#Irish Photo Archives

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1964 – Death of novelist Maurice Walsh, author of the original story of The Quiet Man.

Maurice Walsh was born in Ballydonoghue, near Listowel, Co Kerry, and is best known for the short story The Quiet Man which was later made into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. He was one of Ireland’s best-selling authors in the 1930s. John Walsh’s main interests were books and horses and he himself did little about the farm, preferring to…

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[fidjiefidjie]

Bon jour, bonne semaine à tous ☕️ 📰

"The Irish Time" sur O'Connell Street, Dublin 🇮🇪 Irlande 1963

Photo Irish Archives

[amjustanobserver]

What is happening?

Myiy updating after four years

The Science Guild updating after SIX years

We have new photos of our Irish Queen Kashy McGraaa

Alycia Debnam-Carey posted new videos

Like...

What did we do to deserve all of this?

Everyone, keep doing what you are doing right now.

[menonlywrestling]

From the archive.

London 1967.

'Gypsy' Joe O'Connor Jr poses for a photograph with his Irish grandfather, a heavyweight champ in his day and who also wrestled under the name Gypsy Joe.

This photo was taken before Sexy Joe Jr had his first match outside the UK, in Saudi Arabia, along with some other UK and Irish Pro Wrestlers, who faced off against local talent.

Joe was badly beaten by his opponent.

His opponent (below) had multiple opportunities to pin Joe, however he was keen to make an example out of him in front of the home crowd and local dignitaries, so he would pull him up by the hair before the three count, and at one point spat in his face when he had Joe tied up in the ropes, adding to the humiliation.

The ref turned a blind eye to the closed fist punches, hair pulling and eye gouging.

The audience enjoyed seeing the foreigner suffer.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue January 1952

Suzy Parker wears a chalk blue linen dress with pearl poker chip buttons. The tabs at the collar give a bolero effect; the skirt, stiffly lined and turned down on each side, has an apron look. By Harvey Berin in Irish linen. Rosette Pennington.

Suzy Parker porte une robe en lin bleu craie avec boutons en forme de jeton de poker en perles. Les pattes au niveau du col donnent un effet boléro ; la jupe, doublée de manière rigide et rabattue de chaque côté, a un aspect tablier. Par Harvey Berin en lin irlandais. Rosette Pennington.

Photo Clifford Coffin vogue archive

[princess-of-the-glitter-realm]

The Irish Dukes, 1950s

members of the 'Irish Dukes', wearing jackets with the gang's name on the back, sit around a table smoking and playing cards, New York City, New York, circa 1955. The Irish Dukes, based around 139th Street and Willis Avenue in South Bronx, were a gang in the 1950s. (Photo by Graphic House/Archive Photos)

[chthonicophanim]

Intírmatemasc

[PT: Intírmatemasc]

A masculine- or butch-in-nature gender related to intimacy, love, and domesticity in a stereotypically masculine way (such as car maintenance, repairing stuff around the house, building furniture, etc).

This may relate to queering stereotypical gender roles, feeling gender euphoria when fixing, maintaining, or building things with/for your partner(s), sharing affection while fixing/maintaining/building things (such as sharing kisses, holding hands, being hugged, etc), or anything else that the user feels fits.

{Intír from Intíre meaning domestic in Irish, mate from the word intimate, -masc as a suffix denoting the relationship to masculinity}

Posyarnratix

[PT: Posyarnratix]

A gender related to rats, playing with yarn or wool, mischief, being purposefully obtuse or confusing, and riddles, as well as one’s own autism.

This may be related to stimming with yarn or by knitting, enjoying confusing others, the vagueness and language used in riddles, puzzles, the ‘rabiosexual’ movement, the Batman villain The Riddler, punk or grunge aesthetics and values, etc, but not necessarily!

