Conor McCabe
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Upcoming events for the Connolly book. Other dates and venues to be added when finalised.
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If you want to get rid of cheap food and fast fashion, you also need to get rid of cheap wages, low supports, and time poverty. Anything less is class war. Proposals for the former without the latter won't wash anymore. This isn't 2008.
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Sky News is reporting that the deaths from coronavirus aren't so bad because most of the people "would have died anyway some time this year"...
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Musk has dumped $13bn of debt onto Twitter's company account, increasing the interest repayments from $51m to $1bn a year. Its entire gross income is c. $700m a year. Its net income is negative & it doesn't receive gov. subsidies that kept similarly loss-making Telsa alive
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As a start you could provide in law that everyone born in Ireland is an Irish citizen. You could do that this week.
Racism is a virus that we have been fighting for millennia. Despite the progress we have made, it is no less virulent today and no less dangerous. We need to show solidarity as people of all races & backgrounds around the world come together to stop its spread and defeat it.
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EU : "Jesus, Britain really takes its time about leaving doesn't it?"
Ireland and India: *stare at camera*
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Ahhh, the seamless integration of Irish capitalist design with its surroundings. Poetry really...
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People forget just how scary Ireland was in the 1970s. You could be walking around the countryside minding your own business when suddenly a poet would jump out at yea from behind a stone and start spouting on about fields and potatoes and digging.... 😱
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My self care today is watching video after video of Mick Lynch
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Somewhere around 65% of all jobs in Ireland pay less than €40k a year. It's laughable of FFGG and their cronies in the media to portray €70k as some kind of "average" .
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Same accounts but the Irish Times decided to go for a slightly different take...
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Just found out from Twitter that Eddie Hobbs was on RTÉ last night. RTÉ gave him his own show in 2006, telling people to invest in stock market property funds. Eddie was later involved with one of these funds which went bust 1/
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The cost of NATO membership for Ireland would be €7.1 billion a year - equal to a 33% rise in income tax Or you pay for it by a 10% cut in health, housing, education, social transfers, road and local government budgets. Or you could just cut the health budget by 33%
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1/ Capitalism is a vampire squid sucking on the face of humanity, and if you have some time I'd like to show you why. Take this quote from our Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar.
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1/ Last week South Dublin Co. Council gave away for free 16 hectares of land, and handed over a possible €23 million to a consortium of developers in a deal that proves that the affordable purchase scheme should be an economic crime but isn't because the State made it legal.
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'Affordable' is a nonsense term, created by developers for developers. 'Socially sustainable' is the criteria, & for rents that's about 20% of net income - for most people between €300 and €450 a month. Anything else is a speculator's charter.
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Centrist Ireland: PUTIN HAS CROSSED A LINE WE MUST NOW JOIN NATO
Me: You know, if you really want to fuck them up we could simply apply transparency to IFSC shell companies..
Centrist Ireland: * pause * NATO!!
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The Irish government is not happy. Neither Stripe nor Twitter have given the the mandatory 30-day notice for a collective redundancy. They better watch out! The Minister might bring them to court where they could be fined a maximum of €5k.
That'll learn them ✊✊
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Gas how the Banshees of Inisherin's take on the Irish civil war is that it was an inexplicable falling out between friends instead of, you know, a class conflict that smashed strikes and executed communists. Gotta love that middle class history!
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Man found guilty in Ireland of insider trading is punished with *checks notes* a €79m payoff...
Gotta fucking love this country
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Me, an idiot: "Have they tried housing as an anti-homeless infrastructure?"
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The Arts Council in the Examiner today having a normal one, comparing covid restrictions to the Jim Crow laws of the US.
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It is a horrendous slur on Irish judges to suggest they carry with them a class bias. It is after all a universal truth that defendants who play rubgy must never be sent to jail.
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Like it's hard to see how Twitter can expand its revenue by 242% which it needs to do in the next 12 months just to make the debt repayments on this deal. It's head-scratchingly bad.
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Just your friendly reminder that Stephen Donnelly was cheered on for years by Irish journos as the type of can-do private sector no-nonsense business talent that was needed in government to finally sort things out...
