[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @RobLooseCannon BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine posts on X about dublin, murder, new york, tide the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1511 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +158% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +24% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +7.90% - X Year XXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.68% - X Month XXXXXX +1.70% - X Months XXXXXX +7.60% - X Year XXXXXX +13% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #4902 [finance](/list/finance) [products](/list/products) [gaming](/list/gaming) [countries](/list/countries) **Social topic influence** [dublin](/topic/dublin) #40, [murder](/topic/murder) #2409, [new york](/topic/new-york) #2465, [tide](/topic/tide), [saving](/topic/saving), [lives of](/topic/lives-of), [army](/topic/army), [drivers](/topic/drivers), [glad](/topic/glad), [to the](/topic/to-the) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@alanlambodublin](/creator/undefined) [@kynosireland](/creator/undefined) [@fallondonal](/creator/undefined) [@kierstaff55](/creator/undefined) [@mozzer2015](/creator/undefined) [@fattes13](/creator/undefined) [@rabbie54868057](/creator/undefined) [@lifetenement](/creator/undefined) [@beastmodeno1](/creator/undefined) [@finlaybrannon](/creator/undefined) [@robinsonalan](/creator/undefined) [@dangerkidsbooks](/creator/undefined) [@irishtimes](/creator/undefined) [@brianodowd5](/creator/undefined) [@sparkyneds21](/creator/undefined) [@pauldonnellysf](/creator/undefined) [@maryloumcdonald](/creator/undefined) [@irishtimesbooks](/creator/undefined) [@irishrail](/creator/undefined) [@camannua](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "In 1944 a young Irish woman helped turn the tide of World War X in a very real way saving the lives of millions. Post Office assistant Maureen Flavin was just XX. Part of her mundane job was collecting and interpreting meteorological readings in Mayo to predict the weather. She would then transmit her results to the Met Office in Glasnevin Dublin. Her readings that fateful day indicated a major front crossing from the Atlantic to cross Ireland and on across Western Europe. But Maureen's readings that day weren't only being read by the Irish however. Just hours after her transmission she" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1996562122226962863) 2025-12-04T12:47Z 22.4K followers, 3390 engagements "Irish Navvies (not those blue gobshites off the Avatar films) were an army of labourers who cut through hills created canals bridged valleys and tunneled under mountains to lay the water and iron arteries of industrial Britain. They got their name from navigator which was first used to describe the men who dug Britains inland canals or navigations in the 18th century. When the great age of steam railways began it came to describe the armies of labourers who cut through hills bridged valleys and tunneled under mountains to lay the iron arteries of industrial Britain. But long before the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1998671088461484536) 2025-12-10T08:28Z 22.4K followers, 20.8K engagements "Let's journey back to Dublin in 1956 where a Christmas tradition unlike any other was about to be born. Nestled at XX Parnell Square West in the Saint Martin Apostalate @StMartinDublin it started as a simple idea by Fr. Louis Coffey has blossomed into a beloved festive institution The Moving Crib. Fr. Coffey's wanted to breathe life into the timeless stories of the Bible for Irish children using a pioneering display of advanced mechanical figures that would captivate young imaginations. Cutting edge animatronics in 1950s Dublin mustve seemed miraculous to the kids. In reality they were" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1995828859556515899) 2025-12-02T12:14Z 22.3K followers, 2636 engagements "The 1996 film Michael Collins played fast and loose with historical facts but one thing no one disputes is the extraordinary achievement of its production design and the Dublin secrets unearthed during its making. For the shoot an enormous set was constructed in Grangegorman on the grounds of the old Richmond Asylum. Crews recreated full-scale facades of the GPO and the Mansion House as they might have looked between 1916 and 1922. This required the designers to reflect the heroic ruin of 1916 and also the partial repairs of the post-Rising city. Thousands of costumed locals served as extras" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1997240982765474218) 2025-12-06T09:45Z 22.4K followers, 15.1K engagements "The term Jarvey comes from the common name for working class lads Jarvis which was used as a generic term for a coachman. Coaches were as common as taxis now so it was kind of like calling the driver Buddy and then all taximen being called buddy. For the record cisteoir was coachman as gaeilge from ciste for coach vehicle. It seems most Irish people called the drivers "cabby". Dublins earliest Jarveys drove jaunting cars light two-wheeled vehicles where passengers sat back to back with their feet perched over the spinning wheels. They were the taxis of the 1800s a public convenience before" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1997603196814913727) 2025-12-07T09:44Z 22.4K followers, 2537 engagements "@EamonOSulliva17 I'm just glad the entrance hole isn't somewhere else😂" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1997989085235875972) 2025-12-08T11:18Z 22.3K followers, XXX engagements "As the 31st of December 1999 approached half the city thought the millennium bug would unleash Skynet on Dublin trigger the birth of the antichrist in the Rotunda or at least break our Playstation 1s. But one piece of technology had already fallen victim to the 21st century the Millennium Clock in the Liffey aka The Time in the Slime It was designed by the architects Grainne Hassett and Vincent Ducatez winners of a Countdown 2000 competition. Paid for by the National Lottery the timepiece was unveiled two days before Paddys Day 1996. Hype was high however instead of being a new landmark to" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1998005759263580209) 2025-12-08T12:24Z 22.4K followers, 7389 engagements "The Animal Gangs violence of the 1930s and 1940s Dublin first entered newspaper headlines in 1934. The capital was full of hungry unemployed young men. Tenements were bursting families stacked on families in damp cold buildings that should have been condemned decades earlier. From this environment the original Animals emerged not as hardened criminals but as newsboys teenagers who hawked papers for pennies. That September a printers strike stopped the presses across the city. The only paper still being produced was An Phoblacht printed by the Republican movement. The newsboys suddenly" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1998311049041199134) 2025-12-09T08:37Z 22.4K followers, 5778 engagements "Monkeys danced on the streets of Dublin in the 19th and early 20th century. Among a small if highly visible Italian immigrant community of artisan and plasterers were organ grinders who had dancing monkeys Chancery Lane was often packed with foreign street musicians similar to todays Grafton Street performers. It was mostly Italian lads (eye-tallion in the classic Dub) who had the instruments known as street organs. Kids often called them hurdy-gurdies though the instrument is different. On any given day a troop of monkeys usually Capuchins could be causing havoc. An example of this happened" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1998360256234008939) 2025-12-09T11:53Z 22.4K followers, 2035 engagements "@DollysBra @PaulWil81875490 Oh I know a worse flag which is synonymous with invasion mass murder rape and starvation all across the world and in hundreds of nations" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999491669180444810) 2025-12-12T14:48Z 22.4K followers, XX engagements "Did you know there are lost languages other than Irish that were spoken in Leinster for centuries. Yola and Fingallian relics of medieval speech outlived empires and invasions before finally fading in the nineteenth century. Both languages were born in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion in the late twelfth century when colonisers from England Wales and Normandy brought their Middle English across the Irish Sea. In Forth and Bargy in south Wexford and Fingal north of Dublin their descendants preserved a version of English that evolved apart from its mother tongue. In the southern baronies" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1996913789644497199) 2025-12-05T12:05Z 22.4K followers, 150.3K engagements "Annual reminder if you're offended by a certain word in "Fairytale of New York" please take a long hard look at yourself and grow up I'm a proudly married gay man and I'm not offended by it. Because I'm not a perpetually triggered and self-victimising child. Neither the connotation nor context is homophobic in the song. There's many things in our society worthy of your outrage which actually are in the song like alcoholism homelessness drug abuse suicide and misogyny. Grow up So rather than being constantly offended (often on other people's behalf) how about using that energy in positive ways" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1998707107667783696) 2025-12-10T10:51Z 22.4K followers, 64K engagements "The Irish "Whyos Gang" active from the 1860s to the 1890s emerged as one of New York City's most notoriously violent street gangs in the post-Civil War era. They got their name from their birdlike warcry "Why-ooooh" Originating