The accelerating commodification of irishness

shiels

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• Apr 6, 2025

• #101

version said:

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.

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

 

jenks

thread death

• Apr 6, 2025

• #102

shiels said:

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

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Foster is perfect.

 

shiels

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• Apr 6, 2025

• #103

It really is. And I was humbled by that film

 

shiels

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• Apr 6, 2025

• #104

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

 

version

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• Apr 18, 2025

• #105

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

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• Monday at 11:39 PM

• #106

Kneecap are everywhere atm.

 

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catalog

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• Tuesday at 4:56 AM

• #107

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

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 2:57 PM

• #108

version said:

Kneecap are everywhere atm.

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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

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• Tuesday at 2:57 PM

• #109

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 3:00 PM

• #110

That’s an American woman

 

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catalog

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• Tuesday at 3:14 PM

• #111

what's good is the resurection of irish language

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 4:37 PM

• #112

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

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 4:38 PM

• #113

Up the rawwwwwwgggghhhhh

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 4:40 PM

• #114

Standing ovation

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 4:42 PM

• #115

I couldn’t stop laughing at the earnestness

 

version

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• Tuesday at 4:44 PM

• #116

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

 

shiels

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• Tuesday at 4:52 PM

• #117

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

cat malogen

• Tuesday at 4:52 PM

• #118

shiels said:

Up the rawwwwwwgggghhhhh

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perfect pronunciation

 

Murphy

cat malogen

• Tuesday at 5:26 PM

• #119

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

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• Tuesday at 5:39 PM

• #120

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