Irish contemporary artist, doctor of science & history, statistician | #Art | Drawing & Painting | He/Him | Buy here: robbohan.etsy.com
Dublin, Ireland
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🧵 When I draw I am influenced by Irish culture & landscape. This is my photo of Kerry where, ancient Bohan’s lived for a thousand years.
You can’t escape your past, as you can see in my art as you scroll down this thread & see my one-off ink on paper drawings [1]
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We all need a little mystery in our lives! nitter.app/GoodNewsCorres1/status…
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By the time Sinéad O’Connor sang this (1992) some 70,000 children had been sexually abused by Catholic priests & brothers in Ireland. The state, media, bishops, cardinals & pope had covered it up. She was scorned.
Wasn't That Special?
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This is incredible nitter.app/visualfeastwang/status…
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Trans kids have occupied the NHS building in London for three days now. The UK has no trans healthcare & over 16 young ppl have taken their own lives waiting on help. Trans kids deserve better nitter.app/leemurrey/status/18078…
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Thread: Halloween, as the world knows it, is an Irish invention from ancient Hiberno-Celtic roots. It’s correct name is Samhain & marks the end of the Harvest. It was culturally appropriated by the Christian Church as All Hallows’ Eve
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This is a disturbing report from Channel 4 News UK. The language used by Settlers takes us back to the Nazi policy of dehumanisation. The world is watching the destruction of a people. The EU must act now by severing trade ties for humanitarian reasons
Channel 4 News
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As a historian, & friend of Britain, I need to advise British commentators to desist from commenting on Ireland’s recognition of Palestine.
The crimes of the British Empire were some of the worst in history. Those in India, for instance, are unimaginable in their depravity.
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It would be a year before homosexuality was decriminalised in the Irish theocracy, 4 years before divorce was legalised & 20 years before abortion was legalised. It would be 6y before the last monstrous Mother & Baby Home was closed.
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Sinéad O’Connor & the Chieftains (1995) The Foggy Dew nitter.app/ForLouth/status/168427…
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Dear Torygraph Readers: This is COMPLETELY untrue. Burke was arrested for breaching an order by the Irish courts to stay away from a school, three times. This is an extreme example of a standard child safeguarding issue. In my day we protected kids. Don’t fall for codswallop!
📸 Watch: Christian teacher who refused to use trans pupil’s preferred pronouns jailed for third time
Community note
Enoch Burke's employment at Wilson's Hospital School was terminated after a public verbal altercation with the school's principal.
He has been arrested for repeated refusal to obey court orders to stay away from the school, in spite of the lawful termination of his employment.
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I’ve been asked by some ppl to explain what ‘women with DSD’ means, given the attacks these natal women are getting from Gender Critical extremists on this platform. DSD is a medical condition & not an excuse for hate comments. Ppl with DSD are in the news, due to the Olympics.
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Thread: It’s bizarre to hear the far right talking about the need to protect Irish culture (it’s almost as if they fail to notice it has already survived over 700y of colonialism, war, ethnic cleansing & famine).
Let’s talk about Irish culture
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Janey Godley (1961-2024) A woman who not only made us laugh but stood up for LGBTQ, especially trans, people. Ar dheis Dé
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I saw this mentioned by a mutual & it takes a lot to shock me, over hatred towards the LGBTQ community. I assumed, as this was so extreme, it was in the US. In fact it was in BELFAST!
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A Ukrainian sailor was arrested for partially sinking his Russian boss' luxury yacht in Port Adriano, Spain. The owner of the boat is a tycoon responsible for manufacturing weapons for Putin's troops. The judge released him on charges. #Ukraine
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You need a South American rescued baby Marmoset in your timeline nitter.app/NerissaaEmy/status/130…
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With the closure of Bewleys on Grafton St it’s vital that the Harry Clarke Windows are confiscated by the state before they are damaged or sold abroad. Given government monies handed over, over the decades, its mad they don’t belong to the National Gallery as part of our heritage
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Thread: Halloween, as the world knows it, is an Irish invention from ancient Irish-Celtic roots. It’s correct name is Samhain & marks the end of the Harvest. It was culturally appropriated by the Christian Church as All Hallows’ Eve. Here’s an overview. #Samhain
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Elected Irish TD [MP] & sound man Gary Gannon is confronted by an aggressive irrational far right agitator. Gannon quickly puts him in his place -‘gobshite’
.@GaryGannonTD nitter.app/MickGaskin10/status/17…
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Yes. That shocked silence of the NYC audience & the vitriol of the Irish & US media afterwards still stay with me. Two thousand years ago she would have been thought a prophet
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Fun fact: Ireland makes all the Prozac & Viagra for Europe, the Middle East & Africa.
