Anyone else here found a four leaf clover this year? I just found my first one this year. !! Do I feel lucky? In a way.

Last year I found none. 2024 sucked.

#luck #irish

I found my first one at age 26, after my ethnic Irish MIL taught me to. Before that I didn’t believe they existed.

Är ni familjära med det irländska uttrycket "mar dhea"

Vad står i svenska upplagan? "Eller hur" ? Jag har inte den

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/mar-dhea-moryah-a-sceptical-irish-interjection/

Jojo, an actionist and beloved friend to so many of us, has passed away at the age of 21.

https://x.com/Pal_action/status/1912566770000621752

#Ireland #irish
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism

#FolkloreThursday: `There are many stories of the #Irish Wolfhound in #mythology. The most famous hounds are, without doubt, #Fionn’s two favourites, Bran and Sceolán. They were said to have been so tall, that their heads reached chest height to a man. Bran was described as ‘ferocious, white-breasted, sleek-haunched, with fiery deep black eyes that swim in sockets of blood’. Sceolán was slightly smaller, ‘small-headed, with the eyes of a dragon, claws of a wolf, vigour of a lion, and the venom of a serpent’. They feature as prominently in the exploits of the Fianna as do the warriors themselves.` #Celtic #NationalPetsMonth
Source: Ali Isaac

#Comedian Spike Milligan was born in India 107 years ago on this day to an #Irish father and British mother

In 1960 Milligan was denied a British passport for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance and opted to take up Irish citizenship

#Mastodaoine #IrishBiography #IrishHistory

https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/spike-milligan-comedian-1918-2002

Appeal over missing Mayo man last seen in Northern Ireland – The Irish News https://www.byteseu.com/927836/ #Ballycastle #GeorgeBrennan #Ireland #IRISH #NorthernIreland #RepublicOfIreland #Ulster

#PGA

Rory's currently up 4 strokes on the nearest chaser at 14 under going into the 12th hole (#AmenCorner) at the #Masters in his quest to complete the #CareerGolfGrandSlam!!!!

I'm not #Irish, nor do I play #golf.

I just like to watch people who can play this difficult game play it at a level few can achieve.

The last pro-golfer to achieve the Career Golf Grand Slam was #Tiger in 2000. Before that, Nicholas did achieved that in 1966.

So, this is a rare event!!!

Go Rory!!!!

For the Irish speakers following me, or anyone else. Holly Munro’s latest EP is sung in Irish

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/domsa-duitse-oscailte-single/1803149743

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2RKGDd5KYXXJikJFTEVSF1

There are previous versions of the three songs in English.

Recordings from 29 March 2025 are now available free at the "Enslavement to citizenship: African Americans in Irish Slaveholder records" website.

Includes overview of databases "Irish slaveholders in South Carolina 1670-1865" & "They had names: African Americans in Liberty County, Georgia"

@histodons
@geneadons
@genealogy

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #SouthCarolina #Georgia #Irish #AfricanAmerican

https://www.enslavement-to-citizenship.com/#/

Attention recent PhDs working on Celtic topics: DIAS Bergin Fellowship in Celtic Studies

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies wishes to appoint a promising early-stage researcher to a five-year Bergin Fellowship in the School of Celtic Studies. The post will be available from 1 September 2025.

Application deadline: 16 May 2025

Further information: https://www.dias.ie/bergin-fellowship-2/

@DIAS_Dublin @SCSlibrary

Linguistic analysis of 12000 letters leads Félix Krawatzek & Emma Moreton to conclude that America became home for German immigrants much more quickly than the Irish (who maintained a desire to return to Ireland for longer).
New & OA in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.2

@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #migration #Irish #German #home #linguistics

#Irish MEPs ask #EU to assess legality of #German plan to deport Irish Palestine activists

Seven #MEPs , across four parties, wrote to the #EUCommission today:

“Freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are both guaranteed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and in the
#EuropeanConventionOfHumanRights "

@EUCommission

#VivaPalestina #Berlin #Gaza #Ireland #StandUpForHumanRights #Deutschland
#StandWithPalestine #StopIsraelWarCrimes #StopGenocide

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-meps-german-plan-to-deport-irish-citizens-pro-palestine-protests-6673824-Apr2025/

In an effort to encourage people across the #USA , #Irish President #MichaelDHiggins promotes #Irish butter #KerryGold .

I was in Hodges Figgis (which is the bookshop Waterstones in #Dublin) looking for my book of essays by #Irish #Autistic adults. I couldn't find it in new non fiction. But where did I find it? There, on the bestseller stand, proudly standly at number 2. I NEVER expected a book of autistic voices to be so popular in the mainstream. Makes me hopeful. Times are changing
@actuallyautistic

[13:39] Northern Ireland in 'unique' position regarding tariffs

The UK and Irish governments have been pressed to keep in mind Northern Ireland's unique circumstances in their response to US president Donald Trump's tariffs.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0409/1506678-northern-ireland-tariffs/

#UK #Irish #NorthernIreland's #US #DonaldTrump's

Help please!

Question for the #Irish here.
Does anyone can tell me please at which graveyard I might have taken this picture in December 2009?

The last picture in the folder was taken in Narrabaun North, Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny some 45 minutes earlier.
So it must be in the area southern #Kilkenny, Co #Waterford or Co #SouthTipperary

#MastoDoaine
#Ireland

Last evening I sort of stumbled over a Highland Session clip where they sang Mo Ghille Mear. This morning I looked for it, found an amazing version and went to buy a whole album of that choir:

Invisible Stars: Choral Works of Ireland & Scotland - album download
UCD Choral Scholars, Desmond Earley

And 5 minutes later I sort of managed to play it on the harp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxjvNUNXhkU

Truly delighted the #Book I compiled, 'Wired Our Own Way; An Anthology of #Autistic #Irish Voices" has made the #Bestsellers. Never had a bestseller before so my mind is a bit blown. It has proven so popular that it's gone into a second print already. Thank you #Ireland for choosing to read and listen to our voices.

Available as #Paperback and as an #Audiobook

https://www.newisland.ie/shop/p/wired-our-own-way

@actuallyautistic

[07:57] France calls for EU countries to suspend US investment

Follow live coverage on developments as tariffs on Irish exports to the US and the continuing threat of further sectoral tariffs will be the focus of meetings in Government Buildings today.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0404/1505803-tariffs-ireland-world/

#Irish #US #GovernmentBuildings #today

Lighthouse Open Days

Kinsale Sat 5th, Sun 6th

Lusitania museum funder