Shane McElhatton
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Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, RTÉ Radio One; lover of history,Irish and ancient; second generation Chelsea Football Club #CFC supporter + member
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@AuschwitzMuseum
again and again, these individual horror stories from the Holocaust....it seems no one person in any of these cases posted here survived in Auschwitz for more than a few weeks....keep posting these accounts. Never forget.
31 August 1884 | A Pole, Aleksander Spławiński, was born in Krakow. A lawyer.
In
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No. 93232
He perished in the camp on 1 March 1943.
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Some personal news: I am moving jobs to become Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, Radio One, so handing over the reins of Morning Ireland to John Burke in his new role as Series Editor Radio News. Literally no one better to take on the new role than John.
@morningireland
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@AuschwitzMuseum
Every one of these photos I examine to see how healthy the prisoner looked upon arrival. Most look fit and well, considering their situation. Then I check how many weeks they lasted before being murdered. 8 weeks average, many less time.
15 September 1913 | A Polish Jew, Gidala Ferszter, was born in Głowaczów. A shoemaker.
In
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No. 26097
He perished in the camp on 31 March 1942.
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@morningireland
to mark the 100th anniversary of our Nation-state we are live on Morning Ireland tomorrow from the room in the Shelbourne hotel where the Constitution was drawn up. The same table, the same chairs…
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After 38 years and 118 days of service, it’s time to retire the badge, and begin a new chapter. So grateful to colleagues for the amazing sendoff.
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@morningireland
100 years ago tomorrow, the War of Independence was ended in this very room in Dublin’s Mansion House. Join me for a special broadcast on Morning Ireland/News Channel from 8:30 am. With me will be Historians John Dorney, Padraig O’Ruairc and Cormac Moore.
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@morningireland
@rtenews
dawn breaks over Kilmainham Gaol. About to go on morning Ireland to mark the centenary of the first state executions in the Civil War.
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@TheTall_Bot
Ah sure lookit.
You know yourself.
Fierce notions.
C'mere to me.
Divil 'a bit.
You will, will you?. So will the cat.
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Behind the scenes; my commentary position at Beal na Blath.
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When Sean Connery arrives at the Gates of Heaven, and says ‘Bond. James Bond’, will the answer be ‘Ah, Mr Bond, I’ve been expecting you!’?.
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@morningireland
The Treaty Vote: we’re live from Earlsfort Terrace where it all happened 100 years ago today; join me and historians Jennifer Redmond and Micheal O’Fathartaigh at 8:30 am.
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@morningireland
I’m joined by Constitutional experts
@LaurCah
@DonalkCoffey
here in the Constitution Room in the Shelbourne Hotel.
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DROPPING TOMORROW: my blog on how and why the Free State began executing prisoners in an all-out bid to win the Civil War. Also broadcasting live on Monday on
@morningireland
and RTE News Channel from Kilmainham. With
@lizgillis191623
and
@JohnDorney2
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My take on the summer that changed Ireland forever: Double-edged truce: The summer of 1921 via
@rte
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@rgpoulussen
Normandy combat Vets told me the pressure on those workshop units was phenomenal. Miracles worked 24/7, everything needed yesterday.
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Part two of my take on the last days and hours of Liam Lynch, and why his death a hundred years ago tomorrow marked a turning-point in modern Irish history: Death on a bare mountain: The end of the Civil War
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@morningireland
all set for a live broadcast from Dublin Castle to mark 100 years since the Handover of power to the new Irish government.
@mcculld
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@holland_tom
Lads, lads, Jed M has set it up for LOD Seven. Buckles is a distraction, there’s a massive battle to be fought to reveal his protector. Kate telling Steve she was coming back to AC-12 was surely a clue?.
#LineofDutyFinale
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@gardainfo
@gardainfo
genuine question: this the end for the Peaked Cap, symbol of AGS since the foundation of the state?. Sad news. The current cap gives members instant authority. Can anything save Civilisation from the curse of the baseball cap?.