Any ban on Irish imports, by the Netanyahu regime, would lead to a sad flop!
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Individuals with XY & XX chromosomes etc can be female. That’s a scientific fact. A woman can be genetically male & still have female anatomy & give birth.
Human sexuality is not a binary. In fact, up to 2013, at least 15 women with XY chromosomes have given birth.
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A force for good. A woman who devoted herself to some of the most vulnerable people as she fought her own battle with cancer. A hero.
Janey Godley's daughter says the comedian has been brought "so much joy in the final beats of her life" after being awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow. The 63-year-old is receiving end of life care in a hospice after her cancer spread.
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The science is clear, the U.K.’s Cass Review is a complete nonsense.
It has been debunked by 4 expert groups in peer reviewed papers & here you see, one of the world’s most respected journals, Scientific American, making clear it’s harmful! scientificamerican.com/artic…
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My president-elect Catherine Connolly. She’s got a landslide, knocking the right into the shadows & showing up the petulance & ignorance of far right clowns & Ultra-Catholic theocrat’s ‘spoil the vote’ campaign. Ireland remains one of the few liberal democracies to reject fascism
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Happy Pride from Paris | It’s quite amusing how the far right are losing their mind over the Arc de Triomphe being used for [checks notes] ‘symbolism’
France Résistance
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So much for the land of the free.
At least one brave woman stood for the American republic, Rep Zooey Zephyr .@ZoAndBehold
Montana really needs to issue free textbooks on the Holocaust to every home.
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We’re bringing my father home for the last time.
A cabinetmaker, an honest man, a Connemara Irish speaker, a Leitrim man. A perfectionist, he loved the grain & aroma of timber.
His works surround us; he hung every single door in Liberty Hall (1965)
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Weekend plans... nitter.app/bellalilli16/status/13…
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Traditions associated with Samhain go back over 2,000 years in Ireland. These include the building of bonfires & the carving of turnips (pumpkins were not grown in Ireland). Turnips are scarier & tougher to carve!
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This is the sort of policing that Garda HQ should be allowing more Gardaí to do. For too long these far right thugs & street gangs have been allowed rule the roost.
Dubs life
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Sinéad O’Connor (1997) He Moved Through the Fair
Her voice was one of the finest in the past century.
RareIrishStuff
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Oh look! It’s an Irish state body using cheap & nasty AI rather than a real artist. And the great thing is they won’t have to pay copyright fees to the artists the AI stole from.
TFI, delete, apologise & stop shafting Irish artists.
TFI Leap are giving you the chance to win a 'trip or treat' this Halloween with a free 50EUR Leap Card!
To enter:
- Guess the ghouls who are travelling with Transport for Ireland
- Tag a friend that you would travel with
- Follow our page
Happy Halloween from all at TFI! 👻
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Why is it that the general public would never allow a 1000y old church be knocked down for a motorway, but happily ignore a 10,000y old ancient woodland’s destruction? We can rebuild a church but woodland biological diversity takes 10,000y to achieve.
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Nothing to see here, just a Wolf cantering thru the city of Lohne (south west of Bremen in the Western part of Germany) yesterday
Nadine Henke 🇺🇦
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This lad will go far in life! nitter.app/HumansNoContext/status…
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Here’s the IOC policy. It is truly despicable that extremists are attacking these athletes, but have nothing to say about the male paedophile athlete, taking part, who raped a 12y girl, when he was 19. olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-re…
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Powerscourt Waterfall, Wicklow, after the heavy rain. The Irish oaks, at the base of the falls, are over 500y old.
Powerscourt Estate
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Thread: Halloween, as the world knows it, is an Irish invention from ancient Irish-Celtic roots. It’s correct name is Samhain & marks the end of the Harvest. It was culturally appropriated by the Christian Church as All Hallows’ Eve. Here’s an overview. #Samhain
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Newgrange, Ireland is older than the Pyramids & Stonehenge. Every Winter solstice the sun shines all the way along the passage in the mound to the Central Chamber signifying the start of a new year and end of the old for over 5,000 years
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Louis Armstrong (1901-79) died on this day. Here’s his 1967 What a Wonderful World nitter.app/DailyClassySong/status…
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Imane Khelif is suing those who defamed her by calling her a man or trans. Both of these terms do not apply to her & as a result are defamatory. Those who relentlessly bullied her have no defence*
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As a result there are several women with DSD competing in female categories. They are not men. Gender critical extremists have caused pain to them & their nations because of their ignorant preconceptions of ‘what a woman is’.
