Jamesie boy!
@CalJamieson
Followers
5,176
Following
5,614
Media
2,355
Statuses
148,407
Scientist. Interested in Irish politics and history, the Scots-Irish and Anglo-Irish, Rev J.B. Armour, Celtic history, Scottish Independence, economics.
Monaghan via Banbridge, Ulster
Joined December 2012
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Real Madrid
• 618993 Tweets
Mbappe
• 597435 Tweets
Claudia Sheinbaum
• 588897 Tweets
Fauci
• 496784 Tweets
Comunicado Oficial
• 198866 Tweets
Farage
• 149634 Tweets
#FixTF2
• 142549 Tweets
WNBA
• 130360 Tweets
River
• 129821 Tweets
Venom
• 113008 Tweets
Reform
• 92116 Tweets
Jadue
• 79772 Tweets
مدريد
• 79278 Tweets
Monica
• 71637 Tweets
First Take
• 56152 Tweets
sabrina
• 53686 Tweets
Florentino
• 51200 Tweets
Marjorie Taylor Greene
• 39457 Tweets
Bolivar
• 38579 Tweets
Botafogo
• 37850 Tweets
Clacton
• 36194 Tweets
Barriga
• 30136 Tweets
Stephen A
• 25884 Tweets
Başın
• 25372 Tweets
Justin Jefferson
• 24678 Tweets
Colo Colo
• 24319 Tweets
Djokovic
• 23089 Tweets
ヴェノム
• 22092 Tweets
Talleres
• 20886 Tweets
Larry Allen
• 19872 Tweets
Berkshire Hathaway
• 19214 Tweets
Halsey
• 18940 Tweets
TIC TAC
• 14487 Tweets
gracie
• 14090 Tweets
RESPIRATOR OUT NOW
• 12882 Tweets
Sri Lanka
• 12876 Tweets
Ducati
• 12291 Tweets
Real ID
• 12010 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
"The Irish ran from our trap and fled into the bogs, where my solders followed them barefooted...they returned with a trophy of 50 heads, with which I decorated the market cross at Kilmallock": English Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir John Perrot (16th C)
8
21
52
As a protestant Ulsterman and Irishman, I can see Ireland needs to take bigger political leaps to get to a better place, so I'm supporting
#LiadhForPresident
- first time I've ever supported a Sinn Fein politician - 10 years ago wouldn't've dreamt of it!
22
129
429
Why are we letting the Royal Navy dock in our ports in Ireland... after their behaviour in the north, and in earlier times... here. Very much not welcome.
Members of AIA and Saoirse don Phalaistín are currently on the gang plank of a British warship docked in Dublin Port in protest of transport to weapons and support for "Israeli" genocide
185
2K
4K
134
138
441
During The Troubles, I remember Catholic students coming to university from W Belfast get harassed by British soldiers... they were targeted for scrutiny; the shame of what went on here. I was a student then but from the other side of the tracks - it was very clear what went on.
11
61
366
Been down in Wexford for a few days... shocked by the unfriendliness (ie no "hello" in the street, etc.) of so many of our new Irish... Wexford was always such a friendly town... no longer it seems. One of the bonuses of very high immigration I guess... it erodes social cohesion.
38
24
307
@Orwell184
@GerardBattenMEP
@DorothyHesp
Nope - we're doing what is on our interest. Simple as that.
1
3
296
I'm a tough Ulster Presbyterian but also a left libertarian (ie I don't mind how you live and want us all to have the freedom to do exactly that) and a supporter of Irish unity. Complicated, huh
32
34
296
Why do we hear so little about Elizabeth I's military onslaught upon Ireland? Something that shaped Ulster like little else: Chichester, Drake, Mountjoy, Norris, etc., send to destroy the Gaelic order... killing hundreds of thousands in the process, often targeting civilians.
27
54
286
This is how the British state behaved here in Ulster... and people wonder why so many of us - even protestants from unionist backgrounds, like me... now demand a united Ireland? Watch this, below... and you may understand... 👇
15
130
264
Perhaps there's so much kerfuffle about John Finucane because of the nature of the IRA in South Armagh - a bunch of farmers who defeated Britain at every point (including via bombs in London). They outgunned and outmanoeuvred the British army at every turn.
