Female IRA fighter during the height of the troubles.

Just leaving this here.

52 years ago today.

Please kindly reblog the shit out of this.

King Boo from the Super Mario series is an Irish republican!

presented without comment.

And you dare to call me a terrorist,

while you look down your gun.

When I think of all the deeds that you have done.

You have plundered many nations,

divided many lands,

you have terrorized their peoples

you ruled with an iron hand!

And you brought this reign of terror to my land

-The Wolfe Tones, Joe McDonnell.

I just want to write something about the political situation in Northern Ireland- I don’t want to speak for Irish people, but I think it’s important people who live in Britain take an interest and understand what’s going on.

Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland is meant to have devolution, with it’s own parliament. There’s a strict agreement about powersharing between the parties.

In the last 6 years, Northern Ireland has had a functioning parliament for two of them. This is largely due to the DUP blocking the formation of a cabinet that doesn’t serve their interests. The liberal ideal of “just vote” isn’t working.

One of the more recent and significant events are that in 2022, the DUP first minister resigned due to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal- a Brexit deal which very clearly disregarded the Good Friday Agreement, and Northern Ireland in general. This essentially caused the dissolution of the parliament and led to elections in May 2022.

For the first time, Sinn Fein won the most seats, meaning the first minister would be someone from the party. But the DUP were unhappy, and refused to participate in the election of a speaker, meaning the government could not function. Due to the DUP’s behaviour, just like from 2017-2020, there’s currently no NI assembly. And it seems like the DUP know if they just hold out long enough, they’ll force another election.

And presumably they’ll keep doing this until they get the result they want.

People tell us to “just vote”. Well, the people of Northern Ireland did vote, and the party in power refused to relinquish their interests. Meanwhile, catholic republican communities continue to be discriminated against in all sorts of ways- including by the police. The police, furthermore, are a symbol (and a practical force) of Britain’s colonial occupation of Northern Ireland.

Against this backdrop, what other recourse do young Irish people have but violence?

WELL BOYS WE'RE RIGHT ON TRACK

"The record of the successive hosts of foreigners who came amongst us and, finding Ireland a green and pleasant land, chose to abide there...let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman." -James Connolly, 1908

"irish" unionists supporting and identifying with israel is just such a freudian slip. goes to show how you think of yourselves and how you think of actual irish ppl

Black and Tans can go fuck themselves. The Monarchy can choke. Give Ireland back to the Irish!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

The Man Was All Shot Through

The Man Was All Shot Through by Liam MacGabhann

The man was all shot through that Came today into the Barrack Square And a soldier I, i am not proud to say That we killed him there They brought him from the prison hospital and To see him in that chair I swear his smile would Would far more quickly call a man to prayer Maybe, maybe I don't understand this thing That makes these rebels die Yet all men love freedom and the Spring clear in the sky I wouldn't do this deed again for All that I hold by as I gazed down my rifle At his breast but then, then a soldier I They say he was different, kindly too Apart from all the rest A lover of the poor his wounds ill dressed He faced us like a man Who knew a greater pain Than blows or bullets ere the world Began: died he in vain Ready, present, and him just smiling Christ I felt my rifle shake His wounds all open and around his Chair a pool of blood i swear his lips said "fire" before my rifle shot That cursed lead And I, I was picked to kill a man like that

James Connolly

Here’s some advice regarding historical and political discourse.

DON’T use Irish history and/or Irish republicanism to dismiss and/or deny another people’s right to freedom and self-determination.

Ever!

gene from the hotdaga + irish republicanism

I… maybe shouldn’t have followed reading Babel: The Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang with my love for reading Irish Republican literature. Now at having dreams about a Chinese person with two alternate personalities one prone to violence and anger the other talkative and book heavy. And somehow holding a really thick book that is a Better Help therapy book I want to wood chip.

Now at quarter life crisis wondering if we’re not doing enough as youth to learn how to properly fire a gun if the enemy will for the future will always choose violence. But at the same time capitalistic violence is the tools of environmental destruction and so far all we have been doing is jamming our hands in the machine. Since it’s a machine it just moves on.

No one still catches those who just lost their arm. People keep telling me covid is over and I worry I’m not getting hired because I like keeping my mask on. All I do for class is write and make art now but I literally have less than 100 euro left in total.

The pivot here is to make something out of all of this, but these posts I keep making about this keeps getting ignored and tumblr tagging is horrible I don’t even know if I’ll ever find this 4:40 am rant.

Post Script: I’m so mad I can’t talk Irish republicanism with students like they talk about and understand decolonization and Ireland’s role in it. But by gods why are they so weird about it when I drift into asking “hey have you seen the poetry and art they made?” Then like their education system has indeed failed them. Or that I can’t speak Irish at the moment and those who currently are so cliquey (even this coming from other Irish students I know) so in no way can get deeper with the material. And with no money I can’t hang out with any of these people I meet.

"They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken."

-Bobby Sands