#Fenian Flag

[stairnaheireann]

The Fenian Brotherhood

The Fenian Brotherhood, the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s US branch, was founded by John O’Mahony and Michael Doheny, both of whom had been “out” (participating in the Young Irelander’s rising) in 1848. Members were commonly known as “Fenians”. O’Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named his organisation after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill. The Fenian…

[aeolianblues]

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they……….try to fuck ye with terror offence in the magistrates court? Organise a festival out the front is a good start.

Whats happening yas brutes, I’m back for another slice of hows your ma, and its a juicy wan.

Firstly the circus of distraction that this case is. They have used Kneecap as a means to avoid the real conversation, which is of course Genocide in Palestine. Apparently the opinions of 3 lads from West Belfast and Derry is worth more airtime than hundreds of thousands of starving kids. The Israeli government is a stain on humanity. I am saddened every fucking day with the lack of balls the world leaders are showing in the face of this animal Netanyahu. We will be back at the magistrates court 20th August. Its not just about support for Mo Chara, its about Palestine and support for the Palestinian people. Always.

We had 8000 headcases in a field at Fairview. And that went exactly how it sounds. It was a privilege to leave a court in London and travel home to Ireland to play for you absolute heroes. We had a moment at the gig for the loss of our dear friend Conor Biddle. The funniest man I have ever met and an expert in his field. He put blood sweat and tears into making our show what it is today. We love and miss you mate.

Glastonbury is upon us lads. When the english prime minister publicly says you shouldn't be playing, you know its gonna be a mad one hahaha. West holts stage 4pm, bring your Palestinian flags and a pocket full of fun times. Its going to be fucking chaos I promise, it'll go down as one of Glastos most iconic gigs.

Recap officially released and theres a music video to boot coming very soon for all of our loyal fenian followers, grá mór.  Oh and one final wee request to help us out...if you have a Kneecap balaclava (real one or rip off doesn't matter a fuck) send us a wee video of you in them at mad locations. You can be dancing to our new track the Recap feat Mozey, or just standing there, whatever works.

Email clips to kneecapvideos@gmail.com

Until the next time xxx

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latest Kneecap newsletter: Last week’s court date and protest outside, Glasto this Saturday, new song Recap out with a video to follow, and the band is looking for your balaclava videos.

[teatitty]

I'm always on the lookout for other variants/translations of fenian cycle stories but especially Boyhood Deeds because each one has unique information to give about Muirne or Fionn himself. Anyway I found one that actually has a very good translation in english rhyme of the first poem he ever created to prove he had mastered the art to his tutor: The Song Finn in Praise of May

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May Day! delightful day! Bright colours play the vales along. Now wakes at morning's slender ray, Wild and gay, the blackbird's song.

Now comes the bird of dusty hue, The loud cuckoo, the summer-lover; Branching trees are thick with leaves; The bitter, evil time is over.

Swift horses gather nigh Where half dry the river goes; Tufted heather crowns the height; Weak and white the bogdown blows.

Corncrake sings from eve till morn, Deep in corn, a strenuous bard! Sings the virgin waterfall, White and tall, her one sweet word.

Loaded bees of little power Goodly flower-harvest win; Cattle roam with muddy flanks; Busy ants go out and in.

Through, the wild harp of the wood Making music roars the gale— Now it slumbers without motion, On the ocean sleeps the sail.

Men grow mighty in the May, Proud and gay the maidens grow; Fair is every wooded height; Fair and bright the plain below.

A bright shaft has smit the streams, With gold gleams the water-flag; Leaps the fish, and on the hills Ardour thrills the flying stag.

Carols loud the lark on high, Small and shy, his tireless lay, Singing in wildest, merriest mood Of delicate-hued, delightful May.

[incorrect-ulster-cycle]

Good morning:) in your last ask you mentioned red and green flag names when it comes to Ulster cycle works in an academic context. I've just started a master's degree in literature last semester and would love to get more information on both the Fenian and Ulster cycle but if I'm being completely honest, I feel overwhelmed and don't know who might be an instant red flag and who to trust. Help? I absolutely love your fics on ao3 btw, I always read them on my commute to and from uni. Have a great day:)

ehhh it's a little bit of a gut instinct at this point i gotta admit – if i know them personally they tend to go on the green flag list, if i've previously read and hated their work they're on the red flag list, lol. there are people who are contextual flags like, if someone is citing lady gregory as if she's a primary source, that's a red flag, but that doesn't mean lady gregory's work isn't useful for SOME things (textual reception etc). it's just Not a primary source. gantz's "early irish myths and sagas" is, like, a stripy flag – the translations are mostly okay though not flawless, but i would heartily recommend ignoring his introductions cos they're out of date if not incorrect. i'll still rec it as a collection of texts as it's the most accessible translation of most of what's in there, but it's a recommendation with caveats.