49
19
245
I'm an ecologist and am calling out this
@BBC
documentary as
#FakeScience
- animal agriculture is essential for insect and bird life, etc. Let's start with cow pats:
#MeatAThreatToOurPlanet
#Meat
5
106
249
Some ex British army bloke here in Ireland is calling us to join NATO for our own defence... the only people who have ever attacked us were his own army (and intel elements attached to that army).
10
39
243
@Orwell184
@GerardBattenMEP
@DorothyHesp
It our interest to remove the economic border that splits Ireland in half - the EU has given us the opportunity to confront Britain on that. Not being dictated to. The UK will either have to bend to us, or face economic crisis.
6
12
214
A close member of the family has Covid-19 badly. No underlying health conditions. Close to hospitalisation with a raging temperature that's dragged on for 5 days. Terrifying to watch on from a distance. He runs marathons. In his 30s.
22
66
222
2
11
184
I've watched
@UKLabour
closely down the years and they're not friends of Ireland, in any way... never have been... if anything, worse than the Tories during The Troubles. Class solidarity my ass... they're British nationalists just as the Tories are!
21
63
188
Just been in Dublin for 2days - jeeez it's lost its soul! Preferred it back in the late 80s 1000%! - now it's a neoliberal nobodyzone - could be anywhere, or nowhere - didn't recognise anyone - it's lost its familiarity. That's what neoliberal economics + globalisation do! 1/2
24
37
136
@TomBewick
@OxfordDiplomat
The nature of colonization in Ireland entirely different - specifically the Elizabethan period - it was horrific, racialist, intensely violent, and decimated civilian population - then repeated just a few decades later by Cromwell! Targeting civilians.
1
19
156
Goodness me.
66
110
143
I am not sure I want a united Ireland when I look at the out-of-control immigration in the Republic of Ireland. This isn't about race... it's about economics, housing, and social cohesion.
21
14
138
@RuthDE
It was Shane's wish. Respect that. Also it was a funeral. Respect that too. These comments are absolutely wrong.
1
1
140
@Eoghan4g
@AodhBC
@LeoVaradkar
@MichealMartinTD
@UKRinIRL
He is absolutely right - well done to President Higgins.
0
3
132
So, am I right in understanding that the British Army inserted Brian Nelson into the UDA... they didn't recruit him from within the UDA.
What is more, the British Army paid his airfare and hotel accommodation, and other costs, when he went to buy arms for Ulster's loyalists.
9
54
123
I also notice many pro-British elements - MI6 linked people - people in Ireland who are ex British military - taking the lead in the fight against Irish neutrality - if that doesn't give you pause for thought, you're a halfwit!
6
29
122
The British and their pals here in Ulster glorify the British military all year, every year - glamourizing them... including many media outlets... meanwhile... a song or two about a now defunct group of guerrillas? Absolute outrage. That's how the British state works.
9
12
118
The irony about immigration to Ireland is I could never emigrate to half the countries they're from - they wouldn't let me in and if I attempted to enter them illegally I would be deported.
7
23
96
Has Dublin morphed into a shit version of San Francisco? That's my take on the city - have just endured another week working there - just awful! Where did it all go wrong? Dublin in 1992 was fab - now it's an internationalised neoliberal pit of a place.
16
15
67
John Wayne’s great-great grandfather was a County Antrim man by the name of Robert Morrison - A Presbyterian Irish Republican who fought the British in 1798. After the failure of the United Irish rebellion he escaped to the USA to escape an arrest warrant.
7
34
99
@paulmurphy_TD
The vast majority are concerned about the levels of economic migration to this island. Why are you making this about a resurgent far right when there is no such thing? Sure they are attempting to hijack issues surrounding migration - but are clearly not succeeding!
9
0
92
Speaking to uncle up in County Antrim - selling up the farm - said Brexit may crush farming and farmland prices so selling up while he can - he better be quick - very sad as been in family for 200 years.
20
34
89
first time I voted for Sinn Fein and look what happened! 😂😂😂 Go for it Sinn Fein... hope there's a breakthrough!
