#county londonderry

[zombilenium]

Mussenden Temple & Downhill Demesne,

County Londonderry, Ireland

[mothmiso]

Ireland 2023 (2) (3) (4) (5) by Bryan Costin

Via Flickr:

(3) The Walls Of Derry     

[scholarofgloom]

[middleland]

Untitled (2) by Gar_Mc

[laddersofchaos]

Go to check something about northern Ireland, quickly click into Wikipedia page and it says one of the six counties is londonderry. Gags.

[mea-gloria-fides]

Downhill House, County Londonderry.

[saintsenara]

Not from the ask list but the characters in ur fics as Irish counties and why?

anon, this has absolutely sent me. i have genuinely never seen something more up my alley.

let's start with characters we can pull from the series for ireland's six superior counties, shall we...

antrim = oliver wood

a county full of lads who've never met a spivvy tracksuit they don't think is the height of fashion, and who have a vastly inflated sense of their success at sports.

armagh = tom riddle

armagh has a [deservedly] bloody reputation. he could settle down in the murder triangle. he'd like that.

down = draco malfoy

people who live in co. down really like thinking they're better than the rest of us just because it's easy for them to get to belfast [lads, how's that something to boast about?], so they have to be the series' whiniest flop.

fermanagh = rubeus hagrid

fermanagh is full of docile lads who build things, in my experience.

londonderry = ron weasley

canonically gorgeous, gorgeous girlies live in this fine county - by which i mean, of course, that i do. we deserve to be represented by the series' most gorgeous girly. and a ginger sweetheart with six siblings [so you know which side of the sectarian divide his parents are on...] would go down a storm with our mams.

tyrone = harry potter

my brother once had his nose broken in a pub in strabane, which doesn't sound particularly interesting until you realise that my brother is a priest. by which i mean - a county filled with people who are reckless, quick-tempered, and always ready to throw hands? it can only be represented by one man...

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and then the rest...

carlow = quirinus quirrell

the most interesting thing there is a big rock.

cavan = percy weasley

everyone i've ever met from cavan has been really boring and really tight. so there's that.

clare = ginny weasley

because it's gorgeous, in a not like other girls way.

cork = albus dumbledore

look at this canon line and tell me dumbledore's not a cork man... "In fact, being — forgive me — rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” 

donegal = sybill trelawney

always away with the fairies up there... and always drunk too.

dublin = walburga black

everyone you've ever met who lives in dublin is genuinely shocked to discover that the rest of the world exists beyond the m50. it's not not giving "has never set foot in muggle london and would die before she did".

galway = arthur and molly weasley

galway is the home of the nation's sophisticated [and, apparently, sexually adventurous] culchies - which fits two people from clearly quite distinguished backgrounds who nonetheless live the way they do...

kerry = gilderoy lockhart

you will never see american tourists get scammed more glamorously than in kerry.

kildare = regulus black

considerably less interesting than - and devoid of identity in comparison to - its neighbour, dublin.

kilkenny = charlie weasley

all they do is have red hair and hurl.

laois = daphne greengrass

on account of her irrelevance.

leitrim = sally-ann perks

on account of her irrelevance.

limerick = bellatrix lestrange

limerick used to be known as "stab city". she'd fit right in.

longford = mungundus fletcher

gombeen men abound.

louth = myrtle warren

because they [by which i mean the two people i know who were born there...] are always fucking moaning.

mayo = remus lupin

perpetually mopey, unless they reckon they're great at something.

meath = cormac mclaggen

they wish they were as class as the lads in dublin.

monaghan = cuthbert binns

genuinely couldn't locate it on a map.

offaly = grawp

i mean, who fucking knows? the entire place is a bog.

roscommon = aberforth dumbledore

you can guess why...

sligo = fred and george weasley

wheeler dealers, the lot of them.

tipperary = fleur delacour

the home of gorgeous, gorgeous girlies with striking accents.

waterford = dobby

they love a good strike.

westmeath = hermione granger

not somewhere you'd expect you'd choose to live if you were a bit of a know-it-all. and yet.

wexford = neville longbottom

they love to bang on about the soil.

wicklow = marge dursley

she drives a range rover and looks down on anyone who farms, change my mind.

[other answers from this ask game]

[werewolfetone]

i apologize for all the asks but i have a question: is there any difference between using “ulster” and “northern ireland”? i’ve seen both used pretty interchangeably here in belfast. i assumed that “ulster” might be a bit controversial because of its reference to the plantation but i could be wrong. what are your thoughts?

- @iron--and--blood (ps did you get my ask about the museum? i was on spotty wifi and idk if it went through)

Yes, there is a difference. Ulster is a province of Ireland which consists of the counties of Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan, Monaghan, Armagh, Down, Antrim, & Londonderry (nine counties)

Northern Ireland is a country in the UK which only consists of Tyrone, Fermanagh, Armagh, Down, Antrim, & Londonderry (six counties)

When the partition happened some ppl wanted to include all of Ulster in the new state of NI, but eventually several counties were excluded, primarily iirc because the excluded places were majority nationalist & catholic, where the creators of NI wanted to create, in the immortal (derogatory) words of James Craig, "a protestant parliament and and protestant state" -- it was easier to keep catholics out of government if the state was carefully constructed to only include counties where protestant unionists could ensure they either had or could create a majority. This is why it's called "Northern Ireland" rather than Ulster, because all of Ulster isn't technically included (of course, NI also doesn't even include the northernmost points of Ireland so that name is also incredibly stupid but I digress).

