#and then to dublin

[pedrospatch]

hahaha guess who missed her flight bc traffic was a nightmare even though i left my house 4 hours early 🙃

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

airy gold

[petitworld]

National Botanical Garden, Dublin, Ireland by William Murphy

[die-rosastrasse]

From the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin

28 VI 2023

[savebylou]

Ed Sheeran's response about a fan commenting of the 1D reunion [27.08.24].

[wouldvebeensweet]

TAYLOR SWIFT The Eras Tour - Dublin, IE. - June 28th, 2024. Photographed by Getty Images.

[henk-heijmans]

Pub In Dublin, Ireland, 1950s - by Hans Silvester (1938), German

[radicalgraff]

"Be Gay, Do Crimes.

Be Trans Ride Trams ( advocate for free public transport)"

Seen in Dublin, Ireland

[lionofchaeronea]

Incipit of the Gospel of Luke (Quoniam quidem multi...), fol. 188r from the Book of Kells, created in an Irish or Scottish monastery ca. 800. Now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

[learnelle]

Sitting at dublin airport just thinking about how excited I am to go have little evening chats with my boyfriend again and cuddle my cat Marquis and have tea from my favourite mug and feel at home again ☕️📚🐈‍⬛🤎

[erohon17]

RYKER my babyyyyy🤲🤲🤲

[nobodys-nothing]

Lucy's Lounge, Dublin, April 2022 (35mm)

[undr]

Marvin Koner. Dublin,1959

[vyorei]

Wasn't expecting this to pop up in reports, always nice to see

Ireland stands with Palestine, always 🇵🇸✊🇮🇪

Ón abhainn go dtí an fharraige, beidh an Phalaistín saor 💜

Source for images: Clodagh Kilcoyne and Reuters via Al Jazeera Live Updates