The Irish

Incitation to hatred in all its orange glory. Yet again. pic.twitter.com/P8ahE1gKVx

— 🐉🏇 🐲Marie Błð 🇮🇪 🏇🐉 (@EalaEarendel) August 29, 2021

lol, lets live on marmalade on stale warburtons bread to own the Republic, because of course it is entirely Ireland's fault that the Westminster govt royally fucked them over!

could see the temptation to dump even more things in the Liffey judging by some of the fashion faux pas and what is already in the river.
I take it they still haven't been moved to clean it, is it a tradition that it is that filthy. I actually worked on the bridge at the time the digital clock the Time In The Slime was in there and can remember how impossible it was to read cos of the dirt that was already in the river. I was talking about the Hudson being cleaned from the early 70s after it had been notoriously filthy over the weekend and that had me thinking about the Thames getting cleaned at roughly the same time. So was thinking about the Liffey and the likelihood that it would ever be cleaned.
Seemed that there was a move pretty much worldwide to recognise the importance of clean water in towns fro a webinar I attended a few months ago.
I also remeber precautions needing to be taken by all the swimmers in the Liffey swim which I think was supposed to be an annual event. THat one had to take a shower as soon as you got out of the river. Also that the clock had to be moved at great expense

also remember the pavement on that stretch of the O'Connel Bridge being a point where people would score quite conspicuously when i was first in town, possibly right up to the time taht the police cameras went up in 97.
Definitely saw pickpockets right in front of me as I sold posters.
But in those early years I was tehre you would see waves of people crossing the bridge and often staying pretty much in step as they crossed over to O'Connel st. & then you'd suddenly see a bunch of people going against the flow as they stopped to score. The Abrakebabra on Westmoreland st was also a notorious drug den or represented as such.

So I hear ye are all antisemites now?

To a point

The centrist slugs seem pretty sure they have the receipts

I mean, this is predictable. pic.twitter.com/Cnljmpbkez

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 11, 2021

so saying fuck the Brits is the new anti-Semitism?

these wankers should concentrate on their own fascists - there's enough of the fuckers. There are MI5 papers just released in the last 10-20 years on right-wing British MPs, peers, senior military figures etc that were involved in plots ("including espionage, sabotage, unlawful private attempts to broker peace deals between Germany and Britain") to install a pro-Hitler regime in London.

But beyond these are other files identified in the de-classified MI5 dossiers which have not been released to the National Archives. They relate to yet more aristocrats, MPs and military officers who worked on behalf of Germany during the war.

the background to this is Sally Rooney refused to allow a certain publisher to publish her work in Israel, which has been twisted into "Sally Rooney refuses to let her works be translated into Hebrew"

anti-imperialism is good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBfwwfeXoAUfTLK?format=jpg&name=900x900

now that's all clarified there won't be another word on the subject.

up the roon'

Fifty year anniversary of Bloody Sunday:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2010/jun/10/bloodysunday-northernireland

how long must we sing this song?

actually you can stop now thanks

maybe you just stop posting, dickhead!

suspect that was a U2 zing there calz

not that I'd expect it to have been made in eg a similar American civil rights context, for instance

exactly!

and take that shite to ilm

My apologies, that was a lazy and ill-considered stupid drive-by post, not helpful or necessary

not that I'd expect it to have been made in eg a similar American civil rights context, for instance

it still shocks me that a country where one of the top left-wing politicians consider Thatcher a good person and a victory for representation, is actually full of complete fucking idiots!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60130486

Yuri filatov fish

Ireland's first line of defense against the Russians is something else! #Russia #moscow #YaBollix pic.twitter.com/sCElZuea2R

— Niall (@niall_staunton) January 27, 2022

POLL: Business Post/Red C
(Jan 21-26, MoE 3%)

Sinn Féin 33 (unchanged since Nov)
Fine Gael 21 (-1)
Fianna Fáil 15
Green Party 6 (+1)
Social Democrats 5
Labour 4
PBP-Solidarity 2
Aontú 2
Independents 11 https://t.co/Xb88kMTflI

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 29, 2022

I'm just glad we got the Vax before SF get in I guess

Fuck that 2% for Aontu though. What is wrong with people?

