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I can't believe medical leeches are extinct in ireland 😔 we fucked up so bad 😞
The reason why there aren’t many good horror movies anymore is because all the directors went to work for the RSA
cíara cíara cíara all the cpd halloween asks you’ve been getting have me thinking of intelligence being introduced to the idea of báirín breacs and i just can’t stop??
we know that jay is from the southside and that’s supposed to be a wicked irish area, so imagine a family friend/relative dropping on off for jay at the 21st and he introduces the rest of the unit to the concept, and then they spend the day all taking tiny slivers to try and find the ring first
but of course adam has the memory of a goldfish, and either by forgetfulness or absentmindedness, he walks into the break room and just goes, ooh, ✨cake ✨ , and proceeded to scoff down the last of it and with, the ring too
god i’m sorry for this, i just cannot stop thinking abt it 💀
OH MY GOD DO NOT BE SORRY FOR THIS AT ALL RÍ THIS IS BLOODY GENIUS!
We know the Halsteads are Irish Catholic, and with their cousin Moira being mentioned it's like, close to Ireland Irish, so this is completely something I can see happening.
Jay telling the story of what the ring means, and everyone just like looking at the two couples? Awkwardness ensuing and people trying to take tiny slivers. Or he does what my mother does and cuts it into slices and makes people take a slice at a time (I think we spent too long searching for the ring).
But just the forgetfulness, and Adam just coughing it back up and accusing Jay of trying to kill him? The awkwardness of "oh god Adam's gonna be even more lovesick"? The fun?
Honestly I semi wanna write this now because it'd be hilarious, but NO CÍARA TOO MUCH TO WRITE. But I ADORE it.
Okay slay. Some fuel protesters valid.
Yoooooo the thieving landlord withdrew from the presidential election ❗❗❗
The former Dublin GAA manager said recent days “have given me cause to reflect.”
Ok sincere thanks to the anon who suggested I might like this video. It is PHENOMENAL start to finish.
I particularly appreciated:
Open discussion on Irish peoples historical ability to be evil bastards
Discussion on the ONGOING AND HORRIFIC racism against Irish Travellers by Irish settled people and the Irish state.
"Most Irish media is, incidentally, an ugly, distorted mirrorfor a more beautiful and interesting thing. Most Irish media is eight, nine, ten layers deep on mirrors, reflecting mirrors of what Irishness is supposed to be."
"Irishness, [...] is actually very relativistic and you can easily fail to achieve it just as easily as you can fail to do masculinity or do heterosexuality. It's also clear to me that in Ireland we have a very parochial culture and that it being parochial and localized is a more accurate reflection of Irishness than any kind of Pan-Irishness could ever hope to be."
at 1 hour 25 minutes in when Neilly brought up the. erm. "postmodern paddywhackery" engaged in in Banshees of Inisherin. A film where APPARENTLY? A COP? ISNT FULLY AWARE WHETHER HE IS SUPPORTING THE GUERILLA FORCES IN A CIVIL WAR OR NOT????
The fact that pan-irish identity is a tool used to uphold white supremacy in america AND racism within ireland AND is cultivated to strengthen and unify those forces both sides of the atlantic.
The concept of the "deadbeat dad state".
The answer to "who owns lough neagh?" Is crazier and more evil than you could possibly imagine
might you have any recs for books by irish authors? I've read a couple lately by coincidence and I'm in a mood to do it deliberately
first off, what are the books did YOU read? 👀 I don't read as much Irish literature as I'd like, I want recs too!
Secondly, Disclaimer: This is just one tumblrina's opinion. I am embarrassingly poorly read with contemporary stuff. This is just stuff ive read and a bunch of nostalgic childrens literature. But here are some of my favourites!
Country by Michael Hughes.
I've posted about this before. It's a retelling of the Illiad set during the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland. Its really and truly incredible. Visceral and human and real. Gripping. Just Fantastic.
Emma Donoghue
Possibly my favourite living Irish author.
Her first two novels (Stir Fry and Hood) are contemporary lesbian stories set in Dublin during the 90s. I have a particular soft spot for Stir Fry as it is set in my university and follows a young culchie coming to college and entering the big gay world. So like exactly my experience but ~25 years earlier. I don't know if either of those books are still in print but I really do like them.
Emma Donoghue's historical novels are fantastic also. I have read The Pull of the Stars (set in a maternity hospital in Dublin during the spanish flu, when a child born into the dublin slums had worse survival odds than a WWI soldier) and The Wonder (...hard to summarise but it is about an Irish nurse who is sent to check if a child is being sustained by miraculous intervention, or has an eating disorder. Touches on war, famine, religious devotion, and the lives of rural people in the 1800s).
Room is probably Donoghue's most famous book. Its alright. Like it is good! Its told from the POV of a child born in a shed where his mother is being kept imprisoned by her rapist. It's very well written. I just think it gets so much attention because it is contemporary and shocking and possibly set in America.
Final round up on Donoghue - she's also written a lovely series of children's books about a big poly queer family (The Lotterys), a fascinating biography of an incestuous Victorian aunt and niece playwrighting couple who shared a diary and converted to catholicism because their dog died (We Are Michael Field), and a short story collection I really enjoyed (Touchy Subjects), and lots more stuff I haven't read!
Amongst Women by John McGahern
This is the kind of book most people think of when they think of Irish Literature. It also slaps! Set in the 20thc in rural ireland, it is about a dying man and his family. The dying man is a violent tyrant, a retired policeman and veteran of the war of independence. He is also ...dying, and unable to dominate the people around him as he used to. Its one of the best stories about domestic violence and petty tyrants I've ever read. Then again, I am from rural Ireland and grew up in an abusive home, so of course it resonates. let me tell you it was CONTROVESIAL when it came out. McGahern has many other well regarded books and short stories. I haven't read most of the novels and couldn't tell you much other than that they're well regarded.
Dubliners by James Joyce
Read this for university. It really stuck with me. Joyce really was as good a writer as everyone says. I'm never going to read Ulysses, but this short story collection is phenomenal.
YA and Children's writers
Sarah Rees Brennan. She moves in the same artistic circles as Maggie Stifvater, to give you an idea. I adored The Demon Lexicon as a teenager. Reread it recently and still enjoyed - she also wrote In Other Lands, which is kind of a Rainbow Rowell-esque not-fanfic but structured like fanfic. Really readable, really fun.
Kate Thompson - surreal and fantastic books. She weaves folklore and fairy tales into modern settings in a fascinating way. I read The New Policeman and The Fourth Horseman as a teenager and I remember them 15 years later. Have not read her adult books.
Derek Landy - his sprawling dark fantasy series for teens was super important for me as an edgy teen.
Roddy Doyle - has written a huge range of stuff for children and adults. Very influential especially in the late 20thc early 21stc. Protagonists are generally working class Dubliners.
NOT! JOHN BOYNE! he is really well known for his dodgy holocaust book and his dodgy trans book. Do not recommend.
On my to-read list/mid-read list:
The Price of My Soul - Bernadete Devlin McAlisky - Autobiography by a living legend of the civil rights movement in Ireland.
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray (just got it from the library!)
Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland - Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc. Nonfiction.
Nothing on Earth - Conor O’Callaghan
At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill
The Land is All that Matters - Myles Dungan. Nonfiction.
Dracula - Bram Stoker. Obviously.
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
If anyone else has got this far and has a rec, pls share!
