#northern irish history

[khaperai]

IRA checkpoint during the 70s

[illogarithmil]

Ranking the various covers of Northern Ireland: A Political Directory whilst I citation-hunt for funsies

1980: Desperate for attention. Fails to be accurate or aesthetically pleasing. Please. I'm begging. Move the image down. 2/10

1989: bland, text background overwhelms the image, manages to misrepresent the political situation before page one. Who drew that chessboard? At least there's an image I guess. 4/10

1999: A bit boring and over-important, but a nice enough design. Not ashamed to own this version. 5/10

1994: Stark, confrontational, it knows you know the Troubles exist. No particular design genius, but a big improvement. 7/10

1983: Inspired, genuinely aesthetically pleasing, Schwitters meets postwar commercial graphic design. 9/10

[valkyries-things]

LILIAN SEENOI-BARR // POLITICIAN

“She is a Kenyan-born politician and councillor for Derry City and Strabane District Council, where she represents the Social Democratic and Labour Party. On 29 April 2024, Seenoi-Barr made history after being selected as the next First Citizen of Derry City and Strabane, and consequently as Northern Ireland's first black mayor.”

[vox-anglosphere]

Dunluce Castle has the most precarious perch of any castle in Ireland

[illogarithmil]

Also just the unsubtle racism of it all. "Why would people in a white first-world country doooo this?" The same logic is never applied when talking about intercommunal violence perceived as having religio-ethnic motivations* outside "the west". Or indeed when an Islamist (or somebody they've arbitrarily decided is an Islamist sometimes) kills someone in Britain. Then the sectarian violence makes perfect sense to them - they'll still condemn it, but it fits neatly into their underlying worldview. The lines around "bad religion" can be clearly seen, and the deeper reasons that might explain both incidences, that might make them interrogate what circumstances mean they do not need to fear the same sort of violence, can be discarded.

*"perceived as" because there's some dispute about applying that term to the Troubles and the ways it gets used elsewhere in the world can be pretty wack from what my global historian associates tell me

British people who act like they're superior to northern irish people vis a vis sectarian violence piss me off SO bad because they really invented a type of bigotry and killed each other over it for hundreds of years and then suddenly decided that wait actually if you do that it's due to natural moral weakness or whatever the fuck

[lostmementomemori]

A British paratrooper comforts a young woman who was injured by a bomb blast in Donegall Street (Ireland, Belfast, March 20, 1972)

[luimnigh]

The charitable interpretation of the law passed in the British Parliament today, an amnesty for all crimes committed by both paramilitary groups and British soldiers over the course of the Troubles, is this:

It is perfectly fine for British soldiers to murder innocent civilians, citizens of the United Kingdom. They will not be investigated for it. They will be given amnesty. They will face no justice.

That is the charitable interpretation. That is giving them the benefit of the doubt.

That is assuming they see the people they murdered as fellow British, and not something other and lesser than British. That this is a rule for all British citizens, and not an exception made for a certain group. That it's okay if members of that group died.

The charitable explanation is a chilling indictment of the British Government. The other explanation was British policy for eight hundred years.

I kinda hoped it had stopped being British Policy.

[awetistic-things]

the amount of people saying “why is ireland the only european country who‘s supporting palestine??” is gonna make me pass out

[mariemariemaria]

'Following partition in 1921/22, the situation in the six counties of Northern Ireland was markedly different. The Unionist-dominated government was hostile to the [Irish] language and actively restricted its use in the public domain and within the education system. Vestiges of the historical Gaeltacht remained in the early years of the state, in Tyrone, Armagh, Antrim and Derry, but by 1991, when the first question on the Irish language was included in the Census of Northern Ireland, these language communities had died out. The census revealed that the majority of Irish speakers were located in urban rather than rural areas, and that Irish had, apart from a small number of children in the neo-Gaeltacht of the Shaws Road, in west Belfast, become the language of learners.'

— Ulster Gaelic Voices: Bailiúchán Wilhelm Doegen (ed. Róise Ní Bhaoill), p. 11.

[vegan-nom-noms]

St Patricks Day Recipe Collection! For more St Patrick Day recipes click here.

Top Row:

Grasshopper Pie

Matcha Macarons

Mint Matcha Smoothie

Middle Row:

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Matcha Crepe Cake

No Bake Chocolate Mint Slice

Bottom Row:

Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

Mint Chocolate Cookies

Thin Mint Truffles

[thepaintedroom]

William Conor (Northern Irish, 1881–1968 • State Opening of Parliament • 1921

This painting depicts the opening of the first Northern Ireland Parliament by George V on 22nd June 1921 in Belfast City Hall. The painting is on display in the Senate Chamber.

[khaperai]

IRA posters

[illogarithmil]

This'd be a good sequel to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I think?

[valkyries-things]

DR. ROSEMARY COOGAN // ASTROPHYSICIST

“She is an astrophysicist and UK astronaut from Northern Ireland. Her research considers galaxy evolution and space-based telescopes. She is part of ESA's European Astronaut Corps.”

[royalty-nobility]

Saadat Ali Khan, Nawab of Oudh (Ruled 1798-1814) c. 1798-1800

Artist: George Place (Irish, c. 1760-1805)

Date: c. 1798-1800

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Saadat Ali Khan II

Yameen-ud Daula Saadat Ali Khan II Bahadur (bf. 1752 – c. 11 July 1814) was the sixth Nawab of Oudh from 21 January 1798 to 11 July 1814, and the son of Shuja-ud-Daula. He was of Persian origin.

He was the second son of Nawab Shuja-ud-daula. Saadat Ali Khan succeeded his half-nephew, Mirza Wazir `Ali Khan, to the throne of Oudh in 1798. Saadat Ali Khan was crowned on 21 January 1798 at Bibiyapur Palace in Lucknow, by Sir John Shore.

[werewolfetone]

FACT: 99% of irish republican organisations attempting to obtain aid from some random foreign power with 0 investment in the situation stop getting them to send ships full of weapons and crucial leaders of the cause for the british navy to easily capture right before one finally succeeds 💯