there is very little Popular writing about medieval irish lit that i would trust that isn't by people who also write academically on the subject. not sure there's any tbh. so googling the author and seeing their qualifications is a good start – if they're actively in a medieval irish department or similar then their work is likely to be solid even if i disagree with them on interpretations

unfortunately given the nature of the field you find yourself relying on unreliable materials more often than you'd like due to lack of reliable ones. like the number of times i find myself reading some 1870s shite cos nobody's worked on a topic since... 🙄 so learning how to filter the bullshit and make use of that imperfect material is fairly essential lol

i only got four hours of sleep so i am blanking on general recs right now but if you let me know more what you're looking for (editions? translations? discussions of specific elements, if so which?) i can offer some names and titles. i'll also go reblog some of the reading lists i've shared in the past for reference

[theperfectpints]

The Fenians rose up against British rule in Ireland on 5 March 1867, carrying the 32 Starred Flag. “The soil of Ireland, at present in the possession of an oligarchy, belongs to us, the Irish people, and to us it must be restored.”

[lanadelreyisthearpy]

I am honestly so SICK of the prods that live in my country they are always discriminating against catholics like you choose to live here leave if you hate it so much and all this ww3 will just start the troubles up again i could write a whole essay on how the troubles has given me so much religious trauma the song zombie just describes everything so clearly but its the fact that the protestants know what they are doing is wrong i used to be friends with a protestant and her and her whole family called me a fenian and taig to my face which are slurs against catholics its the fact us as catholics get discriminated against every day like they didnt invade our country or take our language away and im so greatful that my family are native irish speakers and taught all their children how to speak irish even tho you would get your knees shot if you knew how to speak it and if you ask a prod what they knew about Ireland or irish people they wouldn’t have an answer for you because they are so selfish they light bomb fires every 12th of june and on those bomb fires has the irish flag and the Palestinian flag which is a whole other problem

I just needed a wee rant because i believe we should have a united ireland which most likely won’t happen for years as in the north we are counted as part of the uk and the politicians don’t consider that we are being verbally harassed everyday even by people who are Irish because we are held accountable by their actions while we get stereotyped as british by countless people because of their invasion we arent even counted as irish because of them when we are and i don’t know what i need to do to prove it other then a dna test atp

[llyfrenfys]

Thank you for the tag @mostlybats-partiallyrats ! For the main pride flags, here's my picks:

Lesbian flag - New Mexico whiptail lizards (lesbian lizards).

If we're doing mythical creatures then it's gotta be the Salmon of Knowledge from the Irish Fenian Cycle. Women want fish, fish fear me etc.

Gay man flag - Either lions or housecats (lots of gay cats out there!)

For mythical creatures I'd go with a griffin on the basis that if real-world lions are gay frequently, it stands to reason griffins would be also.

Bi flag - Dolphins, rams or bonobos (high rates of bisexual activity in all these species! Being bi myself, I favour the ram personally).

Succubi or incubi would be a my pick for mythical creature here.

Trans flag - Clownfish! Or possibly hyenas or galliformes.

Sirens would be a good mythical creature since they are genderfluid depending on who they are hunting.

That's my 2 cents - what other flags could we do? Tagging @prideknights cause they posted that poll above

So like... people have broached the idea of pride flags having dragons on them like heraldry, which is of course correct and just, but like... they shouldn't ALL have dragons, right? Or at least not the same dragon. Each flag should have its own heraldic beast, ideally one that relates to the orientation the flag represents.

Which begs the question of which heraldic beasts would best suit each color of the rainbow, as it were. I think the iconic four legged, two winged dragon makes sense for the main pride/rainbow flag, since dragons are often posited as, like, the pinnacle of monsters, and so feel best suited to be the one that encompasses the whole spectrum, but I'm kind of paralyzed by the options presented to pick out ones for the others.