[EXCLUSIVE TO PEOPLE WITH AUTISM, TRANSID AND ANTI-SELF DIAGNOSIS FUCKERS GO AWAY]

Campsonglovic

[PT: Campsonglovic]

A gender related to the intimacy and love (platonic or otherwise) shared in gathering around a campfire with a group and singing together and sharing stories. The love shared between a group of campers, and how that intimacy is shared through song or stories.

May be related to camping in general, warmth, campfires, camp songs, spooky campfire stories, storytelling in general, friendship, platonic love, etc, but not necessarily.

Snakevenwarmic

[PT: Snakevenwarmic]

A gender related to snakes, warmth, warm clothes, and afternoons.

This may also be related to the idea of a snake wearing a scarf or hat for warmth, the fact that snakes are cold blooded and need and outside heat to warm them, heat bulbs that are used in snake vivariums, cozycore, sunsets, etc, but not necessarily.

{ Photo ID help?: @liom-archive @radiomogai @mogaidescribed }

DNI: bigots, radinclus, radexclus, pro-endo, if you’re going to try and argue with me on any of these points, if you demonise mental illness, pro-transid (eg; transabled, transage, transrace, etc), proshippers/anti-anti, MAPS/NOMAPS/necro/zoo DNI (full DNI in pinned)

[gracie-bird]

Photo and letter of Princess Grace with Pierre Joannon, former Consul General of Ireland in France and member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Pierre Joannon Archives.

[talkinfanfic]

Episode 306 - Talkin’ U2, Bono, and Bedge with Tory from the Retro Fanfic Retrospective Podcast!

Sara welcomes the great and wonderful Tory, best known for their reliably insightful analysis of fanfiction on the Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (found wherever you get your podcasts!) Tory shares their lifelong love affair with the legendary band U2, and their knowledge of the band’s history and music. Tory also digs into the amazing feat of how the band’s joyful, sublime chemistry seeps into the very music they produce, sustaining fruitful artistry for nearly fifty years. 

Other topics include: Irish history, and the Christianity of U2, along with comparisons with Oasis. We also talk Bedge and RPF! And we dig into a mini-RFR discussion of likeamadonna’s Bono/Edge fanfiction within a fanfiction, “Fictitious Characters”.

🎧 Find Talkin' Fanfic on your favorite podcast app such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Or stream Episode 306 here!

Show notes below the cut 🧡

Contact and Credits:

Intro Theme: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)

Clip used - Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One 

Outro clip - “Beautiful Day�� by U2, from the album ‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’ - pulled from Youtube licensed via UMG (on behalf of Universal-Island Records Ltd. ℗ An Island Records recording; ℗ 2000 Island Records Limited

Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com 

Instagram: @talkinfanfic

Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com 

Time caps:

00:00 - Introduction

06:03 - Start of episode

16:02 - Tory’s music background

24:25 - U2 in bloom right now!

35:06 - A little Irish history 

45:19 - The Troubles, a climate for the formation of U2

56:03 - U2’s Bigness, America, and ‘What is Bono??’ 

01:02:45 - Bono’s useful celebrity, vs individualism of Oasis. Or, “do-gooders” vs “do-badders”

01:08:22 - Bono the Energizer Bunny, and U2 in Vegas

01:13:07 - The other members of U2 (Larry, The Edge, and Adam)

01:20:35 - Christianity and U2

01:31:45 - Religion, U2 vs. Oasis

01:34:50 - Religious imagery in the Achtung Baby-era, and Bono’s ‘characters’

01:41:42 - U2 fanfiction and RPF fandom

01:51:20 - “Fictitious Characters”, by likeamadonna

02:02:26 - Fitting Ali into the Bono/Edge

02:07:20 - Start of Rapid Fire! (which lasts nearly an hour, lol)

02:12:27 - Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks

Episode References

U2 Fanfiction.com (Tory mentions they used to read fanfiction from this now defunct archive; link via Wayback Machine) 

The Retro Fanfic Retrospective podcast (Podbean, you can also search for it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts)

Link - Band bio, from threechordsandthetruth.net great U2 overview and biography

U2: The Origins Of The Biggest Band Of The Early 2000s a decent youtube documentary on U2

A live performance of ‘Until The End Of The World’ from ‘Achtung Baby’, filmed during the US leg of the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Kiss for the camera at 2m34s <3 

"One" - U2 Music Video (Anton Corbijn Version) feat. Bob Hewson, and U2 in drag! 