from the surviving remnants of earlier Five Points gangs they are often forgotten overshadowed by The Dead Rabbits and others of "Gangs of New York" fame. The turbulence and competition of immigrant life in 19th century New York created the perfect storm of economic struggles and social marginalisation and the general atmosphere of lawlessness in that era of urban" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999399760709419011) 2025-12-12T08:43Z 22.4K followers, 3848 engagements "There was once a giant monument on the banks of the river boyne called King Williams Obelisk. The massive structure stood on the north bank of the River Boyne at Oldbridge (near present-day Drogheda) a few miles from the heart of the battle site of 1690. As early as 1693 a writer named George Storey had proposed a memorial. Thirty-odd years later that vision was realised. The foundation stone was laid on the 17th of April 1736 by Lionel Sackville 1st Duke of Dorset (then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland). Built of granite and set upon a large rock mound some X metres (about XX ft) high the final" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999453522828406953) 2025-12-12T12:17Z 22.4K followers, 10.8K engagements "The Cairo Gang were a notorious British squad whos mission was to break the IRA in Dublin to unpick the clandestine web that Michael Collins had spun across the city from pubs shops and council offices. The Brits called them the Dublin District Special Branch it was the Dubs that gave them theyre more mythological nickname. Some of the men had indeed served in British intelligence across Egypt and Palestine during the Great War others were said to haunt the Cairo Caf on Grafton Street. They came to Dublin in 1920 with their notebooks and guns. Demobilised officers and a handful of active-duty" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999771172385288410) 2025-12-13T09:19Z 22.4K followers, 23.3K engagements "When you read Shakespeare you rarely think of Ireland but the great Bard was actually quite fond of our dramatic little island. And if you look closely youll see its influence on his plays. Theres about XX occasions in the canon when Ireland is named with Irish or Irishman appearing a further dozen times. Most of these allusions cluster in the between about 1596 and 1599 when England was deep in the bloody colonial struggle of the so-called Nine Years' War in Ireland. Between 1594 and 1603 Shakespeare was active with his company "the Lord Chamberlain's Men". By the late 1590s English armies" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999819797555548371) 2025-12-13T12:32Z 22.4K followers, 2985 engagements "Thats absolutely heartbreaking. Both the murder and leaving his family not only fatherless and likely in a horrible financial state but they must've been terrified violence like that could happen again. Thank you for sharing his story. Its the human stories that bring the reality home" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999851297994928515) 2025-12-13T14:37Z 22.4K followers, XXX engagements
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@RobLooseCannon BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine
BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine posts on X about dublin, murder, new york, tide the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1511 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +158%
- X Month XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +24%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Month XX -XX%
- X Months XXX +7.90%
- X Year XXX -XXXX%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.68%
- X Month XXXXXX +1.70%
- X Months XXXXXX +7.60%
- X Year XXXXXX +13%
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Social category influence travel destinations #4902 finance products gaming countries
Social topic influence dublin #40, murder #2409, new york #2465, tide, saving, lives of, army, drivers, glad, to the
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @alanlambodublin @kynosireland @fallondonal @kierstaff55 @mozzer2015 @fattes13 @rabbie54868057 @lifetenement @beastmodeno1 @finlaybrannon @robinsonalan @dangerkidsbooks @irishtimes @brianodowd5 @sparkyneds21 @pauldonnellysf @maryloumcdonald @irishtimesbooks @irishrail @camannua
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"In 1944 a young Irish woman helped turn the tide of World War X in a very real way saving the lives of millions. Post Office assistant Maureen Flavin was just XX. Part of her mundane job was collecting and interpreting meteorological readings in Mayo to predict the weather. She would then transmit her results to the Met Office in Glasnevin Dublin. Her readings that fateful day indicated a major front crossing from the Atlantic to cross Ireland and on across Western Europe. But Maureen's readings that day weren't only being read by the Irish however. Just hours after her transmission she"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:47Z 22.4K followers, 3390 engagements
