Seathrún Céitinn, a priest from Tipperary, sought to prevent Ireland's past being forgotten during the Penal Times. He wrote large sections of the text while in hiding from English authorities, often in a cave in the Galtee Mountains according to tradition.

Foras Feasa promoted an early Irish nationalist worldview and would become the most influential work on Irish history ever written.

Available in translation here

https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100054/index.html

(Select "CELT edition as a single file" to access the full text of the first two volumes)

Holy fuck just go home, Irish Catholics had to bleed to get representation what makes you think you can stroll in and demand it

Total war response to what is essentially an above average flu season unhinged - check the charts

First 6 months of this the state had degree of plausible deniability now its blatant fear mongering relative to actual (real but small) threat of covid.

Seasonal analysis of the above.

19/20 is worse than shown (late registrations), but 19/20 also had oldest population (not adjusted for).

Pattern: mortality improving. Milder seasons followed by harsher seasons.

Can't conclude from this that 2019/2020 was extraordinarily bad.

From:
https://twitter.com/grahamneary/status/1359567384621776901?s=21

On this day in 1848: John Mitchel, Young Irelander, published his newly established United Irishman newspaper. Only 16 editions were printed thereafter as it was suppressed under Treason Felony Act (1848).

He was the first Irish Nationalist to be indicted with a felony for asserting the liberty of his country due to his attempt to start a rebellion as normally treason would be the charge but treason in Ireland was an honour in Irish eyes, since treason in Ireland implied opposition to English government. His conviction of felony altered the meaning of the word to the mass of Irish People and gave it dignity in their eyes.

He was sentenced to 14 years in Van Diemen's Land but escaped after 5 years & spent 2 decades in US and was a avid advocate for the Confederacy with 2 of his sons dying fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War before returning to Ireland where he died in Newry - where his statue is.