0
10
86
@TrisBurnedLands
Tristan, we want a united Ireland increasingly within my (protestant) community here in Ulster. Time to move on methinks... the world is changing.
3
6
85
@RoryHanrahan5
@PaddyShanks
what a disgraceful comment - this isn't about politics for goodness sake.
2
2
88
@Vicky_Canning
I'm an Ulster bible belt Presbyterian - related to a protestant hero of the siege of Derry (from Ballycarry) - now want a United Ireland! The odd conversation can become rather "interesting" lol!
0
2
80
@IrishAntifa
This makes no sense whatsoever - James C and Thomas Clarke had Irish parents - and Pearse had an Irish mother - so they were all rooted in Ireland going back generations - most modern-day migrants to Ireland don't have those kind of roots - they are economic migrants 1/2
5
5
53
@RuthDE
No it isn't. Many of us have roots in the Jewish diaspora here and are very aware of that. Little Jerusalem in Dublin, for example. Proud of it. Opposing Netanyahu, though - as do many Israelis!
0
6
81
@TadhgHickey
What lovely happy clappy words - but where will they live? Will be house them in substandard housing for years and it that fair on them (PS. no it isn't!). Have you not noticed there's a problem with housing here?
6
1
76
@KevDoyle_Indo
It would be good if we could start listening to the protesters and engaging with them instead of these comments... where will this get us, exactly? Time for a grown up conversation about immigration and asylum and matching resources to need.
12
2
75
To watch people in Britain scoring political points off Northern Ireland is shameful. We're trying to move on you vile twerps!
4
41
71
@Orwell184
@GerardBattenMEP
@DorothyHesp
things may well change post Brexit... we've already been attempting to bring fin services business from London to Dublin. There could be a huge shake up come Brexit.
5
1
67
@GarethOCal
the problem is the economics... the housing crisis... the political class closing down debate over immigration. Deal with those issues and the far right will have zero leverage.
2
2
75
Yet anyone of us from a protestant + unionist background can well see we'd be better off as one Ireland rather than an apendage of Britain - London is very remote - give me Dublin any day - a federal Ireland? Even better. It's time for a united Ireland.
4
18
63
War and famine in Ireland... the use of famine as a military strategy by the English then British until relatively recently. Not something people are taught in school!
2
44
68
@irish_news
What tiresome analysis - how about something new and insightful examining social, economic and political aspects. Including hard data on housing and services.
0
1
64
Incredible to see Irish people putting Karen Bradley's comment down to naivety - yeah, like the Tories aligning with the DUP... all just a terrible misunderstanding NOT! Have these commentators ever scanned through a history book... you know, 800 years of Irish history???
4
25
61
@RoryHearneGaffs
This isn't Ireland - it's NGOs and government politicians showing solidarity with the government - a PR stunt.
5
2
63
@rupert_pearse
The reason I am not confident is the crossover with winter... it is unclear to me how the virus will interact with other winter illnesses and of course we are all under greater cardio-vascular stress in the winter, simply because it is colder, windier, etc. The risks look huge.
1
3
68
@bbctheview
@Lseenoi
From my perspective this has nothing to do with the far right and everything to do with concerns about immigration that are not being debated or discussed; there are plenty of valid concerns that have nothing to do with either the far right or racism.
8
0
59
@williamhboney1
@TonightVMTV
are you suggesting our inner city communities feel listened to? I'm see very few commentators examining that aspect.
2
0
59
In 1906, Dr Patrick McCartan, member of Clan na Gael+editor of Irish Freedom, stated that attendance at Westminster: “was not only useless to Ireland, but also misrepresented Ireland before the world”
@GerryCarlile
@SMacB
@GerryAdamsSF
@molloy1916
4
36
54
And then they have the nerve to lecture us, here in Ireland, about the morality of resisting them and their ilk?
6
21
60
@Gilleeece
It is the political establishment that enables racism - most of us are simply concerned about numbers (not the race bit), yet the politicians refuse to debate that aspect. Not very grown up of them, is it!
2
0
58
#TheWomanInTheWall
is the usual patronising British bilge... instead of looking at Irish issues why don't Brit drama makers examine the hundreds of thousands of kids sent from Britain to Australia/Canada, where they often were dreadfully abused? Completely ignored!
