#Ireland says no

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

[irishthings]

Never dumb down or Anglicise your name

Every time you do that YOU'RE LETTING THE BRITS WIN

[rubysevens]

anyway in the past week the irish government has voted down two motions which would have condemned the genocide in gaza.

i need everyone to stop lionising ireland as if its not also a european government with strong ties to the us. american weapons pass through shannon airport and will continue to, because yesterday the motion to stop that was voted down 83 to 50.

other governments have done much more but somehow people still act as though ireland is the ultimate palestinian ally and exempt from criticism on its handling of palestine bc it was once colonised, even though that past experience clearly isnt being taken into account by the irish government when creating policy.

i live here i know there’s a lot of public support and sympathy for palestine, which is great, but that isnt reflected in government, and i think ireland should be treated like other countries whose governments have done nothing.

[thedaughterofkings]

It's not the first time Eurovision has needed an exorcism, but I think it is the first time it has gotten one live on stage

[doubledaybooks]

“According to one scholar, the “ideal victim” in the Troubles was someone who was not a combatant, but a passive civilian. To many, Jean McConville was the perfect victim: a widow, a mother of ten. To others, she was not a victim at all, but a combatant by proxy, who courted her own fate. Of course, even if one were to concede, for the sake of argument, that McConville was an informer, there is no moral universe in which her murder and disappearance should be justified. Must it be the case that how one perceives a tragedy will forever depend on where one sits? The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village.” When it came to the Troubles, a phenomenon known as “whataboutery” took hold. Utter the name Jean McConville and someone would say, What about Bloody Sunday? To which you could say, What about Bloody Friday? To which they could say, What about Pat Finucane? What about the La Mon bombing? What about the Ballymurphy massacre? What about Enniskillen? What about McGurk’s bar? What about. What about. What about.” -Patrick Radden Keefe, SAY NOTHING

[opalsiren]

had a dream i joined a cult (???) bc they were screening a 'lost' h2o episode (????) featuring an equivalent of charlotte's story for the 1950s mermaids, wherein louise, julia, and gracie had an outsider try to infiltrate their mermaid group leading them to eventually take their tail from her. you know, like a normal person

[jewish-microwave-laser]

just got out of wicked. had an incredibly hard time enjoying myself bc every time they were like "oh no they're doing x to the animals" my brain was like "yeah something very similar happened to a jew not too long ago"

[agir1ukn0w]

so I saw nosferatu last night and...

[llyfrenfys]

See, I personally find this quest to find pagan/pre-Christian elements in Welsh/Irish literature quite unnerving - I don't know about anyone else.

There's something to be said about genuinely discovering pre-Christian elements in a narrative or story and that being where evidence and study has led you. But I see some people on this fruitless quest to find pagan elements in very Christian texts and sometimes it feels like if no pagan elements can be found, people start making stuff up out of whole cloth - and that can be very dangerous for already not-well known texts in minoritised languages!

There's already so much misinformation out there about Irish/Welsh texts and literature in general - so it hurts to see people carelessly adding to the misinformation either out of ignorance or lack of respect for the source material.

I promise you the source material being Christian doesn't ruin it - you can in fact, enjoy these myths without making them into something they're not!

[sportsthoughts]

Sid on his summer, doc and ek (who "always looks good" 😏) and his hopes for the season - off day 7/10/24

[gadawg-404]

St. Patrick’s Day Is Loading

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

[awetistic-things]

the amount of people saying “why is ireland the only european country who‘s supporting palestine??” is gonna make me pass out

[katatonicimpression]

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Avengers United Infinity Comic #51

[c00kietin]

man it's fun learning new stuff about America. Like what do you MEAN burger and hotdog folding paper is a thing AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE FOOD CHAINS

[doubledaybooks]

“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator.” -Patrick Radden Keefe, SAY NOTHING