Invisible No More

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Fantastic episode...

[Irish Skies Pod @IrishSkiesPod]

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we commemorate the victims of the attacks and, with Shannon ATC, Oceanic comms & Airport staff, we look back at how the unimaginable "turn-back" of trans-Atlantic traffic was managed when U.S. airspace was closed.
https://t.co/iHae3Qblnl

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Irish famine was not caused by a potato blight. It was caused by a law passed in 1663, and the blight simply arrived to collect.

Ships left Cork the whole time it was happening, carrying butter and bacon under armed guard, past people dying on the quayside.

The version taught in schools is a fungus. Blight arrives, potatoes rot, tragedy. It leaves out why eight and a half million people were standing on one South American tuber to begin with, and that part is not weather. It has dates and it has signatures.

Ireland had cattle before it had writing. The national epic is a war over a stolen bull. Wealth was counted in cows, rank was counted in cows, and for a thousand years the country ran on beef, milk and butter.

Then in 1663 the English parliament taxed Irish cattle out of the English market, and in 1666 banned them outright, in an act that called the importing of them a common nuisance. Ireland was pushed into salt beef, hides and butter for the navy, the colonies and the slave plantations. Produced on Irish land, sold out of Irish ports, eaten somewhere else. The good ground was reorganised around what would survive a sea voyage.

What was left for the people was the crop that feeds a family off a quarter of an acre of bad land. That is not a folk tradition. That is what you are reduced to when the field behind your house is producing somebody else's dinner.

In 1845 the crop failed and the food kept leaving.

Butter, bacon, ham and live cattle going out of Cork and Limerick and Waterford while the workhouses filled. The relief that existed came with the Gregory Clause: hold more than a quarter acre of land and you were entitled to nothing. Give up the ground or starve on it. Somebody sat down and drafted that.

A million dead. A million gone. Eight and a half million down to six and a half in six years, and Ireland is the only country in Europe with fewer people in it now than in 1840.

The lesson everyone takes is about the fragility of monocultures, which is a comfortable lesson, because it blames a plant.

Nobody starves for want of food in a country that is exporting it. They starve because two centuries of decisions, taken by men who were never going to be hungry, left them one thing to eat and that thing could fail all at once.

Ireland's cattle are now the subject of national emissions targets, and the argument is once again about what that land ought to be producing, conducted by people who will not be eating the outcome either way.

The blight came in 1845. The reason it killed a million people was drafted in 1663.

[Invisible No More @more_invisible]

Great story...

[Irish Skies Pod @IrishSkiesPod]

NIGHT OUT IN DUBLIN, WAKE UP IN LONDON!!.

OTD, 27/28 Aug 1983, Neil Fogarty from Santry went for a night out in the Boot Inn & Jets Nightclub, but woke up in London Heathrow airport.

Relive the story of the unconscious stowaway on Irish Skies Pod
https://t.co/9rO9x92ylL

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Have a look inside tge ATC Control Tower at Cork Airport.

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Step inside the @AirNav_Ireland Control Tower at @CorkAirport and watch the real-time ATC operation as the team of Controllers divide out the workload, integrate traffic on the intersecting runways and guide the aircraft safely in and out of Cork.
https://t.co/AM23thtGsV

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@irishexaminer No.

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Super look back, especially for those from the Mayo area.

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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ireland West, Knock, Airport on 30th May with the words of Msgr Horan and a look-back through the Western People newspaper.
https://t.co/bJT1DjCtss

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IOLAR - Return to Irish Skies Part 1
https://t.co/4s3RIqzzen

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IOLAR - Return to Irish Skies Part 2 https://t.co/iCQeOlL0UW

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IOLAR - Return to Irish Skies Part 3-1 https://t.co/ZAlCXXvcT6

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IOLAR - Return to Irish Skies Part 3-2 https://t.co/3JtvF4a1eO

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IOLAR - Return to Irish Skies Part 4
https://t.co/FJYs1SwxLL

[Irish Skies Pod @IrishSkiesPod]

Today Iolar (EI-ABI) flies Weston - Bristol to mark the 90th anniversary of @AerLingus
Look back at some of the work required to "free" Iolar from the mezzanine in Hangar Six and ferry her to Abbeyshrule in preparation for her return to the skies.
https://t.co/FVHdSTIaQZ

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@RobLooseCannon From @IrishSkiesPod
https://t.co/NQb3VVPMqU

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8th May
On this date in 1953, @IrishAirCorps Avro Anson 143 was forced to ditch in the Shannon Estuary @ShannonFoynes
This short video recalls the event & the rescue of the crew by the Finnucane brothers.
@ShannonAvMuseum @IDFVA_ie @IrishDefence_

https://t.co/YlHkRovEvx

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8th May
On this date in 1953, @IrishAirCorps Avro Anson 143 was forced to ditch in the Shannon Estuary @ShannonFoynes
This short video recalls the event & the rescue of the crew by the Finnucane brothers.
@ShannonAvMuseum @IDFVA_ie @IrishDefence_
https://t.co/t1jWOQsSX9

[Irish Skies Pod @IrishSkiesPod]

Aeroflot IL62 landing at Shannon Airport.
Full documentary available on the YouTube link below.
#shannonairport #aeroflot
@Shauns_Aviation @ShannonAirport @aeroflot https://t.co/tGGXYPLJ5t

[Invisible No More @more_invisible]

A brilliant documentary with fantastic vintage footage of Shannon Airport.

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A HISTORY OF SHANNON 1945-1995
MARSH TO THE SKIES
This 83minute documentary was first broadcast in 1995 to mark the 50th Anniversary of Shannon Airport.
I have never seen a repeat of this programme but did find it on an old VHS tape at home.
https://t.co/tGGXYPLJ5t

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@TheNorfolkLion Always done in Ireland.
Wave at the zebra crossing and say "thanks" to the bus driver when you're getting off.

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@wideawake_media Ahhhh ... but to the Net ZERO idiots ... it LOOKS like a solution.

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@frpaddybyrne @Toibin1 As told by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in 1963