hahahahahahhaahahahhaha "nationalism"
thoughts on the IRA?
how are ya
>>56957169
I buy my weed from them, so they're alight. Could do with less of the killings but nothing will stop that.
>>56957174
I'm pretty tired, how's yourself?
>>56957214
i'm alright
excited to have dinner with my mom for the holiday
>>56957272
Ah, yes. Easter dinner, I'm looking forward to it myself.
If you look closely, Britain looks a bit like a mum throwing her baby Ireland to America to escape the EU.
Alternatively, Britain also looks like a wizard nonce attempting to rape Ireland.
I know I'm not the only one who sees this.
>>56957346
Are you high?
>>56957097
Ireland looks like a pepe from space
>>56957097
Do you celebrate easter? Your family in Boston doesn't
>>56957097
Ireland kind of looks like a baby dragon in OP pic
>>56957097
What are your thoughts on Easter?
>>56957532
I'm not religious, nor is my family. We enjoy the eggs though. Fun fact, it's illegal to buy or sell alcohol on good Friday.
>>56957566
I don't really care. It's not really a magical or special time of year.
>>56957346
To me it looks like a lady with crazy hair kneeling down and letting a bird with a human head fly out of her hands.
Why do the Irish not want the North back? Did it become shit or was it always shit and you don't want to try to get it back?
>>56957603
what kind of eggs. Any specific candy eggs?
>>56957532
Absolutely false. We simply believe that when Jesus was resurrected he came back as an egg-laying rabbit and he still comes around every Easter to hide them for children.
>tfw giant egg lands on your island
>>56957644
It was always shit. Every since the Scottish planters came over, there's always been murder. Plus the population isn't the best crowd.
>>56957649
This would have to be my favourite.
>>56957644
Theyre wankers. They sold us out for their freedom then get on their high horse about being "real" Irish when we speak more Gaeilge in the north and had the best IRA units.
Free state sell out cunts. An embarrassment to our nation desu family
>>56958067
An féidir leat Gaeilge a labhairt?
>>56958116
Liofa ach ni thig liom fada a dheanamh ar mo guthan
>>56958149
Ar feabhas. Níor bhuail mé le haon duine atá Gaeilge líofa aige ar an suíomh seo. Carb as duitse?
>>56958188
Ta cupla daoine thart a bhfuil liofa desu ach than chuid mhor.
Beal feirste! Tu fhein?
>>56958232
Baile Átha Cliath, a chara
>>56957214
>republicans up north will still defend the IRA as not being drug dealers
>>56958270
Galanta
>>56958294
You mean dissident hoods and scumbags? Theyre not the proper ra.
Damn dumbass
>>56958294
Also most drugs are largely from loyalist areas but distributed all over n.i
>>56958366
Tá ceist agam a chur ortsa féin, conas a d'fhoghlaim tú do chuid? An Ghaeltacht mar mise nó?
's do thuairim faoin drugaí?
>>56958366
There is no "proper RA". The IRA, in ALL its forms, have been scumbags with no legitimate principles other than to unite Ireland. There is no honour to boast about, no pride. Truly the most embarrassing "army" to exist.
>>56958420
Nah chuaigh me chuig bunscoil. Is I mo chead teanga.
>>56958420
Is brea liom drugai ahahahhaa
>>56958424
Youre either a bitter loyalist or a dumb brit cos you have no clue what youre talking about
>>56958461
'bhfuil í ag do thuismitheoirí? An labhraíonn tú í led chairde?
>>56958486
Mar mise chomh maith
>>56958188
>Ar feabhas. Níor bhuail mé le haon duine atá Gaeilge líofa aige ar an suíomh seo. Carb as duitse?
There's a lot who seem to speak it m8, try visiting /eire/ or /celt/. Then again, those might just only be barely fluent or using google translate.
>>56958540
I'm in most of those threads, and you can spot Google a mile away.
>Tá mé Gaeilge
Fuck off
>>56958486
Care to explain to me how I'm wrong? The old IRA caused the mass exodus of protestants from Ireland in the early 20th century, and went as far as to remove virtually every protestant Irishman in Cork (see Dunmanway killings). Reminder these killings were indiscriminate when it came to loyalty to Britain, it was only a matter on if you were a protestant or not.
I refuse to believe anyone with half a brain would defend the Provos and its splinter groups. They (as well as equally scummy loyalist paramilitaries) carried out ridiculous crimes which I won't even mention because I'm sure you already know about them.
