#Irish

Rewatched Stepmom the other night on Netflix, and it is an incredibly beautiful film. But watching it, and thinking of the house in Home Alone made me wonder: did any
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An all-day webinar today with the Belgian, Dutch, French, and Irish customs authorities (as you might have noticed by my earlier tweets).You know these traffic management systems we're trying to
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1/18 The Easter Rising in Dublin lasted 6 days; within that timespan men of Irish regiments in France suffered heavy casualties from two chlorine gas attacks launched by the Germans,
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So it's four years since my friends hen do. It was Disney themed so I thought I'd go as the Cheshire Cat. Then, weirdly, it was another friends hen do
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Two years ago today we won. I was sitting in a bar with Wendy, Helen, & Bairbre when we got the exit poll just after 10pm & we could feel
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There are now 179 cases in hospital with 30 in ICU. Our positivity rate for last 24 hours was over 5%.If this continues, I am beyond certain more people will
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So to summarise and I don't want to do so yet, because I'm sure there will be more to add, but @PhilHoganEU has Denied travellers housing but sued people who
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hey non irish friends? if i said i was after having some tea, what would you think i'm trying to tell you? (i love that @Chris_afec almost certainly knows exactly
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The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on
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Want to hear a funny story about something that happened to me this weekend? It concerns the internet, elephants, and the absurdity of online nostalgia. So, Naomi Wolf was getting
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What are your favorite stream-of-consciousness novels? (Mulling over a new course idea) Relatedly: curious whether anyone out there has read Édouard Dujardin's "Les lauriers sont coupés," supposedly the first SOC
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Some key quotes from @MichelBarnier's book The Grand Illusion: 2/ On his meeting with Nigel Farage, who, he says, told him the £350m Vote Leave bus message was a mistake:
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1. #Austin's Mayor Adler took office January 6, 2015.This CITY MAYOR quickly scheduled events that would position him with Chinese Investors. 2. China-US Private Investment Summit 3/30-4/1, 2015 Speaker:"Austin Mayor
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Remembering how I went debs shopping in a really popular Irish formal wear shop (mostly popular through insta and fb) and the owner 'helped' me through my app I was
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THREAD!Can I stereotype an entire country with just a few folk?Yes I can!I was in Ireland, plane to Dublin and hire car to drive across the country.Said hire car died.On
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You direct ppl to Irish orgs that can help *now*. But until the Gardaí asked you to step away, you weren't. Your org. claimed - multiple times - to be
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