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@roy_kinsella
@McNamara_Eoin
I can’t shake off the terrible fear that there’s a reckoning coming because of our Defence ‘profile’, something dreadful happening to us or to others because of us and our willful helplessness.
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100 years ago as IRA leader Liam Lynch lay dying in this room he was reconciled with Laurence Clancy, the officer whose men had just shot him. Lynch and Clancy had been comrades in the War of Independence.
@morningireland
is live from the spot, 8am tomorrow.
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@rgpoulussen
re-enacted by the then-serving Parachute Regiment. Took it so seriously that I believe several Paras were court-martialled for refusing to jump in the re-enactment.
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@GardaTraffic
another way to put this is that the driver has gone on his merry way for three years, without ever encountering a Garda check of any kind. Sorry if I’m scared not reassured.
Longford Gardaí received complaints of dangerous driving on Thursday.
When the driver of this car was stopped by the Roads Policing Unit it was found that he was disqualified, had no tax for over 3 years, no insurance or NCT.
He was arrested and the car seized.
#SaferRoads
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.DROPPING THIS WEEKEND: my two-part take on how the Army Mutiny in March 1924 threatened to plunge the country into a new civil war
@rtenews
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@morningireland
we’re live from Tralee 8:30-9:00 to mark 100 years since Kerry saw the darkest days of the Civil War.
#kerrycivilwarconference
@CivilWarInKerry
. Join me and
@OwenOShea
@MaryMcAuliffe4
@RichardMcELL
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@morningireland
with you live from Dublin Castle after 8:30 with
@mcculld
Laura Cahillane and John Gibney
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Michael Collins’s last stop before his death; We’re live from here on
@morningireland
and RTE News Channel tomorrow morning from 7am, from the Munster Arms Hotel Bandon. Formerly Lee’s Hotel.
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@GCraughwell
covering the Decade of Centenaries I get no sense that people realise how our freedom had to be fought for, it was not handed to our grandparents. Now Total complacency and ignorance about defending hard-won freedom.
#NoOneCares
There is no history of respect for
@defenceforces
. Theres no
#loyalty
from government towards its most loyal citizens #ÓglaighnahÉireann. This monument commemorates the setting up of Irish Volunteers in 1913 & its shameful.
@MichealMartinTD
let this not be your legacy
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In position. If that gun hadn’t jammed after two and a half belts of ammo that day, history might have been different.
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Dropping tomorrow: my take on the extraordinary story of the troubled birth of independent Ireland’s first police force, 100 years ago this month.
@rtenews
#decadeofcommemorations
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@fergalrte
Wow Fergal. That stuff was unstable a hundred years ago!. Glad you didn’t discover it the hard way.
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@vindolandaTrust
. Vindolanda: a story whose telling will never be finished. Easily one of the most important sites in the whole Empire.
From hipposandals to a bronze hand what a wonderful year of archaeology we have had in 2018 at Roman Vindolanda.
#bestnine2018
#Vindolanda
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@morningireland
@rtenews
#decadeofcentenaries
my vantage point for tomorrow morning’s Outside Broadcast on Morning Ireland. A hundred years ago this week the first Civil War prisoners were executed down there.
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@holland_tom
from the vast refugee/migrant camps, to the Virus, to the rise of ISIS, that film never got the credit for its terrifying predictions. One of the most unsettling films of recent years.
One of the many ways in which Children Of Men ranks as perhaps the most eerily prophetic film of the 21st century...
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@MarcDavenant
the houses in the background look like Dublin Artisan Dwelling Company builds, c 1882. They are all over the inner city and are still solid, beautiful homes. Social Housing perfection.
Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.
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The ignorance and complacency around our defence and security policy is not new; Sean Dublin Bay Loftus used to say that one of the hardest aspects of Irish people working in UK in the late 40’s was getting grief over our neutrality in WW2..
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@morningireland
@rtenews
after half eight hosting a live discussion on Morning Ireland and on the News Channel to mark 100 years since independent Ireland’s debut on the international stage. With
@redmondjennifer
@DGannon2016
and Michael Kennedy
@DIFP_RIA
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@romanarchaeouk
very striking decline in the quality of the incisions, the altar’s original inscription was erased before the new one was made. The blatant re-use of an existing altar is itself an indicator of declining skill and confidence. You see this all over the empire.
