#Irish Nationalist

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1916 – Death of Thomas Michael “Tom” Kettle on the 71st day of the Battle of the Somme.

Tom Kettle was a journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier, economist and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in an Irish regiment where in 1916 he met his death on the Western…

[werewolfetone]

[specialagentartemis]

pro tip though: asking tour interpreters at a historical museum about ghosts is, 9 times out of 10, a fantastic way to get them to dislike you

[trannakinskywalker]

Any other trans mascs who are white / mixed w white end up having their body hair change colour?? What the hell is this why am I turning ginger suddenly

[drumlincountry]

The untranslatable emotion of seeing people unironically share Yeats's poetry, as an irish person,

[mycological-mariner]

Had a Mean Girls moment yesterday. This one 50-something Glaswegian bloke was sitting across from me and asked if I was Mexican when this other 50s-something Glaswegian fella says “You can’t just ask if people are Mexican!”

[moderndayamymarch]

I feel like people get the harry potter character’s social standings wrong/off

snape- below the poverty line poor. it’s canon that he grew up in the worst neighborhood in a poor industrial town. so much of his character stems from him growing up as a poor kid with an abusive father

lily- also not rich!! she’s from the same industrial town and lived close enough to snape that they were playing on the same old rusted playground. her family was better off than snape’s but not by much. I would imagine like lower middle class/working class. her dad was probably a factory worker and her mom was a secretary or teacher

petunia- same as lily (obv) and that’s why she’s such a middle class social striver. she’s so proud of the fact that she has a nice house in a nice suburb with her husband’s nice company car parked in front. she sends her kid to a nice private school (but not like eton bc she’s not that wealthy). she works her way up to like upper middle class. but that insecurity of growing up lower class is still there!!

james- he grew up rich and his family is socially influential/connected (it’s implied they’re like aristocrat adjacent bc they’re descended from the perevell’s and related to the gaunts)! but a trust fund kid!

sirius- rich, wizard aristocrat

lupin- I would imagine he grew up middle class(ish). he obv doesn’t have a trust fund or family money but his father was influential enough to be quoted about werewolf legislation. so he was probably like a mid level ministry employee? I’d argue he grew up with a level of money similar to the weasley’s

peter- honestly idk. probably just middle class. definitely not wealthy or aristocratic.

what’s wild is that tom riddle’s the only character who has both british and wizard aristocracy roots. his father’s family was obviously gentry/possibly titled (or at least an ancestor had a title). his mother’s family were direct descendants of slytherin.

[notasapleasure]

Second time in a day I'm getting fucked up views on Irishness on my dash???

If you're tempted to believe the assertion that the discrimination against the Irish can be equated with the discrimination faced by Black people in the wake of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, I recommend this article:

Here's the abstract if you don't like clicking:

Much Victorian Irish studies has followed the Americanist Noel Ignatiev's famous claim that the Irish “became white” upon migration to the United States, whereas they had not been in the context of the United Kingdom. This article argues, in contrast, that an emphasis on the undeniable racialization of Irish poverty and politics can distract us from an important truth: nineteenth-century Irish people, in Britain and Ireland as well as in the United States, were broadly understood as white, and “Celticness” was not in any serious or widespread way treated as equivalent to Blackness, although that did not stop some nineteenth-century Irish advocates from drawing that misleading analogy. Drawing upon cultural and anthropological work of the mid-nineteenth century, from Robert Knox, Thomas Carlyle, and John Mitchel to Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and the caricaturists of Punch to Frederick Douglass, this article proposes that the implication that nineteenth-century Irishness was cognate to Blackness—or the Irish experience a version of the Black experience—represents the epistemological and ethical error that Frank B. Wilderson III has called “the ruse of analogy” that we must interrogate more critically lest we, in Wilderson's formulation, enact a “mystification, and often erasure, of Blackness's grammar of suffering.”

A quote from within the article that gives a succinct idea of things too:

None of this should obscure the fundamental point, which is that nineteenth-century caricaturists, in both prose and image, turned to racist stereotypes of Black and other nonwhite people in order to mock whites who—for whatever reason—came under critique. After all, the deprecatory rhetorical alignment of the Irish with nonwhite people was frequently rather scattershot: the Irish-born (but London-based) royal physician James Johnson, giving an account of his early 1840s “tour in Ireland,” describes Killarney guides as “an amusing race” who “swarm about the hotels like the Hindoos and Mahomedans on the beach at Madras,” Cashel as “a city of wig-wams inhabited by Titanians,” and the “Hibernian” as “like a Mahomedan Cadi.” He declares that “the murders of this county [Tipperary] would disgrace the most gloomy wilds of the most savage tribes that ever roamed in Asia, Africa, or America.” For all of Johnson's racialized rhetoric, this is not a serious attempt at racial taxonomy but rather the deployment, in the interest of evocative insult, of whatever racist stereotype of nonwhite persons comes to hand. As David Theo Goldberg states more generally, “The charged atypicality of the Irish or Jews in the European context . . . is comprehended and sustained only by identifying each respectively with and in terms of the conjunction of blackness, (European) femininity, and the lumpenproletariat.” That says far more about the largely unquestioned ideologies of anti-Black racism than about prejudice toward, for example, deliberately disparaged subsets of whites.

[matchavanillalatte]

our program is so not equipped to deal with this kind of US American white nationalist violence. Apparently they just dropped this man off at his home stay until the gardai came to escort him from the house. This left him alone with 2 women, and they also didn’t call for any medical attention for the guys who were attacked. One of the admin filed a report but since she wasn’t on site she’s third party and they can’t really do anything. There are no gardai in our town bc it’s so small and they said we might have to wait until Monday for one to come and collect statements. Meanwhile this guy has a rental car, is traveling up and down Connemara (as per his twitter), and last posted about being in a town that is a 10 minute drive away from where all of us are visiting tomorrow. And they told us not to post on social media about the incident lmao and not to look at his twitter or something like…actually I think I will monitor where this fucking nazi who has lots of seething hatred towards our program and individuals in our program is traveling lmao

[stairnaheireann]

'She Is Far From The Land' by Thomas Moore

Robert Emmet’s love affair with Sarah Curran inspired Thomas Moore to write ‘She Is Far From The Land’. ‘She is Far from the Land’ By Thomas Moore She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her, sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying! She sings the wild song of her dear native plains, Every note which he lov’d…

[werewolfetone]

Ah yes the 2 things which distinguished ulster presbyterian politics in the 1700s. arguing and joining paramilitaries

[blood-orange-juice]

*cackles*

(people googling "emigration" after seeing exit polls)

[sweenstar-reblogs]

a big ol s/o to the northern Irish MPs who Weren’t terrible ppl today .

[tiarnanabhfainni]

It’s incredible how everything I learn about Irish, Welsh and Manx history makes me wish the entirety of the parliament would collapse into a sinkhole and flood from the Thames with all those cunts in it and that Buckingham would collapse with that entire lineage of shit inside

yeah basically 👍

[zippityzap]

Oh shit they updated the Duolingo Irish course so that it’s more fully voiced 👀