You know, Agincourt is an interesting battle. The archaeology says it can't have happened where the sources very clearly say it did, and I haven't seen anyone who can reconcile the two. Either the selected site doesn't fit our best eyewitness source, or the archaeology refutes it.

There has to be surveillance on this, and I hope to God the "men" that are responsible are held accountable.

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

An absolutely baffling time to be an historian of apocalyptic thought. Like my man is just straight up doing Antichrist stuff and I am meant to be normal???

Blazing sunshine earlier, now ... hail? The news is frankly unprecedented enough without the weather getting in on the act.

you so rarely see a leader picking fights with both sides of the crusades. it's probably because everyone else throughout history was simply too big of a coward to try

Time to bring out my photo of the time I dragged my entire family up a mountain so we could re-enact the Humiliation of Canossa, is it?

Were Were those the only two options

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

My youngest is 13 but have realized I am still incapable of seeing a very small baby in a cafe without softly intoning "oh the baby".

Like you want to do Shell to Sea 2.0 and I promise you it's going down the same way as the first one, not the same as this blockade State and government's approach to militant action hasn't changed; last few years have shown they will behave very differently depending on who is taking said action

guy whose says "liminal" too much found dead at the end of a normal hallway

If we're going to get a la carte about which EU rules we follow we should take this opportunity to set up a state building company and start lashing out homes at a rate of knots. We can ask for forgiveness afterwards, right?

Oh we needed this.

I would offer up a testicle to see a live feed of JD Vance's face right this very minute, you fucked up TWO THINGS in ONE WEEKEND

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

The thing that makes me angry about these protests is that for Repeal, we had to go out and knock on doors and be polite to people who thought we were the devil for months and these guys can just dump a tractor in the street and get what they want in five days.

Was cycling through town last night and it really hit me how much damage this O'Connell St blockade has done to the authority of the Gardaí. It's pretty clear that law enforcement in Ireland is _entirely_ arbitrary and the idea that justice is delivered without fear or favour has been proven false.

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these men who claim to be running the country now seem to have a very thin grasp on what they're doing. like the dog who catches the car, they've finally done what they fantasised about doing for so long, but they've not thought one step beyond this moment

What a well written article that details the far-right element of the fuel protests. Well worth a read. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-fuel...

Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves as a means of alerting his subjects that ice cream was nearby

I have no idea when we strayed from the notion that sabotaging a country's infrastructure in plain sight gets you anything but a literal and figurative boot up the hole.

Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/

I’ve more questions than answers

Man yelling at his mate in the shop where I'm buying the paper appears to have the names of his ... children? other loved ones? self in case he forgets? tattooed directly above his eyebrows.

I cannot understand why the protesters are still being allowed to block fuel depots. It was reported yesterday that they “facilitated” some fuel to go because it was for emergency services. Like who put them in charge? This situation is beyond farcical now.

Notable as the Muslims Sisters went out of their way to be non-threatening to the protesters beforehand. It really does only take a handful of people to cause huge problems, but as long as the protesters tolerate that handful, that is entirely their fault and they shoulder responsibility.

My favourite stage of any right-aligned movement is when the circle of men that inevitably position themselves in leading roles get even the most surface-level coverage of their backgrounds and immediately go "HERE WE GO THE MEDIA SMEARS AND LIES BEGIN" and it's just facts about their crimes

In the last week I have woken up from dreams in which I have read THE GREATEST BOOK and heard THE GREATEST TUNE, and I need to remind myself of the episode of Bob's Burgers where Gene does this, goes through huge effort to recreate said tune, and then realizes that it is ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT.

FFS. Also, the absolute state of them.

James Geoghegan on Liveline just now on his way in to Leinster House saying that they want the Taoiseach to resign, and claiming repeatedly that he's speaking for the people of Ireland. these people are honestly not well

I might not have the regular Irish Times column that Steen has, but I do have quite a bit more than a few anecdotes to back up what I say. Maria Steen thinks the #genderPayGap is a myth but that is a hopelessly basic and naive take. Here is why. paygap.ie/posts/maria-...

Useful factual thread here; one thing the fuel protestors are asking for is not legally permissible within the EU, the other would cripple the economy.

It's Friday, why not treat yourself to Sparks and Gorillaz on Jimmy Kimmel last night. Joyous

the protestors have demanded the third secret of fatima be released

Now want to do a DJ gig where I'm credited as "'Records' with Lisa Carey"

Ah, so they have now ADDED demands. Just like everyone said they would. These are unserious people.

William John Leech was born on Parnell Square in Dublin on this day in 1881. L: A Convent Garden, Brittany, c. 1913 R: The Sunshade, c. 1913 (Both feature in my next book).

At a Comhaltas cumann's anniversary concert last night and one old stalwart, getting an award for years of service, in his speech singled out people "New to Ireland" for thanks for supporting Irish music. While it's the anti-migrants whose ideas of culture is AI slop posters with Conor McGregor.

The protest now has me considering that maybe there is no actual fuel shortage in the Mad Max movies. Instead, all the big car owners went weird.

Hey, I realize you're all busy with other stuff right now but I wanted to just take a minute to make it very clear that I am not and have never been close friends with the Boston Strangler

"Just legitimate concerns about fuel prices", eh.

The people who need fuel for their work used that fuel to drive to Dublin and not work, to complain about a fuel crisis that they are creating.

Minor in the overall scheme of things but I have been trying to pay for a Temple St emergency room visit (nothing major) for DAYS because their only options are a)send them a cheque or b)over the phone, where nobody ever answers and their voicemail box is full.

In case anyone hasn’t seen them in person, quite a few of the trucks on O’Connell street are covered in tricolours and it’s not because they support the women’s soccer team. The “take back our country” placard doesn’t mean “from the grey squirrels”.

Pause from scrolling for 5 mins and self reflect on what the rainbow connection means to you

Just did a spin class of such ferocity that I appear to have developed the ability to sweat out of my eyeballs.

I cackled when I heard they were sending in the army on the radio. Am I an centrist Da now?

Imagine saying this to a Vatican official. I imagine the cardinal producing a small notebook from his robe, jotting in it briefly and then returning it to the folds.