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Leo Varadkar's approach to workers' rights is quite the doozy...
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RTÉ reporter telling us a ban on single-use cups in Killarney will cancel out data centres and the national herd, while dressed as the fucking mayor in Jaws
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On the day that Mary Lou Mcdonald talked of her near-fatal illness last year alongside her husband's brush with death, Philip Ryan asks her what she intends to with her savings after she dies. What a fucking sociopath...
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Listen I know all parties engage in hypocrisy but Labour was in government when REITs and ICAVs were made legal. Alan Kelly was Housing Minister during that time. The developer led model they are giving out about? They literally signed off on it last time they were in power...
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Gas how capitalism is based on a free contract between workers and employers until there's a Covid payment of €350 a week and then it's all cut it now because who will work for crap wages if we can't starve them into it
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There's a creation myth about modern Ireland that needs debunking. It's the one of an inward protectionist state until 1958 when Whitaker/Lemass saved us with tax breaks & FDI. It's popped up in my current research on the Apple case & its presence is highly frustrating 1/
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In the 1930s the 'godless communists' of the Irish Workers Voice consistently raised the horrific abuse taking place in industrial schools. It took the Irish State another 70 years to finally admit that the abuse was systemic & institutionalized. This is from 4 May 1935...
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Happy to announce that the Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly 1889-1898, will be released on 15 October by
@iskrabooks
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Satan: I will grant you any wish for your soul.
Eamon Ryan: cycle lane please.
Satan: *pause* sorry I mean, any... thing...
Eamon: Yup. Cycle lane.
Satan *scratches horns* you know, i could wipe out poverty?
Eamon: cycle lane.
Satan *stares at camera"
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Love how the EPA approved a cement factory powered by burning tyres in May and today it's going "oh shit greenhouse gases"
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Some men would literally call in the army before backing calls for decent pay
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3/ "... whatever we may think of the war, let not any wrath or displeasure be vented upon the refugees themselves.... the people themselves [are] but helpless instruments in the hands of a ruling class. Say no harsh word to them."
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"It's a great market. We've never seen rental increases like this in any jurisdiction that we're aware of... I truly feel bad for the Irish people."
David Ehrlich, Ires REIT, 18 Nov 2016.
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The site on Parnell St that Paschal Donohue's friend and backer Michael Stone has sat on via various companies from 2006 onwards. According to The Ditch, Dublin City Council does not consider it a vacant property despite being in ruin for 17 years.
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Shane Ross in 1996 writing how everyone had been duped by John Hume and that the peace process was a sham, a conjob...
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According to Sam MacBride in the Sindo, in 1986 Eoin ÓBroin was arguing with Gerry Adams over SF's economic, political, and social direction. Quite the accomplishment for a 14yr old...
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The 'social norm' at play - and the one Micheal Martin will NOT talk about today in his speech - was: if you speak up against the Church and the State on this issue they will destroy you. People who tried were sacked and forced to emigrate. State violence and fear kept people in
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O'Toole: 'what a mystery we are the Irish! We're an enigma, wrapped up in a puzzle"
Me, lowly researcher: 'have you tried a postcolonial political economy lens? I find it really sharpens the focus, especially the class relatio...."
O'Toole: "AN ENIGMA! WRAPPED UP IN A PUZZLE!
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Love how Ireland is all WE MUST DO EVERYTHING TO STOP PUTIN EXCEPT BAN HIM AND HIS CRONIES FROM USING THE IFSC TO HIDE AND LAUNDER MONEY THOSE SUVS IN MALAHIDE DONT DRIVE THEMSELVES YOU KNOW...
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The official here is John McCarthy who in 2007 was in charge of macroeconomic forecasts in the Dept of Finance and predicted a soft landing... Never lost his job or even sufferered a demotion. He then pushed for austerity which the IMF & ECB now admit was a really bad idea...
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1/ This won't make a blind bit of difference to the racists, but just came across a previously un(re)published article by James Connolly from 1914 where we talks about refugees in Ireland.
