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#History of the #BrithishIsles
#InvasionsOfIreland
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...beginning
of more than 700 years of direct #English and, later, #British involvement in #Ireland...👈"
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A coveted island: Nine times Ireland has been invaded, conquered and occupied
THROUGHOUT its history, the island of Ireland has been a highly-prized land in the eyes of foreig...Irish Post (The Irish Post)
#History of the #BrithishIsles
#InvasionsOfIreland
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To elaborate on the subject, I'd argue, that for almost all of the second millennium, #Ireland being ruled by the royals that sat on the #English throne, rather than being an autonomous region, was the norm:
After #Norse invasions starting in 795 AD, Ireland became autonomous again only in 101A, when "the famed high king #BrianBoru defeated a #Viking force at the...
irishpost.com/life-style/a-cov…
A coveted island: Nine times Ireland has been invaded, conquered and occupied
THROUGHOUT its history, the island of Ireland has been a highly-prized land in the eyes of foreig...Irish Post (The Irish Post)
“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
m.independent.ie/regionals/wic…
Useful idiots in the tech world: “But sponsorship doesn’t affect anything… they should have just taken their money.”
(WTF am I taking about? This: ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a…)
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #whitewashing #complicity #sponsorship #BigTech #capitalism #Palestine #Gaza #Bray #Ireland
Bray Air Display drops US sponsor over Israel support in Gaza war
Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company's supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.Jessica Lamb (Irish Independent)
Zelensky calls on West to slash Russian oil price cap in half as strikes on Ukraine escalate #Ukraine #USA #UK #EU #Europe #Czechia #Poland #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #Germany #France #Austria #Hungary #Romania #Trump #Slovakia #Japan #Taiwan #Australia #Switzerland #Canada #Italy #Ireland #Netherlands #Finland #Sweden #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Spain #NATO #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Zelensky calls on West to slash Russian oil price cap in half as strikes on Ukraine escalate
"Each of the partners knows what price cap is needed — $30, no higher. Such a price level will mean real pressure on Russia," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 10.Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)
This is how you send a message to israel.
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#PaddyMcCorry #Ireland #FreePalestine #shukifarage #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza
Irish peacekeepers in #Lebanon fired at by #Israeli troops while on patrol.
The event happened on the #InternationalUNPeacekeepersDay ...
Would this have been reported more widely if the shots had been fired by #Hezbollah or #Hamas ?
#UN #Israel #UNIFIL #unifilpeacekeeping #Ireland #peacekeepers
@EUCommission
@tagesschau
@israel
@Bundesregierung
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Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon fired at by Israeli troops while on patrol
The incident happened at around midday as the Irish soldiers of the 126th Infantry Battalion were patrolling with soldiers from the Lebanese Armed Forces.TheJournal.ie
ICCL secures permission to take Ireland’s first ever class action - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EURuth McCourt (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
Irish MEP Ciaran Mullooly: "As the slaughter of innocent men, women and children continues in #Gaza - and the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis continues to deteriorate - I’ve written personally to President von der Leyen of the #EuropeanCommission to urge her to intervene urgently with a 7 point plan to end the #Genocide"
(via LinkedIn)
ciaranmullooly.com/news
#EU #OccupiedTerritoriesBill #Ireland
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Examples of Measures for Commission Consideration Ms Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission Rue de la Loi 200 / Wetstraat 200 1049 Brussels, Belgium 26th May 2025 Subject:...MULLOOLY FOR EUROPE - VOTE 1
Ireland - Almost 200 Marilyn Monroe lookalikes join Irish charity swim
"Marilyn’s Mater Paddle, now in its second year, held at Balcarrick beach to raise funds for women’s cancer care"
Fair play to all the Marilyns! 👱
theguardian.com/world/2025/may…
The round tower at Kilmacduagh monastery backed by a fiery sunset. Kilmacduagh is said to have been founded in the 7th century by Colman MacDuagh.
County Galway, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #sunset #kilmacduagh #Ireland
An 18th-century Irish revolution sought liberty, equality, and freedom. Though unsuccessful, it laid groundwork for future struggles and inspired songs still sung in Ireland today.
theconversation.com/an-18th-ce…
@histodons #Histodons #Ireland
An 18th-century rebellion for liberty, equality and freedom − not in France or the United States, but Ireland
The 1798 rebellion aimed at creating a secular state with equal rights regardless of religion.The Conversation
Please share this Joint statement from 🇮🇪 🇮🇸 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇳🇴 🇸🇮 🇪🇸 on Gaza: to fight against the continuing slaughter of the Palestinian people.
#Iceland #Luxembourg #Slovenia #Ireland #Malta #Spain #Norway #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraeliCrimes #UN
At Al-Awda Hospital--last partially functioning facility in north #Gaza--doctors hand-pumped oxygen for three days to keep a patient alive. The patient died.
Joint statements from a handful of European states mean nothing without action. At this point, moral posturing only serves to heighten the risk for a people, as #HRW put it, inching closer to extermination.
thejournal.ie/gaza-hospital-fo…
#Ireland #Spain #Norway #Slovenia #Malta #Luxemburg #Iceland
Doctors in Gaza hospital pumped oxygen by hand for three days for a sick patient before he died
Al-Awda Hospital is the last remaining partially-operating hospital in north Gaza.TheJournal.ie
Statement from the Govt’s of #Iceland, #Ireland, #Slovenia, #Spain, #Luxembourg, #Malta, #Norway calling on #Israel to lift the siege on #Gaza and immediately allow unimpeded access to humanitarian relief and to reach a just peace for all #Palestine.
#StopGenocide #FoodAsWeapon #EUpol #Politics
#ESC #Eurovision #ESC2025 #Eurovision2025
#HistoMusic
Tomorrow, there will be the 69th finals of the biggest annual music event in #Basel, #Switzerland. Broadcasters from 52 countries have transmitted the contest at least once since 1956.
One of my favorites this year is
#Ireland, Emmy - "Laika Party,"
but not in the version that you might've heard it.--I recommend listening to it at 125% of its original speed:
ardmediathek.de/video/eurovisi…
(Tried it from New Mexico.)
Eurovision Song Contest: Irland: Emmy - 'Laika Party' | Zweites ESC-Halbfinale - hier anschauen
Emmy nahm uns mit in ein alternatives Universum: Was wenn Hündin Laika nicht im All verglüht wäre, sondern dort oben Party feiert?www.ardmediathek.de
Auf thesession.org sind viele schöne Irische Tunes zu finden. In unserem aktuellen Repertoire haben wir unter anderem den Monaghan Jig.
Hier ist eine besonders schöne Solo-Fassung des Liedes: youtube.com/watch?v=kdCLeST3Bv…
Die Melodie: : thesession.org/tunes/67
#irishmusic #mandolin #monaghan #jig #irischeMusik #mandoline #Mandolinelernen #music #Musik #Irland #ireland #session