>>56958524
Nah than mo thuismitheoiri ach ag achan duine eile san clann agus mo chuid chairde - ta an chuid is mo acu liofa agus na cheann nach bfhuil bionn muid I gconai ag cleactadh leo
Ta me gaeile hHahah
Nil mo chuid scriobhnach go maith de bhri nach scriobh me rud ar bith o scoil
>>56958567
My own vocabulary is relatively limited and I'm pretty much still on A1, if not lower if that's possible, in terms of fluency. Hence when I actually do use it, I only use very simple sentences.
Was wondering if it's because of poor grammar, or if it's a result of there not being an official standard that isn't fucked beyond repair. Which one is it?
>>56958590
Nigga have u seen loyalist paramiliatries, literally ten times worse.
>invading a country
>slaughtering, rapeing and starving the people
>not anticipating a reaction
God bless the omagh bomber :)
>>56958700
Keep practicing I think its the grammar gets most people and sentence structure cos its kind of back to front? But itll be like nothing to you. Maybe pick up some kids books and go from there
>>56958704
>speaks english like a retard
>celebrates the deaths of civilians that included irish nationalists
Why are most Irish republicans underage? Do they eventually see the error of their ways and move back to the republic?
>>56958635
Ah, ná habair é. Tuigim leatsa ar fad.
>An mothú sin nuair do chairde gan Gaeilge
Tabhair dom daoine ina fhéidir í a labhairt. It's getting worse by the day and I've none to practise with.
>>56958793
>getting annoyed on a mongolian cartoon board
Fuck off back to scotland or england you cuck
I also take it if youre a loyalist you arent in education
Hows it feel that irish catholics excel educationally
Literal nethandrals
>>56958795
Nah ta tu ar fheabhas ta do litriocht nios fearr na ma chinn fein
>>56958769
From my point of view, it is similar to an inverted Latin syntax, with the verb coming first.
But otherwise, the grammar is really complex, especially regarding the verb conjugation, pronouns and prepositions.
Also the fact that the language isn't phonetic and the phonology is generally really fucked up, makes it hard to know how to say things.
>>56958700
You just gotta nail the grammar. It's really not all that hard to pick up. And you want to choose a dialect, I recommend Gaeilge na hUlaidh. It has a better flow than the others when speaking and some pretty nice words and phrases e.g cha dtig liom for "i can't" instead of Ní féidir liom.
>>56958955
Táim as scoile cúpla bliain anois. Le cuidiú Dé, tosóidh mé ag labhair le daoine go luath.
>>56958955
>nethandrals
Gee mate, speaking that deadbeat language of yours really did take a toll on your ability to speak English.
>>56958970
Tbh I dont even really think about grammar so I dont know that feel senpai but in one of my highschool classes the non fluent speakers eventually became better speakers than the native irish speakers because they learned it from scratch! (The grammar)
They never made a mistake. Then again we had the problem with irish slang (those who already spoke it from childhood)
So in a few years or less youll probably be a better speaker than most.
Sorry for the long post I get excited when people are learning Irish
>>56959021
See:first line of previous post
>>56958993
Thig leat labhairt liomsa mas bhfiann leat, ta mo scriobhneacht ar meara
>>56959021
Triggered.
>Go scriosa Dia na muintir na n-oráistí!
>>56959157
Ni thig liom a bheidh guite leis nios mo
>>56959126
GRMA, ach ba mhaith liom daoine, i mo thimpeall, chun caife a dhul nó an teach tábhairne a dhul.
>>56959205
Go thuig ranganna gaeilge
How does irish gaelic compare to scottish gaelic?
Same language, mutually intelligible, or hard to understand each other?
And what do scots think about gaelic, do they consider it their native national language?
>>56959059
I don't know about grammar either. My brain is wired so I just sorta learn it along the way and then piece together the "logic" behind it as I go.
However, it is good to gain a general understanding of how it sounds compared to your own language.
>Bhuail sé mé
>Slog han mig (Hit he me)
>Sorry for the long post I get excited when people are learning Irish
Don't worry. It's understandable considering how few speakers there are. Not like I'm busy on fucking Easter when most of my family lives far away.
To be fair, I feel like one of those turboautists that dedicate themselves to something completely niche. But I have a lot of free time with my work, and I don't really have any hobbies as I grew out of them.
Besides, these posts are better than what's currently going on, on /int/.
