Tim Maher

Dairy Farmer. Interested in all things Agricultural, Political and Historical.

[Tim Maher @TimMaherOrchard]

@ArmchairSpecia1 @erskinechilders @electionlit Stupid comment

[Tim Maher @TimMaherOrchard]

@thomasjstamp Well I lost interest because it was too dear and there was nothing in it

[Mick O'Farrell @MOF1916]

I've been studying the 1916 Easter Rising for 30+ years, so there aren't many "surprises" left. 🙂
But this was very new to me!

A superb photo of one of the British Army's hastily-built armoured cars at Bank of Ireland, College Green.

And it's been in @NMIreland since 1975!
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[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

The precious bit of film shows of Stan Laurel visiting his father, Arthur Jefferson, during the 1932 visit to England by Laurel and Hardy. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

[1916EasterRisingTour @Tour1916]

Stood at this bus stop in Rathmines 100s of times and never noticed this manhole cover

[Tim Maher @TimMaherOrchard]

@AnClaiomhSolais Eamon De Valera

[Moore Street Preservation Trust @MooreSt_Trust]

“Darling Nancy
I was shot leading a rush up Moore Street
took refuge in a doorway.”

The O’Rahilly led a courageous charge up Moore Street in an effort to clear the British barricade and was fatally wounded. Before his death, he wrote a final message to his wife Nancy. I

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

Robert Emmet Briscoe (25 Sept 1894 #Dublin-29 May 1969). Dispatched by Michael Collins to Germany; oversaw arms purchase; Ballinasloe import–export firm, IRA front! Fianna Fáil; 1st Jewish TD 38 years! Lord Major of Dublin. WW2, lobbied for Jewish refugees https://t.co/WM8n3dFjnr

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @TullMcAdoo]

Longford Senator Paraic Brady calls Ciaran "Misinformation" Mullooly's comments today in the Seanad on Irish beef - "disgusting". The whole chamber turned on Mullooly very quickly. I'm surprised Mullooly made it out alive tbh.

[Tim Maher @TimMaherOrchard]

@thomasjstamp As long as it doesn’t start leaking

[Tim Maher @TimMaherOrchard]

@thomasjstamp My hero every month

[Cormac Moore @cormacmoore]

Today’s Irish News article on how the Shared Island Initiative does more for Irish unity than constant calls for a border poll, https://t.co/YmhTZuOG0y

[Timeless Colours @timelesscolours]

To Frongoch

Volunteers being marched through Dublin to cattle boats at North Wall, bound for internment in Frongoch camp in Wales. Passing Croppy Acre, itself a burial site linked to the 1798 Rising. Many would leave Ireland as prisoners, & return more radicalised than before.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

11 May 1812. Tory Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (aged 49) was shot dead in the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a merchant who felt he’d been unjustly imprisoned in Russia and was entitled to compensation from the government. Perceval is the only British PM ever murdered.

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

Seán Lemass (15 July 1899 #Ballybrack #Dublin-11 May 1971). 4th Taoiseach & led Fianna Fáil 1959-66. Veteran 1916 Rising. Anti-Treaty in Civil War. Known for: foreign investment, European links, free secondary education shortly after retirement! 💱🇪🇺👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 https://t.co/zzYHd6zxzT

[Tom Stamp @thomasjstamp]

There was no need to retire the programme with him though. Sean Og always welcomed me to parnell park when I was renewing my pass "ah the lad up from tipp"

[Cormac Moore @cormacmoore]

My latest Irish News article on the 100th anniversary of Fianna Fáil. https://t.co/OiILqtRWpY

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

How de Valera set Fianna Fáil in motion 100 years ago this month

The setting up of FF was an important moment for the new Irish State as it confirmed the centrality of parliamentary politics and set us on a path of democratic political stability.

https://t.co/RNdMScgp8b

[Shane Corr ☘️ @Default69202648]

There are no fuel protests at Trump Doonbeg, which is just a coincidence.