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@IrishKnowledge
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595subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001109074384 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @IrishKnowledge |
| Created | 3 September 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 14 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/IrishKnowledge |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026, 00:26 | 595 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:48 | 597 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:11 | 597 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 01:57 | 596 | first reading |
15 posts held, back to 27 June 2021 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 15 posts for this entry, the most recent from 13 December 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
An eviction scene in County Clare, 30 July 1888 An eviction party at the house of John Flanagan in Tullycrine, led by Sheriff Turner and DI Hill. The doors, the windows and the furniture had been removed in advance of the Sheriff’s arrival. One of the girls told the group, ‘Battles were won abroad by smaller forces than Balfour sends here to turn out old men and children.’ As well as soldiers from the Royal Berkshir…
Medieval Irish sympathy for Caesar: "Marbsat Romain in rig rain ina nglordail cen glanbaig; tucsat i n-échtaib a alt, tria cheithre créchtaib tríchat." The Romans killed that splendid king in their glorious assembly without a clean contest... by means of thirty-four wounds. Source: P. Mac Gabhann, 'Flann Mainistrech’s Flaithius Rómán ríge glonn ‘The sovereignty of the Romans was a kingship of feats of prowess’. ' …
Early 20th century Halloween.
Akin to the Nazgul, Irish deathbringer fairy (fae) Dullahan is associated with Halloween: “We ride the horses of Donn. Although we are alive, we are dead”
Oct 31: #Celtic holiday of Samhain, or "summer's end", is celebrated; a night where the dead are unleashed from the Otherworld to roam ours.
Though Samhain, the precursor to Halloween, is considered to be a Celtic festival, the Mound of Hostages at Tara, which aligns with the rising sun at Samhain, is thought to be 5,000 years old, far predating Celtic inhabitation, and hints at more primordial roots.
A two-hour docu-drama on the murders and the trial can be seen on the TG4 Player: https://bit.ly/3AJMruq
'Most vulnerable in this bilingual world was the Irish monoglot, a category that the sceptical state often refused to believe even existed: denying any knowledge of English was seen by many officials as a strategy to subvert the judicial process.' https://archive.is/FQxzQ
The murders themselves were horrific, and the true culprits were never found. On having the verdict translated, Seoighe pleaded "Níl mé ciontach", meaning "I am not guilty". James Joyce called him a "bewildered old man, left over from a culture which is not ours, a deaf-mute before his judge ... a symbol of the Irish nation at the bar of public opinion." "Táim ag imeacht." - the last words of Seoighe before his ex…
Seoighe was confused and upset that he was to be hanged, but only spoke Irish. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Spencer bribed three eyewitnesses, and the Crown Prosecutor withheld key evidence. The media characterised the suspects as savages, with The Spectator paper describing: "a class of peasants who are scarcely civilised beings, and approach far nearer to savages than any other white men ... and in the disc…
17th August 1882, five members of the Joyce family were murdered in Mám Trasna, Co. Mayo. The ensuing prosecution of Maolra Seoighe, an innocent man, is infamous in legal history. Seoighe was executed for the murders as he could not defend himself in an English-speaking court.
A ‘poc’ is an Irish he-goat, & at Puck Fair in Co. Kerry, in early August, a goat is crowned king by a young queen, & then worshipped over 3 days of festivities. Perhaps linked to Lughnasa, it is hoped the goat as a symbol of fertility will bring a good harvest.
Showing the 12 most recent of 15 posts we hold for @IrishKnowledge. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 922,136 of 1,189,255entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 14 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“📖 Ancient Restoration” (@IrishKnowledge), 595 subscribers as measured 14 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/IrishKnowledge.
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