians.
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@thequiggers @AhernHerbe8277 Presbyterian Ulster was largely a liberal political stronghold up to the end of the 19th century.
For most of the 20th century, up to about 1990 or so, Protestant NI was more liberal on social issues than the South.
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@Aldamir @AhernHerbe8277 True but Napoleon alone doesn’t explain the shift from radicalism to being without a doubt the most reactionary force on the island of Ireland by some stretch today.
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@thequiggers @AhernHerbe8277 Yet contemporary observers attributed Presbyterian collapse of enthusiasm for republicanism to Scullabogue & the hijacking of the French Revolution by (Emperor!) Napoleon. See the failure of Emmet’s rebellion.
Conservative theology didn’t arrive until 20 years later.
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@AhernHerbe8277 @Aldamir The Presbyterians were the biggest Republican radicals of all until they were swept up in conservative evangelicalism in the 1800 and 1900s.
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Famously, Protestants were given one third of the Irish flag as Irish Protestants were considered Irish.....
Tone/ McCracken/ Lord Fitzgerald/ Mitchell Emmet/ Parnell/ Pearse (on his father's side) / Childers/ Hyde/ Yeats/ Bulmer Hobson/ Robert Barton/ Blythe etc were all famous Irish Republican from Irish Protestant backgrounds, many of a Ulster Presbyterian background.
It's not as if the vast majority of Irish Protestants don't have very significant Gaelic background anyway, modern genetic testing has proven this.
So even a genetic determination wouldn't discount their Irishness.
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@rayofoghlu Great traditional bakeries in the liberties that’d do them for half easily
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@fergalreid I like this idea. Ironically, in many ways, despite its obvious imperialist associations, Nelson’s Pillar was more Irish than the Spire. It was designed by an Irish architect and made from Irish materials. The spire was neither.
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Rebuild Nelson's Pillar as The Pillar. Don't overthink it.
It was more handsome than the one in Trafalgar Square and the site is better to boot - but instead of putting yer man back on top, treat it like the Fourth Plinth.
Sincerely, it'd be terrific. Blue chickens and all.
Robbigonzalli 🇮🇪@suilleabhain4
If given the chance, what would you replace the current site of the Spire, which formerly housed Neslons Pillar, with? Since it is our capital's high street, I'd go for something mythical, like the daoine sidhe being driven to the otherworld. x.com/100YearsAgoLiv…
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@_ChanFace Europeans weren’t whined about it. Cosplaying American right wingers were.
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@pointMF @salingergregor Absolutely. Dev’s protectionism was suicidal & moronic and if it weren’t for Whitaker’s report & reversal of policy by Lemass we’d probably look like Argentina now. The railway policies were bad but it’s also annoying when arrogant Austrians criticise things they don’t understand
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@thequiggers @salingergregor You have a point in our lack of money, however that was in large part due to the economic isolation policy that Dev pursued. The killer though was not mothballing the lines, instead selling off the tracks, sleepers, stations and the land. That is unforgivable.
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Ireland literally had every settlement on its island connected to railways and then let it rot away. I understand that many routes may have been more efficiently served by busses, but like for sure it would have made sense to keep more of the network than you did?
Brilliant Maps@BrilliantMaps
The Irish Railway System between 1920 and 2020, name a bigger downgrade in history. Why it happened: brilliantmaps.com/irish-railway-…
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@CSBlenner Because nobody is arguing that they are. If Jewish people from Brooklyn were migrating to Palestine to live under their rules rather than coming to take over their land illegally and harass people on their own land, nobody would have an issue. I think you know this.
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How is this any different to saying Rishi Sunak or Lamine Yamal are not indigenous to Europe? This is a racist far right trope.
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@denisyurchak Is there something inherently culturally Polish about not wasting money on eating out? I’ve always wondered why there are no Polish restaurants in Ireland despite having a huge Polish community now for over 20 years.
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I would never start meal prepping if I lived in Poland
In communist times there was a huge network of so called milk bars - cantinas where working folk could eat cheap meals every day
When Poland became free, they didn’t dismantle this system, but kept it and modernised
Now Polish cities are filled with milk bars, where you can eat cheap, healthy and fast meals
We had a 3-course lunch with my wife for 47 złoty (under 12 euros), and it was much healthier than eating in a restaurant
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@cosmorxn @willsolfiac He definitely was not referring to regulations such as this. Everybody is in favour of recognition of important cultural item like champagne, feta etc
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@willsolfiac Every time I see one of these stories I think about how the leader of the biggest economy in Europe said that regulations like this were a terrible idea, and yet they continue, presumably because the EU needs many conferences to actually do anything about them.
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calling his dead wife who he was still very much married to at the time of her death his "ex-wife..."
AXS TV@AXSTV
Paul McCartney with his ex-wife Linda and their daughter Stella ❤️
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@taxspendlib @JesusVal56 What kind of accent is that supposed to fucking be?
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Learning that the UK has invented something called "steak canadian" which is something no Canadian has ever eaten
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