21
10
60
So it seems the British discussed the moving of Catholics out of N Ireland and into the Republic... nice.
9
27
58
@paulmurphy_TD
No - I'm a Connollyite rather than whatever you are... I'll be protesting against economic immigration... not against refugees but against the levels of immigration demanded by neoliberal economics.
6
1
57
#TheWomanInTheWall
- ain't it interesting how nobody ever remembers the Scottish and English Magdalene laundries... do the Brits even know their own country was covered in the things, or that they originate in London? A protestant institution, originally
12
21
60
@LeCheileDND
@UnitedARacism
@NWCI
@Belong_To
@TENI_Tweets
@GCNmag
@INARIreland
@TheUSI
@DorasIRL
@LmaRirl
@masi_asylum
What is this? A competition to see how many NGOs (some in receipt of government money) can influence public opinion. Is that how a democracy should operate? Do tell.
1
1
56
“When a man takes a farm from which another had been evicted you must shun him on the roadside when you meet him, you must shun him in the streets of the town, you must shun him in the shop, you must shun him in the fairgreen and in the marketplace, and even in >
0
26
52
I very rarely cry but.. that... funeral... tipped me over the edge, completely. Shane meant so much to those of us who were Irish in London (and 2nd/3rd generation Irish, too). He was our cultural representative on planet earth and may God bless his soul!
4
5
58
Just back from County Antrim - back from helping my uncle clear the yard before he sells the farm - a mighty fire of old wood and straw. Twas fun tinged with sadness. The end of an era. Hard times coming to the countryside I fear.
4
11
54
I do wonder about the stats on the dead during The Troubles... ie... who killed who, in Ulster (constantly shoved in our faces)... BECAUSE there was widespread collusion, so that distorts the stats immensely - how many killings on both sides were carried out by British agents?
11
4
54
One of my forefathers was one of the key defenders of Londonderry... these days I want a United Ireland... sooner rather than later. These
#ApprenticeBoys
need to move with the times lol!
4
9
55
Having been told we're sectarian in Ulster for too many decades to remember... now I'm watching the English monarchy in all its glorious sectarianism - the king has to be a Protestant and "defend the faith"... England is where sectarianism here in Ulster has its roots!
2
21
54
@robggill
@joxer1966
Not just from the UK and USA either - this is becoming an international pile on... it feels coordinated.
17
2
51
@tjmcgibnxy
What the hell does that mean! And by baiting you mean showing a bit of concern and empathy... oh the horror, eh... dear God.
1
3
51
Little did I think when I was voting for the PUP a few years ago I'd be fighting Sinn Fein's corner so hard - but if PUP were in same position I'd be doing this for them! This is about democracy+representation - and the way the establishment sneers at those outside their circle.
1
10
43
@BBCSteveR
a response to the British and their deployment of a certain type of weapon containing depleted uranium?
63
2
46
The thing that pisses me off most of all is having a Brit lecturing me on the morality of violence in Ulster, as though Britain didn't play a role... um... try reading a military history - perhaps start with Elizabeth I's colonization, and work your way through form there!
2
13
43
@ArleneFosterUK
What utter nonsense. Bowen is wonderfully impartial - one of the best British journalists alive today. The best thing anyone can do is NOT take sides! Grow up!
2
3
48
My prediction... the UK will be in lockdown again in early July. They haven't got a clue.
5
1
43
@liamfjournalist
@StenaLine
looking at the shifts in freight patterns, I doubt it. Hauliers I know back in County Armagh are being told by clients they want direct routes to the EU mainland only (from Ireland).
2
5
47
#PopeFrancis
has touched down... and from this Presbyterian in deepest County Armagh you're very welcome! Ignore the bigots - the liberal bigots - the neoliberal bigots... you are who you are, and you're deeply welcome.
2
8
42
@GerryAdamsSF
@DeclanKearneySF
@belfastsinnfein
@sinnfeinireland
@Ogra_SF
@moneillsf
@gildernewm
@MaryLouMcDonald
@PearseDoherty
@PadraigMacL
@ATownNews
The main form of migration, here, is economic - most of us have little concern re: asylum seekers - but we are concerned about the huge levels of economic immigration in the midst of a housing/healthcare crisis! It really is that simple!
