#irish republicanism

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

[mariwatchesmovies]

Kneecap (2024) dir. Rich Peppiatt

[nocendia]

[gayeilgeoir]

Gramatical gender in Irish is so interesting.

For the most part, the same terms are used for men and women, nouns are the same, the only different thing is the definitive article.

In most gendered languages, male is the default (Eg: my friends in Spanish for a group containing 9 women and 1 man uses the masculine version of the word friend) but Irish doesn’t really work that way.

Nothing about a noun also doesn’t tell you it’s gender, you just kinda have to know.

[cogumellow]

beware the risen people // dublin, ireland // 2009 // ©

[victusinveritas]

[borbersk]

I want to try something here, so if you're an american, especially one who values irish culture, read this.

So, for those of you who aren't aware, there's a rap group here in Ireland called kneecap. They're pretty fucking good on their own, but they're probably best known for being easily the most authentic, skilled, and cheeky rappers usung the irish language. You may know them from the time they put stickers up in the British museum

They've done great things for the language and we should thank them as a nation, but that's not what we're here to talk about

Recently, kneecap got their own movie

This is extremely important. Ireland has a cinema industry, but none of our stuff ever competes in American markets, even when it's done undisputably well, and gets critical acclaim

This film is incredibly important to irish culture today, and I'm not just saying that. With all the American media we're force-fed and the erosion of our native language it means so much to have a movie about the irish language without it being a novelty, even one which is mostly in English. If you're an American reading this, I beg you to do whatever you can to spread this movie. Support it for the academy award it's been nominated for, tell your friends about it, watch it legally if you can find it to drive up engagement, watch it illegally if you can't, and perhaps the biggest one of all:

If you're up to it I want you to call your local cinema and ask them to play it. Franchises might not agree, but I know America still has independent cinemas, or even ones with a lot of freedom in local management, so please, if you can get them to show this film it could work wonders for the preservation and representation of irish culture, something that is desperately needed in a time when samboism is one of our biggest industries

Shit, even if you want to rewrite this post, I know I'm not the best communicator, go ahead, just make sure the word gets out. Send to all

Besides, it is genuinely a great film. I saw it the other day with my boyfriend and I already want to rewatch it

[hersheysmcboom]

This is what your precious Ira did to an innocent women, and her 15 year old daughter had to take care of her other children

[floriart0120]

🍀🇮🇪💚Wee one shot paddy freeman.💚🇮🇪🍀

A doodle that expresses my love for Irish freedom and unity.

To those opposed of wee Paddy, stay salty.

Isn't he cute tho?

[k-wame]

HOLY SHIT HE WITNESSED A PARAMILITARY EXECUTION

[sadiowaboy]

"irish" unionists supporting and identifying with israel is just such a freudian slip. goes to show how you think of yourselves and how you think of actual irish ppl

[gayeilgeoir]

Americans will joke about the famine, call gaeilge “simlish”, insult our dancing, berate our food, trivialise the oppression we went through, call us colonisers, mock our accents, make drinks mocking our very real trauma, erase and appropriate our culture, call us drunks and alcoholics, and put out countless pieces of media perpetuating stereotypes made about us during our genocide, and wonder why we hate them.

[scarlethyena]

And you dare to call me a terrorist,

while you look down your gun.

When I think of all the deeds that you have done.

You have plundered many nations,

divided many lands,

you have terrorized their peoples

you ruled with an iron hand!

And you brought this reign of terror to my land

-The Wolfe Tones, Joe McDonnell.

[thegalievthought]

The Man Was All Shot Through

The Man Was All Shot Through by Liam MacGabhann

The man was all shot through that Came today into the Barrack Square And a soldier I, i am not proud to say That we killed him there They brought him from the prison hospital and To see him in that chair I swear his smile would Would far more quickly call a man to prayer Maybe, maybe I don't understand this thing That makes these rebels die Yet all men love freedom and the Spring clear in the sky I wouldn't do this deed again for All that I hold by as I gazed down my rifle At his breast but then, then a soldier I They say he was different, kindly too Apart from all the rest A lover of the poor his wounds ill dressed He faced us like a man Who knew a greater pain Than blows or bullets ere the world Began: died he in vain Ready, present, and him just smiling Christ I felt my rifle shake His wounds all open and around his Chair a pool of blood i swear his lips said "fire" before my rifle shot That cursed lead And I, I was picked to kill a man like that

James Connolly

[kvetch19]

x

[m0thmancore]

my family: ok do not get political at this holiday dinner

me, about nine non-alcoholic glasses of punch in: you know, some people say the devil is dead and they buried him in killarney. others, however, think that-