Bono interview with NPR Podcasts -  at 14m46 Bono starts speaking about the concept of ‘Surrender’. “Shut up and listen…is kinda where I’m at.”

Noel Gallagher on The Late Late Show | RTÉ One  - “Who puts the batteries in that guy??” 

Youtube Clip - Noel Gallagher, on U2 (for NME) 

 “Electrical Storm” - U2 Music Video directed by Anton Corbijn (starring Larry!)

Photo via Pinterest - Liam and Bono kissing. According to Bono, Liam had a guitar pick in his mouth and dared Bono to try and retrieve it in front of paparazzi. The photo was printed in a 2002 issue of Rolling Stone.  

Reprint of article - “When Oasis Hit the Road with U2” The Daily Telegraph, June 26, 1997

Bono’s ‘characters’ - Here is MacPhisto making a phone call to a taxi to take him home. This was in Syndey, Australia during the 1993 Zoo TV Tour.

Retro Fanfic Retrospective - Special Episode - Fanfiction Hypothesis The RFR crew discuss…what is and what is not fanfiction? (Spotify link) 

Fic discussion - "Fictitious Characters" by likeamadonna (Ao3 link)  

Bono and The Edge - NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2023) Bono asks Edge to “do an Edge thing!”  

Bono and The Edge - BBC Radio 2 Piano Room (2023) Bono and the Edge vibing together through a string-laden performance of classic U2 songs. Bono serenading the Edge during “Vertigo” around 7m30s, lots of fond looks. 

Fic mentioned - The Scientist or: How Edge Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bono by spacemonkey 

Tory’s Top 5 U2 Tracks (slightly deeper cuts, in no particular order): Red Hill Mining Town , Bad, Lemon, Every Breaking Wave, and Stay (Faraway, So Close!)  

��Ordinary Love” acoustic version, U2 on Jimmy Fallon (2014) with Roots. One of Sara’s favorite U2 live vids ever!! 

Tory is listening to - Leith Ross, an indie-rock Canadian singer-songwriter. Here’s a song from their Youtube channel.

Bandcamp - Her Dilemma the bass player that played for Leith Ross during the set Tory watched. “Mathy”, a bit like Slint!

[fionabrennanartisttours]

The first Pride protest/parade took place on the 27th of June 1974, when a tiny group protested the existence of old Victorian legislation that criminalised any form of intimacy between men. There were only 10 brave protesters who picketed the British Embassy and the Department of Justice. One member was David Norris, a great hero of the story of Queer Ireland.

This year in 2024 we celebrate 50 years of Pride in Ireland! Happy Pride yall!

Image Credit: Gay Pride Day Protest outside the Department of Justice. Photo by Gareth Miller courtesy Irish Queer Archive/National Library of Ireland.

[juniper-divination-and-witchery]

Laethanta na Bó Riabhaí / The Days of the Brindled Cow

Photo of a cow with a brindle coat from uisneach.ie

The Days of the Brindled Cow is an Irish folktale that explains the often unpredictable weather at the turn of March into April. It's also sometimes called the riabhóg (meaning streaked, striped, or brindled) days or the borrowed/borrowing days.

From Duchas.ie

The "Borrowing Days" are the first three days of April. The weather during these three days is cold and often colder than March itself. On this account it is said that March has borrowed these three days from April to kill the Old Cow.

The old story says that when the Old Cow was let out to graze she kicked up her heels and ran through the field with joy because March was out.

But March borrowed three days from April and killed the Old Cow.

These three days are called thus, The "Borrowing Days".

