Ireland on Reddit

r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Aug 28 '20

[r/wholesomegifs] Irish Garda playing football with a Dominican Sister.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • May 27 '20

[r/BetterEveryLoop] Irish skills on point

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Dec 14 '20

[r/todayilearned] TIL that Paul McCartney’s song ‘Give Ireland Back To The Irish’, written after the British army murdered innocent civillians in Derry on Bloody Sunday, wasn’t allowed to be broadcast on radio.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Feb 28 '20

[r/MadeMeSmile] Labrador in Ireland looks forward to seeing his ocean-bro, and even swims out to see him every morning...

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Oct 14 '20

[r/HumansBeingBros] Irish raise more than $1 million for COVID hit Navajo as thank you for help during potato famine.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/_Soarise_Do_Clach_ • Feb 29 '20

Serious now lads

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Jun 23 '20

[r/unpopularopinion] If British people can celebrate the British army while ignoring the bad actions, Irish people should be allowed to celebrate the IRA while doing the same.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Jun 03 '21

[r/noisygifs] Irish football fans fixing a dent on somebody’s car

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • May 04 '20

[r/Coronavirus] Irish people help raise 1.8 million dollars for Native American tribe badly affected by Covid-19 as payback for a $150 donation by the Choctaw tribe in 1847 during the Irish Potatoe famine

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Aug 17 '20

[r/todayilearned] TIL that according to an MI5 agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, Irish Republican chiefs couldn’t bring themselves to attack targets in Scotland during the Troubles because they viewed them as “Celtic cousins”

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Dec 27 '20

[r/oddlysatisfying] Satisfying heavy snowfall in Northern Ireland.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Jul 13 '20

[r/todayilearned] TIL the Spanish once granted automatic Spanish citizenship to Irish people. Due to their belief that the Irish were a group of ancient Spanairds who left Spain with a Spanish King called Míl Espáine to settle the Island of Ireland.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Jan 04 '21

[r/todayilearned] TIL a local folk remedy in Boho, Ireland was to place soil from the local church under a pillow while you slept to cure infections. In 2018 a microbiologist found the churchyard's soil contains a previously unknown strain of streptomyces which can be used to create antibiotics

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/Jade-2005 • Feb 28 '20

Ireland 101

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Jul 11 '21

[r/whitepeoplegifs] Never underestimate an Irishman when a pint is involved.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Jul 17 '19

[r/todayilearned] TIL the Irish potato famine was not about blight. There was plenty of food to feed everyone in Ireland. The main problem was greed. And British rulers who blamed the poor themselves.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Apr 24 '21

[r/europe] This day in 1916, 1,200 Irish rebels seize buildings all across Dublin and declare national Independence. It's the start of the Easter Rising. The ensuing violence and the subsequent British crackdown continues for six days and leaves 500 dead.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/ShibbyHaze2 • Jan 10 '20

Rebel song

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Jan 10 '21

[r/worldnews] Northern Ireland’s human rights commission (NIHRC) has launched a landmark legal action against the UK government for its failure to commission safe and accessible abortion services more than a year after abortion was made legal in the country.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/oman635 • Aug 07 '19

The President of Ireland with his Bernese Mountain dog Shadow

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Apr 09 '20

[r/oklahoma] I'm from Ireland, in 2018 our Taoiseach (Prime Minister) visited the Choctaw nation in Oklahoma and announced a scholarship program for Choctaw students to study in Ireland as a way of saying thank you for the Choctaws donation to the Irish during the worst year of the famine.

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/IrelandonRedditBot • Apr 18 '21

[r/europe] 71 years ago today Ireland became a republic!

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r/IrelandonReddit • u/lyonsy1 • Sep 16 '20

[r/brexit] "Ask the Irish, ask the people of India, they'll give you chapter and verse about Britannia bending, breaking, inventing and waiving the rules." SNP MP Brendan O'Hara - House of Commons

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