Book two is on the way- A History of Irish Sport in 100 Objects. Published by
@MerrionPress
next year.
If you've any objects stories, please get in touch!
I'm interrupting your timeline to tell you that this morning I received a handwritten letter from a 91yr old man who enjoyed my book and I absolutely cannot deal with the cuteness.
Roger Casement was executed
#OTD
in 1916 for high treason. Sir John Lavery was invited to paint the scene of his appeal against the guilty verdict at the Old Bailey, London.
There was an uneasy reaction to the artwork and it was still in Lavery’s studio at his death in 1941.
Overheard a Cork supporter on North Circular Road arranging to meet his friend in The Big Tree for a pint. Should I tell him it's now a building site or....?
If not Wexford, I'd like Laois to win Leinster, Antrim to win the All-Ireland and Kilkenny to lose every single match by a last minute scuttery goal.
Thanks for coming to my preview of the 2021 hurling championship 😁
I'm totally willing to get married at the county final in Wexford Park on Sunday if that means 50 people can attend.
Ask not what your county can do for you and all that...
"So, you're the Kerry Rose are ooo?"
"Well yes Daithi, my grandfather built the lakes of Killarney, my mother sells Kerrygold butter at the Puck Fair and my father is Fungi the dolphin."
#RoseOfTralee
Things more likely to happen than Dermot sticking to the budget:
- Being struck by lightning after winning the lotto
- Finding Shergar
- Mayo winning Sam
#roomtoimprove
Ten thousand no's to this sheer laziness.
For an organisation that is based on promoting Irish culture, the GAA should be promoting our multitude of talented artists, illustrators, and designers. Instead, they are devaluing their skills by using AI-generated images.
So are
@officialgaa
using AI art now? There are a ton of Irish artists who specialise in GAA illustration you could commission and support.
Things are tough at the best of times but I might have to pack it in at this rate honestly if this is what we have to look forward to 😭
I thought autumn would never come! Months tearing up and down the country to collect GAA objects & stories & here they are, with endless thanks to
@MerrionPress
A History of the GAA in 100 Objects is available for pre order now & on shelves very soon.
And now straight from the Gaelic Grounds, we have the Limerick Rose who'll be ordering a spice bag and a bottle of Lucozade for her party piece
#RoseofTralee
97yrs ago today, Tipperary's Michael Hogan wore this shirt when he lined out for the Tipperary footballers. Little did he know it would become one of the most culturally significant artefacts in GAA history as he was shot by British forces who entered Croke Park during the match.
After seeing their hands on approach to demolition, Gardai are now making enquiries of Anna and Marian's whereabouts on the night of 2nd March
#roomtoimprove
My absolute hero turns 9 today. He's in Temple St recovering from brain surgery no.7 and as always, is putting us all to shame by taking it in his stride with unending resilience. Éanna is an inspiration to all of our family.
And he loves a good match programme!
There's plenty of people making fun of this, but theres many farmers up and down the country that are in a crisis and with their livelihoods at risk.
I'm neither a mass goer or Catholic, but if this brings some of them a bit of comfort and hope, what harm?
Farmers in Wexford sought divine intervention in relation to constant wet weather, with Mass said for better conditions in the locality last night | Read more:
Paul: It's a bit soggy
Rahul: I put it in the fridge & when I took it out, it fell. I ruined it with the drizzle. And I ran a red light on the way here. And I put a non-recyclable item in the recycling bin. And I copied someone's homework when I was 9.
STOP TALKING RAHUL!
#GBBO
Fair play to
@TheSundayGame
commentary team and camera operators in dealing with Peter Casey's injury. No speculation, no dramatics, and very respectful of the very unfortunate incident (which doesn't always happen in sports broadcasting).
It's publication day tomorrow so I made a special delivery to Mam and Daddy over the weekend.
They didn't know I dedicated the book to them until now and it's a privilege to watch them enjoy it.
'Tis all go' has been my most overused phrase of the last while.
I've a new role as Curator of Glass, Ceramics and Asian Collections
@NMIreland
so I may keep saying it!
Sure I suppose I may tell ye since it went on the national airwaves yesterday...
I'm writing a book- A History of the GAA in 100 Objects. It'll be published next year
@MerrionPress
If you've any strange or wonderful objects & stories that you'd like to share, do get in touch.
"The big news from this Wexford c'ship quarter final is that Lee Chin isn't playing."
"He's playing centre forward Liam."
Local radio is always reliable for the oul c̶o̶m̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶r̶y̶ comedy
Taking a final few quiet moments in Room 10 before the official opening of the GAA: People, Objects & Stories exhibition this evening.
Pre-match nerves are kicking in on my curatorial debut
@NMIreland
Yerra you could'nt get more Kerry than
#Micko
unless you shlobbered the Rose of Tralee in Kerrygold butter and put her in the cage at the puck fair with Fungie the dolphin and six Healy Raes
#otd
in the late hours of 28 April 1916, The O'Rahilly fell mortally wounded near Sackville Lane.
As he lay dying, he wrote this note to his wife. His body was untouched on the street before it was recovered.
