Even the ones on the continent that I eventually found out about were Dutch and German. Just the English of the continent.

It's so bad, I got slightly excited about having links to Yorkshire.

I'm genuinely jealous of anybody who has ancestry that fits in a radius larger than Cork to Lanark.

I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:

Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

1926 census household returns in N.Ireland 'lost' or 'pulped' shouldn't surprise anyone.

This was a state, barely 4 years old, resisting a treatied 1925 Boundary Commission which sought to finalise the border, engaging in gerrymandering, and born of forced population displacement through pogroms.

Teangacha nach Béarla amháin iad, le do thoil.

Except Northern Ireland, where the term regional elections both makes the most sense and collectively boils everybody's piss.

Provincial elections? In their wee country?

Make it make sense.

To think that De Gaulle was *that* close to send in the tanks and sort out this mafia state back in 1962...

I always have to remind myself that bad things being popular means they're good now. I think it's called being 'sensible' or something like that.

BBC news breaking alert: Eight more arrests made after London arson attacks 21 Apr 2026, 13:39 BREAKING Eight more people have been arrested after a series of arson attacks in London. The Metropolitan Police said that seven of the arrests were over an alleged conspiracy to commit a further arson attack impacting the Jewish community, although the specific target is not yet known.

This is rightly headline news.
But it’s stark to me how dehumanised we are here.
Since East Belfast GAAs inception in 2020, there have been 3 confirmed bomb threats, with multiple additional threats and alerts reported over several years - and it’s a shrug/silence from the rest of Ireland & GB

Northern Ireland has the benefit of the Reform types being actively hostile to anything remotely Irish and often defining themselves almost totally in their opposition to Irishness. Suits them perfectly.

Reform have already fucked them over as well, so they'll feel right at home.

It's how farmers communicate their love.

Welcome to the gang.

Niche and inexplicable French rage can sometimes be a great thing.

'Chieftain' is the only reasonable choice, obviously.

This is my neoliberal tax haven military dependency, not yours.

There's nothing Irish people love more than to talk shit about Ireland, but I'll be fucked if that means Yanks or Brits feel they can do the same.

Also, how are the various hyphenated Americans any different?

My granduncle has lived in England since 1959, and both he and his children identify with Ireland more than England or Britain. I don't see why that's wrong or all that different.

Nothing threatens to tear my soul apart more than the thought of a Tipperary-Waterford Munster hurling final.

Good thing Waterford are shite.

Some of us come from islands off the coast of islands off the coast of the continent. Opportunities are limited, and the available ones are shite.

I went to a Church of Ireland school and learned the 'full' version of the Lord's Prayer, but I didn't even know there was a difference until I said the whole thing at mass and an old woman in front of me literally turned round and looked at me like I was an idiot.

It the hypocrisy I stand, really. We're embittered little shits constantly dragging up 'ancient' history to justify our disgusting Anglophobia, but their hatred of Irish people is entirely justified because of Warrington.

Same as all the 'British Isles' bollocks.

The Assyrian lion hunt reliefs at the British Museum are, I think, my favourite piece of art, anywhere. The detail (this stuff is nearly 3000 years old!) is extraordinary.

An awful lot of 'Loyalists are Irish anyway so it's not our problem' stuff going on.

That and the frankly ridiculous amount of people who genuinely don't seem to know that Loyalist paramilitaries exist at all. Never really know if that's out of ignorance or convenience.

Just came across a reddit thread full of British people justifying and excusing Loyalist terrorism because someone had the gall to avtually mention it exists.

Fun times.

In my head, the stereotypes of the people going the other way are just as ridiculous, but a different ridiculous. A sort of 'converts to Anglicanism are all incredibly twee and annoyingly genteel' kind of thing.

Migration reversal: Why more Americans are now moving to Ireland The number of Americans moving to Ireland last year was higher than the number of Irish people migrating to the US. Was this just a blip or the start of a more profound trend?

In a historic reversal, the number of Americans moving to Ireland last year was higher than the number of Irish people migrating to the US.

Teal people? Fuck's sake.