#irish protestant

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

[violottie]

TODAY: Palestinian and Irish-American activists marched for Gaza in Rochester, NY on St. Patrick’s Day. Participants proudly displayed banners with Palestinian and Irish flags that read, “Occupation is a crime from Ireland to Palestine.” from BreakThrough News, 17/Mar/2024:

[vyorei]

Here's the protests arranged for the weekend, show solidarity with Palestine

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[bahoreal]

one thing about northern ireland is that everyone has seen derry girls. and loves it. for example i went to the ulster museum today and they had the chalkboard on display

[femrodeeeeo]

#noexcuseforviolentmen

from another article

Natasha O'brien

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

so Michael Knowles did a religion-themed trivia game on his show in which one of the questions was, “Which Avenger is Protestant?”

and I was like “well it’s not Steve bc Steve is Catholic”

but the answer was Steve

so I looked up his dog tags from The First Avenger and it’s true

this whole dang time Steve Rogers has been Protestant???

[friendlycursedspaceotter]

saw another post and couldn't help but make this

[boymanmaletheshequel]

I see…

I see Lord Ares in the men of the military, brave souls, handsome souls, many of whom have the urge to fight for righteousness, not all are justified, but the ones that are, are the most beautiful men that can exist

I see Lord Ares in the violent rage I feel upon seeing injustice, cruelty, and suffering inflicted by corrupt and evil militias, agaisnt the innocent civilians on the sidelines.

I see Lord Ares in the urges I feel to harm those who have hurt me, to those who have harmed my freinds, and my family, the nazis, the fascists, the racists and all of the bigots of the world, I feel ares in me when i look at them, and wish to see them slide dead off my sword.

I see Lord Ares in the valor of fighting for what’s right, the activists, the protesters who throw themselves into the battle to fight for justice, the Palestinians, the Houthis, the Irish UN workers who bravely stood up to Israeli Zionist tanks last week.

I see Lord Ares in the aftermath of it all, in the corpses that litter the streets of war zones, too many women and children, not enough the enemy. And I see him in the mourning of the families of the fallen, the inevitable consequences of conflict made aware to them in its settling dust, and I know how bittersweet it must all be, to me, to him, to everyone.

[handweavers]

idk how to really articulate this fully but as someone of both irish and malaysian indian ancestry who lives in "canada" it's really annoying how westerners primary association with anti english imperialism is like. ireland and scotland and not the many (nonwhite) countries and peoples who have faced genocide at the hands of British imperialism which has included irish and scottish people working on behalf of the british empire as collaborators and agents of empire... this isn't to minimize the harm done to ireland and scotland but like. you do know that billions of people in india and china are descendants of those who've suffered at the hands of british colonialism too right. indigenous people of canada and the USA and Australia and NZ... like half the people living in the caribbean?? the people of kenya?? malaysians?? the list goes on. but on the topic of british colonial resistance white people really like to focus on ireland and remain ignorant of everywhere else to the point of minimizing some white irish people's participation in empire. whatever

[starlightomatic]

on that note… are there particular historical/cultural/religious reasons why in the US, it seems like catholics tend to retain elements of the cultural heritage of their family’s country of origin, while (white) protestants seem to have just… become absorbed into generic whiteness? is it just because catholics immigrated more recently?

[luna-drinker]

Apparently the Irish are so pissed that Catholics and protestants have banded together. Very proud of them for that.

[skullfaggot]

wish i had paid attention during church as a kid so i could use my knowledge to satisfy someone's religious kink

[vyorei]

Pro-Palestinian activists briefly paused the annual Macy's Genocide Dinner Thanksgiving Parade in the US, cops led them off after a few minutes

But goddamn, that's badass, nice one 💜

BASED USA ✊ 🇵🇸

[princelancey]

The euros has turned into catholic Europe versus protestant Europe

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Palestine solidarity encampment win for Trinity College Dublin!!

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Here’s a link to my post explaining some of the background of the past week with Trinity’s union busting and refusal to cut ties with Israel:

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Trinity College Dublin becomes the first European university to set up their solidarity encampment. The primary demands are for the University to divest from Israeli companies, and to release an unequivocal statement demanding ceasefire. The University authorities have fined the Students Union €214,000, citing a "loss of income" as a result of recent protests, as the university, particularly the Book of Kells, a popular tourist attraction located on the university campus is a major source of income for the university. The authorities have also locked the campus down, essentially putting the protestors and other residential students under house arrest. They have also closed all student facilities, including bathrooms.

Follow Trinity BDS campaign for updates.