#irish unity

[madamepestilence]

2024 Bingo

Have a 2024 bingo card!

...hopefully this isn't an Apollo dodgeball moment

forgive me for the tag's y'all

[river-taxbird]

Got this through the door today. While I don't intend to specifically promote Sinn Féin or anything associated with them, I do think this is worth sharing and agree with the principles expressed on this specific flier.

[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

For Marbled Monday this week, I’m sharing three books about Ireland that are bound in the same lovely marbled paper. They are: 

Substance of the Speech of the Right Honourable Lord Sheffield: Monday, April 22, 1799; Upon the Subject of Union with Ireland

A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present by John Wilson Croker, 1822.  

A Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled, Arguments For and Against an Union by Richard Jebb, Esq., 1799.

All three of these books are no longer in their original bindings, having been rebound to match one another using this marbled paper. Each book is fully bound in fantasy patterned paper that is teal, green, and pinkish red. They all have tan paper labels on the spine that are printed with the title of the book and the date of publication. And, just by coincidence, my nail polish nearly matches the pinkish red in the paper, as seen in the sixth picture shown here!

Now, I would like to note that it is not usually a good idea to wear nail polish when handling rare books and archival materials—it’s possible for the polish to transfer color to the paper and leave a mark. However, I use gel polish, which is set into a hard polymer using an LED light. Because of the curing process (and possibly the layer of clear top coat), no color transfer happens when you drag your nail across the page! Ah, the miracles of modern science.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[thefinaljohnson]

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[seachranaidhe]

Thanks for getting us to 70,000 followers.

#IRISHUNITY We are living in the final days of partition.A united Ireland referendum is now inevitable and the preparations must begin. Thanks for getting us to 70,000 followers.We are living in the final days of partition.A united Ireland referendum is now inevitable and the preparations must begin. pic.twitter.com/wyq0sRzt8w— Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 (@IrishUnity) January 2, 2023

[ask-the-hws-immigrants]

Happy St. Patrick's Day and Happy Anniversary of the Unification of Italy! Although the Irish and Italian flags have fewer roots in their diasporas than the Lithuanian flag, they're both associated with revolutionary movements and emancipation in their respective countries. Both are modeled after the French Revolutionary tricolor!

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1969 – Bernadette Devlin was elected MP for Mid Ulster, standing as the Independent Unity candidate; at 21 years old, she was Britain’s youngest ever female MP and the third youngest MP ever.

Devlin was born in Cookstown, Co Tyrone to a Roman Catholic family. She attended St Patrick’s Girls Academy in Dungannon. She was studying Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast in 1968 when she took a prominent role in a student-led civil rights organisation, People’s Democracy. Devlin was subsequently excluded from the university. She stood unsuccessfully against James Chichester-Clark in the…

[vyorei]

I mean that was said about the Galaxy Leader too but that turned out to be owned by an Israeli billionaire so I'm not trusting anyone from Apartheid Israel to be honest here and CERTAINLY not fucking DANIEL "IT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT A CALENDAR" HAGARI

So when someone whose word has worth verifies, I'll believe it then.

[thismustbetheblog]

Best interaction from the Kneecap/Corbyn discourse

[nugothrhythms]

Anyone know of any goth covers of Irish rebel songs? I don't care the subgenre.

[werewolfetone]

I know that Ireland wasn't actually a major player in the Napoleonic Wars but also I feel like it's kind of odd how it almost never gets brought up in media about the time. Like you'd think that with the amount of media about Bonaparte and his rise to power there'd be something about that period that has somebody like Arthur O'Connor or Edward FitzGerald or Wolfe Tone in it at least in the background, and you'd think that with the way that Castlereagh played so large a role in negotiating peace in Europe and was so instrumental in securing Wellington the position he had, a lot of things would make mention of his past and his reputation, but... they don't really, and the United Irishmen hardly ever come up in Napoleonic media. And I guess it doesn't really matter but it's just. there's often a noticeable hole there where they should be that I notice when I watch things about the time period and I don't like it.

[mybrainproblems]

WAIT.. i forgot Mick gets killed after refusing to kill Eileen and investigate/kill the Winchesters

[raylangivins]

Yes, famously supportive of the monarchy, the Irish..

[seachranaidhe]

'A growing majority in the North of Ireland think Brexit has increased the likelihood of a United Ireland '.

‘A growing majority in the North of Ireland think Brexit has increased the likelihood of a United Ireland ‘.

http://seachranaidhe-irishandproud.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-growing-majority-in-north-of-ireland.html Scotland, Wales and the North of Ireland have refused to give consent to Brexit – but Westminster and the DUP isn’t listening!!!