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

Approximately 1,000 Irish American Fenian insurgents invaded Canada from Buffalo, N.Y., and engaged 840 Canadian militia volunteers at the Battle of Ridgeway. June 2, 1866.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: The charge of the Fenians (wearing green uniforms) under Colonel John O’Neill at the Battle of Ridgeway, near Niagara, Canada West, on June 2, 1866. In reality, the Fenians had their own green flags but wore a very mixed bag of Union and Confederate uniforms (if they still had them, or parts of…

[dustedmagazine]

Toxic Waste — Belfast (Sealed Records)

Photo by John Campbell

Belfast by Toxic Waste

The mid-1980s were crushingly unhappy times in far too many places: El Salvador, Afghanistan, Soweto, Southwest Philly. And so on. But we shouldn’t neglect Belfast. The dominant narrative of the Troubles features a number of signal events from the period: the Bobby Sands-led hunger strike; the bombings at Hyde Park, Regent’s Park and the Grand Brighton Hotel; the Maze Prison escape. For the population of Belfast, everyday life was an ongoing experience of being under the cosh — of the S.A.S., of the U.D.A., of the I.R.A. (and the Provisional I.R.A., and the numerous smaller paramilitary groups espousing loyalty to Ulster, to the Republican cause or to generalized mayhem). Walled-off neighborhoods, guard posts commanded by men with heavy guns, regular patrols of armored vehicles—the city was a de facto warzone. Hence the name of the Warzone Collective, an organization run by a bunch of Belfast anarcho-punks during the mid-1980s and intermittently through to the present. Toxic Waste was a punk band active in the Warzone Collective, and Sealed Records has done us all a very serious solid by reissuing Belfast, an anthology originally released in 1987 that collects a number of Toxic Waste’s songs. It’s a terrific record, documenting some oft-overlooked music from a vital punk scene and its vigorously politicized response to the lifeworld’s chaos and violence.

The songs on Belfast are taken from two moments in Toxic Waste’s development: Side A has been selected from records produced in 1985 and 1986: From Belfast with Blood — The Truth Will Be Heard, a split EP with Stalag 17 released by Mortarhate (run by Londoner punks Conflict); and We Will Be Free, an LP compiling songs by Toxic Waste, Stalag 17 and Asylum, first released by the Warzone Collective. Side B includes tracks from a later session, featuring Toxic Waste’s Roy Wallace alongside members of DIRT, a London-based anarcho-punk band. There are sonic consistencies that render the sounds on both sides comparable, most notably the dual male and female vocals, though on Side A, founding member Patsy sings, and on Side B, you hear Deno from DIRT. For both line-ups, the influence of Crass is palpable, in the interplay of the voices and the relative simplicity of the songs’ constructions — and legend has it that Toxic Waste was created in the aftermath of a 1982 Crass gig in Belfast. 

You can draw a fairly direct line from Stations of the Crass (1979) to We Will Be Free to Nausea’s Extinction, from “You’ve Got Big Hands” to “As More Die” to “Godless.” That sort of genealogy building is informative and interesting, but the importance of the immediate social context of Toxic Waste’s music should not be reduced. The situation of anarcho-punks in a politically fraught conjuncture like mid-1980s Belfast lends the music a particular power. Songs like “Tug of War,” “Burn Your Flags” and “Religious Leaders” demonstrate the band’s continual symbolic and ideological displacements, to a marginal in-betweenness, then to a radically placeless outside. As anarchists, the punks in Toxic Waste weren’t Catholics or Protestants, Fenians or Loyalists, natives of Sydenham or of New Lodge. Their relations to Northern Irish identity were infernally complex. There’s this, from “Song for Britain”: “You take a look at Northern Ireland / And think it’s too far away to worry about / But it’s not that far / And you may have to experience what we’ve put up with for years.” That seems like a collective “we,” cutting across the country’s sectarian lines. But in a city so divided, where could that “we” live with any sort of stability? And from whence does the treat in that final clause originate? Then on “We Will Be Free,” you hear, “I am not Irish / I am not British / I am me / I am an individual / Fuck your politics! / Fuck your religion! / I will be free! / We will be free!” Shorn of national, religious and political markers, who is that “We”? Is it the same “we” that speaks in “Song for Britain”?

It’s impossible to say for certain, and all of those contingencies and fluidities make the music on Belfast volatile, always on the move, always riven with restless desire. Perhaps the most coherent statement of the intent driving Toxic Waste can be encountered in “Traditionally Yours” (present on the record in two versions, from the two iterations of the band — a double voicing that further complicates all the other double voicings): “The struggle became a movement / Human rights was its concern / ‘How dare they!’ cried the rich / We’ll see those fuckers burn!” The anarchist language embedded in the passage is as powerful as it is ambiguous. What do we make of the past tense? Does that indicate that the movement is moribund, undone by Northern Ireland’s violence? And what about that “we”? Is it spoken by the song’s lyric speakers, representing the anarcho-punks that sing? Or is that “we” the “rich,” expressing their outrage at and malign plans for the anarchist cause? The syntax remains unresolved, and while Northern Ireland’s worst armed struggles have receded, these songs remain explosive, messages from displaced people that systems of oppression would like to exploit, exhaust and cast aside. But even the most institutionally entrenched powers find that Toxic Waste isn’t so easy to dispose of. 

