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[@RobLooseCannon](/creator/twitter/RobLooseCannon)
"Benjamin Franklin one of the founding fathers of the United States visited Dublin in 1771 while serving as a colonial agent in London. He had already remarked two years earlier that all Ireland is strongly in favor of the American cause seeing in the countrys subjugation under Britain a mirror of the colonies own predicament. His writings show he found our city full of contradictions. The grandeur of College Green and the elegance of Georgian facades dazzled him but beyond the citys showpiece streets he saw hovels and what he called amazing poverty. He told a friend that even the poorest New"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1979146359874768949) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-17T11:23Z 21.7K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Ever hear of the wild woman of Donegal and her great escape from Mountjoy Eithne Coyle was born Annie Coyle in 1897 near Falcarragh in Donegal. Coyle is best known for her leadership in Cumann na mBan the revolutionary womens paramilitary organization. Coyles career was marked by gun-running boycotts train hold-ups and two dramatic prison escapes that made international headlines. She was a Gaelic League organiser by day whilst secretly building Cumann na mBan branches across the North and Ulster. Her brother Donal was a commandant in the IRAs 1st Northern Division. During the War of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1979895951889170917) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-19T13:02Z 21.7K followers, 7933 engagements


"Today in 1975 Oliver Plunkett was canonised by Pope Paul VI becoming the first Irish saint since Laurence O'Toole in 1225. Born in Meath in 1625 Oliver set out for Rome in 1647 amidst the Irish Confederate Wars. He was ordained in 1654 but due to Cromwells conquest of Ireland and the subsequent persecution of Catholics Plunkett couldn't return home years. Finally appointed Archbishop of Armagh in 1669 Plunkett returned to Ireland in 1670 taking advantage of a brief period of religious tolerance under the English Restoration. He founded an integrated Jesuit College in Drogheda where both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1977302492326060152) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-12T09:17Z 21.7K followers, 6103 engagements


"The Ribbonmen were a secret society of 19th-century poor Catholics in Ireland. Their movement Ribbonism was borne of desperation caused by the grinding poverty and oppression endured by tenant farmers and labourers. It was also a counterweight to the Protestant Orange Order. They were the spiritual and socio-economic heirs of earlier agrarian movements like the Whiteboys of the 1760s and the Defenders of the late 18th century. When the 1798 Rebellion collapsed fragments of the Defender network survived underground. These remnants evolved into Ribbon lodges carrying forward the tradition of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1978373037930992113) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-15T08:11Z 21.7K followers, 10.3K engagements


"@Mozzer2015 @HeatherH @catherinegalway She is indeed. And by her performance in debates far less naiive than her outsider status would imply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1978493353038602356) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-15T16:09Z 21.7K followers, 1821 engagements


"Today in 1989 the three members of the Guildford Four were released having served XX years in jail after being wrongly convicted in a massive miscarriage of British justice. In 1974 Gerry Conlon Paul Hill Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson were wrongfully convicted of terrorist pub bombings in Guildford which killed five people including four British soldiers. These bombings and the Woolwich bombing which caused two more deaths and countless injuries were part of a terrorist campaign by the Provisional IRA who had no connection to those innocents wrongly convicted or those victims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1979824968977219946) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-19T08:20Z 21.7K followers, 3213 engagements


"@CaptainFalke The people who planted that bomb and anyone who murders civilians with bombs or guns are evil. That's Irish logic. And the logic of any civilised human being. What a reprehensible thing to attempt to cheapen terrorist murder to an entire nation of people. Shameful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1980023651459031547) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-19T21:30Z 21.7K followers, XX engagements


"The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The building is a masterpiece of deconstructivism. The museum is credited with creating a phenomenon known as the "Bilbao Effect" where a single major architectural project can transform a city's economy and reputation. The museum's success revitalized Bilbao turning a once-industrial port city into a major cultural and tourist destination. We need more landmark attractions like this in satellite towns outside Dublin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1965006602424979591) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-09-08T10:57Z 21.7K followers, 2550 engagements


"@steppenshite Its also home to some subterranean shenanigans which youve just reminded me about. I must write up a post for another day. Slashhooks not included"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1978771370914771355) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-16T10:33Z 21.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Today in 1791 a small group of men gathered for the inaugural meeting of the Society of United Irishmen of Belfast. The rebels adopted a declaration and resolutions drafted by Theobald Wolfe Tone a young Dublin barrister. Earlier that year Tone had published An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland a pamphlet that dared to say aloud what many whispered. That Irelands Catholics now for above a century in slavery deserved full emancipation. Tone himself a Protestant was an unlikely champion of Catholic rights. Yet he saw the sectarian divisions in Ireland as the deliberate work of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1979448714549776767) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-18T07:25Z 21.7K followers, 20.3K engagements


"The Dublin skyline was once punctuated by gasometers. Vast iron drums skeletal giants that seemed to hover above the docklands. Dublin first saw the arrival of piped gas in the 1820s. The new fuel was made by heating Welsh coal in sealed furnaces producing the foul-smelling but versatile "town gas." It lit the first gas streetlamps around 1825 and with them came a flood of rival companies. The Hibernian Gaslight Company the Dublin Coal Gas Light Company and others each laying mains down the same streets duplicating effort in their scramble for customers. After years of mergers and financial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1980181398293012530) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-20T07:56Z 21.7K followers, 10.6K engagements


"A stones throw from St. Patricks Cathedral on Bride Street there once stood the Adelaide Hospital. This Victorian institution opened its doors in 1839 as the Adelaide Institution and Protestant Hospital.The driving force behind its founding was Dr. Albert Walshand it was named in honour of Queen Adelaide the devoutly Anglican widow of King William IV. A royal nod to its Church of Ireland ethos. In those early days staff were required to be Protestant and while Catholic outpatients were sometimes treated the hospital's core identity was nominally sectarian. Yet for the poor protestants of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1980240850517905857) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-20T11:53Z 21.7K followers, 3956 engagements


"Today in 1975 a quiet cul de sac in Monasterevin County Kildare became the centre of the worlds attention. Members of the Garda and the Irish Defence Forces surrounded a modest suburban house where Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema was being held hostage by members of the Provisional IRA. Herrema was no ordinary businessman. Born in the Netherlands he had fought with the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War and survived imprisonment by the Nazis in Poland. In later life he became an industrialist managing Ferenka a steel cord manufacturing plant in Limerick that employed 1400 people."  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1980547841714970992) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-21T08:12Z 21.7K followers, 6789 engagements


"Why is there no permanent link across the Irish Sea connecting Ireland with England Wales or Scotland Despite more than a century and a half of proposals ranging from satirical 18th-century jokes to serious multi-billion-pound government studies the reasons are a fascinating combination of economics and geology. And sadly explosive historical legacies. Serious exploration of a link began in the late 19th century as part of the Unionist movement. Engineers like Luke Livingston Macassey envisioned a rail link using a tunnel "tubular bridge" or even a solid causeway to strengthen the commercial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1980590102083518752) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-21T11:00Z 21.7K followers, 15.1K engagements


"Concern about unvetted illegal immigration is not racist It is a civic duty to protect your family from danger to hold your government accountable and to decide how your taxes are spent. Do not be gaslit by politicians who are secretly as scared and shocked as you but far more protected from the consequences. What your employees in Dil ireann label "right wing" today they will peddle as their policy tomorrow when reality becomes more advantageous to their career. Violence and prejudice are not the solution. Contact your TDs ask them questions and make them work. Remember it's not the illegal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1980646407691207167) [@RobLooseCannon](/creator/x/RobLooseCannon) 2025-10-21T14:44Z 21.7K followers, 1921 engagements