Anyway while I wouldn't say that the use of Ulster in any context is controversial (since that's literally what the geographic area is called!), many people who identify themselves with it over Ireland are loyalists. Groups with Ulster in the title like the Ulster Defence Force or Ulster Volunteer Force or Ulster Protestant Volunteers are loyalist groups. Additionally, although technically just called the Ulster flag this flag ⬇️

Is often a literal red flag for someone's political beliefs. Think that covers the basics of it but if any of my mutuals want to add on obviously feel free

[aimeedaisies]

Princess Anne visiting Fleming Agri Products in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland on 11th April 2024 (part one)

[novadraem]

Northern Ireland headcanons

I know I said awhile back I was going to do Éire hcs but I actually finished N.I’s before him. so N.I it is! 

1 - Northern Ireland is blind and deaf. He was born deaf, but became blind during WWII when a bomb blew up in his face.

(He did die from that! However he came back to life due to he isn’t disappearing anytime soon)

2 - He has a dog. He loves her a lot.

3 - Northern Ireland refuses to see Ireland and Britain as his parents. He doesn’t want anything to do with them and he’ll only talk to them if necessary. 

(However he is close to some people on Éire’s side of the family. Those people being Down, Fermanagh, Antrim, Londonderry/Derry, Armagh, and Tyrone. He also sometimes talks to the other counties. N.I and Wexford don’t get along though.

He isn’t close to anyone on Britain’s side)

4 - When he became blind he needed help to get around, so county Fermanagh helped him out the most! Fermanagh stills helps Northern Ireland to this day. 

5 - Northern Ireland had a twin, whose name was Southern Ireland. The two were quite close but were opposites in many ways. 

6 - He’s bicurious 

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 29 March:

1613 – A charter incorporates Derry as the city of ‘Londonderry’ and creates the new county of ‘Londonderry’. Despite the official name, the city is more usually known as simply Derry, which is an anglicisation of the old Irish Daire, which in modern Irish is spelt Doire, and translates as ‘oak-grove/oak-wood’. The name derives from the settlement’s earliest references, Daire Calgaich (‘oak-grove…

[scholarofgloom]

[middleland]

Untitled (2) by Gar_Mc

Via Flickr:

(2) Veterans Memorial Londonderry Cemetery     

[gunzlotzofgunz]

Martini Metford Artillery Carbine MkIII Date: 1895 Calibre .303

Issued Londonderry in April 1896

Conversion from Martin Henry MkIII Rifle

The carbine was made from MkIII rifles withdrawn from Militiary service.

The conversion consisted of a new purpose made .303 Metford rifled barrel, new .303 block. The bayonet fitting is the “Rigby”pattern and is designed to accept the P1888 sword bayonet. The single part for-end is fixed via a hook plate into the receiver.

This example was converted in 1895 from a 1880 Dated MkIII.577/450 Martini Henry Rifle

Issued to the Royal Artillery in Londonderry April 1896.

Later issued to the County Cadets & Marked Not For Ball

[mea-gloria-fides]

Downhill House, County Londonderry.

[saintsenara]

1,5,13, 16 for the ask game!

thank you very much for the ask from the i’m not from the states ask game, pal!

1. what is your favourite place in your country?

let's have a few, shall we!

going clockwise, we have: dunluce castle, co. antrim; mussenden temple, co. londonderry; florence court, co. fermanagh [my brother got married here!]; prehen woods, co. londonderry; the gobbins cliff path, co. antrim [although not if you're easily frightened...]; ness and ervey woods, co. londonderry; mount stewart, co. down; castlerock beach, co. londonderry.

5. what is your favourite song in your native language?

i have picked all of these because they were favourites of my granny, who used to potter around the house singing them at the top of her [tone deaf] lungs. she was about four foot eleven, ferocious, and very greatly missed.

five irish-language bangers:

an cailín álainn ta mo chleamhnas deanta bean pháidín [which i really advise looking up the lyrics to, because it's the ideal anthem for petty girls...] casadh an tsúgaín cad é sin don té sin [another one for the petty girlies]

five english-language bangers:

the gartan mother's lullaby the night-visiting song carrickfergus the maid of culmore [i've picked this version because of the lyric-change in the opening line, which sends me for some reason - the traditional lyrics are from sweet londonderry to fair london town, but the fine lads and comrades of university college dublin have changed it to from sweet, lovely derry. which i love them for.] the star of the county down

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

answered here.

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?

that it's a horrible, violent place and everyone who lives there is a terrorist.

i will accept, however, that we're verbose and that we all drink too much.