Read more stories on the Duchas.ie archive

Listen to BlindBoy tell a version of this story

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01: What's Haunting You? (Irish Fae, British Humanoids) Photodump

Welcome to the photo dump for our first ever installment of a series we’re calling “What’s Haunting You?”, a Miniature Haunting brought to you by Let’s Get Haunted. On each Friday of this Spooky Season, Nat and Aly will be bringing you short, scary, non-fiction stories as told by the folks who experienced them firsthand. On this week’s episode: An Irish woman named Katrina goes on a walk in a forest and gets tricked by the fae. Then, a British man named Karl encounters a humanoid in his childhood home. Come join us on this trip through the LGH archives as we dare to answer the question, “What’s haunting you?”

Image 01: Well, What’s Haunting You? Image 02: Our first story comes from Katrina, who took a walk through the woods and ended up with more than she bargained for. Since Katrina had no images to provide us, enjoy instead this beautiful illustration by Arthur Rackham entitled “Forest Spirits” Image 03: Our second story comes from Karl, who encountered something otherworldly in his childhood home. Karl very kindly sent us some digital recreations he made of the humanoid he encountered. Two images created by Karl of the humanoid he saw. Image 04: Drawing by Karl of what the material the suit was made out of looked like. Image 05: Drawing by Karl of what the being’s hand and foot looked like Image 06: Drawing by Karl - side view of the humanoid. Image 07: Karl’s childhood home where he saw the creature Image 08: Although Karl’s family has long since moved out of the house and he doesn’t know the new owners personally, out of curiosity he checked out the address and realized it’s now an AirBNB! Any British haunties brave enough to spend the night in the attic?

[villagecigarcompany]

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[andrew-buchan-fansite]

Update from the Mod: Annual Report of the ABF (Oct2023)

Somewhat late, but it’s that time of year when we look back and note all that Andrew has been doing over the last twelve months.

It’s fair to say that since  update22 Andrew has had a tumultuous year, with his personal exploits often overshadowing his screenwork, as far as the tabloid newspapers are concerned. 

At this time last year, we were looking forward to:

Carnival Row s2

Intrigo: Samaria     [6 years on, still waiting]

Better 

COBRA Rebellion (s3)

At the beginning of 2023 yet another series of In the Doghouse appeared on Channel 4, with Andrew narrating.

As far as we fans were concerned, everything happened in February: 

BBC drama Better premiered in Leeds with extensive TV and press interviews and we finally met Col McHugh with his Irish brogue.

In the same week filming for ‘darkly comic’ Passenger, written by Andrew, got underway in Lancashire, starring Wunmi Mosaku and David Threlfall.

Then just days later Carnival Row s2 finally aired with Andrew in the central role of Mikulas Vir

At the end of the month we were shocked when revelations about the break up of Andrew’s marriage started to appear in various tabloids. These have continued at regular intervals throughout the year, usually regurgitating the same story, reportedly from friends. This undoubtedly unwanted attention has spawned some dodgy paparazzi photos too.

In October Cobra Rebellion aired on Sky/NOW. We haven’t yet spotted Andrew though….?!

This year's fanpic:

Finally, just this week, Andrew’s new project - thriller Black Doves -was announced by Netflix. That'll keep us going through the winter!

Meanwhile…..

….. ABF now has an archive of over 5,000 different posts, 26 themed pages and 380 followers.

Thank you to all Andrew fans – especially to @madandi  @geminigmo @llywela13 and @theknittycritter ​and the many other new regular fans this year.

Best wishes to Andrew and his family for the coming year. 

Cheers – demurely1

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue January 15, 1965

Knitted linen top, beige ribbing above buttoned drawstring in a beige linen mini golf skirt. Skirt and top by Robert Sloan of Irish Looms Linen. Sunglasses by Frost Bros. Riviera. Hat by Mr. John.

Haut en lin tricoté, bord-côte beige au-dessus du cordon boutonné dans une jupe de golf miniature en lin beige. Jupe et haut par Robert Sloan of Irish Looms Linen. Lunettes de soleil Frost Bros. Riviera. Chapeau de Mr. John.

Photo Irving Penn vogue archive