"Irish Navvies (not those blue gobshites off the Avatar films) were an army of labourers who cut through hills created canals bridged valleys and tunneled under mountains to lay the water and iron arteries of industrial Britain. They got their name from navigator which was first used to describe the men who dug Britains inland canals or navigations in the 18th century. When the great age of steam railways began it came to describe the armies of labourers who cut through hills bridged valleys and tunneled under mountains to lay the iron arteries of industrial Britain. But long before the"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:28Z 22.4K followers, 20.8K engagements
"Let's journey back to Dublin in 1956 where a Christmas tradition unlike any other was about to be born. Nestled at XX Parnell Square West in the Saint Martin Apostalate @StMartinDublin it started as a simple idea by Fr. Louis Coffey has blossomed into a beloved festive institution The Moving Crib. Fr. Coffey's wanted to breathe life into the timeless stories of the Bible for Irish children using a pioneering display of advanced mechanical figures that would captivate young imaginations. Cutting edge animatronics in 1950s Dublin mustve seemed miraculous to the kids. In reality they were"
X Link 2025-12-02T12:14Z 22.3K followers, 2636 engagements
"The 1996 film Michael Collins played fast and loose with historical facts but one thing no one disputes is the extraordinary achievement of its production design and the Dublin secrets unearthed during its making. For the shoot an enormous set was constructed in Grangegorman on the grounds of the old Richmond Asylum. Crews recreated full-scale facades of the GPO and the Mansion House as they might have looked between 1916 and 1922. This required the designers to reflect the heroic ruin of 1916 and also the partial repairs of the post-Rising city. Thousands of costumed locals served as extras"
X Link 2025-12-06T09:45Z 22.4K followers, 15.1K engagements
"The term Jarvey comes from the common name for working class lads Jarvis which was used as a generic term for a coachman. Coaches were as common as taxis now so it was kind of like calling the driver Buddy and then all taximen being called buddy. For the record cisteoir was coachman as gaeilge from ciste for coach vehicle. It seems most Irish people called the drivers "cabby". Dublins earliest Jarveys drove jaunting cars light two-wheeled vehicles where passengers sat back to back with their feet perched over the spinning wheels. They were the taxis of the 1800s a public convenience before"
X Link 2025-12-07T09:44Z 22.4K followers, 2537 engagements
"@EamonOSulliva17 I'm just glad the entrance hole isn't somewhere else😂"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:18Z 22.3K followers, XXX engagements
"As the 31st of December 1999 approached half the city thought the millennium bug would unleash Skynet on Dublin trigger the birth of the antichrist in the Rotunda or at least break our Playstation 1s. But one piece of technology had already fallen victim to the 21st century the Millennium Clock in the Liffey aka The Time in the Slime It was designed by the architects Grainne Hassett and Vincent Ducatez winners of a Countdown 2000 competition. Paid for by the National Lottery the timepiece was unveiled two days before Paddys Day 1996. Hype was high however instead of being a new landmark to"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:24Z 22.4K followers, 7389 engagements
"The Animal Gangs violence of the 1930s and 1940s Dublin first entered newspaper headlines in 1934. The capital was full of hungry unemployed young men. Tenements were bursting families stacked on families in damp cold buildings that should have been condemned decades earlier. From this environment the original Animals emerged not as hardened criminals but as newsboys teenagers who hawked papers for pennies. That September a printers strike stopped the presses across the city. The only paper still being produced was An Phoblacht printed by the Republican movement. The newsboys suddenly"
X Link 2025-12-09T08:37Z 22.4K followers, 5778 engagements
"Monkeys danced on the streets of Dublin in the 19th and early 20th century. Among a small if highly visible Italian immigrant community of artisan and plasterers were organ grinders who had dancing monkeys Chancery Lane was often packed with foreign street musicians similar to todays Grafton Street performers. It was mostly Italian lads (eye-tallion in the classic Dub) who had the instruments known as street organs. Kids often called them hurdy-gurdies though the instrument is different. On any given day a troop of monkeys usually Capuchins could be causing havoc. An example of this happened"
