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strandedandlonesone · 8 months
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The British Isles
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Great Britain (isle) Northern Ireland (region part of the UK)
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agentem · 1 year
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It's that time of year when you are going to see some "Irish" t-shirts in stores and can get your Shamrock Shake at Mickey D's. There will be St. Patrick's Day parades this weekend and next.
And I just want to be a nerdy know-it-all for a second. St Patrick's Day was originally a religious holiday (as most holidays were, holy + day = holiday); it still is in some places, like some actual Irish people from Ireland who believe in God--though the American parade/festival mentality seems to be gaining steam in some parts of Ireland, I am told.
St Patrick's Day as we know it is deeply rooted in the United States. Though it's been celebrated here since 1600 in the territory that became Florida, the tenor of the holiday greatly changed after the Great Famine of Ireland.
You may have been told in school that the famine occurred because a blight wiped out potato crops in Ireland. This is true but doesn't address the crux of the matter.
The blight started in North America and travelled to Ireland and into much of Europe. But we only think of it as an Irish problem because the Irish were too poor to eat other foods.
Some scholars have said it was a "man made crisis" and I agree that is true. Other crops in Ireland were not affected by the blight, in fact, this time was considered one of "plenty", but all that food was used to feed the English. Not the Irish.
Nor were the English quick on providing aid, "There is such a tendency to exaggeration and inaccuracy in Irish reports that delay in acting on them is always desirable," said Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel after initial reports of the catastrophe.
Workhouses designed to assist the poor and starving were closed prematurely. "The only way to prevent the people from becoming habitually dependent on Government is to bring the food depots to a close," said Charles Trevelyan, the man who was literally in charge of famine relief. He also said some gems like, Sure the famine is bad but "the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people" was the real problem. Great guy; he became a Baronet.
The soup kitchens, which replaced the workhouses were also closed prematurely, were widely believed to serve portions too small even for children and lacking any nutritional value due to them being watered down to feed more people than anticipated by the brilliant British government.
A million people died in Ireland from famine and disease and nearly 2 million left Ireland for other parts of the world. Including my father's family. (If they survived the "Coffin Ships" leaving their home.)
So when I said above that the tenor of the holiday changed, it was because of increasing Irish Nationalism and anger at Britain. Now, Ireland is a Republic (though it's not unified, yet) and we are proud of those who stayed and fought to make that happen.
We are also proud just to still be alive anywhere. The population of Ireland is 6.9 million now--slowly nearing the 8.5 million it was home to before the famine--but people with Irish ancestry across the world has been measured to be about 80 million people. Take that, Sir Robert Peel.
The English actively tried to kill us. Nevertheless, we persisted. A lot.
I hope you have a Happy St. Paddy's Day (it's Paddy not Patty). Drink some Guinness. Dance some jigs. Definitely eat some potatoes (Boil 'em! Mash 'em! Stick 'em in a stew!) But please remember that when people are starving, you should feed them. Don't be like the English government.
In fact, as I write this there is a crisis in Turkey and Syria. It just so happens that the Sultan of Turkey wanted to donate money to Ireland (10,000 pounds) but since Queen Victoria donated just 2,000, he was told it would be against protocol.
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colonellickburger · 9 days
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Gilles Peress. Divis Flats, Belfast 1986
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bandiera--rossa · 1 year
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"Bloody Sunday was an event that really changed the North (of Ireland). The next night in the flats [in the Bogside] there were lines of kids wanting to become IRA volunteers. They created the IRA that day".
Gilles Peress
Documentary photographer - He created a lifelong connection and fascination with Northern Ireland; he would come back again and again, not least at the time of the hunger strikes in 1981 and the first IRA ceasefire in 1994.
