Declan McKeown

Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast!

[John Crotty @itsjohncrotty]

Spiteful bigot - “The Irish have contributed nOtHiNg to Civilisation”?

Reality:
- The space between written words
- The modern submarine
- The Boycott
- Halloween
- Inspiration for the breakup of the British Empire
- Boyles Law, modern chemistry
- Traditional Irish music & dance
- Irish monastic European network ⬇️
- Polar exploration, Shackleton & Crean
- The worlds most beautiful book ⬇️
- Extraordinary craft & metalwork ⬇️
- Hamiltonian mechanics, fundamental to modern physics
- Europes oldest humanitarian law protecting women & children, ‘law of the innocents’, 698AD
- Hollow hypodermic needle
- Pulsar discovery
- An incalculable diaspora contribution to America, Britain, Australia and others
- One of Europe’s earliest extensive Law traditions, Brehon Laws
- The parole system
- UNESCO recognised National Folklore Collection
- Europe’s largest and most important concentration of prehistoric megalithic art
- Newgrange, 1000 years older than pyramids and Stonehenge
- Roy Keane
- Kelvin absolute temperature scale
- Duty free
- Insular manuscript illumination
- Beaufort wind scale
- Irish whiskey
- Worlds oldest continuously played field sport, hurling
- Three point tractor
- First Western country to impose a total ban on apartheid South African goods/imports
- Tayto
- Four Nobel Prizes in Literature: Yeats, Shaw, Beckett & Heaney
- Modern satire, Gullivers travels

- Swift, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Seán O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, Frank O’Connor, Seamus Heaney, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Marian Keyes, Claire Keegan, Sally Rooney, Paul Lynch, Donal Ryan…

- Ulysses, Gulliver’s Travels, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dracula, The Playboy of the Western World, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, Dancing at Lughnasa, Angela’s ashes, Brooklyn, Room, Milkman, Small Things Like These, Foster, Normal People, Prophet Song…

Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Mainie Jellett, Louis le Brocquy, William Orpen, John Lavery…

Don’t get me started on modern contribution to the arts & culture with great actors, singers, bands and sportspersons ⬇️

Not bad for an island beaten and staved, restricted in education and opportunity - and we are only getting started

☘️🪉🟢🌀🇮🇪

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

RIP Bonnie Greer

[Darran Marshall @DarranMarshall]

"It turns out that he isn’t as orange as he looks."

SDLP leader @ClaireHanna reacts to Trump's comments on Irish unity.

"I'm not sure if anybody has checked on the DUP. I suspect they're burning those Trump flags as we speak."

[Declan McKeown @DeckRendar]

Yes….

[Marvel Decoded @MarvelDecoded]

Did you know Kang comes from Reed Richards' bloodline?

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Rather than reading the (frankly, pathetic) comments on our earlier post, find out more about the incredible Sables Shamrocks story via the link below…

Welcome to Ireland 🇮🇪

https://t.co/KEtH7EWLc3

[Gerry @guinnessaddick]

I like how Colombia v Switzerland tonight has been dubbed Charlie vs the Chocolate Factory.

[Ian from the 🇵🇭 @manisanisland]

@otigart @shitscaredmum https://t.co/0BRY4WjOuL

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Lost on penalties. Obviously he is English after all.

[Justin @juza_23]

Ireland. Famously anti-Celtic.

[Mick Conlon @ViolinMick]

Sunday pints with my 2 best mates, sprinkled with the creative mind of @DeckRendar only leads to 1 thing, @WWEGP…

#TheGoodBrothers

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

When I get a spam/sales call, I tell the caller he has reached General Hardesty at Strategic Command Headquarters in Omaha, and I urgently need the launch codes. Childish, but this is sometimes the highlight of my day.

[Pirlo The 3rd @DeanoMck]

“Whatever I said
Whatever I did, I didn't mean it”

#ToryCunt

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

Looks like I’m Scottish for the next few months

[James Donnelly 🇮🇪 @JamesDonnellySF]

Every Irish person after that match. Myself included. 🥲

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

“Too many snakes these days. Just me and the kids from now on.”

St Patrick - 461 AD

[Stephen Gutowski @StephenGutowski]

The Scrubs revival is great so far! However, the actors all seem to have visibly aged, which is weird because I haven't gotten any older since I began watching the show when it first aired.

[Declan McKeown @DeckRendar]

@BadWilf Small Town Murder, Crime in Sports or Your Stupid Opinions…

[Declan McKeown @DeckRendar]

@JohnBarrowman People will complain about things they don’t know about. Complain about situations that they were not involved with. People will just complain about anything. Ignore them and keep being you.

Happy birthday! From a fan x

[Declan McKeown @DeckRendar]

@WWEGP What a pop 🙌