#irish

[nibmoss]

did you hear there’s a new short film that is GAY?? LESBIAN, even???

AND it’s filmed in a minority language?? a CELTIC language, one might say??

AND that it’s available for FREE, with SUBTITLES in both irish AND english??

“FAN” (2024) dir. by cúnla ní bhraonáin morris

watch here 🫶

#fan #fan film #short film #irish film #irish short film #gay short film #lesbian #gay #irish #gaeilge #irish language #langblr #minority language #endangered language #gaelic #irish art #irish gaelic #stay #gearrscannán #gael #celtic #irish langblr #bloc tg4 #tg4 #romcom #comedy #lighthearted #romance #gay romance #lesbian romance

[lustofmex]

Spring is here, the fae are out 🖤

#nature #sunset #flowers #trees #aesthetic #nature witch #spring #green #green witch #fae #faerie #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #fairy #mushrooms #mushies #shroooms #shrooms #clover #shamrock #irish #irish witchcraft #outdoors #demeter #aestethic #spring aesthetic #outdoor aesthetic #witchy #witchy aesthetic #cottagecore

[tales-from-syscord]

I believed this happened a couple of years ago? But I'd thought it was a very peculiar experience for me to share.

So, I used to be in this traumagenic server with what seems like a lot of blacklists and claims to be POC friendly. It was one of our few DID/OSDD focused discord servers that we joined when we first suspected we have DID. (We got diagnosed a year later.)

I remembered being in a ticket with one of the mods because they looked at the names of our alters through pk. They then LITERALLY did some google research on the name origins and made it something like this.

" Hi! We noticed your names may be considered cultural appropriating blablabla

Casey = Irish

Ari = Jewish

Please consider changing your names!"

And then had the nerve to even ask me what my race is, but I felt so uncomfortable?? I said Asian. They want me to specify further. I said Southeast Asian. And if my memory serves me right, they wanted me to specify more than that.

When I looked at that message where I had to change my own and my alter's names, I felt like they were JOKING?? HOW IS CASEY A CLOSED NAME??? It's.. a generic name used by pretty much everyone in the world.

They mentioned how Irish is a closed culture, and I think they mentioned Irish discrimination during the US immigration and all. I understand, but at the same time, Irish itself isn't a closed culture at all?? Not to mention, I've been using Casey as my name for quite some time now.

Ari being linked to Jewish makes no sense to me either. People sometimes use it to shorten the name 'Ariana' for short, but I also see many non-Jewish people also using that name too.

Ari is an alternative spelling of our body's name, so we don't feel weird using our irl body's name (which is Arabic) to the people online. It's not a sense of shame of the body's name but more privacy concerns, easier pronounciation, and having our own individuality.

It's worth mentioning that a lot of Muslim and Christian names are derived from Judaism, too. The Muslim and Christian names just have a different spelling to it, so I don't know what the hell they were thinking.

I felt so mad and felt this was all too ridiculous. I had to keep my cool and leave because what kinda server is this??? That claims to be POC safe?? I'm sorry if I don't sound the most open-minded, but it's just a weird experience to me, really. When I think of cultural appropriating, I would think of taking a name from, let's say, a Romani name or a Tamil name, and then use it without realizing the significance of that culture just because it looks pretty for some aesthetic. Not whatever tf this server was pulling.

As an Irish system, what the fuck?? Casey is definitely not a "closed culture Irish name," LMAO?? You're not overreacting DW anon, that's just wild.

#tales from syscord #tales from anon #tales from the queue #discord #closed culture #irish #ireland #jewish #did #osdd #osddid #anti endo #endos dni #dni endos #plural #actually plural #plural system

[shetheyshenanigans]

Every time I look at a specific set of Irish maps that show the decline of Irish speakers between 1800 and 2000 I want to SCREAM

In 1800, almost three quarters of our island is depicted as Irish speakers, with the British dominated Pale region (Dublin and surrounding areas) not speaking Irish.

In 1850, shortly after the famine, the graphic recedes right back to just the west coast of Ireland, showing the population of Irish speakers.

And the reason is the Famine. An Górta Mór, the Great Hunger, our genocide. So many people died, and even more emigrated and they never taught Irish to their descendants because we were so hated that to acknowledge yourself as Irish, as an Irish-speaker meant you would have far less opportunities in life, so we lost our language.

And almost two hundred YEARS after the Famine, we've regained our population but not our language.

I love Irish so incredibly much, it is the language of my heart and soul, mo teanga féin álainn, and I will never, not in a thousand lifetimes, forgive those who enforced a Famine on my country, who exported corn and grain to other lands when my people were starving.

Ireland had food, it had crops, the Irish people laboured in our fields to grow crops and the British put it all on ships to feed the rest of their Empire and not us.

I will never, ever, stop being angry about the Famine and until the day I die, I will speak Irish for all of mo shinsirigh, mo chlann a fuair bás gan a dteanga dúchasach, and I will speak it for myself because is linn na Gaeil, agus is í Gaeilge ár dteanga aoibhinn álainn féin.

