#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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[fluffypotatey]

just gonna say my peace and then spam reblog some more posts but

when Remmick talks about the “Our Father” and how he was forced to learn it from the people who stole their lands. that can still mean he was Catholic despite being about 600 years old in Ireland where Catholicism was running rampant, but it just means he was Irish Catholic. yeah, 600 years is not far enough for there to be an Ireland where Catholicism was not the majority religion, but you know what wasn’t something many Irish from 600 years ago (until 1930s) did???

spoke English

so it is very likely Remmick was not talking about the religion itself but rather being forced to lose his mother tongue by the English invading and colonizing Irish lands. forcing the stop of speaking Irish also had two major goals 1) control over the people and the property and the laws and 2) “unity” through one kingdom, one empire, yada yada— VERY reminiscent of the themes presented in the movie

just something to think about

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The spectre of corporal punishment continued to hang over fishing communities in the early nineteenth century. An incident which occurred in Burin in 1810 illustrates the symbiotic relationship between sectarian tension, class conflict, and the use of public whipping. According to the local justice of the peace, the problem started when he sentenced a local man to be whipped:

In the first place a man was brought before me with a complaint that he had gone on board one of Mr. Spurrier's vessels, prevented the crew from working and beat two of them and threatened the master - his sentence was to receive 39 lashes at the usual place of punishment - but the morning the punishment should have taken place nearly the whole of the Irish servants came to Mr. Morris (a merchant here) and offered £150 rather than it should be executed (the punishment) - but they had said before should the prisoner be brought to the place of punishment, they would shed some blood and take him away by force - Some other cases of the same nature, and equally as bad, have now come before me - when the people have threatened to take the life of the first constable that should attempt to apprehend the offender.

The magistrate viewed this incident as involving much more than simply a protest against whipping. He portrayed it as the outbreak of a serious challenge to the social order which only the presence of the Royal Navy could extinguish:

The Irish servants (which are very numerous) are at this time absolutely in a state of mutiny and without some armed force be stationed here, the lives of the inhabitants are in danger. Probably on account of their wages they may be kept within bounds until the expiration of their time of servitude (20th October) but, when they become their own masters, I could not answer for them. If His Excellency therefore would have the goodness to station one of His Majesty's Schooners here for the Winter, it would have an excellent effect and I have not a doubt but that regularity and good behaviour would, by that means be kept in this district.

So long as servants were kept under contract, they were seen as controllable, but the justice of the peace dreaded the prospect of facing masterless men. Like his predecessors in the eighteenth century, he saw the Royal Navy as the vital safeguard of authority."

- Jerry Bannister, The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), 253-254.

[borealing]

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

[kingworm]

KNEECAP - NAARM - 2025

[werewolfetone]

Illustrations from a 1940 English language edition of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, trans. Frank O'Connor and illustrated by Jack B. Yeats

[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???

[fictionadventurer]

"There had to be some such creature as Mary--otherwise God would have found no one in whom He could fittingly have taken his human origin. An honest politician seeking civic reforms looks about for honest assistants. The Son of God beginning a new creation searched for some of that Goodness which existed before sin took over. There would have been, in some minds, a doubt about the Power of God if He had not shown a special favor to the Woman who was to be His Mother. Certainly what God gave to Eve, He would not refuse to His Own Mother.

"Suppose that God in making over man did not also make over woman into a new Eve! What a howl of protest would have gone up! Christianity would have been denounced as are all male religions. Women would then have searched for a female religion! It would have been argued that woman was always the slave of man and even God intended her to be such, since he refused to make the new Eve, as He made the New Adam.

"Had there been no Immaculate Conception, then Christ would have been said to be less beautiful, for He would have taken His Body from one who was not humanly perfect! There ought to be an infinite separation between God and sin, but there would not have been if there was not one woman who could crush the cobra's head."

-Fulton Sheen, The World's First Love

[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.

[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 ✊ 🇵🇸

[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

[princelancey]

The euros has turned into catholic Europe versus protestant Europe