The Irish

Ten years ago: man slips on ice in Dublin. More with @rtearchives https://t.co/96jTx8I501

— RTÉ (@rte) January 8, 2020

have you not seen the plaque!

a terrible shame that an American company had to be the one to do it

have you not seen the plaque!

this was retweeted by my main homey RLB. I always remember the Wolfe Tones - Rifles of the IRA album hidden at the back of the record shelf, like it might be illegal to own

That 'Let the People Sing' album is a common sight in charity shops in Glasgow - or was.

Are you joking? Please be serious. Where is it?!?!

it's some 'viral marketing' courtesy of Coors Light

https://images.app.goo.gl/TGYVgZiV6QkGpbhp7

Rifles of the I.R.A. is the fourth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones.

The cover shows the band members dressed in the traditional dress of the IRA. The folk singer Christy Moore said of the cover, "I equate that particular record sleeve with Foster and Allen, dressed up as leprechauns. It was the very same thing. It had the same significance at the time.

C Moore wasn't impressed with that album cover

it is quite comical. as are the tones tbh - not that i don't know half their catalogue

The Wolfe Tones are playing in a pub near me in upstate NY. Should I go see them?

I found a bunch of their records in the bookshop of one of the local libraries a few years ago.

bloody hell ...they still get about a bit! I can't remember much about their sound tbh.

Room for a Mighty Mighty Bosstones collaboration while they're in the States

my wife saw them play at a midtown pub a few years ago (dragged by a friend, she had no idea what to expect) and said it was a good show but also a little alarming in its political fervor.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:37 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

like, if that sounds like yr bag.

twouldnt be mine

I see Come Out Ye Black and Tans is supposedly number one here too now? Diaspora i assume, confirms the most obvious Eurovision theory of them all.

This poster doesn’t hold back!

Anti-recruitment poster in Enniscorthy (c. 1909): "Join the Army. Sell your souls, your country, and your God for the Saxon shilling. Join England's hireling murderers. Go to India, to murder women and children and shoot down men who are fighting for liberty." https://t.co/RdV1T0o94x

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) January 7, 2020

This poster featured heavily in Unionist political literature after a copy was reproduced by the Union Defence League ('Irish Facts' Vol. III) for propaganda purposes. pic.twitter.com/PVt9dDcsgG

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) January 7, 2020

My great granddad was one of them Irish sellouts for the Saxon shilling! He got quite badly disabled at Gallipoli and was lucky to survive because the ambulance ship that rescued him was taking sniper bullets or something. My historian minded uncle who has the full story is currently dying of prostate cancer and the NHS can't operate on him because his kidneys are gone, but I'm it was a good story iirc but i just can't remember most of it.

Maybe we can get #ComeOutYeBlackAndTans to number 1 in China too. pic.twitter.com/4Cj5fUViLU

— Des Bishop 毕瀚生 (@Desbishop) January 9, 2020

Aertel chic
https://i2.wp.com/www.theglassmagazine.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MSK_RobynLynch-21.jpg

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0114/1107299-election-announcement-tracker/


Ádh mór dúinn

Ireland's rail network, 100 years ago vs now. Seriously. pic.twitter.com/8bO8p7dFfG

— Dr Shaun O'Boyle 🏳️‍🌈 (@shaunoboyle) January 22, 2020

looks even worse than what the Beeching Cuts did to the UK.

That’s hardly the worst thing about it

https://youtu.be/SW-tdaO2s9o

the mid 20th century rolling stock with asbestos lined ceilings at least had comfy chairs with enough knee-space for anyone over five ft tall. Although that won't save you from an insufferable Gleeson clone! How did that crap how so many credits at the end?

That wasn’t a Gleeson clone, that’s him!

it just goes to show, never give up hope - keep chasing those dreams!

Absolutely dying at this shite

Varadkar’ s FG, campaigning on anti-British “small Country” ticket down 7 points. https://t.co/b2oQZEcQbF

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) February 1, 2020

amazing analysis, seems to take in all of the wait what

im sure he'll be bothered enough to come back and explain that he believes that the 7 lost by fg were specifically turned off by that, but they are a totally different 7 that went to the lads

truly the worst of all possible gaffes by the indian fella, whose name isnt even oreilly

Leo is such a fan of the Brits that they had a totally unnecessary row with half the country about the RIC commemorations.

Lewis Goodall is in Ireland for the election

When Labour said they were mass canvassing they got it all wrong pic.twitter.com/iW83VXn7h4

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) February 3, 2020

Ireland, Red C poll:

SF-LEFT: 24% (+5)
FF-RE: 24% (-2)
FG-EPP: 21% (-2)
GREEN-G/EFA: 7% (-1)
LAB-S&D: 5% (+1)
SD-S&D: 3%
AONTÚ-*: 2% (+1)
S-PBP-LEFT: 1% (-1)

+/- vs. 16-22 Jan

Fieldwork: 25-30 January 2020
Sample size: 1,000
Polling average: https://t.co/Pjh0Ruzgg3#GE2020 pic.twitter.com/rGMCEcTeZs

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) February 1, 2020

So what happens if the lads get the nod?