#the Irish famine #Irish #Gaeilge

[irishthings]

What's going on in Offaly

#ireland #irish #It's offaly weird #Offaly

[annasinfatuation]

Just plain old me

#like #me #love #reblog #selfie #cute #pretty #self #my face #girl #blonde #blue eyes #beautiful #beauty #personal #hi #irish

[amylouioc]

Deirdre Meets Naoise

This is my April postcard! If you’d like to join the club and get sent one, you can sign up here!

#irish mythology #artists on tumblr #irish folklore #celtic mythology #illustration #amylouioc art #fantasy illustration #irish myths #ulster cycle #deirdre #naoise #irish

[kiwibirb1]

Yo I need someone who's fluent in Gaeilge what would be a word that's close to clairvoyance? Like with this meaning:

I'm tryna do a thing here but Google translate won't give me shit and I'm not that good at my Gaeilge.

#WAIT I CAN ASK MY AUNT #pls still help tho #gaeilge #irish #irish gaelic #ireland

[mysharona1987]

Credit to Irish press for keeping it real, unlike everyone else.

#Ireland #news #free palestine #politics #gaza #free gaza #cnb #usa today #bbc #israel #democrats #republicans #irish #usa #the gaurdian

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Saying this as an Irish person since the new Hozier album just came out and there are lyrics in Irish; it’s Irish or Gaeilge (pronounced “gwhale-ga” or “gale-ga” depending on region), not Gaelic or Celtic or any other name people come up with.

It’s just a normal language that people speak in their everyday life. We learn it in school in the republic. People like myself are bilingual in Irish and English. It’s not a “fairy aesthetic cottage core leprechaun” language.

Please respect it. Our language is a touchy subject seen as how England tried to erase it by forcing English on us and severely punishing those who spoke Irish.

At the same time that does NOT mean it is a dead language. Our (in the republic) road and safety signs are in both Irish and English, same with legal documents. Our politicians speak it, and we are trying to preserve the language!

Anyways enjoy the album!

#I don’t actually listen to Hozier but my friend told me about the songs #ireland #irish #gaeilge #holier #hozier unreal unearth #unreal unearth #music #album

[sobashahzadi]

YEAH!! you go girls! You did amazing, the true winners of the match!

it’s funny how nobody would’ve batted an eye to a peaceful protest like this if it were to say the Russian team last year.

#free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #palestine #israel palestine conflict #palestine genocide #palestine will be free #palestine news #Palestine gaza #free free palestine #irish solidarity with palestine #irish #ireland #basketball

[scims-stuff]

I think it’s just kinda ironic that Hozier released a song dedicated to the destruction of native culture and language, and most of you seem to be allergic to referring to the Irish language as Irish.

Gaelic is an umbrella term that describes many languages, mainly Irish, Welsh, and Scots Gaelic. Gaelic is not an actual language (or at least not anymore). All three are distinct languages with their own spellings and grammar. In the De Selby bts video Hozier himself refers to it as Irish.

You would not refer to Spanish as romantic when it could also mean French and Italian. Show some respect.

#hozier #unreal unearth #de selby #irish #gaelic

[paliwalls]

Murals and graffiti on the streets of Ireland in solidarity with the Palestinian people agaisnt settler-colonialism

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #ireland #irish #فلسطين #الحرية لفلسطين #غزة #ايرلندا

[ly0nstea]

Also btw every single complaint about irish pronounciation and spelling in schools would be solved if we hammered in the slender/broad distinctions early because it would become abundantly clear why this 't' has to be surrounded by 'i's and it isn't just a thing they decided to do one day and more people would be able to spell words from just hewring them and pronounciation from just reading them send tweet

#irish #gaeilge #irish langblr #irish language #language #linguistics

[irishthings]

It is never too late to learn to speak Irish.

You do not have to be Irish to speak Irish.

Once you're out of school, there is no grammar police and most people are just excited to have someone to speak Irish with.

Incorporating Irish words into your day when you're not fluent (I have to go to the leithreas, throw it in the bruscar, that's a gorgeous gúna) is an act of decolonisation.

Helping people to understand the language is an act of love.

Gaeilge go deo ❤️

#ireland #irish #gaeilge

[bodhrancomedy]

Listen, for people wanting to call out colonialism, there are way too many of you mocking Irish, Welsh, and Scottish names.

No, they’re not alphabet soup, no they do not look like “you’ve thrown letters at a wall and used what stuck,” they are living, breathing languages which we did CPR on after the British Empire shot them.

Like, people DIED to keep them alive.

Every time I see some (English/American) interviewer make an entire segment forcing Saoirse Ronan to list off Irish names, I die a little inside. It’s particularly galling to see the same people ooh-ing over how “mystical” they sound, or claiming ancient heritage to us.

Realise there’s a world beyond your myopic lens and just accept sometimes you’ve got new stuff to learn. Fuck knows I do.

#deaf #Irish #Irish names #Scotland #Ireland #Scottish #Wales #Welsh names