#im bad at irish

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

Playlist Shuffle!!

thank u @minnarr for tagging meeee!! 💚💚💚

Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

(i don't have a spotify, so i'll use the audio files i've already got downloaded on my computer, hope that's ok!! 😅)

òran a phrionnsa (the prince's ballad) by kathleen macinnes it's quite long bc it's like a romanticised story about bonnie prince charlie and the jacobites, with lots of allusions to mythology and folk history and such. idk i just think it's neat and i'm rly proud of myself for being able to recite the whole thing ok 😅

lon-dubh (blackbird) a gaelic cover of the beatles song by julie fowlis!!

sadhbh ní bhruinnealla by liam ó maonlaí (my fav cover as well! 🥰)

coisich, a rùin by capercaillie

hò bha mi, hè bha mi by julie fowlis

eilidh by robert robertson (my recording is BRILLIANT bc he's performing casually in a pub!! truly stunning!! sorry i just wanted to gush about it 😅)

cairistìona by kyle carey

thig am bàta by julie fowlis (again) (sorry i just really love her. this song SLAPS btw. THE DRUM BEAT is. amazing. and the story behind it is interesting as well 👀)

OK THIS IS. THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS. IT'S JULIE AGAIN. I HAVE TO SKIP IT NOW COME ONNNN

........it's julie again ._. im a broken birb ._.

FINE. YOU WIN MADAM.

hè gràdh, hò gràdh by julie fowlis. it's about cows. no i won't elaborate.

bodaich odhar hogha gearraidh by juLiE fOwLiS. it's about old men from hogha gearraidh fighting some other dudes or something. also there's fionnlagh and the piper's lad and tormod the deaf blacksmith asdfghjk fUCK THIS IM TIRED OF BEING EXPOSED. BIRB OUT >:V

TAGS. I DOn'T. JUST. EVERYONE. EVERYONE. U'VE ALL BEEN TAGGED. U ARE ALL TAGGED NOW. GOOD DAY SIR

[ceo-draiochta]

It's really interesting how people who claim to have such an interest in Ireland and decolonisation here but yet when the exact same thing that happened to ireland happens in a different country. Happens in a non white majority country suddenly its clam shut. Like if you can hold in your mind the complexities of the ira for all its goods bads and indifferences, why can you not hold these same ideas when the people are not white? Why was Irish resistance an unfortunate consequence of colonisation but the resistance of black and brown people "sadistic"?

Basing your whole brand on Irish culture, Irish mythology, Irish whatever. But when the time to have Irish solidarity with the oppressed it's handwringing. Uafásach.

There was a post a while back from a user on here who claimed to just *love* Ireland but was posting about how much they loved pro Rhodesian propaganda songs. Can you not see the parallels?

[hella1975]

all hate to tiktok for taking 'having a space to more openly and actively talk about different cultures' to mean 'cultures are NOT to be shared and we must be vigilantly defensive of our cultures for fear of appropriation, a word that can be applied to any multicultural interaction'. like of course cultural appropriation is a very real problem but ive seen with the access to global multicultural conversation that tiktok provides it's made people TERRIFIED to even interact with cultures other than their own for fear of 'doing it wrong'. like at some point you have to acknowledge that in the real world of the great outdoors, the majority of people are eager to SHARE their cultures. yes there are ignorant questions and biases but also... how do you think those things get unlearnt? i dont understand how deciding that multiculturalism is an elephant in the room instead of a normal thing that should just be talked about and lived with is supposed to benefit anyone? and kids on tiktok are CONVINCED that it's a time bomb of a conversation to have and therefore must be avoided at all costs but like. people generally LOVE their home and their culture and are PROUD of it and want to share it. how have we made it so that showing genuine interest and a desire to understand something so integral to a person's identity is now feared and borderline demonised?

