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an-moncai-mishuaimhneach

Days since the Brits were at it again: 0

a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark

Goddamn fucking Sassenach. Gaelic is not a political statement, it's an Irish person's heritage.

systlin

Anyone in England with a chisel who wants to hit this lady up and right a wrong?

toshiirou

english shut the fuck up challenge

systlin

Can you imagine being literally any of these people.

“The Irish has waged war against the Windsor for more than a century...” literally shut the fuck up oh my god, the Irish were minding their own business and then England invaded them, and that was 800 damn years ago and England is still on its bullshit.

the-end-is-kigh

The comments! Fuming. Celtic rights are always over looked, why should it make ANY difference to the authorities what language a grave is carved in?!

culchie-in-the-city

An Intro I suppose to the guide?

Well, Hi!

This is a blog I suppose. I’ve never seen myself as someone who would actually make a blog but we’ll see how this goes.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, why? Why do we need a guide to living in a city? Surely it’s just like living anywhere except for it’s a city but I’m here to say, it’s not that simple.

Okay, let’s be honest, it’s not a guide as much as it’s my experience of the differences between the two.

So let’s kick back and get into it shall we?

Firstly, for those of you who live elswhere on the globe, a culchie is simply someone from the country. If you ask a Dub (someone from Dublin) they reckon it’s anyone outside of Dublin but as a culchie I wouldn’t exactly call myself one despite living miles from a city of any sort.

In my eyes a culchie is someone who is into farming and country music, who wears checked shirts and brown shoes to a nightclub and begs the DJ to play wagon wheel.

So I never considered myself a culchie until I moved to Dublin, the big Shmoke, Ireland’s version of the Big Apple. Less cool though.

There is a united hatred of Dublin outside of Dublin itself. Not the place, the opportunities or any of that. Sure all you see is ‘culchies’ on instagram taking photos of the Spire as if it actually was a proper land mark.

No it’s the people we dislike.

They have an air about them that makes them seem like they think they’re better than us simple country folk. It’s infuriating to say the least.

For example, (and you’ll be getting lots of these through the posts) the first time I used google pay in front of a Dub, they laughed and said “Oh look at you, becoming a proper city girl”

Now I’ve had google pay for months. At the point this event happened I had had it for at least 4 months and she acted as if this was a new concept to my little brain.

It’s things like this I’ll post about, the language, the people, just the whole lot.

Basically, I’ve lived in Dublin for a good few years due to college. I have a house and I fare quite well, I know the buses, I know where to go out out on what nights and where the drinks are cheap. And now I will impart (is that even a word?) my wisdom to you. Well if anyone actually reads it. But I’ll think of it as an impersonal diary that may or may not be read. So if you have read, thanks and I hope it’ll help even slightly.

irishthings

Gaeltacht 101

Going to the Gaeltacht for the first time can be SCARY. I remember when I found out the first year that I was going I genuinely cried because I was so afraid. However, six summer courses later (four as a student and two working as a ceannaire), and I still don’t know what terrified me so much. It’s a great opportunity and it’s essentially a holiday (if the weather holds up!). Since it’s still so scary for many people, I’ve made a list of tips, supplies, and other useful bits for first-timers!

- Pack in advance. Make sure you bring sports clothes (even if you don’t like sports you’ll probably HAVE to do them), beach clothes, spare towels, more clothes, socks, and underwear than you think you’ll need. PRACTICAL SHOES. Holy god please don’t wear heels in the Gaeltacht (maybe bring a pair just for the last night). You’ll be picking yourself out of the muck for a week. - Bring water. If you’re going to a coastal Gaeltacht (An Rinn especially), there’s a good chance that the drinking water will be manky AND that you won’t get enough of it. They do big packs of bottled water in Lidl for fairly reasonable. Some places mightn’t want you having water but h o n e s t l y. Just don’t have a water fight indoors like a gobshite. - Have at least enough Irish to get by. If you can’t string a sentence together as Gaeilge you’re going to have a very rough time of it. Try to step it up in school in the months leading up to the summer. If your teacher is useless, try Duolingo to get your basics down. - Buy/bring a backpack. Trust me, even those dinky ones from Penneys are lifesavers. Where else are you going to keep your suncream, water, camera, purse/wallet? In fact, get a small one so you don’t become the group suitcase. - If you have a hurley BRING IT. - Don’t give the ceannairí/cúntóirí a hard time. It’s their job to make sure you’re trying to speak Irish and not acting the maggot too much. No, Páidí isn’t an arsehole for giving you detention, you’re the one screaming “WILL YOU MEET MY FRIEND” while standing on a bosca bruscar. - If you don’t want to go to mass, you might have to bring a letter from your parents. I know this is a tough one, especially if your mam or dad are religious/awkward. Some places will let you just stay back and do sports or whatever if you ask, but others have a hard rule about it. - Wear your interests. This can be a risky one, but if you’re a little shy it can help to have a literal beacon to connect with other people who are also shy. In my time the emo kids always stuck together, and you could pick any one of us out by our clothes. Same with the bebo stunnahs, or any other group. I know it seems a bit silly, but it works. You won’t always get on with people who dress the same, but having something to talk about is a step to finding people you do get on with. Something as simple as a band shirt or even badges are enough, you don’t want to go too flashy in the Gaeltacht. - Bring pocket money. When I say pocket money, I mean maybe €10-€20 in case ye go to the shop or have a shop on site. You really shouldn’t need more than that unless the coláiste tells you otherwise. - You might not be able to bring snacks with you. You might have to deposit them in a seomra soláistí/tuck room. You definitely shouldn’t keep them in your room/dorm. You definitely shouldn’t put them at the bottom of your suitcase or in an opaque bag because nobody can, without permission, search through your belongings to take them from you. You definitely also shouldn’t need to make sure there are no wrappers visible in bins or crumbs left around because you definitely won’t be eating in the dorms. You also definitely shouldn’t bribe a ceannaire with chocolate if they catch you with food.

hello-spaceb0y

In Ireland, we don’t say ‘I love you’, we say ‘an bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithris’ which means ‘you will forever have my heart’. I think that’s beautiful.