Altar dedicated to Lucius Aemilius Quintus, perpetual flamen (priest), by the council and people of Sabratha, Libya. He had brought the province's misfortunes to the emperor's 'sacred ears' (SACRIS AURIBus) and obtained a remedy
#RomanLibya
#RomanArchaeology
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Dropping tomorrow: My take on the Treaty talks 100 years ago: An unprecedented surrender by the biggest Empire on Earth, a Win for Nationalist Ireland against all odds, or the betrayal of everything that had been fought for since 1916?.
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@jmkorhonen
I understood the Finnish status as a ‘Co-belligerent’ to Germany, not an ally. I was told Finland refused to have anything to do with the Final Solution and appointed Jewish liaison officers to German troops in Finland. Would not send troops outside Finland.
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@maxshapnik
Have a great day!. Match day at the Bridge is a great occasion, and the Villains are the best away supporters for atmosphere. Used to taunt us about never winning the European Cup. That stopped in May 2012, for some reason….
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@KillianM2
when this ad aired in Ireland, it depicted a different world to ours. Going into a deli like this in the USA for the first time as a Student on a J-1, was an out-of-body experience. I can still taste the first coffee I got from a NY deli.
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#kerrycivilwarconference
@CivilWarInKerry
@morningireland
we’re all set to go here at Siamsa Tire Theatre in Tralee.
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@vincekearney
all journalists, not just young ones, should read this and see why it’s gold standard. Multiple sources, rapid assimilation of breaking news, I would say written with a Novelist’s sense of pace, except its all true…
The chaotic downfall of the DUP triumvirate via
@RTENews
@MickMcKernan
@kmkthatswotisay
@AlexKane221b
@StevieMcCaffery
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@morningireland
@DubCityCouncil
EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY: the vantage point for our broadcast tomorrow morning. The nearest traffic lights mark the exact spot where the Civil War began a hundred years ago tomorrow.
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I believe 99% of Irish people have no idea how this move by O’Malley laid the foundations for everything good that followed. O’Malley and Lemass....Titans.
When Donogh O’Malley announced free education in September 1966, almost one in three children leaving primary school received no further education. O’Malley referred to it as a ‘dark stain’. The speech of this great patriot should be read by all politicians. They would learn much
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@morningireland
@gibneyjfp
@KOM_acc
John Gibney was a guest on Morning Ireland and News Channel today to talk about the last minutes of British rule in Ireland 100 years ago this Sunday. This book that he and Kate O’Malley wrote belongs on every bookshelf.
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@davidfarrel
Your Dad was a giant, David, in academia as well as the media. On my induction day in UCD many years ago I was directed to sit at a desk and wait for someone to brief me. Your Dad sat down. I was so gobsmacked I didn't take in a word of what he said!.
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Dropping today: my take on independent Ireland’s arrival on the international stage 100 years ago this weekend.
@rtenews
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There was amnesia about the cost of defending freedom. Add in some of the infantilising clauses in the Treaty-forbidding us to have a Navy - and you see the roots of the current complacency and ignorance. No votes to be lost in this crisis.
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@roy_kinsella
V Beach cemetery. Most of the Dubs and Munsters who lie here died a few meters away, just over the boundary wall. The cliff on the right is where the Turks concentrated their firepower.
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@rtenews
dropping tomorrow, my take on the Crossbarry ambush, one hundred years ago: myths, facts, and the in-between.
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The room is the Parlour of Nugent’s Pub, Newcastle County Tipperary. Re-Enactors from Wexford returning home from Lynch’s grave in Fermoy have just been in to pay their respects. Hear the whole story of Lynch’s last hours on
@morningireland
from 8 am tomorrow.
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@BorgonovoJohn
@gerry_shannon
@MawMcGrath
join me and my guests around the fire in the Parlour in Nugent’s Pub in Newcastle Tipperary where the dying IRA Chief Liam Lynch was brought 100 years ago this morning.