I mean 2% tho

the beauty of not having only two sides is that you see the genuine crazy separate to those that will just cynically exploit em

Crying laughing at this

He also recalled how his mother, Catherine Finnegan – known as Jean – visited the UK and spent a night in a hotel where, she was told, the Queen had once stayed.

“She was so appalled that she slept on the floor all night, rather than risk sleeping on a bed that the Queen had slept on,” Pritchett wrote, adding she personally admired anyone who allowed their principles to take precedence over a comfortable bed.

man joe

we elected the wrong Biden!

His parents were Irish

I don't think they qualify as Irish even by American standards tbh. The "Bidens" were actually English, but no votes in that.

did you also know he was the first half English/half German person with an Irish sounding surname in his family to to go into higher education?

I don't even feel as Irish as Biden does despite my dad immigrating from Kerry and my mum from County Meath but this an American thing.

George fall into the sea challenge

Yes, Donbas is majority Russian-speaking. On the same grounds, England has a right to re-occupy the Irish Republic.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) February 22, 2022

George LOLbiot

hes not wrong just a wee bit off right

do not

Presumably he's saying: the UK has no right to re-occupy the Republic of Ireland.

I agree with that.

The start of this thread was remarkably, unusually bad.

So then -- a bunch of Guinness-soaked louts or a flowering of native Celtic genius that makes the English look like a passel of Hooray Henrys and who wisely escaped the UK's clutches to help make America the brilliant place it is?

It’s a totally stupid point given that aiui:

- lots of people in Donbas consider themselves Russian proper and hold passports to that effect
- “the Irish republic”? Really, George? It’s out of touch at best and pejorative at worst.
- there’s six counties in the north east of the island that actually make a better argument for this but it doesn’t exactly place the UK in the best light to do so
- as an Irish citizen, seeing all kinds of cunts now get outraged about shooting protestors and the like given that the UK government is actively trying to row back on “Bloody Sunday was bad”? Indescribable
- why am I writing this in English, George?

You missed out calling the UK England.

lol right. Man’s a hack

The start of this thread was remarkably, unusually bad.

_So then -- a bunch of Guinness-soaked louts or a flowering of native Celtic genius that makes the English look like a passel of Hooray Henrys and who wisely escaped the UK's clutches to help make America the brilliant place it is?_

monbiot usually has his heart sort of in the right place but that is a crass (and crassly-phrased) comparison yes

A totally unrelated side note is that I spent some time in Dublin for the first time in eleven years a couple of weeks back. It was great, but it’s changed so much since I was last there and even longer when I lived there. I was really really impressed by the Luas, but Dublin bus has cut a load of bus routes and as someone who used the services constantly when I lived there, it was really noticeable. The airport bus service being cut is a total disgrace.

I also stayed in the Gresham which I did for 3 reasons a) I got a really good deal on a night there b) central af, meaning I could stagger out of bed the next day and walk around a bit before staggering for the train home c) it tickled me a bit bc I remembered writing essays in Irish as a child where I said I stayed there. Hotel was pretty nice, would do again.

It was lovely to see the Connolly statue, which I posted about in another thread. It’s neglected, though, which is a shame and apt considering his political successors, for example:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnVCl8PX4AABpkr?format=jpg

The Gresham is where the Conroys stay the night in the story 'The Dead', rather than going back home in the snow, and thus where Gretta C tells Gabriel C about Michael Furey.

So it is. Ty pinefox. There is a relevant picture here but I can’t post it itt.

How did you come to be interested in Irish literature anyway?

having a wilfully distorted understanding of everywhere else in the world is a defining feature of UK liberalism. Even with supposedly nominally left leaning libs like Monbiot. And he's a cunt!

it goes beyond a clumsy ill considered analogy, he's just showing his real colours