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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 23 September:

1586 – At the Battle of Ardnaree in Co Mayo, Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, surprises a force of redshanks (Scottish mercenary light infantrymen) engaged by the Burkes of Mayo; 1,000 redshanks and 1,000 camp followers are killed. Bingham hangs the leaders of the Burkes. 1922 – Anti-Treaty fighter Michael Neville, is taken from work in Dublin and found shot dead at Killester Cemetery…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #23 September #Clonmacnoise monastery #Co. Offaly #Dublin #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Irish History #Irish War of Independence #PIRA #RUC #Sinn Fein #Today in Irish History

[alanmalcherhistorian]

Operation Banner (Northern Ireland). On 31 January 1984 RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) officers Thomas Bingham and William Savage were among the 319 officers killed by terrorists (9,000 injured) during the 'Troubles'.

From the BBC Archives. Thomas John Bingham aged 29 and William Richie Savage from East Belfast were travelling in an unmarked police car on Newry Road when they were killed by a 1000 lb bombed detonated 600 yard away.

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#Alan Malcher Historian #IRA Terrorists #Northern Ireland #Operation Banner #Royal Ulster Constabluary #RUC

[burnitalldownism]

If the police don’t mention which side did it…it was the Unionist colonisers.

You can rebrand the RUC as the PSNI, but they’re still a bunch of Imperialist wankers.

#ireland #northern ireland #psni #ruc #sectarianism #I don’t give a fuck until the parades & the bonfires end

[j-august]

Irish military intelligence did not even possess an organization chart of the RUC and made strenuous attempts to assemble one based chiefly on gossip of varying reliability - only to discover that the information it required was freely available in Northern Ireland official publications which were on sale in Dublin.

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm

#quote #quotation #Christopher Andrew #The Defence of the Realm #Northern Ireland #The Troubles #RUC #gossip #Dublin #oops embarrassing

[seachranaidhe]

Glenanne Gang boss Jim Mitchell so well connected he used RUC officers to provide security on his Armagh farm - SundayWorld.com

https://www.sundayworld.com/news/northern-ireland-news/glenanne-gang-boss-so-well-connected-he-used-ruc-to-provide-security-on-his-farm/a1542575299.html

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#farm #Glenanne Gang #Jim Mitchell #PSNI #RUC #south armagh

[runecuador]

#cedula #codigo #provincia #RUC

[tinovalduvieco]

Temple d’ Amenophis IV.Sudan

Sudan .Març 2023

©Tino Valduvieco

#sudan #amenophisIV #cultura #ruines #desert #ruc #viatges #rutesperelmón

[waybackwanderer]

Centre for Cognitive Science Apr 1996 Archived Web Page

#ruc #1996

[clancarruthers]

PHYLLIS CARROTHERS MBE - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

DOUGLAS “DOUGIE”  AND PHYLLIS CARROTHERS The Queen’s Birthday 2011 Honours List Northern Ireland relayed exciting news for three delighted Fermanagh recipients, who will receive MBEs (Members of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). Recognition goes to Fermanagh District Councillor,  Mrs. Phyllis Carrothers, Chairman of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross…

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#bp #car #Carrothers #Carruthers #Carruthers history #Clan Carruthers #Ancient and Hononrable Carruthers Clan Society Int LLC. #Carothers #Credeur #Crothers #Crowder #dougie #douglas #FERMANAGH #Lisbellaw #Northern Ireland #phyllis #Royal Ulster Constavulary #RUC

[k1ng0fsug4r]

Random Unity Comic (Pg.1)

#Ruc #virgo capri (unity) #kooky (unity) #k1ng's art #☆~UNITY!

[drconstellation]

Lifting the Veil on the Bentley

Because I’ve been talking about the Bentley being Crowley’s black horse of late, I’ve had a nudge to talk about the number plate. I know it’s explained as an easter egg in relation to Monty Python, but I think we can explore it a bit further than that.

It’s worth having a quick look at this older post from @fuckyeahgoodomens where they explain the inspiration was from an animated scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life .

The following is from the linked article.

As a nod to Terry Gilliam, who once tried to do a movie version of Good Omens, Gaiman and Mackinnon threw in a little reference to Gilliam’s origins doing animation for Monty Python. “The license plate of Crowley’s Bentley is ‘Curtain’ backwards,” Gaiman said, because of the writing on the mausoleum in the suicidal leaves section of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. “Curtain backwards, like it’s the final curtain,” Mackinnon explained.

