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Just described Cyclops by saying ‘bro is just sheepmaxing’ and i am very pleased with this synopsis

Reading the medieval law text Críth Gablach, as one does on a Sunday morning, and came across this interesting bit on women's weapons.

BRB, reading all of these

Also: Let's have a moment of silence for everyone who hated doing sport, ended up in an internment camp, and then had to participate in internment camp Sport Day

Michael Collins seems to have been one to trash talk during sports, commenting 'ah, you wh*re, you can't run' during a 100 meter dash in Frongoch internment camp, 1916. [Source: _Frongoch: University of Revolution_]

Only counts as a true horse experience if the apple is hand-fed by a girl so obsessed with you she is brought nearly to tears by your majestic beauty as you munch it. Also you need to look unimpressed and drop half of it on the floor.

Does this precedent mean I can do crimes? Y/N

TL:DR You don't need two working legs or fully functioning lungs to overthrow a government.

Whilst the treatment of people who are older/chronically ill/disabled must be a practical and ethical consideration in discussions of internment and it's right for an author to draw attention to this, such people were *very much* a threat.

Mary MacSwiney lived with limb loss after a foot amputation. Margaret Skinnider took 3 gunshot wounds in the Rising and her life as a teacher was impeded by the physical effects.

Cathal Brugh survived 20 wounds in 1916 and when he died fighting in 1922 he was 47. Constance Markievicz was around 50 at the start of the War of Independence.

Pre-war, we've got 2 men who had to DRIVE TO THE EASTER RISING BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT WALK EASILY. Seán MacDermott had limited use of his leg from polio and Joseph Plunkett was terminally ill from tuberculosis.

Just read a book which evidences British wastefulness/bad intel in the War of Independence by noting the many Irish detainees who were disabled/chronically ill/over 40. There are points to be made here--but also, my guy, have you SEEN who the revolutionaries were?

During the Irish Civil War, the C-wing of Mountjoy Prison produced a prison paper called 'The Book of Cells' and I am in awe of how people in prison retained such top-tier wit.

I hate when dead animal are given a different name (eg. sheep/mutton) as though their lives and suffering are erased, their bodies reimagined as a simple product for human pleasure--But I think 'mairteoil' ('beef') gets a pass--It may come from latin mortuus ('dead'). dil.ie/search?searc...

Put these pictures side to side for an article pitch and the family resemblance between myself and Daniel Mendoza (in 1788) is actually *uncanny* .

If you could introduce any historical figures to one another and either join the conversation or just watch them interact, who would you pick?

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.

Teaching a history course that covers British involvement in the slave trade and this is an interesting infographic of compensation payouts when Britain abolishes slavery throughout the empire in 1833. [Heblich, Redding and Voth, 'Slavery and the British industrial Revolution']

I do like how obvious it is that academics say "the ____ Turn" to avoid saying "the ____ trend"