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NEREVAR YOU RAT!

[vaatil]

Talk, ‘tis no good. But forge…very good! I help anytime.

[kumanaru]

“Ooh, what’s that smell… The sweet blood, ooh, it sings to me!”

finally finished this beast!!!! T ____T/

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Oh my God

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x

[rynabuns]

what on earth

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please if you do anything useful in your life, don’t scroll past this

watch it

PLEASE

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tchaikovsky is proud

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In case anyone is baffled by this, there’s a Tchaikovsky piece in which there’s supposed to be a loud sound but he never specified what you should use to make that sound. People have done all kinds of weird shit depending on how they think the sound should, well, sound. Hitting a large piece of wood with a sledgehammer is a relatively conventional one.

[fakehistory]

Pringle Found c. 450 BC

[an-moncai-mishuaimhneach]

Honestly more realistic than some of the stuff neo-Pagans believe about the Celts.

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^^^^

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[heavenzhell]

Vote yes for the women and girls who were sent away to the laundries and mother and baby homes. Vote yes for the young girl who was raped and told she was being sent to England for an abortion by the hse but was instead institutionalised.

Vote yes for the women who’s babies are dying or already dead inside them. Vote yes for the women who’s babies are killing them by still being alive. Vote yes for the women or girl who is carrying her rapists child. Vote yes for the women who have no option.

Vote yes for the women who have already been affected by this amendment. Vote yes for the women who have suffered because of this amendment. Vote yes for the grieving husbands, children and families of the women who have died because of it.

Vote yes for all the women who have already travelled on boats and planes to the uk and other countries. Vote yes for the young student who can barely afford to keep a roof over her head never mind fend for a child.

Vote yes for the 9 women who sit on a plane or a boat everyday to travel for an abortion, and the 3 who take abortion pills at home illegally everyday. Vote yes for the women who try to induce miscarriage because they can’t afford to travel or buy pills and are so desperate

Vote yes for the suicidal teenage girl. Vote yes for the women who have been silenced and made to feel ashamed for their actions for years. Vote yes for those who need it.

Vote yes for healthcare. Vote yes for compassion and understanding. Vote yes for your mothers, wives, daughters, partners, friends and women all over Ireland. Vote yes to trust in women. But most importantly vote yes for choice, to #repealthe8th

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☕☕☕

[kmkamio]

Vicar Amelia

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if you’re irish and you complain about britain “erasing culture” but can’t even speak the language/ don’t know shit about ireland before 1910 then just shut your cakehole nobody cares

[gruene-teufel]

Them being Irish and not being able to speak the language/not knowing shit about Ireland before 1910 is a direct result of Britain erasing culture, you goddamn Vitamin D-deficient circus clown

[jean-anouilh]

IF YOU LIKE IRISH MYTHOLOGY

and folklore and podcasts, do have a listen to  Blúiríní Béaloidis / Folklore Fragments on soundcloud (also available for free on ITunes). It’s a podcast made by the National Folklore Collection in University College Dublin, who just recently earned their place on the UNESCO list!!! The podcasts touch on Irish folklore, customs and mythology, and the last one is about Christmas customs!! 

Soundcloud link

Support the National Folklore Collection!!!!! 

[dappermouth]

Deep woods hide saints of another kind — holy, unholy, beast and divine.

[twisteddoodles]

An important reminder about St. Patrick’s Day

[did-you-know]

The town of Nördlingen, Germany, was built inside an old crater from a meteor that once crashed into the countryside. Residents have incorporated parts of the meteor into their town, including the church - which is encrusted with meteorites and microscopic diamonds. Source Source 2 Source 3

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by quietly remembering that Native Americans sent more aid to Ireland during the famine than Britain or the US.

[sympolite]

specifically, it was the Choctaw nation that sent aid to the Irish during the famine

[swimmiesofdoom]

1.  “more aid to ireland during the famine than britain” okay let’s clear this up, again– there was no famine, it was a genocide, commited specifically by the british.  ireland was literally packed with food.  the only crop that failed was the potato crop.  the british had no problem with ships FULL OF FOOD leaving british ports on british ships from ireland to other places to make money.  IT.  WAS.  NOT.  A.  FAMINE.  IT.  WAS.  A.  GENOCIDE.   and that probably explains why britain didn’t “send aid”.  britain was literally using the “famine” they manufactured to clear the land of indigenous irish people.

2.  which lends poignancy and power to the attempt by the choctaw nation to send food to starving irish people. 

3.  there was much fanfair about this in the british press at the time, because of course the british government was lying to its own people about what they were doing.  it’s convenient to blame natural disasters like “famine” when in fact it is mass murder– kinda like what’s going on in yemen right now.  but to conclude, what didn’t receive a lot of fanfair in the british press is the fact that much of the corn and other food the choctaw nation attempted to send did not go to starving irish people, it was essentially hijacked and went to feed british pigs and livestock.

4.  which is why every saint patrick’s day we remember the genocide (one of many the british attempted in ireland) of black ‘47.  and we always remember the native americans who responded in such good will and with such generosity to starving people an ocean away from them.

[knit-soup]

And - all through primary school (until age 12) it was taught as a famine; only in secondary school did we learn that the British caused it deliberately. There’s a fair amount of Irish YA novels about the Famine (can’t remember titles off the top of my head), and they’re all pretty brutal with the facts of what happened. Not to mention most people’s great-grandparents probably lived through it - it’s not that far back.

Also there’s a monument to the Choctaw nation somewhere up the country for the help.

[jack-me-off-jill]

The Monument is in Cork! Midleton, Cork to be exact. It’s called ‘Kindred Spirits’ and was created by Alex Pentek at the Sculpture Factory in Cork, with assistance from students of the Crawford College of Art and Design, and installed in Bailick Park in 2015, and consists of nine 20-foot stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a circle, no two feathers being identical, forming a bowl shape to represent a gift of a bowl of food! It was officially unveiled and dedicated in June 2017 by Chief Gary Batton, Chief of the Choctaw Nation, Assistant Chief Jack Austin Jr., and Councillor Seamus McGrath, County Mayor of Cork, accompanied by a 20-strong delegation from the Choctaw Nation. There’s a wikipedia article here, that’s just what I wrote above.

ALSO!!

My friend works for one of the production companies that made the film Black 47 and it has been unveiled at the Berlin Film festival and ADIFF this week and is relevant to this post and you should go see it if you can!

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Daniel O’Connell literally got Fredrick Douglas over to speak to the Irish, and he told his own followers that if the Irish went to America and treated black people like shit then they were not Irish. 

“It is not in Ireland that you learnt this cruelty.”… “Though if you remain and dare continue to countenance the system of slavery that is supported there, we will recognize you as Irishmen no longer.” 

-An 11 page letter O’Connell wrote denouncing the Irish in america that were against the abolition of Slavery.

Hear that, Irish Americans? If you’re racist, Ireland doesn’t want you. You’re disowned.

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