Before I get into all the connotations of “curtains,” there should be two things you notice about the “CURTIN” written on the mausoleum. The first is the spelling itself. It’s shortened to look like the Irish surname Curtin, so the mausoleum appears to belong to a real person. Curtin is an anglicized version of Mac Curtain, which means Son of the Crooked, or Son of the Harp, as the ‘crooked’ refers the hunchback shape of the Irish harp. I wouldn’t read too much into that, its probably more just a way of getting an actual curtain reference into that scene.

The other thing is that is not just backwards, it is mirror-image, as if you are looking at it from the other side of the mirror. So we should ask ourselves – which side are we looking from? And why does this matter?

While director Mackinnon mentions it referring to the “final curtain,” we need to start even further back than that to understand what the final curtain is, because even that has two meanings, even if only in a general sense. But because this is the GOmens AU, you can guarantee we’re going to find out there is more to it than that.

We need to go beyond the veil.

To go “beyond the veil” has become a euphemism for passing into death, or that unknowable place people go once they die. It was originally a figurative reference to the area in a Jewish Temple that was separated from the main body of the Temple by decorative curtains, called veils. The veils were specially woven, often with the image of a Cherubim woven in by a skilled worker; it was not allowed to be sewed on or added later. Each panel of the veil would display a different face of the Cherubim, such as the lion on one side, an eagle on the other, and so on. Only the priests could go past the veil into the most holiest of places. The veil was symbolic of separating men and their sins from the glory of God.  

The word ‘veil’ can be translated into English as ‘curtain,’ so the two words are almost interchangeable in respect of this discussion. I was interested to see that the word veil comes from the Latin word velum, which also means ‘sail,’ as in “to move, to drive a vessel or vehicle forward.” I have previously commented that the Bentley should probably be a “she,” as traditionally all ships were female, and that’s a tradition we still see carried into the modern day, thousands of years after its origin. I’ve even seen modern day space probes – little ships sailing the solar system – referred to as she! But I’ll not be pedantic about it, don’t worry.

Keep your hands off my bitch, bitch.

So the curtain, or veil, is the boundary between life and death. Only – we are seeing it from the other side. And in the GOmens AU this “other side” is very real, and one Aziraphale and Crowley walk through with both ease and without much thought. They are agents of those on the other side of the veil, yet they walk with Humanity in a solid reality on the surface of the Earth. They know the other side is real. When wee Morag complains about Elspeth’s body-snatching activity that the ones she digs up and sell won’t be able to go to Heaven because they will be cut up, Aziraphale tries to tell her it’s not like that, but she's not listening:

WEE MORAG: Aye. Tell that to the poor souls who will not get into heaven 'cause their bodies are all chopped into wee pieces. AZIRAPHALE: Well, that isn't how it actually… CROWLEY: Heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. WEE MORAG: It's no right. I'm telling you. CROWLEY: Yeah.

For humans, though, there is supposed to be no return once you cross that threshold.

When we, the viewer, see the two worlds meet, it's usually signaled by the presence of fog, mist or smoke. When Lesley the delivery driver meets Death, the fog arrives, as he is no longer in the living world. When Aziraphale and Crowley leave Tadfield Manor, we have smoke telling us we are seeing two different times and places at once - the past and the present are overlaid on one another.

The Bentley must exist in both the Human and subliminal worlds at the same time - how else can it drive like it does? It doesn't really need Crowley's hands on the wheel to guide it. It couldn't have started out like that - it was made by humans, but we all know the Bentley is more than just a car now.

It chooses the music to play on its radio, it refuses to speed when taking Aziraphale to Edinburgh until Crowley yells at it, it tries to follow the angel after he gets out at the end of the journey. How it got like this we will probably never find out, but we figure its become an extension of Crowley by close association, much like Aziraphale tends to influence the world around him without effort as well.

In terms of it being a black horse - well, now we get into some interesting stuff!

Horses have been companions to humans for longer than cars have been around, so there is lots of lore and symbology associated with them. Previous metas around S2 have focused on "dark horses," as they were specifically mentioned twice in the script. But a dark horse is not necessarily a black horse, and vice versa, so lets look at some of the aspects of black horse symbology in particular that could be relevant to the Bentley and it role in traveling between worlds.

Horses were the original vehicle of the ancient world. While Famine was supposed to ride a black horse (the others were white, red and pale green for pestilence,) the black horses could also be messengers of death, a demon bringing death or a guide to the afterlife. In the Illiad, Achilles sacrifices four horses on the funeral pyre to accompany Patroclus to Hades.

[Edit: I've just put myself through the pain of watching S2E6 again, for reasons, and realised why the ethereal lift is in the entrance to the Dirty Donkey - because a black horse is a guide between worlds! Of course!]

