Spotted at Eason’s, Blanchardstown.
(Thanks David O’Callaghan)
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Having already rowed in on the recent controversy surrounding British comedian Andrew Lawrence’s Facebook rant against anti-UKIP gagsters on Mock The Week, Dara Ó Briain wins all the Twitters.
(H/T: Ciarán Ó Braonáin)
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Dublin 7.
James Kelleher tweetz:
“In case you were wondering, the Irish for ‘Old Jameson Distillery’ is ‘Old Jameson Distillery’”
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Tá scamaill sa spéir
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Faiseanta!
It’s that simple, apparently
Damo writes:
“Duolingo the rather snazzy, gameified, crowdsourced translated, language learning phone app is literally days from launching their Irish for English speakers course…”
Spotted at the National Concert Hall, Dublin
(Thanks Diarmaid Frain)
Comedic etymologist Clare Cullen has compiled a glossary of commonly used native slang, expletives and profanity.
They just roll off the tongue like.
Previously: Aon Focal Eile
Reppy writes:
I run Irish People living in New Zealand on Facebook… we had lots of posts about Irish car regs a while back…
http://youtu.be/aqAdetq4OJA
If you like your austerity and public hate figures soundtracked with a rockish pop melody
Darragh O’Hanrahan writes:
Big September will donate the proceeds from their latest single Moneyman to help fly home Irishman Robbie Robinson from Thailand. So, put your hand in your pocket please.
The new video of Big September’s new single Moneyman, made by Tom Prentice and Sean Fee. The lads will play a free gig on the bandstand, Bray strand, as part of the Bray Summer Festival 2013 this Saturday night.
Thanks Darragh
(top: The 7 ft 2ins Knipe twins from Magherafelt, Derry. flanking their cousin Charles Byrne, 7ft 7ins and , above, and a cutting about the Knipes from 1788 via Bodleian library)
They were tall and tender.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Reputedly the tallest identical twins ever recorded, at 7 foot 2 inches tall, the Knipe Brothers of Magherafelt, Co Derry toured London as ‘the Gigantic Irish Twins’ in 1784.
There they became known not only for their height but their sweet natures.
Height ran in the family; Charles Byrne, who stood 7 foot 7 inches tall was their distant cousin. A recent examination of Byrne’s bones shows that his height was due to a rare genetic mutation causing pituitary tumours; presumably the Knipe twins suffered from the same condition.