X Link 2025-12-09T11:53Z 22.4K followers, 2035 engagements
"@DollysBra @PaulWil81875490 Oh I know a worse flag which is synonymous with invasion mass murder rape and starvation all across the world and in hundreds of nations"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:48Z 22.4K followers, XX engagements
"Did you know there are lost languages other than Irish that were spoken in Leinster for centuries. Yola and Fingallian relics of medieval speech outlived empires and invasions before finally fading in the nineteenth century. Both languages were born in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion in the late twelfth century when colonisers from England Wales and Normandy brought their Middle English across the Irish Sea. In Forth and Bargy in south Wexford and Fingal north of Dublin their descendants preserved a version of English that evolved apart from its mother tongue. In the southern baronies"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:05Z 22.4K followers, 150.3K engagements
"Annual reminder if you're offended by a certain word in "Fairytale of New York" please take a long hard look at yourself and grow up I'm a proudly married gay man and I'm not offended by it. Because I'm not a perpetually triggered and self-victimising child. Neither the connotation nor context is homophobic in the song. There's many things in our society worthy of your outrage which actually are in the song like alcoholism homelessness drug abuse suicide and misogyny. Grow up So rather than being constantly offended (often on other people's behalf) how about using that energy in positive ways"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:51Z 22.4K followers, 64K engagements
"The Irish "Whyos Gang" active from the 1860s to the 1890s emerged as one of New York City's most notoriously violent street gangs in the post-Civil War era. They got their name from their birdlike warcry "Why-ooooh" Originating from the surviving remnants of earlier Five Points gangs they are often forgotten overshadowed by The Dead Rabbits and others of "Gangs of New York" fame. The turbulence and competition of immigrant life in 19th century New York created the perfect storm of economic struggles and social marginalisation and the general atmosphere of lawlessness in that era of urban"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:43Z 22.4K followers, 3848 engagements
"There was once a giant monument on the banks of the river boyne called King Williams Obelisk. The massive structure stood on the north bank of the River Boyne at Oldbridge (near present-day Drogheda) a few miles from the heart of the battle site of 1690. As early as 1693 a writer named George Storey had proposed a memorial. Thirty-odd years later that vision was realised. The foundation stone was laid on the 17th of April 1736 by Lionel Sackville 1st Duke of Dorset (then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland). Built of granite and set upon a large rock mound some X metres (about XX ft) high the final"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:17Z 22.4K followers, 10.8K engagements
"The Cairo Gang were a notorious British squad whos mission was to break the IRA in Dublin to unpick the clandestine web that Michael Collins had spun across the city from pubs shops and council offices. The Brits called them the Dublin District Special Branch it was the Dubs that gave them theyre more mythological nickname. Some of the men had indeed served in British intelligence across Egypt and Palestine during the Great War others were said to haunt the Cairo Caf on Grafton Street. They came to Dublin in 1920 with their notebooks and guns. Demobilised officers and a handful of active-duty"
X Link 2025-12-13T09:19Z 22.4K followers, 23.3K engagements
"When you read Shakespeare you rarely think of Ireland but the great Bard was actually quite fond of our dramatic little island. And if you look closely youll see its influence on his plays. Theres about XX occasions in the canon when Ireland is named with Irish or Irishman appearing a further dozen times. Most of these allusions cluster in the between about 1596 and 1599 when England was deep in the bloody colonial struggle of the so-called Nine Years' War in Ireland. Between 1594 and 1603 Shakespeare was active with his company "the Lord Chamberlain's Men". By the late 1590s English armies"
X Link 2025-12-13T12:32Z 22.4K followers, 2985 engagements
"Thats absolutely heartbreaking. Both the murder and leaving his family not only fatherless and likely in a horrible financial state but they must've been terrified violence like that could happen again. Thank you for sharing his story. Its the human stories that bring the reality home"
X Link 2025-12-13T14:37Z 22.4K followers, XXX engagements