In 2005, the note to was memorialized in a plaque on O'Rahilly Parade
Not a dickie bird about the Lory Meagher, Christy Ring or Nicky Rackard cup finals on
@rtenews
at 9pm.
I appreciate that time is tight but failure to even announce the results of All-Ireland finals during the sports slot is very poor form from our national broadcaster.
#GAA
Incase anyone reads the Ireland's Own Christmas annual, there's a 1,000 word article in it on GAA objects with Christmas connections that I spent hours writing but my name isn't in it anywhere.
So if you read it, that was me.
Here's a thumbs up to mask my annoyance 👍
On November 26th, Ireland's Own celebrates its 120th birthday - we mark the special occasion with our Christmas Annual 2022. Filled with warm memories of Christmas in Ireland long ago, old friends, ghost stories, jokes, songs, competitions, puzzles, pen pals & more - on sale now!
David Clifford rightly gets plenty of attention but what a phenomenal season for Shane Ryan.
Won all the trophies & an All Star in goal for Kerry and now an All-Ireland intermediate club title at corner forward with
@rathmoregaa
With today's quarter finals being exclusive to GAA Go, it drives home the importance of local radio and their coverage of the games.
Their commentary inevitably resurfaces after matches for comedic value but their dedication to GAA coverage is often overlooked. Hup the radio 📻
My favourite thing about driving through random towns and villages is saluting all the oul lads like I've known them my whole life in the hope that it'll drive them mad for the rest of the day that they don't recognise the car or person.
Johnny Cooper takes the legs from clean under his man and he doesn't even get a yellow card.
If my mother caught me doing that, I'd be written out of the will.
#DUBvCAV
#Dublin
#Cavan
Museums are mad aren't they?
Who'd have thought that 100years ago, someone drew on a prison biscuit, kept it safe, donated it to the national museum and after that, it would go on display and then digitized so it can be seen all over the world.
MAD.
This is a
@sportsfile
appreciation tweet. A dream to deal with thanks for their super efficient staff and their amazing photographers consistently bring us the most incredible sports images full of action and emotion every single week. Míle grá 📸
Travelling the 32 counties talking to oul lads and playing the tin whistle in a snug in Shop Street- thanks to the
@The42_ie
for this interview on how and why I wrote my first book.
Daniel: Well if I could I'd build a wall, around ould Donegal
Dermot: Can I interest you in a wooden sliding door and south facing mezzanine at a cost of eleventy bajillion euro?
#roomtoimprove
Hi-di-ho neighbour Wilson talking about hurling on Home Improvement is not the crossover I expected but I am absolutely here for it. (Season 5, episode 13)
Right now, I'd be fairly pleased to be able to spend a few hours researching in
@NLIreland
reading room and marvelling at how beautiful the bathrooms are.
I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Des Byrne in his workshop in Kilkenny, where he has worked since 1968.
Des is the silversmith who made the Sam Maguire cup when the GAA commissioned a new one in 1988.
Before Yolo, there was Yola- an extinct variety of English once spoken in County Wexford.
I've no idea why but Daddy (age 18) appears in this broadcast shovelling dirt at 4.19.
'Babies born in Holles Street as recently as 1992 were swaddled in blankets washed in a Magdalene laundry.'
And that's just the opening line. An important and eye-opening read by
@jenoconnell
with stark photographs of the abandoned Donnybrook laundry.
I've hit a brick wall in tracking down Peter O’Connor’s Erin go Bragh flag. He tore down the Union Jack and raised this flag when he won silver at the 1906 Olympics in Athens.
All my leads so far have got me nowhere. Can anyone shed some light on where it might be please?
One of Harry Clarke's earliest known stained glass panels, recently conserved for
@CrawfordArtGall
Imagine being in his class in art school? You'd be secretly RAGING.
I'll be on
@TodaywithClaire
@RTERadio1
tomorrow morning discussing county boundaries, how they came into existence, how they can shape our identity & how complex those boundaries are today.
I'm counting this excruciating
1,000 piece jigsaw I finished in 2019 as research
#TodayCB
End the
#LaochraGael
series now cos it doesn't get better than this. Heartfelt, heartbreaking and heartwarming from
@SamboMcNaughton
@RuairiOgCLG
is full of fantastic people, Cushendall is an extraordinary place and Sambo is an absolute giant of the game of hurling.
I was reminded of this fond memory of Croke Park- having broadcasting legend Weeshie Fogarty on my stadium tour. I loved listening to
@terracetalkrk
and we kept in touch after this. I still use his amazing online archive regularly.
I hope the sod is resting lightly on him.
"At 16, Burke became the youngest person to complete the GAA’s foundation level coaching course. Roll on 18 years, & he is the youngest inter-county manager by a mile."
A brilliant insight by
@MickFoley76
into an endearing figure in intercounty football.
"Padraig Walsh coming up the field all by himself and scoring a point. Where's his marker?"
"He was at the other end hitting the previous wide Ger."
An outstanding dig at Clare by
@DuignanMichael
on commentary!
After months travelling the country to listen to other people's stories about their treasured GAA objects, our family were presented with our own one today.
The John Lonergan Memorial Trophy. Put up by
@carrickshockgaa
@KilkennyCLG
in memory of my grandfather John (1899-1968).