#Irish Heritage

[norman-couple]

Female IRA fighter during the height of the troubles.

[just-ray]

Just saw an Irish user, went to follow him, got distracted by the fact he was gay because I love when my fellow irish are gay, left his profile satisfied with the Irish rep, scrolled, realised I didn't follow somone because they are gay (even if it was a butterfly effect), felt homophobic, got sad, wrote a post about it.

[tmarshconnors]

50 Irish Proverbs.

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything."

"May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door."

"A friend's eye is a good mirror."

"May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live."

"The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune."

"It's easy to halve the potato where there's love."

"A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea."

"When the cat is away, the mice will play."

"God made time, but man made haste."

"A light heart lives long."

"A change of work is as good as a rest."

"Wisdom is the comb given to a man after he has lost his hair."

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

"You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind."

"Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom."

"Time is a great storyteller."

"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

"Put silk on a goat, and it’s still a goat."

"If you want an audience, start a fight."

"Experience is the comb that life gives a bald man."

"A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns."

"Beauty doesn’t boil the kettle."

"A man who holds good cards would never say if they were dealt wrong."

"It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking."

"A silent mouth is sweet to hear."

"If you lie down with dogs, you’ll rise with fleas."

"Many a ship is lost within sight of the harbour."

"The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot."

"Two people shorten the road."

"The longest road out is the shortest road home."

"Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your way."

"It is often that a person’s mouth broke his nose."

"There is no luck except where there is discipline."

"Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat."

"The well-fed does not understand the lean."

"Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within."

"The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely."

"If you do not sow in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn."

"Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties."

"Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth."

"A little bit of bread with peace is better than a feast with strife."

"A lie has no legs."

"It is not a secret if it is known by three people."

"Beware of the anger of a patient man."

"Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden."

"There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down."

"Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home."

"A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught."

"You must take the little potato with the big potato."

"The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey."

[neuroticboyfriend]

to anyone with ancestors who survived An Gorta Mór (The Great Famine, who also has a binging/restricting eating disorder... i can guarantee you, there has got to be at least one person in your lineage who would be happy to see you eat well. your ancestors who starved, who had to see their loved ones get sick or die... they would be happy to see you healthy, and deeply saddened to see you in this pain - yes, even if you're fat. especially if you're fat.

if you don't have it in you to eat for your own wellbeing... i hope that maybe, it might help to think of them. to do it for them, the people who survived such great pain, such great hunger, and would never want you to feel that pain too. you are not alone. the love they had for their descendants lives on in you. you are made of the survival of the irish... in spite of colonialism and mass death, no matter how disconnected from your family's culture you may be.

you are loved.

[its-jackiemcsoup]

First dump from Ireland: Galway🥹

[fallensapphires]

Holidays: St. Patrick's Day

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

[vaspider]

I cannot express how deeply or on how many levels this song cuts me.

[timaeuslover001]

Bertha Russell Headcanon (AU)

Bertha worked really hard over the years to get rid of Irish accent. Not that she’s asked, far from it, but to better fit in with the new world she is apart of.

Betha accent comes out when she’s mad or really emotional about something.

She can’t help it much it slips out, but she rarely ever loses her temper out in public lick and ver to a point where entire knows.

She isn’t ashamed of her Irish heritage, she just don't want the "old money" crowd to find out about it. But George loves it, loves hearing her REAL accent and reminds him of that women he fell in love with.

[theroadtoyou]

[theludicwitch]

I'm doing a lunar ritual tonight and then on Samhain my family (who doesn't practice) and I are going to make a big dinner of beef stew, molasses bread, mulled apple cider, and soul cakes.

My family is very celtic and to start traditions like this means the world to me. We already do some Irish things that we've done since my great grandma came from Ireland (like my mom's shepards pie recipe handed down from my grandma or black eyed peas eaten on new years)

After the food festivities I plan on doing tarot with my sister or working on developing my claircognizance.

With all that being said I hope some of these things inspires you to pre-plan for Samhain too! Merry Samhain and Happy Halloween!

[aleck-le-mec]

La Tène style design by Aleck Fagan

[just-ray]

is it really the Republic of Ireland? I must know

OMG IVE BEEN REFERENCED???. I AM PERCIEVED??? THATS UNREAL.

And basically yeah, Ireland is weird because geographically, the land mass/physical island is just called Ireland, but politically were comprised or NI (or Northern Ireland) which is still owned by the UK, and the ROI (or Republic Of Ireland) which is owned by what most people would consider "Ireland" the country. Most people who reference Ireland are taking about the ROI.

When people talk about Irish reunification, they're referring to the possibility of the whole island of ireland one day being owned by the ROI, including NI.

@is-maith-liom-tae would you say this is a decent explanation?

[bruffdec]

Bright crisp autumn morning in rural Ireland

[alighted-willow]

Whilst I avoid both going to bed and my academics, I thought it a good time to say that when an American says they're “restoring a language” or “of X ethnicity”, they don’t mean they're from X. They know their nationality, they know where they were born, that's not the point.

When someone says they're Irish and are from America, it's just shorthand for “Irish American”. We put everything in a shortened form here because we all know what we mean and collectively remove redundancy.

When we say we're learning Z language because we're X, we don't mean it in terms of exoticism. The only people who do that are ignorant kids and folks who are going through a cultural/identity crisis. The rest of us are trying to learn these languages because our predecessors lost them or had them trained out. It is a dead language to us because these parts of us have been killed off, that's why it's a revival.

While I do research, I often hear people say something around the lines that “You are where you're from, not where your predecessors are from” which is true, to a certain extent. I am an American, a U.S. citizen. If U.S. culture was a bit more similar to how most other places in the world did it, I would say that I was from X state, an Xian. Here, though, we are more defined by our subcultures; little pockets of pooling culture brought in from where we originally hale.

This probably wouldn’t be the case if most of us had come here out of a desire to be here rather than having been forced out of our homelands. My family came here around 1930 and our records say it was because of food insecurity caused by a failed crop (and a surprise frost). The folks who settled the U.S.? Genocidal assholes, fuck 'em.

But back to the point. When someone says they're trying to get in touch with their culture— we're not trying to be you. We're trying to get back what was forced out of the people before us in order to survive over here. Our families came here with what they had and our culture has changed throughout the years. St. Patrick's day is odd (especially since Patrick was colonizing Ireland) and is over the top; that is the point. Not a single one of us thinks that to be Irish is to be bathed in clovers, downing alcohol, and belting about rainbows. It's a noxious, loud, proud declaration that we're still here. It is, at least by its origins, a public protest.

[panoramicireland]

Cahir Castle, County Tipperary

Ireland's National Heritage Week runs from 12-20 August 2023 and sees events in every county.

This year's theme is "exploring the traditions and practices, knowledge, and skills passed down through generations."

There's a lot on, I've picked out some that are interesting here: https://panoramicireland.com/blog-ireland-guide/some-favourite-events-national-heritage-week-ireland-2023-including-walled-towns-day-water-day

[witchy-batsquatch]

I require some help. I have been trying to connect more to my heritage my mom is second gen american and her family came from Finland, my dads great grandparents on his dads side are from Germany, and on his moms side his great grandparents are from Scotland and Ireland. I know more about Finnish food but I’m not familiar with the folklore and folk practices of these countries.I really want to be closer to my relatives alive and dead by learning more.