The accelerating commodification of irishness

[shiels]

Yeah, this is why I find it an interesting thought. You look at someone like Joyce who has Stephen talk of 'flying by' the various 'nets' in Portrait, but he invariably fails to escape from these things, partly because they're just part of you and partly because opposing something reinforces its presence.





Yeah, I don't have a problem with DeLillo's style. I recognise what they're describing though, it just isn't a negative for me.

Give McGaherns the dark a go. Brilliant investigation of the trappings off religion and guilt and loads of wanks. Short too

 

[jenks]

Have you seen the quiet girl? Claire Keenan’s foster… what you’re saying about a small story that’s devastating, Jesus Christ, everyone walk out of the cinema was crying

Foster is perfect.

 

[shiels]

It really is. And I was humbled by that film

 

[shiels]

It has a logic to it and when it revealed itself at the end…. Fuck sake

 

[version]

As this is the Ireland thread...

Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks

www.theguardian.com

 

[version]

Kneecap are everywhere atm.

 

[catalog]

I like the ket angle. I saw that film last summer.

 

[shiels]

Kneecap are everywhere atm.

Music isnt for me … but funny to watch their influence. Brits out being played on BBC radio and I’ve seen a middle aged posh english woman try Irish dancing sevens singing I’m a H double OD.

 

[shiels]

 

[shiels]

That’s an American woman

 

[catalog]

what's good is the resurection of irish language

 

[shiels]

Did I tell you all about the posh English students shouting up the raaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh after Steve mcqueens hunger was shown in the Barbican

 

[shiels]

Up the rawwwwwwgggghhhhh

 

[shiels]

Standing ovation

 

[shiels]

I couldn’t stop laughing at the earnestness

 

[version]

There are Americans that do that too. Everything's a meme.

 

[shiels]

there’s a shift for young English people post corbyn, now open to and understand a bit more about Irish history and irish culture represents a wholesome and accessible anti imperial thing

 

[Murphy]

Up the rawwwwwwgggghhhhh

perfect pronunciation

 

[Murphy]

seen Bring Them Down @shiels ?

herd rustlers, Gaelic speaking Americans, intriguing premise initially (think Cattle Raid of Cooley meets Farm Watch) yet compared to works referenced previously made me fuckin angry eventually when the plot immolated itself

 

[shiels]

Yes I like it. Structure was odd and satisfying, looked gorgeous. A bit like calm
With horses