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You know, we really don't talk much about the GAA in the 1940s sponsoring the call for all political parties to be abolished and replaced by "the right type" of dictator
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Finished final draft of the early and lost writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898. Aiming for publication this side of 2024 🤞
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This is utterly incredible. Upwards of €20m allocated to Tony Holohan with no oversight from the Minister or the Oireachtas or even the C&AG. What other monies has Watt squirrelled away for pet projects and friends? Surely his continued presence in the civil service is untenable
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Got a new job. Off to Queens University for the next three years as a researcher into worker voice in retail warehouses in the UK. Got the official confirmation email today. Didn't think I'd be back in academia again but life's mad that way 🙂
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This is disgusting. An international food crisis, with shipments brokered by the UN no less, and what's the destination? The oversized environmentally destructive Irish cattle herd...
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The absolute balls on Michael McDowell - the chief architect of our citizenship laws - to put himself forward as a champion of racial harmony. In 2004 he was promoting hysteria of the so-called 'native' Irish being out-bred by 'non-nationals', and used it to get his way
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Cross-checking and re-reading against other evidence is literally what historians are trained to do. It's literally in the job description. Daly didn't do it because she didn't like the conclusions it would have drawn. That's not history, that's ideology.
Striking admission from Prof Mary Daly,
#MotherAndBabyHomes
commission member: “How could we have integrated the confidential inquiry into the report?
“It would have taken 100s of hours of cross checking, re-reading against the other evidence available from registers and so on.”
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Troy bought his first house at 20. Then he bought the ladder he pulled up after himself. Now he rents out the ladder, but it's only got one rung now so you're stuck at the bottom. And he's also a legislator so he can block any more rungs being added.
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Eamon Ryan's brain farts are so toxic they have their own greenhouse gas rating. The man has no concept of an income below his own. His complete and utter ignorance of basic societal realities is astounding.
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The Sindo really had it in for John Hume over the years. Something worth keeping in mind when the eulogies arrive this wknd - but this one from 1997 is a doozy. The paper manages to criticise John Hume and defend Charles Haughey on the same page.
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Absolutely chuffed to share a free pdf of the Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly.
@iskrabooks
have a brilliant publishing model whereby the physical book is for sale but the pdf is freely available for anyone and everyone to use -
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Fun fact. In 2007 John Fitzgerald used an economic model for the Irish economy which didn't factor in banking, and said the fundamentals were sound. In 2015 he went in front of the Oireachtas and said "oops"...
#tonightvmtv
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Leo Varadker in charge of collective bargaining and workers rights. There's a signal of intent for yea...
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How the fuck does this shit get published?
"Well if it weren't for the Famine Irish renters would be totally cool with their upcoming eviction and homelessness..."
Christ. The bar to qualify as an Irish public intellectual is somewhere around plankton.
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The current canonisation around John Bruton is something else. Cattle rancher turned ambassador for the IFSC who implemented with glee anti-working class policies, he was the personification of the Irish comprador class and the stranglehold they've had on this state since 1922.
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While businesses and people are facing loss of income due to the two-month lockdown, landlords, banks, and utility companies are facing "deferred" income only. They will still get paid, just in a few months time. Why is that? Why aren't they being told they must face some loss 1/
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Happy to announce I've signed a contract with
@iskrabooks
for The Early and Lost Writings of James Connolly 1891-1898. Just proofing and footnotes left to do. Aiming for publication Aug/Sep 2024
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Well that lasted about as long as a pro-treaty general in Cork...
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They've estimated the national housing stock to be worth €630 billion and have treated it as if it's liquid wealth that is shared out among us all like the the proverbial loaves and fishes. To call it bullshit would be an insult to faeces
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One of the big reveals about yesterday's shutdown of pubs is that landlords are still being given the full effect of the law to enforce their property rights regardless of the pandemic and all that it has brought. 1/
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G7: 15 percent minimum corporate tax rate means more public services, less social fracture, more actual investment over this nonsense accountancy chicanery
Ireland:
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Well now. Look what just arrived. It's only beautiful. Added it to the 1st editions on the shelf 🙂
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Dublin has the shittiest public amenities in Europe because the city is run by sociopaths who despite their citizens & this guy has 'no words' for that. Frankly I'm amazed young people haven't reached for the guillotines yet and are still sticking to just cans on the street...