@morningireland
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@frank_oconnor
great bollards though.
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@neilojim1972
still buzzing from today’s gripping tour of the Yellow Ford battlefield by Jim O’Neill. A tough task-this is no battlefield park with gift shop, it’s a prosperous densely quilted landscape of farms and agri-businesses - but Jim made it tell its epic story.
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@thisweekrte
last-minute preparations at Beal na Blath. In a few hours that slope will be heaving with spectators.
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Towards the end of a six-week trans-Saharan trek in 2000 AD, on the slope to the right of the fort, I found the turret of a South African armoured car, a relic of the Desert War.
An outpost at the end of the Roman world, Castellum Tisavar in southern
#Tunisia
.
Built between 180‑192 AD, Tisavar was a small border post on the western part of the "limes tripolitanus," the southern border of the
#RomanEmpire
at the edge of the Sahara desert.
#History
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The state of so many of the memorials to the Revolutionary Decade speaks volumes about the complacency and amnesia about the cost of freedom. Image the Great War memorials across Britain or France in the same condition?. Never.
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Should I worry that my brother knows me a little too well, when these were his choices for under my tree this Christmas?.
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@roy_kinsella
do we think no one outside the country notices this stuff?.
British warship 'chases off' Russian sub from Irish harbour - A Russian submarine directly outside the entrance to Cork Harbour was "chased off" by a British warship because Ireland doesn't have the ability to do so itself. Click the image for more.
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@MichaelWarbur17
is that a different version to the disasterous Apocalypse Now Redux version?. Please say it is.
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#vigil
that finale was badly in need of a final twist. Essentially over once Doward was overpowered. BTW, how come no focus on the two lads who stopped the sub’s bilges taking her to the bottom?. They had to improv that rescue. Then forgotten.
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@RIAdawson
the Royal Irish Academy is ON A ROLL this Christmas. If not for Christmas then get these with your gift cards and vouchers after the 25th!.
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@RomeInTheEast
‘Panorama 1453’ is a 3D reconstruction of the siege that is a must-see for any visitor to Istanbul.
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@rgpoulussen
-and having been thoroughly looted by the Germans since September ‘44. Private homes, banks, the Germans robbed everything.
Liberated but almost without its inhabitants. Like my father's family.
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DROPPING TOMORROW: My take on how Michael Collins’s legendary instinct for danger abandoned him one day in August 1922. The day death came for him.
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DROPPING TOMORROW:
@rtenews
online, my take on the mass Republican hunger strikes -8,000 men and women- 100 years ago this month. The Last Act of the Civil War.
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@adrianmurdoch
The Tetrarchy; the Late Empire summed up in one sculpture. It was mistaken for years for a group of Crusader knights.
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Civil War 1922: Darkness descends
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DROPPING TOMORROW AND SUNDAY: my two-part blog on the last days and hours of IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch
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.joining
@morningireland
tomorrow live from Kilmainham Gaol to mark 100 years since the mass hunger strikes by Republican men and women prisoners. 8,000 prisoners on strike across the country.
@KilmainhamOPW
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Summer 1921: From Carnage To Peace via
@rte
#decadeofcommemorations
.
My take on how peace only came after the seven bloodiest months of the entire WOI.
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@welshjb
Looks like Spurs/Utd. The women are, I’ve always assumed, staff who were knocking off after a shift in the bar or canteen- or cleaning staff starting a shift. They don’t look like pitch invaders….
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@theirishstory
Only one word to describe this map: Epic.
Great maps made by Mike Murphy of UCC geography department for the CW fatality project. This is the master map.
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@roy_kinsella
I was given a terrifying account of the first landings by the Dubs on V Beach, by a veteran. Every single detail was corroborated years later by a Turkish battlefield guide at the scene.
@dohville
My Great grandfather fell on the first day fighting with the Royal Dublin Fusilers, trying to land ashore there. Nothing here to remember his sacrifice.