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deithe · 2 years
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twitter losing their minds cause kneecap got a mural in belfast of a burning psni jeep, cause it's apparently 'sectarian'. oh so you're admitting that the psni isn't there to protect all people living in northern ireland and is just another militarist force backed by unionists? that the psni is heavily and deeply historically tied to unionism and unionists and anything done to combat police brutality in ni is sectarian on the republican side apparently? really showing yer fucking cards there fellas
even then, kneecap is a fucking irish language rap group that satirizes the violent divisions between working class republicans and unionists, and their real goal is to building working class solidarity between these two communities to fight back against the establishment in ni and how young working class people, wether republican or unionist, and to show that they are used by the upper class to stoke divides and use as soldiers in a culture war?
how can that mural be sectarian when it is only opposing the psni? it is anti-police, not anti-unionist? the psni is a discriminatory violent organization that fails to protect northern irish people they do not see as worthy, such as noah donohue, a young black nothern irish boy found dead in a storm drain, which was labeled as 'no foul play' and hiding evidence from the public and his mother which could prove otherwise. or when two psni officers were found to have taken derogatory photos of a suicide victim, including staging his body in various ways, exposing his body by removing clothes, degrading him, and sharing those images on social media with the caption 'another taig bites the dust'.
if the mural is indeed sectarian, then that means to go against the psni is to go against unionists in the north. there is no such thing as a 'diverse and open policing force', there is only a policing force' which imposes centuries long rules of colonialism, sectarianism and discrimination against those the psni deem as unworthy.
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eaglesnick · 1 year
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101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government
Thing 25
 Maria Caulfield was appointed Minister for Women, on 27th October 2022. She took over from the right-wing Kemi Badenoch who had been appointed to the post only days earlier. Like her predecessor. Ms Caulfield is also anti-abortion, so when it comes to the right of women to choose what they do with their own bodies Ms Caulfield is not a big fan. She certainly does not believe the women of Northern Ireland have the same rights as women on the UK mainland as she voted AGAINST legalising abortion in that part of Britain.
PinkNews  (31/10/22) had this to say:
“Tory MP Maria Caulfield’s appointment as the new minister for women has caused controversy, as an MP who’s previously voted in favour of cutting the 24-week abortion time limit and opposed buffer zones outside clinics.”
Katherine O’Brian of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service  made this statement:
"We are absolutely appalled that the prime minister has decided to appoint as minister for women an MP who has consistently voted to restrict women's rights."  (BBC News: 31/10/22)
But no one should be surprised as unelected Rishi Sunak and his top team are all anti-abortion.
“Key members of the new cabinet have consistently voted against abortion rights in England All four holders of the “Great Offices of State” have failed to support a woman’s right to access safe abortions in England over the past seven years…" Guardian:04/11/22)
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hetascanlations · 7 months
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Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 481 Original
Translation: spaghettifelice // donamoeba Scanlation: nekotalian // jammerlea
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fireandiceland · 6 months
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@breitzbachbea I got your other ask on my main blog but I'll answer it here :)
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send me a character and I'll assign them an archetype
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leggerefiore · 1 year
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Breaking news! Butlers from New York now works for handsome french professor!
With how I was using them it was more like hot french professor working for Unovan butler alongside the older brother of said Unovan butler
Emmet Destroys Enemies in either of his forms. Highly recommend pulling him if u can.
sycamore is my stat boost guy and nothing more 😔 sorry fairy deer professor, i'll write smut for you eventually to make it up to you.
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roughentumble · 2 years
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of COURSE there would be bluebell walks in ireland but theyre all the way up at carrick-a-rede this is discrimination this is bullying
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pernillecfcw · 2 years
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2-0 England let’s go meado with the goal
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dlyarchitecture · 1 year
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ifreakingloveroyals · 1 month
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23 March 2018 | Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during a visit to Titanic Belfast maritime museum in Belfast, Nothern Ireland. (c) Andrew Parsons - Pool/Getty Images
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soldiersofthequeen · 7 months
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In 1969, the situation was so grave that British troops were sent to restore order in Nothern Ireland. By 1972, the British government suspended the Northern Ireland parliament and imposed direct rule from London
Troops of the Royal Scots Regiment in riot protection clothing in Belfast, Northern Ireland during a drill parade in July 1970. The soldiers were part of a contingent of the British Army drafted into the area to help quell disorders and outbreaks of rioting in the city caused by friction between rival Catholic and Protestant groups.
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glamfellens · 1 year
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“my mother prayed everyday for the happiness of nothern ireland and its people” charlie my dude my guy you do remember why ireland is split into nothern and the republic of right. right.
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