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I wrote about the apple tax case in my 2018 book, Money. Here's the Irish Labour Party defending the government's decision to reject the €13bn in tax - with Joan burton arguing that the EU was just 'jealous' of Ireland 🙄
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A bit of digging (and some good luck) enabled me to finally put names to each of the faces in this photo of the Irish Socialist Republican Party taken in 1901 next to the bandstand in the Phoenix Park. Hoping to do up a proper article with short bios of each (where info exists)
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21 lost writings, including three short stories and a play
23 lost speeches and resolutions
8 known writings but republished for the first time
22 known writings contained in other collections/pamphlets
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You're a government minister not a wellness guru. You had all summer to increase testing capacity & turnaround to appropriate levels but didn't do it. Instead you relaxed the rules in a Quixotian attempt to defeat a virus with adjectives, not actions. Spare me the tears.
There are times when I struggle to know what to say. This is one of them. People are weary & fragile & yet
#Covid19
remains & we have to keep at it. Please be conscious of people’s stress & anxiety. Even behind a smile could be a very worried person. Let’s look out for each other
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Lol at Ireland's standing army of centrist journos saying Saoirse McHugh's opinions don't matter while making her resignation front page news...
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As we move into the Budget season please remember it is our patriotic duty to listen to IBEC and Ireland's brave economists who failed to see the financial crisis, the housing crisis, the care crisis, the energy crisis, and the climate crisis. ✊✊✊
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Eamon Ryan talking about how he's looking forward to working in government 'and with the opposition' - oh my oh my. This is politics not a parent-teacher meeting with biscuits afterwards. Clueless. They are going to get hammered...
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Still can't get my head around the normalising by RTÉ of Conor Skehan openly calling for the distruction of the Social Contract so as protect the profits of private corporations. I mean, that's pretty much a working definition of fascism. The man's an extremist.
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4/ And yet, for some reason, Leo does not point out (nor, indeed, does the Irish Times), that there is kind of a difference between building (and owning) 350,000 houses and pouring billions into dead banks.
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The upfront cost for achieving a 51% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in transport and housing is around €18bn - which sounds like a lot until you realise it's less than what Fianna Fáil and the Greens gave to Anglo Irish Bank last time they were in power
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Particularly nasty and vicious intervention from Sinn Féin here. Simply chasing far right support.
Sinn Féin says plans to means test asylum seekers should go further and include medical cards
Read more:
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The TL:DR on
#HousingforAll
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4/ I'm not a great fan of quoting scripture, but, although we knew this already, I think we can safely say on which side of the street Connolly would be on when it comes to refugees in Ireland today. The racists won't care of course. They'll still wrap their hate round the flag.
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5/ First of all, houses generate income flows, usually in two ways: rent, and mortgage repayments. The 'generate income' part is the reason why investors are interested in housing in the first place. They're not here for the craic, like.
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Cost me more than a pretty penny, almost broke the bank, but im now the proud owner an actual, bona fide, 1st EDITION (1910) of Labour in Irish History 😲 Got it in
@TempleBarBks
this morning. It's rebound, possibly by the original owner?
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There's a partitionist mentality and then there's mugs for sale in Eason's partitionist mentality...
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Referring to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria is a funny way to convince the world that you are not engaged in annexation...
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After a lot of textual analysis and contextual framing I'm fairly confident I've discovered three lost short stories from James Connolly. Typing up a paper on it and will submit for peer review.
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Buried in the piece is the reason - the war in Gaza. In the heightened atmosphere over this issue, RTÉ gleefully adding to the hate
The number of asylum seekers from Jordan has increased by more than 1,800% in the last 12 months to over 1,000, according to International Protection Accommodation Services statistics
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Three of James Connolly's children outside their home on the Falls Road, Belfast in 1911
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23/ …to address environmental sustainability objectives as well.
The alternative is hat we have now, which is Leo and his shitty arguments in defence of the vampire squids.
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"When the revolution comes, who will do the dishes?"
James Connolly: "We have a rota"
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You could literally only write this article for the Guardian. Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden have all criticized Israel, with Spanish government ministers openly calling its actions genocide. The real question is why is Ireland so tame given its history. Outlier my arse.
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