>>56959205
Can't you just move to Gaeltact or something?
>>56959236
Scots are too busy exchanging their blood for heroin to care about their cultural heritage.
Scottish gaelic is even more niche than Gaeilge.
>>56957155
>20 years and 1 million shitskin immigrants later the irish flag is now considered a symbol of racism just like swedens.
LOL
>>56959237
I live and go to college on Dublin. So that wouldn't be possible for another 6 years or so, plus there's nothing in my line of work there for me.
>>56959227
B'fhéidir, beadh sé sin smaoineamh maith.
>>56959236
They're very similar and then again completely different. You could possibly have a conversation in both languages and still get your message across. Think Polish and Czech.
>>56958424
How's it feel that the Modern British Army could only manage a draw against the most embarrassing army to exist to ever exist?
>>56959315
>There's nothing in my line of work there for me
Is there anything at all? I mean, isn't Gaeltact just a collection of relatively remote towns and cities? I heard there are areas in places like Belfast and Dublin that promote it, but that's about it.
>Think Polish and Czech
Im thinking Danish and Swedish, or maybe Danish and Faroese
>>56959416
is danish and faroese mutually intelligible? would have thought it's closer to icelandic
>>56959299
>>56959416
I'm studying pharmacology, man. All my future employment opportunities are in Dublin. There are promotions for Irish, like comedy clubs and such. But they're not that big and I've never had the Bollox to go alone, having no one who's interested going to one with me.
>>56959441
It is very much closer to Icelandic. But the general sentence structure and such is still very similar. There'll be massive difficulties, but it is possible to get the message across in less than 5 tries.
Like if I read a faorese/icelandic post on here, I understand around 70% of it in my first try.
>>56959491
is icelandic more difficult would you say? i've read stories of smart icelandic college students in their 20s who still haven't fully grasped grammar rules because they're so extensive.
>>56959514
They're not nearly as extensive as Finnish desu
I suppose it's just that it's a very old language, so the standard gets overlapped by old rules a lot, much like Irish and Chinese for example. It being the "world's hardest language" is just a meme.
>>56959396
A conventional army struggling against guerilla warfare - what a surprise. You Americans should know all about it, does Vietnam ring a bell?
>>56957634
More like letting some pokemon bird in her hands.
Happy birthday Ireland :3
>>56957097
Do you think Renzi is a good president for our country?
>>56959236
Gaelic is only the native language of the Scottish Highlands.
The rest of the country has always been anglo and Scots/English speaking.
In fact Scots is a purer form of old anglic than English is, due to Scotland not being conquered by the French. It shares a lot of its vocabulary with Danish/Swedish/Norwegian.
The suppresion of gaelic was carried out entirely by the Lowland Scots who regarded themselves as "inglis" (pronounced like angles) and the Highlanders as "erse" (irish).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutes_of_Iona
Really need dispel this "Scotland is Celtic" meme. Its indisputably the most germanic part of the British Isles.
>>56957155
I never thought I could despise Sinn Fein more.
Any Irish parties that want one Ireland which aren't lefties and have a chance of election?
>>56962396
>irish politics
Don't bother desu
>>56961495
>Its indisputably the most germanic part of the British Isles.
I wouldn't go that far. Especially since people have finally decided that Picts were a Celtic people.
But yeah, Scots Gaelic is a meme-tier language.
>>56962626
>I wouldn't go that far
Why not? Scots is resolutely North Germanic.
>>56957097
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C14U7JYGRgA
Is irish rising or will you forever be speaking the language of your overlords and never reach true independence?
UP THE RA
>>56957634
it's a teddy bear you hun fuck
Her backbone's on the east coast
From Dublin to Dundalk
Her legs and feet in Kerry
They have shoes that never walked
Her backside's in Cork and Wexford
Her heart in Midlands
Where facing towards America
With her head to arse to England
>>56957634
Sorry, I meant to quote the guy you quoted
>>56964007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Xo3-VCPnc
>tfw everyone's a Pearse sympathiser
>tfw nobody is a loyalist anymore
I'm probably the only one in Cork desu.
1916 ruines everything
ooooh ahh
starting to rain now
>>56963669
Aye, but it didn't use to be as widespread as it is now.
>>56964892
It's both sunny and rainy here.
t. MetEireann.
>>56965349
same, but my road has become wet with the rain
I'm only like 3 miles from the city centre but it seems dry there
>>56962296
why is Ireland wearing a balaclava?