They became associated with the Devil during the Middle Ages as the church tried to break the link to old pagan rites. The broomsticks witches ride are supposed to represent horses. And then there is the sexual connection to horses...which leads in a round-about way to the practice of nailing horseshoes up for luck and protection. Although perhaps the burning horseshoe on Jasmine Cottage is more directly linked to the story of St Dunstan tricking the Devil and making him promise he would never cross the threshold of a house that had a horseshoe nailed to the door.

Our favourite Bentley has been beyond veil and returned. Though it was kept valiantly alive through the sheer will of Crowley to escape the unnatural flames of the Sigil of Odegra, it expired at the Tadfield airbase once Crowley arrived and finally released it. It was only appropriate that Crowley took a moment to acknowledge its service.

Then Adam restored it the next day. Resurrected it, one could say.

Time for the "final curtain" to wrap this meta up.

To "face the final curtain" is another euphemism for facing death, or at least an ending. It's the final curtain of a theatre show, after the encores are done. Its the final fall of the curtain at the end of a run. Sometimes we might say its just "curtains" for something or someone, meaning it will be ending, as a shortened form. But both Aziraphale and Crowley knows death isn't the end; its a beginning as well. Its just matter of perspective to them.

I've seen other writers associate this final curtain with the first Armagedon't, and now we appear to maybe be facing the "big one" in S3 - the Second Coming. I think that is too simplistic an association, especially for GO. The reversed side of the veil could be so many things: the final battle, the ability of our ethereal heroes to move between worlds, it could even be Crowley returning from the "death" of being one of the Fallen. As always, the meaning will be need to be considered within the context of the scene, and which side of the curtain we are looking from.

#good omens #good omens 2 #the bentley #crowley #aziraphale #good omens meta #good omens analysis #niat ruc #the final curtain #beyond the veil #bentley appreciation post #monty python #black horse #guide to to afterlife #Famine #devils on horseback #i'm having a moment here #crossing the threshold #liminal boundaries #is that a fog horn i hear?

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 28 February:

1713 – Henry Pyne, MP for Dungarvan, aged about 24 and the father of three children, is killed in a duel with Theophilus Biddulph at Chelsea Fields, London; Biddulph will later be convicted of manslaughter. 1790 – The Northern Whig Club is founded in Belfast. 1799 – William Dargan, railway engineer and philanthropist, is born in Carlow. 1800 – Execution of Roddy McCorley. He was arrested whilst…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #28 February #Barry McGuigan #Bono #Cottage #Enya #Francis Hughes #History #History of Ireland #IRA #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Irish History #Irish War of Independence #RUC #Sean O’Casey #Shannon Airport #Sinn Fein #Today in Irish History #U2

[wordsinhaled]

c'mere to me, I wish I was a mayfly on the River Tay I'd fit all my joys and my pleasures in one perfect day I wanna be the shadow when my bright future's behind me I wanna be the last thing anybody ever sees I hear he touches your hand and then you fly away together if I had his job, you'd live forever Hozier » Anything But

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #yes my hozierposting has started... sorry not sorry #part of me is sorry for taking this relatively happy song and making it Like This. part of me is not sorry at all asdjfjfj #i have thoughts also about crowley's license plate + that line. NIAT RUC = a ref to death being the final curtain. #and that line in 'anything but' is alluding to death #in other words... pain #thinking about death as the final curtain and crowley wanting to run away together and the idea that they're forever unable to break out #also just thinking about how from both of their perspectives they just wanted the ultimate happiness for each other #feels so fitting for this song #anyway i will be done rambling now

[uberreatz]

Licked!

#bashes eyelashes #tr//olls #b//ran//dy and b//ruc/e

[iamyourdensityy]

damn Google saw right through me 💀

#good omens #i didnt even mention good omens in the search #i literally just typed “what does niat ruc mean” #google said “you cant hide from me bitch” #the bentley #theres a tag for that #wahoo

[seachranaidhe]

PSNI stop and search ‘disproportionately targeting’ minority communities | Irish Legal News

17th February, 2023. Human rights campaigners have raised concerns about the disproportionate use of stop and search by the PSNI on people from minoritised ethnic communities and on children. Figures published this week show that 21,190 people were stopped and searched in Northern Ireland by police last year.People from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds accounted for 1,259…

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#&039;disproportionately targeting&039; minority communities #Amnesty International #Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) #Black #children aged 13 to 17 #ethnic minorities #Human rights #Irish Travellers #misogynistic #PSNI #RUC #Sectarianism #Stop and Search