[mariemariemaria]

Found out about this recently and it's driving me insane lmao

[abrahamvanhelsings]

moments where bram stoker has his dutch character abraham van helsing say "gott in himmel" because he is irish and german and dutch are interchangeable to him while any dutch person knows that obviously the only thing van helsing could possibly have said at this point in time is "godverdomme"

[semiferalstreetcoyote]

studying cú chullain and thinking about how one crime committed as a youth can steer the direction of your life forever. the dehumanization of being called a dog to replace the one you slaughtered yet wearing it like a badge of honor. the achillean knowledge of your fate and the bold race to meet it. the final taboo to commit, the blood of the hound, not being so far off from what began it all in the first place. also my personal opinion that he’s a werewolf given his thematic ties to dogs and the gaelic emphasis on shapeshifting and the fact that sometimes in battle he turns into a horrible ghoul but mostly the other stuff i said before

[eirgachuair]

Scéalta Sean Chairde

 Bhí chara agam;  Bhí a chuid gruaige orga.  Dúírt sé liom;  Bhí croí óir aige,   Ach d’fhéach mé i a chliabhrach Agus bhí sé ag níos dhubh ná oíche.

Bhí chara agam;  Bhí a súile gorm.   Dúirt sí liom  Bhead sí tóg an tAigéan,                                                                              Ach thóg an tAigéan í. 

Bhí mé chara   Bhí mo chuid gruaige donn.  Bhí mo shúile chomh maith                                                    Dúirt mé leat. Dhéanfainn stair. Ach dhéanta an stair mé

[cyndrastic]

I WARNED YOU ITS SELKIE AU TIME

Here’s Craig!! Ignore that i drew him kinda young here, this was just a doodle, he’s like early 20s in this au

Anyway plenty of people know about female selkie myths: they go on land, get their skin stolen by a man, and they’re forced to marry and live with him till they either 1: die or 2: find their skin and return to the sea

but there are male selkies with a bit of a different lore >:)

male selkies follow the same rules with skins as women do: they shed their skin to become human, and without it, they can’t go home. But, according to mythology, if a heartbroken or unhappy woman cries 7 tears into the sea, she summons a selkie to fall in love with her and take her back to his underwater kingdom.

the stories range on how much of this is the woman’s free will vs. mind control, and no one seems to agree on how long a male selkie can stay on land, but this is kinda important to this au. Not the main focus, but i wanted to mention it anyway cause i found it cool.

but yeah expect more of this cause i’m brainrotting very hard atm <3

[oifaaa]

Not Irish but I listen to Irish music sometimes so I actually understood that reference

Thats illegal you can't do that

[godza]

my dad was adopted but i still consider myself irish since its somewhere in there on my moms side anyway. im not particularly impacted by either polish or irish culture i just really like pierogies and kielbasa. i am not irish until i go to my grandmas house. my ethnicity doesnt matter to me because at the end of the day i have no connection to either culture im just a white boy. i would love to be more in touch with those cultures but dont feel like i have a right... polish mutuals we ride at dawn

[sebnameyourcar]

something that remains so fucking insane to me is the amount of engineers i know who work for f1 teams who just.. don’t watch f1. it’s absolutely mad. utter devotion to the concept of engineering and nothing else. honestly you have to respect it

[rogueofrageedits]

online posters im coming off hiatus to tell you to stop being nice to the incoming taoiseach. idc what hes said about palestine hes the leader of a centre right government. get it Together

[sleepvines]

hey I'm back, I was out of front for a hot minute.

[ferretrade]

the fact that Lindsay Lohans character in this movie is gonna end up with the English guy over the Irish guy feels offensive actually

[moooooolnp]

How I imagine y’all react when fem aligned, gay, straight, male aligned, minor, over 18, Christian, catholic, Islamic, Jewish, buddhist, satantist, vegans, carnivores, Sagittarius Men, fall out boy fans, emos, basics, coquettes, agere, anti-agere, anime fans, anti anime fans, youngest child, middle child, oldest child, pro recovery, pro ED, Americans, french, Italian, Mexican, Latino, Irish, black, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Pakistani, Saudi Arabian, South African, BLM supporters, WLM supporters, republicans, democrats, and literally anything interact with their Ghost smut

(It was in their 30 page DNI list):

[muirneach]

i like ireland as much as the next guy and im glad we all like to celebrate their wins but can we stop pretending that just because they had the ira they are the most progressive nation ever?? go read about direct provision and other immigration policy/public sentiment in ireland before saying anything