inis fáil.

We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse— MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. independent personification of the republic of ireland. written by ian. est june 2019.

[faughanbeallach]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and dat ass doesn't throw far from the circle.

What does this mean. I’m feckin’ elderly. 

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(blows the dust off this blog)

hey lol 

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i have OCs for all of ciarán’s siblings (so northern ireland + the brits + brittany) and they’re more like NPCs on this blog but maybe i should make a post introducing them all sometime soon cos i miss RPing here and his relationship with them tends to come up a lot 

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ciaran 1950s moodboard

[georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov]

Members of the Irish Volunteers parade through Dublin in 1915 for the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, a long time leader of the Irish Independence movement. The funeral produced one of the best known calls for a free Ireland, as Pádraig Pearse proclaimed in his oration:

They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but, the fools, the fools, the fools! — They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.

(Cork Museum)

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COME FORTH, LAZARUS! And he came fifth and lost the job. 

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COME FORTH, LAZARUS! And he came fifth and lost the job. 

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ah sure you know yerself 

Independent Ireland OC, as written by some bloke called Ian, who can’t be bothered to make an actual promo. 

[faughanbeallach]

i want to write a longer post about this eventually but ciarán tends to view american & canadian reps as his nephews/nieces, less for their connection to england and more because of the prominence of the irish diaspora in both countries. 

i’ll focus on america here since it’s the fourth and i am an american of predominantly irish decent myself but long story short, and this kind of an broad statement, irish-americans have historically played a huge role in shaping america from the very beginning. a lot of irish emigrants, both catholics and protestants, during the revolutionary period were patriots-- a british major general once testified to the house of commons, rather derisively, that by his estimate, at least half of continental army’s soldiers were born in ireland. back in ireland the american revolution was thought of in very high regard; many people sympathized with the rebels basically for sticking it to the english. the rebellion of 1798 was directly inspired as was robert emmet’s 1803 rebellion. that’s not even mentioning the various contributions of irish-americans to american popular culture because frankly i will have to make a longer more detailed post for all of that. suffice to say ciarán is very, very fond of american reps, and very proud as well.

[faughanbeallach]

ah sure you know yerself 

Independent Ireland OC, as written by some bloke called Ian, who can’t be bothered to make an actual promo. 

[faughanbeallach]

I love the Americans, really, I do, but nobody here says top of the morning nor have they ever and I’m gonna go feckin’ ballistic if I ever hear it again.

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sometimes i worry that i made ciarán too much of a prude but i just read a transcript of an actual seanad debate on book censorship wherein a senator would not even quote a mildly obscene passage from a book because he was so mortified by it 

[faughanbeallach]

hey guess whose email i remembered 

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ciarán is actually great with kids and used to want have some of his own but it was more because of the whole “be fruitful and multiply” thing and less because of an actual desire to be a father. once he realized he couldn’t actually have kids he had his weird mini-crisis of faith about it but he got over it and now he’s just fun uncle

[faughanbeallach]

Y’know, back in the old days, we used to have big bonfires for May Day. Used ta decorate a wee whitethorn bush, too, ‘n parade it ‘round the place.

Now you can’t even have a little bonfire without everyone and their mum goin’ mad. This generation! 

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[severnayastolitsa]

hey guys

long time no see. yes i am still alive. i’ve been over on my ireland OC’s blog (or, well, i was, until i uh forgot that i had a roleplay blog in general) 

at long last i have finally remade alexei’s blog! i very much needed a fresh start + a clean slate for him; i’m hoping to move him more into a direction that i am happy with this go-round. consider this a sort of soft reboot. 

i’ve still got some work to do, namely regarding tags, but he is more-or-less ready to go