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I am so furious right now.
The Catholic Church, in Ireland, has been caught covering up nearly 2,500 child abuse incidents & NOTHING will happen.
No Bishop, Arch Bishop, Cardinal or Royal Priesthood member will be charged for cover-up, conspiracy or collusion.
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I see a nasty form of pseudoscience just revved up a gear. Following on from the Olympics’ boxers brouhaha, the charmingly called, yet important, court case of Tickle v Giggle in Oz & the usual anti-LGBTQ crybullying, we are now entering a new phase in ‘race science’.
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At least two competitors in the Olympics have DSD. They & the IOC have followed the official rules & have been included in female categories. They are not men, they are living with DSD. It is both ignorant & cruel to attack them for who they are.
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On Friday night , extremists tried to burn two Trans women & a Gay man to death in their flat in E London. It took 20 fire ppl to stop the blaze & rescue the victims. The stairs had been destroyed. They lost everything. It’s the most recent hate crime against LGBT+ ppl.
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Thread: One of Ireland’s visual artists of international importance was Harry Clarke. He incorporated Symbolism, Art Nouveau & Celtic art to create a unique & transcendent body of stained glass. Here are some images from his work
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Gary got elected, the far right buffoon lost his deposit. #GE24
Elected Irish TD [MP] & sound man Gary Gannon is confronted by an aggressive irrational far right agitator. Gannon quickly puts him in his place -‘gobshite’
.@GaryGannonTD nitter.app/MickGaskin10/status/17…
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The numbers are in for London #TransPride yesterday. In the face of govt persecution & media hate campaigns a world record of ~30,000 took part. As it doesn’t fit the media narrative it’s not being reported despite its unprecedented importance.
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Thread: Today/Tomorrow is the Feast of Bealtaine. It is one of the four major Celtic ancient feasts, the others are Samhain, Imbolc & Lughnasadh. It’s also considered the first day of Summer in Gaelic Ireland & Scotland. Let’s examine this 2500y old tradition! #MayDay
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Humans position as the world’s apex predator is no longer secure
NO CONTEXT HUMANS
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To my Ukrainian followers, if you can, try to get to an EU state by land & contact the Irish embassy. We are accepting Ukrainians as refugees without visas. Link to the relevant embassies below:
Ireland to waive visa requirements for all Ukrainians as minister says country is 'certainly not neutral' on Russian Invasion jrnl.ie/5691785
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Wear a mask but watch out for babies (sound on!) nitter.app/HumansNoContext/status…
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Woman with Red Hair (14x19")
Visit robertbohan.com or instagram.com/thedoctorbob
#artwork #oilpainting
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Despite what non-scientific ppl claim, humans exhibit a continuum of human sexuality, anatomical form & genetic makeup. DSD is rare but due to genetics & other testing is being revealed in elite athletes. It challenges the pseudoscientific idea of sexuality being a binary.
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Just to add - Ireland has had an over thousand year relationship with the Mid East. In the Middle Ages an O’Brien king from Limerick was in trading contact with a Ruler of Iran. They exchanged gifts - the Shah got two Irish wolfhounds & a poor rain sodden Camel came to Clare!
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Here is the behaviour of the absurd & offensive far right Gemma O’Doherty & her hurling of offensive abuse at the Gardaí. At the end she is arrested for public disorder. Please do not prejudice her right to a fair trial.
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Cass Review now rejected in Australia & New Zealand/Aotearoa
Notable that few UK scientists or medical researchers have commented on it, it’s flawed methodology, massaging of evidence or doubtful ethics. Why?
A great response from PATHA. More global experts calling out the flawed Cass Review.
"This review ignores the consensus of major medical bodies around the world and lacks relevance in an Aotearoa context"
patha.nz/News/13341582
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There’s a massive gaslighting exercise going on in the UK media to rescue the “Cass Review” after it was dismissed as biased & unethical by experts internationally. It is an extremely odd report & would, as an undergrad essay, be failed on the bibliography alone.
