Ireland

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3643644

https://fxtwitter.com/metaltxt/status/1843746509348843817

It would help overcome our colonial legacy, like the way you can overcome bullying by becoming a bully yourself.

We can turn the Azores into an Irish holiday destination and ban English hen/stag nights.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20663580

Poor pay for postdoctoral researchers makes it difficult to attract and retain talent

Many tales are told in the lonely houses of Rathfarnham to this day of the "Death Coach" which noiselessly moved about on secret errands. No one seemed to know whence it came or where it went, but all agreed that a dead body was its load and headless its horseman and sack-muffled feet on the steeds of death.

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Everyone thinks Bram Stoker in 1897 was the Irishman who brought vampires out of Romanian folklore into the mainstream, but Le Fanu scooped him by 25 years.

It's a quick read, about three hours.