“It will be attempted to inculcate in the pupils the desire to spend their lives working hard and zealously for their fatherland and, if it should ever be necessary, to die for it.” -Pádraig Pearse

If Ireland wanted at any time post independence the Irish state could have very easily replicated Pearse's Scoil Éanna for most Irish schools.

Every child in Ireland given a Gaelicised Spartan education.

Instead they choose a 2nd rate version of the English system.

The Empress of Japan and many of Japanese royal family speak Irish, play the harp and can recite Irish poetry off by heart,

Surprising amount of Hibernophillia within Japanese intellectual circles as well seeing Gaelic Ireland as mirror of Japan.

https://archive.is/th8ki

How strange but amusing
https://youtu.be/pMn8k5ZVj_w

This day 36 years ago – 27 October 1982 – Irish soldier Michael McAleavey shot dead three of his colleagues in South Lebanon.

McAleavey's corporal had taken him to task for using anti-Semitic slurs against Israeli soldiers. McAleavey then shot him, along with two other soldiers.

Each Samhain, ancestral spirits are said to emerge from caves surrounding the Royal Capitals of ancient Ireland - Oweynagat, Rathcroghan

In Ireland, Samhain was once a time of paying yearly rent, of selling crops & fattened animals, reaping the reward of summer's hard work.

Traditionally, Halloween was thought the best time to become pregnant, while the ring hidden inside Barmbrack indicated an early marriage.

Halloween festivities using apples likely derive from ancient Roman rituals to the goddess Pomona, who's holiday took place around 1 Nov.