Ciarán Mc Mahon

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taking care of ancient lore

But the Taoiseach has warned that any boycott may have "no impact at all" on Fifa or Israel.
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vol. 2 p. 939 Easter term 1659 ms. ref. Orders ex parte the Remembrancer of the Exchequer Thomas Vincent esq., late sheriff of Meath, pleads for discharge of debts of excise due upon inhabitants of Slane for the year 1653, on the basis that all the tenants of that year are transplanted and gone out of the county. Report finds that all tenants are indeed transplanted to Connacht, abroad or dead; and all tenants are soldiers who arrived since 1653. Respite till further order
The last raffle I was at was very interesting because the people who ran the raffle actually won it. So it's not unusual for that to happen now and again.
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, via Wikipedia
Oscar winner Jessie Buckley
1934 depiction of Irish nobleman Hugh Roe O'Donnell in stained-glass window by Richard King, via Wikipedia
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone - via Wikipedia
'An Irritable Genius', title of a poem by Muireadach Ó Dálaigh, composed 1213, translated by Osborn Bergin, p. 252, Irish Bardic Poetry
A slide titled "New Gaza" is seen on a screen during an event announcing the charter for Trump’s Board of Peace initiative.
Lawless, Naughten and Ryan with Zuckerberg
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'Stranger Things' Music Supervisor Says Finale Lands a Needle Drop Fans Won't Expect (Exclusive) The music supervisor says the finale secured a song almost no one ever gets permission to use. Dec 18, 2025 6:04 PM EST
The Instructions of Cormac - Tecosca Cormaic - recited on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland, by yours truly
Perrot's Chronicles of Ireland, IMC edition, p. 173, for presently he gathers all his forces and frendes of Ulster, besydes some out of Conaught, and with theise makes incursions into the English Pale, even to the countie of Meath, cominge to the hill of Tarrow, where the olde doatinge prophesie was : that if Oneale could come and shoe his horse he should be kinge of all Ireland. Thither comes Tirone attended with greate troupes
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (c. 1550 – 1616)
Senior gardaí express annoyance over Defence Forces' response to rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit By Conor Lally, Conor Gallagher and Mark Paul (Irish Times)
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1414.] ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. 819 John Stanley', the Deputy of the King of England, arrived in Ireland, a man who gave neither merey nor protection to clergy, laity, or men of science, but subjected as many of them as he came upon to cold, hardship, and famine. It was he who plundered Niall, the son of Hugh O'Higgin, at Visneach', in Meath. Henry Dalton, however, plundered James Tuite and the King's people, and gave the O'Higgins out of the preys" [then acquired] a cow for each and every cow taken from them, and afterwards escorted them to Connaught. The O'Higgins, with Niall, then satirized John Stanley, who lived after this satire but five weeks, for he died of the virulence of the lampoons. This was the second poetical miracle performed by this Niall O'Higgin, the first being the discomfiture of the Clann-Conway the night they plundered Niall at Cladann*; and the second, the death of John Stanley.
Cover of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Ireland’s only known dinosaurs to go on public display for the first time at UCC - Irish Examiner
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Irish Daily Mail TUESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2025 CASH-TO-LEAVE LETTER SENT TO 33,000 MIGRANTS Families who take up offer will be given pre-paid debit card By Brian Mahon
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A 12l apple press on a kitchen table, drenched in autumn morning sunlight
Scooby-Doo mask reveal meme - when Jim Gavin's mask is pulled off, we see it's Mícheál Martin underneath
I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People - powerful people - listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders.
However, he laughed off the controversy today claiming farming was "in his DNA" as he spent his childhood summers on a farm. "I was down on a family farm in Kildare," he said of the campaign video as he spoke to reporters at today's Fianna Fail think-in in Cork. "They are very close friends who moved up from Clare. I do have very much a rural connection - I am a proud Dub. I was born on the east coast but my parents are from the west coast. "I would go to my father's farm in the summertime
"A hui Chuind, a Chormaic," ol Carpre, "Cid is dech do rig?" "Ni hansa," ol Cormac. "Dech do … Deithide senchasa Fritfoalad fir." "O grandson of Conn, o Cormac," said Carbery, "What is best for a king?" "Not hard to tell," said Cormac. "Best for him … Taking care of ancient lore Giving truth for truth." TECOSCA CORMAIC
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