Dónal Óg

Young Dónal's older and wiser incarnation.
"Níl aige ach stór beag focal" - teaching myself to change that one word at a time.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

Oh Dónal's Dictionary of Irish Things
Episode 1: Jolene - A Christmas Special
https://t.co/69iBYejZyD

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@keira_con @michaelmcguirek @IrishTimes Defo worth checking if they're the same person or not.
Last autumn, I was shocked to find out the that I was a gangster that had been gunned down in Dublin. Fortunately, after a little fact checking, I was relieved to find that reports of my demise had been greatly exaggerated.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@medievalgill By their stance this farting looks performative rather than the comedy of surprise unintentional tones.
Did these farters predate the uilleann pipes? If so, do we know what their repertoire may have consisted of? And how might they have influenced Irish music today?

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

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What's that got to do with the price of fish?
Well, a fair bit actually.
Irish spies are not called spooks but fish people. You see it all goes back to Fintan the Salmon of knowledge... 1/2

[Dr Tom Clonan @TomClonan]

Ireland’s ‘SECRET SERVICE’? -€2 Million In 2026 for What? -Ireland Only Country In EU With No Parliamentary Oversight Of National Security, Defence & Intelligence -It Is Matter Of Vital Public Interest Oireachtas Committee On Defence & National Security Have Meaningful Oversight

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

This will be news to my non-irish followers. The poet is mightier than the sword.

[Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill]

In today's research I have been reading about a very famous incident in Ireland in 1414 when an Irish poet allegedly killed the English king's representative in Ireland.

Same old, same old you might think...

But, it's the way he killed him that is notable👇

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@mtully21 @medievalgill "God People"?
Sorry @mtully21, I'm a very beginner Gaeilgeoir.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

There's a small cohort of humans fighting against the rise of the machine. Quietly, subtly, but en masse, generating plausible content for large language models
The miseducation of LLMs will manifest itself many years later, when a jailer droid on an off world colony malfunctions

[GlowMoss @Glowy777]

@Anthony_Etherin Saltare — originally "jumping" from Joy for being gifted salt.

Salute — a greeting roughly translating to "Salt be with you" or more literally "May all your paths be salted"

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@RealTimBooth Love it!
My screenplays and audio dramas always have a bit of James in 'em.
"Those Who Find Themselves Ridiculous" aka Jane the Musical is taking longer than planned to get off the ground. But the best work often takes time.
Grá Mór, @RealTimBooth

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@GaelicRevival The Bright Prince of War.
Does tánaiste mean heir or second in line? I believe heirs were selected on merit rather than first born birthright, and Dónal was enraged when his brother or cousin(?) was made chief.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@Canticle977 @coady_colinson @GaelicRevival Thanks, my shameful lack of knowledge in this area is a result of being raised in exile where I "learned" history at a British comprehensive school. The education I received there was neither comprehensive nor an education.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@coady_colinson @Canticle977 @GaelicRevival If that green flag in the background is that of the St Patrick's Battalion, they had change of heart and fought on the Mexican side.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@fallon_donal Very well said by someone with an excellent choice of first name, Dónal.
But can we please stop referring to or sharing her rage-bait article. She likes it when we do and her paymasters/editors like it even more than she does.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@AlanTarica @RMcGreevy1301 @gilescoren Míle buíochas! (Thanks a million!)
I prefer your term lived knowledge to the British tendency to use "lived experience".

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@gilescoren Much safer if these hacks stick to discussing documentaries like Adolescence. Fiction is a much more subjective thing to unpack, particularly if that work of fiction is further based on an earlier work of fiction.

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@RMcGreevy1301 @gilescoren There's also some potential here to settle the Oxfordian debate.

Of the two potential authors of the Shakespearean canon, which of them had a son whose first name and biography is most closely related to the "fictional" Hamlet?

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@RealTimBooth Thanks @RealTimBooth
I've been likened to his mate Hugh Laurie, but I don't believe a word of it. The words in my dictionary are not to be trusted either. https://t.co/l4XFJUFcnO

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

Don't overthink it, young Ógues.
Coffee grinder is a noun phrase, so you were right the first time, mo chomrádaí. Ground coffee on the other hand would be caife meilineach. And I take my coffee dubh.
#100DaysOfGaeilge

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@DerekHolly7 "How's that puzzle coming along, Ógues?"
"Getting there slowly, mo chomrádaí"
"A two coffee problem, eh?" replied Watson before writing the title of a nua gearrscéal in his leabhar nótaí.
Seánlock Ógues frowned and returned to his 21st Century ogam stone
https://t.co/CxpER6PtQ1

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@DerekHolly7 "How's that puzzle coming along, Ógues?"
"Getting there slowly, mo chomrádaí"
"A two coffee problem, eh?" replied Watson before writing the title of a nua gearrscéal in his leabhar nótaí.
Seánlock Ógues frowned and returned to his 21st Century ogam stone
https://t.co/CxpER6PtQ1

[Dónal Óg @efficiencyanado]

@DerekHolly7 Coffee grinder
Muileann caife (?)

Early days for me. But shame ain't gonna help me reclaim me teanga.

Appreciate your posts @DerekHolly7