Griffin, "The Collegians": "I thought, at first, 'tis to be shaved he was coming, for, dear knows, he wanted it."
Joyce, "Dubliners": "Ah, well! We did our best, the dear knows"; "Finnegans Wake": "the deer knowed where she'd marry!"

#ireland #slang #language

In the Irish form of the expression (dar Fia), 'fia' may have been submitted for 'Fia' as a euphemism; this confusion was carried over into English, where 'deer' was then mistakenly corrected to 'dear' to make better sense.

#ireland #slang #language

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

dear

(I like this one because it shows where a bit of linguistic confusion can lead.)

Used in the expression "the dear knows" (God knows). In Irish there was formerly a word for God, 'Fia', similar in form and pronunciation to the word for deer, 'fia'.

#ireland #slang #language

Die Klippizität von Irlands Nordwesten ist schon echt außerordentlich.

#Klippen #cliffs #donegal #clare #irland #ireland #atlanticocean #sliabhliag #cliffsofmoher #bloodyforeland

🎥 New video on my #PeerTube channel!

A surprise coffin found in an old post office, abandoned for decades in a village in Ireland 🇮🇪

Join me on as I explore this spot ➡️ lostpod.space/w/aRykakVaA3TzdW…

#Ireland #Video #UrbanExploration #Urbex

#DannyMcDaid 15k in #Letterkenny #Donegal #Ireland

Keinen Regen hatte ich dann zwischen den Kilometern 7 und 9, aber das hätte ich ja wissen können; auch wenn es sogar hier, auf der sog. grünen Insel in den letzten Monaten relativ wenig Niederschlag gegeben hat. #Klimakatastrophe - die auch hier bei jedem Gespräch ein Thema ist.

Ansonsten heißt road race tatsächlich "auf der Straße" laufen, also unabgesperrt direkt neben Transportern und LKW. Gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber jo mei.

Mit meiner Zeit bin ich auf die Distanz eigentlich sehr zufrieden, the german guy ist auf jeden Fall nicht Letzter geworden ¯_ (ツ) _/¯ Und auch hier alles super easy, obwohl ich beim Aufwärmen irrtümlich befürchtet hatte, das würde hier schon seeeeehhhhhrrrr ernst genommen.

#running #laufen

So happy to have a lively #mobilizon community!

8 countries have a national instance: importing, creating or federating events anywhere in #belgium #brazil #france #ireland #italy #netherlands #switzerland #United_states. If you live in those countries, you may consider joining.

Mobilizon instances also exist in #germany #hungary #greece #norway #poland #czech_republic #lithuania #denmark #sweden #austria #slovenia and #finland at least.

Source: instances.joinmobilizon.org/in… #fediverse

The plane spent over an hour circling in a holding pattern above the airport because Yeltsin was reportedly too intoxicated to disembark while aides scrambled to sober him up. When the plane finally landed, Yeltsin failed to step off the aircraft, leaving the Irish welcoming party waiting in vain on the tarmac.

#ireland #slang #language

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Circling Shannon

This is a euphemism for being unwell, extremely drunk, and incapable of action, arising from an incident at Shannon Airport in 1994 when the Russian President Boris Yeltsin was unable to leave the plane, while the Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds waited.

#ireland #slang #language

Looking remarkably like you need a set of torx screwdrivers are these fossilized crinoids, brachiopods, and bryozoans.

Do zoom in btw! 🔍

Body parts of ancient marine creatures that lay scattered here on an ocean floor over 300 million years ago. County Donegal, Ireland.

📷 by Cormac MacFhionnlaoich, a hiking guide

#IE #Ireland #Fossils #Photo #geology

Today I discovered that Ireland has the largest trove of Bronze Age musical instruments in Europe.
I heard the ‘Wicklow Pipes’ from Charlesland, Co. Wicklow, dating to circa 2,240 BC, with a 6 tone scale.

ancientmusicireland.com/
Simon O’Dwyer and Maria Cullen O’Dwyer

dorlindon.com/en/music-in-the-…
Ancient Music Festival
Music In The Forest 2026
Weekend Afternoons | June–August 2026 | 3–5pm
Dorlindon Nature Sanctuary, Co. Wicklow

#music #archaeology #ancientmusic #ireland

🔌 Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

theregister.com/on-prem/2026/0…

#datacenters #ireland #ai #energy

It’s Wild Garlic Time!

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #Wexford #Ireland #WildGarlic #SpringVibes #NaturePhotography #WoodlandWalk #IrishNature #Wildflowers

maybe time to introduce #LáSlán in #Ireland

(To recap: each 1st Sunday of the month, use the day to inform people of the push to move away from - especially US based - "big tech" and show them how to use open alternatives, e.g. Mastodon instead of X)

😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.

This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...

"However, there is one country that always, always brings home the gold in the Regulatory Capture Olympics: Ireland."

by @pluralistic:

Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s feelings (1 Dec 2025)

pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/eri…

#MastoDaoine #GDPR #DataProtection #RegulatoryCapture #Ireland

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

disconnect.blog/generative-ai-…

#tech #genai #generativeai #deepfake #politics #ireland

"Outrage as #Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief

Niamh #Sweeney was announced in September as the pick for third commissioner for Ireland's already highly-controversial Data Protection Commission (DPC), rounding out its three-person leadership team.

However her work at #Meta from 2015 to 2021 raises concerns from civil society."

You would think.

euobserver.com/digital/ar6c78a…

Dieser Moment, als der Strassenmusikant realisierte, dass er einen ganz kleinen Zuhörer hat, der ihm fasziniert zusieht und zuhört: einfach herzerwärmend!

#streetart #streetmusic #music #Galway #Ireland #Irland #Strassenmusik #guitar #gitarre #goodnews