Kneecapping for some, miniature Irish flags for others.

afraid to post tbh

Idk, I am curious about it myself. If people are voting SF, FF/FG only have themselves to blame. This article was telling.

agreed that only a failure of ff/fg brings any other party in as a major player

sf rise is prob attributable to those two both in govt together as well as fg failing to ensure that any benefits of 'recovery' are felt outside of the economic fundamentals on bank balance sheets and propertied class equity ratios

Yep.

Can’t wait for the coverage here if they get in!

Mary-Lou in the leaders debate now

I was over in the stronghold of Peadar Tóibín, who is the stronghold of Aontú, at the weekend - coming back from the UK, it is a little wild to see that their priorities are a lot of solid left-wing policies on immigration, tenants rights, collective bargaining, zero hour, oh yeah and also life begins at conception ("the human rights debate of our generation") and did I mention I used to be in Sinn Fein and yes we have a policy on Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour and that is 'policy to come'

Oh yeah but most importantly bring the train back to Navan!

I mean, this is also what happens when a party is largely a one man band, I get it.

Kneecapping for some, miniature Irish flags for others.

― hyds (gyac), Monday, 3 February 2020 15:34 (forty-six minutes ago)

Genuine lol, followed by a decision as to whether I really wanted to explain to my coworkers.

(and the awareness that I'd have to explain the Simpsons to some of them)

ni cheapaim

So is their platform just staring forebodingly into the camera in sober suits and mirrorshades

more like
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeIqobNWAAAaXgs.jpg
Christ! Having a woman Taoiseach would nearly go by unremarked

Aww now there’s a fun lookin bunch

There were also a lot of FG posters - putting up three candidates to FF's one - but mostly just Leo's face, outnumbering the other FGs put together.

i think that sf are ~mainly~ being considered/otherwise on their policies this time around, which is def a first

fg failing to ensure that any benefits of 'recovery' are felt outside of the economic fundamentals on bank balance sheets and propertied class equity ratios

When FG came into power, joblessness was in excess of 15%. We now have full employment and steadily-rising wages, so it’s not like it’s been a recovery only for the elite. Frustration about property prices is wholly understandable, but there are deep structural issues at play in the market that any government would have struggled to overcome in the aftermath of such a deep recession. The rise of SF is down to their unabashed populism. It’s the traditional Irish electoral cycle: now that the adults have tidied up the playroom, we’re going to lock them out and start flinging custard pies around again.

should make it clear that im dangerously close to being ok with FG as far as ilx goes so this i dont comment from a position of anti-govt nor a natural inclination for either FF/SF support

but baseline drop to the usual "0" unemployment does not necessarily equate to that work or the work of anyone earning below x amount being something that they will gratefully thank the govt of the day for when rent, commute, creche fees are taken into account.

the cost of surviving is a huge factor in this coming election and nine years is a long time for any party in charge to be shrugging its shoulders at that.

there's def room for a quality analysis of what housing in particular is doing to the vote, but the recovery as it has happened has been

and listen, ask anyone about this next line coming from *me*

off the backs of the worker, into the wealth of the propertied classes and investor classes

and its telling that leo, a fella not known for his humility nor his bendy neck, leads hos re-election leaflet with five bullet point apologies.

his stint as taoiseach simply hasnt delivered what he said it would, not that his promises were designed to please an ilx audience, but the recovery has been as much on paper as so much of the crash was, and people have 13 years lived and worked since 2007 and are not nearly as much better off as they would want nor deserve in the majority of cases

None of that means anything when people can’t afford to move out or start families and are legit being priced out of their own country? Like I think about returning all the time and it’s not even a possibility because of the housing issue. Thinking it’s for any other reason is wilful ignorance.

Also speaking as someone in London, the homelessness situation is fucking disgraceful.

like

my wages, and hello ladies no im married im afraid, have close to trebled since 2007

it is not poseur stuff (ive nobody here to impress!) to state that i had more cash in my pocket then.

i moved up to dublin for career purposes in 2012 (also following a girl but lookit) and even though ive doubled my income since then, im definitely worse off than i was between say 2012-2015

the cost of living, the quality of living/working life, has absolutely plummeted ime- and my experience is probably substantially better than the many who have had families since, earn less than i, have more impetus to buy, need to live near school/family

a govt that does not build housing on a massive scale wont see two years imo

lol I think of the way I lived in 2007/8 off basically no money and like I could never do it nowadays. Almost everything costs tons, my mother was shocked when I said £100 was a lot of money for me (lol it is), because my cost of living is a lot lower here in some ways. Even being bled dry commuting we still have a house and we don’t commute as long as the people in the article. But then I can count double figures of people I know who’ve emigrated just to have some quality of life. It’s not in people’s imagination, that the country is harder and harder to live in every year. The old sow that eats her farrow and all that.