X

[David W. Higgins @higginsdavidw]

Akin to a winning Israeli team with a "Gaza is Israeli" banner. A litmus tests for self-determination applying to a population with roots for generations, even a small one. It's right to believe it for Gaza, but you can't let your principles slip for the Falklands.

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

On the wild edge of the Loop Head Peninsula in County Clare stands a monument to faith in the face of adversity. The Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 was supposed to have sorted things out but in west Clare, Ascendancy landlords exercised absolute control.

The estates round Kilbaha were Protestant-owned with absentee landlord’s, which meant the real power sat with the agent on the ground. That agent was Marcus Keane, and he ran the parish like his own personal fiefdom. No Catholic church would be built on his employer's land.

Father Michael Meehan landed into this mess in 1849. His parishioners were walking miles for Mass and getting harassed for their trouble. Keane evicted them from houses they'd converted into makeshift chapels. Meehan tried saying Mass in open fields, under tarpaulins slung between cart-shafts, even standing in the wet sand on the beach with the Atlantic doing its best to end the service early.

Eventually Meehan had enough of getting rained on and came up with a stroke of genius. If Keane controlled the land, then Meehan would simply build a church that wasn't on it. In 1852 he hired a Carrigaholt carpenter named Owen Collins to build him a wooden hut on wheels, altar and windows included, for the princely sum of £10. It was too big for Collins's workshop, so he built it out on the public street instead.

The genius part was where Meehan parked it, on the strand between the high and low tide marks. That stretch of sand belonged to nobody. Not Keane, or his landlord, or the Crown. Twice a day the tide rolled in and washed the whole jurisdictional problem away.

For five years the Little Ark was the parish church. Baptisms, weddings, funerals, three hundred people some Sundays, all gathered round a box on wheels while the wind came in off the Atlantic. Wet days, the congregation brought flat stones to kneel on so their knees wouldn't ruin on the sand. Keane tried to have Meehan prosecuted for causing a public nuisance but he lost.

By 1857 the fight had drawn enough attention that a site was finally granted. The foundation stone for the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, was laid on 12 July 1857, and the church was dedicated in October 1858. The Little Ark was wheeled inside and left there, where it sits to this day.

Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book https://t.co/U7jtCrOTtb

[Rowan Fornow 🚵🚉🏙️🦣🇵🇸 @rowanfornow]

Kim Jong Un hasn't been nearly as much of a main character in Trump 2 as he was in Trump 1. What's he up to

[Dutch Democrat @DutchDemocrat]

you can tell biden thought he got a fake wife

[X @Secretjim123]

@RobLooseCannon That's where the phrase "Aughrim was lost" comes from

As in that where things took a turn for the worst

Seems to have died out as a phrase with younger generations

[X @Secretjim123]

@KeithMillsD7 Id like to learn more about the lodges in the south

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

It should be Earl Binface, actually.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[X @Secretjim123]

@NspaceSham @dineen20dineen What was that like ?

[X @Secretjim123]

@dineen20dineen Never heard of USA

Reality magazine is gone

[Sean Dineen @dineen20dineen]

Memories from your school days did you bring magazines home from school eg. Far East, USA, Messenger, Africa magazine

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

This might still be my favourite logic joke of all time

[X @Secretjim123]

@RobLooseCannon @KeithMillsD7 I think a history post on merrion square is in order 🫣😊😊😊

Tbf the church donated the square to the people like other land like poddle park,ranelgh gardens (?) and tranquilla park rathmines

[Seán Kelly MEP @SeanKellyMEP]

3am, just home from Bruxelles.Glad , I wasn’t going too fast & was able to break sufficiently around.Nenagh, to avoid killing a young fox , who having survived, conveyed me for about 100 metres on the motorway , before disappearing. In fact, in the last few weeks I have been able to avoid killing , 3 foxes, a cat & a hedgehog .But, I missed a rat too, unfortunately!!

[Malik Hills @michaelhills8]

@lorraineelizab6 So, what, they were two Indian Army (presumably white personnel) regiments and they were just combined and overnight became an Irish regiment? Or were they already recruited in Dublin and therefore largely Irish beforehand?

[X @Secretjim123]

@markhumphrys @DavidSc36517670 @LewisJonathanE That's fair

The party has changed a lot even in the last decade or so

[Mark Humphrys @markhumphrys]

@Secretjim123 @DavidSc36517670 @LewisJonathanE Indeed. Though probably closer to them than modern woke FG.

[X @Secretjim123]

@markhumphrys @DavidSc36517670 @LewisJonathanE You don't seems the share the Cosgraves conservative Catholicism 😅😂

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

For six months every thirteen years, when it is in Hibernian hands, the EU Council Presidency becomes the most important diplomatic office in world history. The rest of the time, nobody knows who holds it. Until yesterday it was Cyprus, apparently.

[deck903 @DeckoDeck903]

@Secretjim123 @RobLooseCannon true and also of the only non overlapping diocese with COI - I think COI missed an opportunity not having a Galway city Bishop