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@LFC
since when is the surname Kelleher spelt like this?. Ran out of ‘E’s in the superstore this afternoon, did we?. Will caoimhin get a refund?.
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@TomMcTague
not since the genesis of the Good Friday Agreement has there been as important and riveting an account of Anglo-Irish diplomacy as this one. Will be required reading for all diplomats, and perhaps the basis for a book, Mr McTague?.
The inside story of how Boris Johnson sealed his deal: A study of what personality and politics can achieve—or not—in an unequal power struggle against economic, legal and technocratic gravity
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they'll need to move with un-Dept of Defence-like speed; word is that navies around the world are upgrading and tooling up, all at the same time. Shipyards will be booked up.
State moves closer to purchase of €200m multi-role vessel that will be largest in navy's history.
Featuring medical facilities, a heli pad as well as other facilities to manage large-scale incidents.
Excellent report from
@NiallJournal_ie
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@romanhistory1
in the background of this photo is the complex known as Trajan’s Markets, his purpose-built retail quarter for the city. Easily the best place anywhere in the Empire to get an idea of what the people’s city looked like. Almost totally ignored by the tourist hordes.
Trajan was born today 53AD. He presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death.
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@sinead_ryan
my mother lost fifteen of her peak years as a teacher to that cursed ban. I don't even want to know what it cost the state in terms of lost potential and earning power across society.
This is a good time to explain to your daughters what the Marriage Bar was. It required women to resign once they married and disqualified married women from applying for vacancies in public (and many private) sector jobs.
They probably won't believe you. Because it's nuts.
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@Edward__Burke
@Peter_Molloy_
To your right as you look into the lense, lies the cemetery where all the dead of V Beach lie. One of the smallest of all C’wealth War Cemeteries, the only one almost entirely occupied by Irish dead, and the closest to where the dead were killed.
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@Knightly_H
Re Excalibur, the chain mail was modern meat industry issue; the Armourer who made the harnesses is said to have received an initial order for five suits of armour, and ended up making dozens of them.
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@cathmartingreen
@morningireland
@rtenews
I'll be hosting a live discussion on Morning Ireland and on the News Channel to mark the anniversary. Also a blog on saturday. With
@redmondjennifer
@DGannon2016
and Michael Kennedy
@DIFP_RIA
It's 100 years since Ireland arrived on the global stage as an independent state.
The League of Nations was the first worldwide state-level political organisation after WW1 and on Sept 10th, 1923, Ireland joined.
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@rgpoulussen
interviewed an Irish guy who had been an US infantry officer from the breakout in August ‘44 to the German surrender, he said in those few days in late August they really believed the German war machine was about to collapse…
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@OptimoPrincipi
@OptimoPrincipi
the reconstruction drawing shows in the backgroundTrajan’s other great gift to the city, his Markets. Purpose-built and still largely intact, it’s the best place in Rome to get a sense of the ancient city, and ignored by most visitors.
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@morningireland
in response to inquiries, these are the recent books co-edited and co-authored by Micheal O’Fathartaigh. Important additions to our collective understanding of this period.
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@florNEWS
it’s transformative Flor. Cannot believe the quantity and quality of primary source material now available at a keystroke.
With our archive collections
#goingdigital
access is now much more democratic and no longer the preserve of those who can visit the archives in person. (And during lockdown I could happily keep researching
@PresLetters
📃📜📚)
#ExploreYourArchive
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@ragipsoylu
@oryxspioenkop
@ragipsoylu
genuine question not statement: if HS is a mosque again, what has happened to the mosaics, have they been covered up again?.
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Crowds already gathering at Beal na Blath to see the newly revamped Collins memorial. Proceed here with caution!.
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@RTEsport
The smile on Coughlan's face as he left the rest of the field choking on his dust, and he knew it!. One of the all-time top moments in Irish sport. Made up for the heartache of Montreal '76.
Forty years ago this week, Eamonn Coghlan became the first Irish person to win a World Athletics Championship gold medal. Watch the RTÉ footage of the closing stages of his victory and the medal ceremony then read his recollections of that great day here:
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