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As the person who collated every #HomeToVote & #VoterMotor #MotorVoter tweet for the marriage referendum 3y ago I can now confirm that the #RepealThe8th #Together4Yes response is at least 100 (yes 100) times BIGGER!
Ireland you’re beautiful! #VoteYes
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Kulture Watch
When it comes to human rights, those who benefited, & continue to benefit, from slavery, avarice & untold human suffering, should be listening to Ireland rather than reverting to ignorant Jingoism.
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Catherine Connolly, lead candidate in the Irish presidential election, talks about why the establishment fears women. It’s hard to imagine the other two candidates having this level of awareness or thoughtfulness.
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🧵 Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly is a lawyer, a clinical psychologist, former Mayor of Galway & a TD, former Leas-Cheann Comhairle & speaks Gaeilge & Deutsch*.
She is leading in the polls & the representative of the New Ireland. [1]
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I love this. Dads are often in the background making sure things work out.
Profile that make your day🤗
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Samhain was seen as the time when the concrete & the spirit worlds interacted & was a portal to the Otherworld. All sorts of spirits, particularly malevolent ones, walked amongst the living!
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I’m delighted to announce that I have agreed to donate a group of my original ink on paper drawings to .@Mermaids_Gender in support of the superb work they do for Trans & non-binary youth. I believe that actions speak louder than words.
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This lad is known by Irish anti-Fascists as Litler. He’s upset because his deputy set up a diff extremist party & took €400,000 in gold bullion from the party’s safe. It’s quite the amusing rant. nitter.app/garm1916/status/178211…
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Jim Morrison (1943-71) died on this day nitter.app/sepertikemaren3/status…
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1.2 million people have now seen a Limerick woman handing a far right criminal history arse on a plate.
The far right GreenShirts we’re trying to have a rally against LGBTQ people.
I ❤️ Limerick (& always have)
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Robert Bohan Art | Self-portrait
Visit robertbohan.com for more art & photos
#artwork #kunst #oilpainting
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So I missed the clip of Sky News telling an Irish person they should learn their history. Less than 20% of English kids pass an advanced history exam. Over 50% of Irish do. Sky platforms those who do not want kids learning Britain’s actual Colonial history. The irony!
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Been reading in UK press that food rationing & empty aisles are due to poor harvests in EU, costs of electricity & ‘all of Europe is the same’. Here’s my Dublin local family supermarket. We don’t have Brexit, red tape or the Torys. [Irish chains have acres of fruit & veg]
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You need an otter from Connemara in the West of Ireland in your timeline today!
CMA SUMMER CAMPS🇪🇺
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Already thousands gathering for #TransPride in London. Despite the hate of the British media the persecution of the British govt & the far right, the overwhelming majority of LGBTQIA+ people in Britain & Ireland stand with our Trans brothers & sisters!
Socialist Workers Party
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Thread: Harry Clarke (1889-1931) was one of Ireland’s greatest artists. His medium was stained glass & he created astonishing masterpieces which integrated Celtic art with Art Nouveau. Some 130 windows survive.
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Amazing homage to Sinéad O’Connor from the wonderful Annie Lennox. Her call for ceasefire at the end would have been exactly what Sinéad would have wanted. nitter.app/RealBrittain/status/17…
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Leo Varadkar’s legacy will be, despite being gay, he did as much for the LGBTQ community as Margaret Thatcher [his political hero] did for women. He oversaw & failed to seriously address the rise of the far right, homelessness & Covid. One of the least gifted orators in the Dáil.
Leo Varadkar to step down as Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader independent.ie/irish-news/po…
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Human sexuality is complex. Differences in Sex Development [DSD] are one such example. DSDs means a person’s sex development is different to others. In some cases it is termed Intersex - an area where human rights is particularly behind where it should be in many countries.
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So Parkrun is an inclusive, non-competitive run in the park. An extreme right Tufton St lobby group publishes a ‘report’ & the media & extremists decide there’s ‘a divisive debate’. Yet everyone actually running doesn’t care.
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If you are visiting Paris it’s worth checking out Sainte-Chapelle. Built in just 6y from 1242 it has a jewel like Interior & is less touristy than it’s neighbour Notre Dame. The relicts saved from the Cathedral last night were originally housed in this astonishing building.
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Always be yourself! nitter.app/WWarped/status/1236194…
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Thread: Ancient Woodland is a scientific definition meaning a site which has always been wooded since 1600AD. There are less than 100 in Ireland. This National Tree Week here’s an account of these woods & threats to their survival.
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