Cu Chulainn gets a superhero makeover as myth goes graphic

Cu Chulainn gets a superhero makeover as myth goes graphic

This is not the first version of the Tain, in comic book form surely? Slaine in 2000ad draws deep from the well of Celtic/Irish myth. 

Shanty Irish

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/us/secrets-of-duffys-cut-yield-to-shovel-and-science.html?smid=pl-share

The Irish in America. I should write an AH on them. 

Chilling tape reveals TD laughed about executing 'spies'

Chilling tape reveals TD laughed about executing 'spies'

Martin Corry, who would later discuss in the Dail, the use of Gas, against Northern Ireland
The Anglo Irish war in West Cork, was not a gentleman's affair. It is important in my opinion. to remember this when thinking about the origins of the Irish Civil war. The Western units thought they had won,and won hard. 

Redheads taking over the media. O/T

This is Candace from Phineas and Ferb

This is Gwen from Ben 10

Daphne from Scooby do. There is a new adaption,

Merida from Blaze

I realize this is off topic. However Ireland and Scotland have the most redheads, in the world

WEEKEND BIG READ: Surviving Ireland's death row | Irish Examiner

WEEKEND BIG READ: Surviving Ireland's death row | Irish Examiner

A different time. Ireland, has the death penalty. In `So you think you've got troubles'' I have the Irish state using the death penalty out of desperation when faced with spilling over of the Northern crisis. While I use this as a means to an end, of keeping Ireland out of the EEC and then EU.
Its notable that France had the death penalty into the 1970s

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Peter Pringle, son is now an Independent TD. I wonder if similar would have happened in the So you think you've got troubles universe?  Please remember I am not here to comment on politics, per se

Great Famine spud returns after almost 170 years

Great Famine spud returns after almost 170 years

A taste of history. You can actually taste what they ate, day in, day out. In Kerry before the famine. What immigrants in the shanty towns, of the USA remembered. Note that what was once a staple of peasants is now a rare dish. A tribute to Irish agribusiness

I have not written a Famine AH. Though perhaps I should. I have seen speculation that without the great famine, the population of Ireland would be 20 million. You are then subtracting several million people from the UK, and the US population. The descendants of famine emigrants. A US without the Irish famine is very different. No Democratic machine. No JFK.

Oh and Hooligans would be called something else