Jonathan Shaw

[stargazerssociety]

For April Fools day our teacher gave us a test (for history) that was increasingly unintelligible.

Like for question 3 it was "why did the Fenians contribute to confederation" and then question 10 was "the flag of Canada is red and white. How would Justin Beiber have been on the flag without confederation?" (that was the actual question)

Jade what the fuck /lh

-Allium

[garudabluffs]

Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains - The Foggy Dew

Sinead O'Connor & The Chieftans - The Foggy Dew

Foggy Dew – a reflection on the Easter Rising 1916

The Foggy Dew is one of the most remarkable songs to have emerged out of the Easter Rising staged by Irish nationalists in 1916. It was written by Canon Charles O’Neill who was a parish priest at Kilcoo in County Down.in the north of Ireland.The melody is based on an old traditional Irish song called the Banks of Moorlough Shore.

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Foggy Dew — Sinéad O’Connor and The Chieftains — 1916 Easter Uprising

As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I There armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by No pipe did hum nor battle drum, did sound its dread tattoo But the Angelus bell o’er the Liffey ’s swell Rang out in the Foggy Dew

Right proudly high over Dublin town they hung out the flag of war ‘twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through While Britannia’s Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew

‘Twas England bade our wild geese go, that “small nations might be free”; Their lonely graves are by Suvla’s waves or the fringe of the great North Sea. Oh, had they died by Pearse’s side or fought with Cathal Brugha Their graves we’d keep where the Fenians sleep, ‘neath the shroud of the Foggy Dew.

Oh the night fell black, and the rifles’ crack made perfidious Albion reel In the leaden rain, seven tongues of flame did shine o’er the lines of steel By each shining blade a prayer was said, that to Ireland her sons be true But when morning broke, still the war flag shook out its folds the foggy dew.

Oh the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear For those who died that Easter tide in the spring time of the year And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few, Who bore the fight that freedom’s light might shine through the foggy dew

As back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more But to and fro in my dreams I go and I kneel and pray for you, For slavery fled, O glorious dead, when you fell in the foggy Dew.

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[stairnaheireann]

The Sunburst of Ireland | Fenian Republican Rebel Print

In the centre, Erin is holding an Irish flag with an Irish wolfhound by her side. Along the sides, you can see portraits of great Irish heroes: Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’; John P. Curran, a Protestant lawyer and politician; Henry Grattan, politician who opposed the Act of Union; Fr Matthew, the Temperance priest; Colonel Thomas F. Burke, Martyr; Robert Emmet, Irish patriot. Along the…

[nanshe-of-nina]

Favorite Songs || Irish Folk

The Boys of Wexford  || Robert Dwyer Joyce I want no gold, my maiden fair/ To fly from home with thee./ Your shining eyes will be my prize, more dear than gold to me/ I want no gold to nerve my arm/ To do a true man’s part / To free my land I’d gladly give/ The red drops of my heart.

Come Out, Ye Black and Tans || Dominic Behan Come let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell/ When you fought them well and truly persecuted/ Where are the sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear/ When our leaders of sixteen were executed?/ Come out, ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man/ Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders/ Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away/ From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.

The Foggy Dew || Canon Charles O’Neill Right proudly high over Dublin Town/ they hung out the flag of war/ ’Twas better to die ’neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar. / ...  Twas England bade our wild geese go/ that small nations might be free./ Their lonely graves are by Suvla’s waves/ or the fringe of the great North Sea./ Oh, had they died by Pearse’s side/ or fought with Cathal Brugha./ Their names we’d keep where the Fenians sleep/ ’neath the shroud of the foggy dew.

The Man From the Daily Mail || Peadar Mac Ghiolla Chearra Oh, the country is seething with sedition./ It’s Sinn Fein through and through/ All the people they are joining the the Provos/ and the password’s "Sinn Fein", too./ The IRA has sent me a time bomb in the mail/ So b’Jesus and begorrah, I’ll be getting out tomorrow/ said the man from the Daily Mail

The Men Behind the Wire || The Barleycorn Not for them a judge and jury/ Nor indeed a crime at all/ Being Irish means they’re guilty/ So we’re guilty one and all./ Round the world the truth will echo / Cromwell’s men are here again/ England’s name again is sullied/ In the eyes of honest men.

Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile || Traditional Welcome oh woman who was so afflicted/ It was our ruin that you were in bondage/ Our fine land in the possession of thieves... / And you sold to the foreigners!/ Gráinne Ní Mháille is coming over the sea/ Armed warriors along with her as her guard/They’re Irish themselves, not French nor Spanish/ And they will rout the foreigners!

Outlaw Rapparee || Traditional Let George or William only send/ his troops to burn or loot/ We'll meet them up on equal ground/ and we'll fight them foot to foot/ Lift your glasses friends with mine/ and give your hand to me/ I’m England's foe, I’m Ireland's friend/ I’m an outlawed rapparee.

Rising of the Moon || Traditional All along that singing river/ that black mass of men was seen/ High above their shining weapons flew their own beloved green/ Death to every foe and traitor, whistle out the marching tune/ And hurrah me boys for freedom ‘tis the rising of the moon.

Rock on Rockall || The Wolfe Tones This rock is part of Ireland/ For it’s written in folklore/ When Fionn mac Cumhaill took a sod of grass/ He threw it to the fore/ When he tossed a pebble across the sea/ Where ever did it fall/ For the sod became the Isle of Man/ Now the pebble’s called Rockall.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley || Robert Dwyer Joyce But blood for blood without remorse/ I’ve ta’en at Oulart Hollow/ And placed my true love’s clay-cold corpse/ Where I full soon will follow/ And round her grave I wander drear/ Noon, night and morning early/ With breaking heart whene’er I hear/ The wind that shakes the barley.

[notquitetwilight]

no I seriously cannot beLEAF somebody tagged me as racist for using the word fenian when I am...a fenian djisksksoakalak this website is so unhinged pls refrain from commenting on this word you clearly don’t understand unless you’ve played gaa sports in northern ireland and had it screamed at you from a passing car or you’ve taken a wrong turn down a belfast street full of union jack flags and you’re scared you’ll get jumped if people hear your accent or throw stones at your car when they see your republic of ireland license plate. thanks!

[bondsmagii]

Why are American schools like that I’m so worried. The only flags we had in our school were in the geography classrooms and none of the flags were our countries flag

the only school I attended that had a flag was this school that for some reason flew the Union Jack because the school had a lot of Protestants and blah blah blah that all has something to do with each other in the North of Ireland. anyway the school was supposed to be integrated so it shouldn’t have flown any flag at all, but it did anyway, and this caused a lot of controversy. nobody was proud of the flag because of the country it represented, though -- the Protestants just liked pissing the Catholics off, and all it came down to was spite.

meanwhile we Fenians were shimmying up the pole at least once a week to take the thing down. we called it “pulling a Mulan”.

[creativefiend19]

do you trust Bryde? (random question of the day!)

LOL I love any and all random questions - especially from you!

I feel about Bryde very much like I feel about Niall Lynch or the new Fenian.

We don’t have enough info - yet.

However, I instinctively disliked and, to a lesser extent, distrusted him. All the grandiose speeches and dramatics - and all the games ffs! But - at the same time - I believed him when he said that Ronan was the most expensive thing he’d ever saved (that was a really intriguing line actually - like he’d messed up the space-time fuckery continuum or something!). 

So, I don’t think he’s evil as much as on a different agenda. Like, maybe a true anarchist - wanting to burn down the world of Humans and bring about a new order of ... Dreamers? Tir e e'lintes ? 

Someone said to me that he seemed to be spewing Pureblood / Superior Race nonsense (@forestgeit was it you?), which I totally agree with. That kind of thing is automatically a red flag. 

The Lace is scared of Bryde. And the Lace is Evil (right?). And the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? 

And I agree with you, Ronan might be blinded by Bryde (he can be charmingly stupidly innocent), and then start to see the cracks, like with Niall. 

Also, Ronan really doesn’t want to be a lonesome Dreamer anymore, like he tells Hennessey. So just that might make him more eager for ... a community? (I find it interesting that Ronan and Adam parallel each other in trying to find a community of people like themselves - except with Adam it’s built on a shaky foundation).

But, still, I don’t like Bryde or trust him very much. I am ready and willing to eat my words when MI2 (as I wrongly call it in my head) comes out LOL.