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Colm Ryan 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
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Storyteller, occasional photographer, astronomy, history and science geek. Learning Ukrainian. Living in Cork, Ireland with a rake of cats.
So sorry Jessica. My condolences. 🥀
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sending lots of love and kind thoughts
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
As a town it doesn’t exactly stand out - when I was younger it was just a waypoint (and inevitable traffic jam) between Cork and Dublin. But the coming together of different transport through history makes it quite special.
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Limerick Junctuation
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s the craziness. These people are not well.
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I was back there this weekend. It’s such a wonderful place. Still memories of what it was like back then, and the elation I felt when the ceasefire went into effect.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
And yet here we are again.
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A true sociopath. He occupies a particularly infamous role in the history of of Ireland.

As things went from bad to worse in the Great Famine, he decided that the root cause were the desperate poor, and not the actions of his government.
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Edmund Spenser: 1553-1599
what a bollocks !

"..great force must be the instrument, but famine must be the means, for till Ireland be famished it cannot be subdued.."
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM