the fleeing rule

[dechuis]

holding ur hand gently as i say this. kneecap isnt the only focain irish language band out there <3. expand ur horizons a chairde there is so much good music as gaeilge around rn

some recommendations:

Súil Amháin is a poet and rapper from Listowel (hon the kingdom!) and I fucking love his music for how it effortlessly positions gaelainn not as a relic of a slowly suffocating culture, but as a language belonging totally to the modern world and to modern Ireland in particular, and at the same time staying true to aspects of traditional Gaelic songs, such as a propensity towards place names lol. the áit dhúchais is as important in Súil Amháin's 'Lá Breá', as it is in any sean-nós song and the leanúnachas between tradition and a bold plunge to the future is inspiring

Róis is an artist from Fermanagh whos album Mo Léan is a beautiful exploration of the tradition of death songs and keening in ireland. its like a mix of sean-nós and electronic music and a bunch else mixed in. personlly i prefer her 2023 album Uisce agus Bean but Mo Léan is the better album without a doubt lol. the attempt to reconcile death in the modern world with irish grieving traditions that span centuries is very affecting and also the songs themselves are absolute tunes 🎶

their website says it best. "Through bold reinterpretations of at-risk Irish language songs, Huartan’s mission is to connect contemporary audiences with the oral singing tradition and native language of Ulster." they call their genre 'tradtronica' and I desperately want to see them live ive heard they're incredible. their music is so fun and energizing and the blend of electronica and trad instrumentation is sublime. also they're very firmly and demonstrably pro-Palestine (éist le Fiáin nó Dorn San Aer / listen to Fiáin or Dorn San Aer!)

IMLÉ is a pretty prominent collective in the Irish language music scene, their stuff is like pop / hip hop / indie and for the most part their singers have Connemara Irish i think. some of their songs annoy the shit out of me lol and im not a huge fan of what James Shannon brings to the table but i LOVE Róisín Seoighe and overall theyre fun!

Róisín Seoighe's individual stuff is brilliant as well, i really love this song of hers.

Amano is a Japanese-Irish singer songwriter from Kerry who released an EP last year, Thread, comprised of 4 incredible songs in Irish. her voice is beautiful and her music energizing and the EP weaves together so many disparate threads 😉 its such a joy to listen to!

Síomha's stuff isn't on spotify anymore but her tunes are so effortlessly stunning and graceful. her website describes her genre as 'cosmic, folk-informed, jazz-tinged, post-pop' lol and her debut album Infinite space is so dreamy. And ofc you only have to listen to Spéir Rua to fall in love with it.

i just love Kíla. theyve been around for a few decades, theyve a wealth of albums and their newest one, Raise the Road, is a collaboration with an 8-piece brass brand ‼️ They're described as 'Contemporary Irish World Music' and their sound is sublime, theyve such palpable energy. ngl tho Rónán Ó Snodaigh is a phenomenal bodhrán player but i find it very hard to understand his irish, idk if its just the dublinness or what lol

and ofc the ogs of using irish to make (not so) contemporary music, Na Fíréin! founded in 1984, they were an attempt at a rock band whose songs were entirely through Irish. Their song Tír na nÓg is genuinely one of my favourite songs ever, i love it so much. Sin Mar a Bhíonn is also great. give them a go! they are very 80s but its nice to know that something like them existed and that the Irish language was a part of the rock scene in Ireland back then.

That's all I have room for lol but please it ye have recommendations for music in Irish feel free to give them! <3

[ancat-dubh]

adding a few other faves!

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin is my all-time fave young sean nós singer and a housing/Palestine solidarity organiser in Dublin whose music is closely tied to his politics, his album Solas An Lae with Ultan O’Brien is stunning and all as Gaeilge. his voice gives me chills every time.

similar vibes to Huartan, mix of heavy electronica + hard rock + trad influence. they’ve been around about a decade and recently moved more into Irish language tracks.

Zambian-Irish rapper from Limerick, self described ‘too seán nós too griot’, smooth playful sharp R&B vibes. she raps mostly in English but uses Irish throughout in a way that feels v how a lot of younger ppl use the language.

kinda goofy, kinda bops – white boy from Clare doing what he calls ‘Reggaeltón’, dancehall/Afrobeats influenced hip hop mostly as Gaeilge.

[duine-aiteach]

While not all his music is as Gaeilge, Padraig Jack is from the Aran Islands so he does have quite a few that are. I saw him live when he opened for The Saw Doctors a few years ago and he was amazing.

[rivetgoth]

Where’s the Hunter S Thompson we’re at war now quote Bring me the Hunter S Thompson we’re at war now quote

[rivetgoth]

1 week post 9/11

[deactivating-s00n-deactivated20]

tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

[deactivating-s00n-deactivated20]

you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.

[lebada]

funniest possible reply and its not even on purpose

[crimeronan]

-charlotte zhang art installation at the alice gallery

[taviacoolcat]

ilyaaaa ☺️<3 ... concussion >:[ and a fractured collarbone :/ out for the playoffs but 🤗 could have been worse 😌☝️ ... i know 🙄 part of the game 🙄 we all get our bell 🔔 rung eventually right? 😊 ... heyy:) heyyyyyyyy:))) ... yes<3 bet-ter🥰🥰 ... i'm sorry i didn't text you last night 😔 ... i was excited about last night ☝️ i'm mostly mad 😠 at marleau for fucking that up 🙄😏 ... you know i had a whole plan to ask you something❗️... i was gonna ask you ☝️❗️ Will You cometomycottage this summer? 🥰🏡 ❌️don't❌️ go to russia🇷🇺 come to my houseee 😤💞 we'll have so much fun :D it's so private :D no one will knoww :D ... mmmwe could have a week💕 or even two✌️💕 we'd be completely alone 👯‍♂️💞 ~✨️together✨️~ ... oh no 🙄😒 ... ok bye bye 👋☺️ ... 🫡see you next season🫡 ... thank u😊<3 i appreciate it😤<3 ... hellooo😁

[bugbugly]

no motivation to write but i have a hollanov fic floating in my head about them accidentally making plans to hook up on valentine’s day and both of them trying to act like they don’t realize it lest the other think it was intentional & think they want to make things serious/romantic. which of course is illegal. bc of how it opens them up to rejection. anyways. ✌️

[shithowdy]

doubloons!

playing with linocuts

[7fff00]

[ID: Rough black-on-cream print of a loon in water, depicted doubled and conjoined in 180° rotation like a royal on a playing card /end ID]

[wshmc]

“i could marry svetlana” …ilya i don’t think you’re making it to the next sunrise…

[meret118]

No one knows Ilya is there, and Shane has acres of woodland to bury a body. ;)

One of the things I really love about this scene is it's a replay of the tuna melt scene. This is what Ilya was trying to say bringing up Svetlana then, but this time he says it right, and lets Shane know it's not any of the women he's known. It's only Shane for him.

[thehallusocracy]

The thing that’s so funny to me about this scene is that Shane clearly thinks he’s keeping it together. He always thinks he’s keeping it together and Illya’s like: SAY IT

[thehallusocracy]

most unrealistic thing about the cottage? that they were not being eaten alive by mosquitoes, blackflies, noseeums every moment they were outside. iyacyk

[cosmonautroger]

Maya Fidawi, Black Cat

[redlipstickresurrected]

Phil Greenwood (Welsh, b. 1943, Dolgellau, North Wales, based Kent, England) - Water Lights, Etching and Aquatint

[filthylittlesailorboy]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Byzantine church interior in Nevşehir, Turkey

Turkish vintage postcard

[sunflowerbutch]

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[leopardmask-ao3]

Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans

[great-and-small]

Now that’s what I call

[great-and-small]

@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

[bulgedenimlover]

[thehallusocracy]

What an apt username!

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

[coffin-fit-for-two]

new sex position were you dont touch at all. in fact one of you dies

[shopwitchvamp]

Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]