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[Padraig Breen @padraig_breen]

This is a scam of the highest order. Can we please end it now.

[🇮🇪☘️☀️ 𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖈 𝕱𝖚𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 ☀️☘️🇮🇪 @GaelicFuturist]

The 5 Highways of Ireland

In the Lebor hUidre (Book of the Dun Cow) there’s a passage which describes five separate roads that connected the political centre of the island Tara with the rest of the island.

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[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

New prehistoric tomb found in Galway, containing an amethyst pendant

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The rediscovery of a prehistoric tomb in Co Galway has led to the unearthing of another tomb next to it, hinting at the "complexity" of the culture of Ireland's first farming communities https://t.co/myGdVxxE5w

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

Ireland has Europe's largest stalactite called the 'Great Stalactite', it hangs from the roof of Pol an Ionain in County Clare. It is one of the largest in the world.

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

Babur, the first Mughal Emperor, wondering who would win in a fight between a rhino and an elephant

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

@fitzfromdublin Never heard of it

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

This makes me ridiculously happy

[Ecofact @EcofactEcology]

Pine Marten (Martes martes) at a site in Co. Tipperary last week. This once-threatened native species has made a remarkable recovery and is now present in every county in Ireland.

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

What about it is ‘twee’? It seems like there is a push against anything older than 20 years amongst some people in Ireland towards ‘modernism’ out of some fear of ‘old Ireland’ even though Stephen’s Green in its current form doesn’t fit with ‘old Ireland’

[Irish Times Opinion @IrishTimesOpEd]

Finn McRedmond: Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre is grotty, schmaltzy and twee. I’ll be happy to see it gone https://t.co/6ik2P0mVwc

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

It’s iconic, I like our steamboat. Don’t know why they need to demolish it

[Philip Nolan @philipnolan1]

The current St Stephen’s Green shopping centre looks like a Mississippi steamboat plonked in the middle of Dublin. The rebuild plans are generic and awful, but let’s not kid ourselves the original had much in the way of merit either.

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

It literally looks like a building on a college campus, completely atrocious.

Bring back Stephen’s Green!

[Irish Times Business @IrishTimesBiz]

Revamp of St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre gets green light https://t.co/D6jDD7Dj39

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

@collieennis Why is this in schools?!

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

Both look awful and soulless

[Joe Fae Glesga @joe_yer99]

What you're told you'll get v What you get.

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

Very exciting

[Martin Whelan @mairtinofaolain]

The Irish 1926 census is going to be online tomorrow. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

There are lots of weird innovations like this in history

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

I was today years old when I learned that the Chinese were already drilling natural gas, which they transported in bamboo pipelines, under the Han dynasty.

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

Ancient roads of Ireland

[135th Degree @135thdegree]

Vintage Budweiser advertisement titled "Noble Ireland Island of Kings" - published March 1980. The map highlights Irish surnames and cultural landmarks.

[🪙 Beothach @GaelicRevival]

Loughnashade Horn retrieved from Loch na Séad (Lake of the Jewels), an exquisite example of Iron Age craftmanship. Notably a very short distance to the royal site of Eamhain Mhacha.

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

[🪙 Beothach @GaelicRevival]

"Baroque Ireland: After the successful breaking of the siege at Kinsale, a period of peace followed, and the arts flourished. Though influenced by the classical and Counter-Reformation trends of her Spanish ally, a distinct national style remained."

[Goibniu @goibniusmith]

The Greater Dublin area holds about 40% of Ireland’s population whereas the Île-de-France (Greater Parisian Area) holds only about 18% of the French population