1
2
45
The big thing that shifted me from unionism is the economy - we need an all island economy in Ireland - to hell with the union
#vote17
5
16
41
My "Vow": I shall never buy
@Daily_Record
ever again - please Retweet!
#the45
#Scotland
#Edinburgh
#Glasgow
14
106
38
@yinonw
@decent_doge
Dear God I do wish you would find another hobby - this really isn't your strength - take it from me.
7
0
40
@TadhgHickey
Nothing to do with racism for most of us - the issue is the inability of the gov to match resource (housing, etc.) to need and that impacts the immigrants equally if not more - hence refugees arriving now and ending up sleeping on the street! It needs managing!
4
1
44
@jacknolan__
@AislingOConne11
Connolly opposed the arrival of Belgian refugees but hey... education does help when discussing these points.
0
0
39
@kajakallas
It's about time you East Europeans moved on from these resentments. My Grandfather was interned by the British but you won't find me using that reality to make a political point! Grow up!
5
1
41
A good read:
@RobertJSomynne
@ProfSteveKeen
@stacyherbert
@maxkeiser
@AnnPettifor
@ProfSteveKeen
@D_Blanchflower
2
28
35
@ggreenwald
I saw
@facebook
take down the Crimes of Britain [Twitter:
@crimesofbrits
] Facebook account the other day - from what I could see it was critical of the British Empire, first and foremost, and catalogued little-known colonial crimes. Quite extraordinary.
0
14
28
@NicolaSturgeon
@siliconglen
@jasonleitch
“You can’t fight a virus if you don’t know where it is,” he said. “Find, isolate, test and treat every case to break the chains of Covid transmission. Every case we find and treat limits the expansion of the disease.”
0
8
41
@walker_jjj
@neil_ferguson
It is the response to the tests rather than the tests themselves. Without the tests you might as well be a drunk lying in a ditch screaming at the sky. You can't isolate. You get family groups becoming infected, then a spiral from there. The British and Welsh Gov are refusing
2
1
41
If Scotland so weak, why are the markets in tizzz? [Answer: oil underpins British debt) FTSE Drops
http://t.co/44DanVtd6D
via
@BloombergNews
4
96
39
and I would seriously contemplate
@BeattieDoug
if I was on his patch, although I am not a unionist. A very decent man and politician.
Rearrange these words to make a well known phrase...
‘Monkey, the, freeze, brass, a, off, balls’ 🥶
#Canvassing
#GE19
@KLEvans89
@flahertycom
@arnold_hatch
10
5
41
5
6
40
If Irish Republicans think the British left is a friend... um, look at Labour during The Troubles. Look at the current Brexit debate... so-called lefties lining up to condemn the selling-out of the DUP!
4
5
34
@BorisJohnson
they should be getting vaccinations outside in large airy buildings - or via drive thrus as in Israel - for God's sake where is the logic in this? There is something called airborne transmission!
12
2
36
@PhillyMcMahon
We do need to control migration onto the island and also look after who we can - matching resources with numbers - my sense is we are taking far too many in the midst of a housing crisis... where will the end up?
1
1
39
Has Naomi Long argued for a testing regime in Northern Ireland that is in-line with
@WHO
guidlines... even once? I might've missed it.
4
9
39
On wearing the poppy in Ireland - Irish soldiers died in many overseas armies - British, French, Spanish, American, Swiss - poppy doesn't remember all, so we need something more inclusive.
10
12
36
@faisalislam
I can't see Corbyn lost in any way - with the media, the money, the smearing - with all of that against him, he did incredibly well!
9
6
36
@MichaelMDowling
If you learn Irish I suspect you'll be a great deal better at picking up a third, and a fourth - and it's about much more than ordering a pint in Spiddal! It puts you in touch with a great deal more than that, culturally.
4
1
35
@spectator
@DouglasKMurray
This really is tripe - ""I am not a Nazi. I'm not even pro-German. I am an Irishman fighting for the independence of Ireland" - but hey... in Spectator Towers... jeeeez.
1
0
39