The rising took place at the end ofApril why are they celebrating now
>>56957097
Happy centenary mo chara
>>56967893
> Easter Rising
> "Why are they celebrating it on Easter?"
>>56958067
>when we speak more Gaeilge in the north
That's just wrong.
>>56958067
I hate retards here who think Irishness ends at the border, but I also hate northern "nationalists" who are de facto unionists tbqh.
>people speaking potato language ITT
Please stop
>>56958067
>when we speak more Gaeilge in the north and had the best IRA units.
both of those are false
and stop bitching about being abandoned, if the ulster ira during the war of independence wasn't so utterly shite and incompetent and could only commit atrocities like the knackers ye are maybe you'd be free yourselves
>>56972215
tiomantas mhoilliú féinmharú
![uploads_b945777a-0989-4c4a-b969-c3bb29396208-3221507-2307282-55860_jj_jameson_laughing_meme_1-680x453[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/iF5lWRG.jpg "uploads_b945777a-0989-4c4a-b969-c3bb29396208-3221507-2307282-55860_jj_jameson_laughing_meme_1-680x453[1].jpg")
>>56958067
> We speak more Gaeilge in the north
>>56958067
Look at your flag, that is what you are and that is all you'll ever be. It's over desu, if the people in Ulster didn't allow the plantation to succeed then you would have been able to join us when we left. Stop blaming "free state sell-out cunts" when the failure of Ulster to stand up for itself is what caused Ulster to be abandoned in the fight for independence like the dead weight that it was. Ulster never could be part of a free Ireland because Ulster had allowed itself to be invaded and taken over hundreds of years before.
>>56974343
great notions of national unity there boy, especially considering Ulster was planted for being relatively too resistant in the first place
>>56974513
Obviously not resistant enough. Why should we have held ourselves back for the sake of a lost cause? I don't give a shit about Ulster, if they can sort their shit out and then join us then great but in the mean time, I see no reason to sympathise with a province who allowed itself to be overrun in the first place and i certainly see no reason why we should have held ourselves back for their sake.
>>56974119
To be honest, he spoke more Irish than any other person I've spoke to on this.
>>56957097
An bhfuil cead agam go dul go dti an leathreas?
>>56975192
Níl cead agat, anois téigh ina chomhalta.
>>56957644
>Why do the Irish not want the North back?
The only ones who don't are the same ones who go on holidays to Blackpool in the middle of May.
Northern Ireland is and forever will be, Ireland.
>>56974685
>>56974343
I bet your name starts with Fitz.
>>56975350
and i bet youre a spastic for thinking such a notion relevant or even appropriate
>>56975433
Hello Fitzmaurice, are you visiting for Easter or should we fire up the ovens?
>>56975517
hmm yes I see, you have no clue about irish history
>>56975647
Ulster was the only Gaelic dominant region left by the 1600s. It was the failure of the Gaels in Leinster/Connacht/Munster to rise when they came south that lost the war. Aodh Ruadh and Aodh Ui Neill spent eight years kicking the ever living fuck out of the English, and you cunts in the south-west didn't bother helping. Dirty Norman-loving bastards.
>>56975811
okay? im not the lad you originally replied talking about ulster
and youre wrong, again, as it was originally the norman families who initially resisted the tudor conquest of ireland, to the point they had already been destroyed whilst your precious earl was sucking up to them
back to school kiddo
>>56976443
>and youre wrong, again, as it was originally the norman families who initially resisted the tudor conquest of ireland, to the point they had already been destroyed whilst your precious earl was sucking up to them
Wrong. The Normans initially fought against the Gaelic Irish, it's a major reason why some Gaels were willing to swear an oath to the King, so their lands would be protected under law, instead of Normans and Gaels fighting over de facto control of lands.
It was only after the Normans were ostracised by the English themselves that they entered into rebellion. They couldn't run their lands and their wars how they wanted. They felt too Irish for the English, and too English for the Irish. The Normans didn't look out for Gaelic Ireland, they were looking after themselves and they were -very- willing to sell out any Gaels that went into rebellion alongside them, so that they could retain their lands.
>>56959478
dave?
>>56961495
>Gaelic is only the native language of the Scottish Highlands.
>The rest of the country has always been anglo and Scots/English speaking.
>revisionist nonsense for 500, Jim
Most of Scotland was Gaelic speaking, except for pockets in the south-east and the northernmost isles.
>>56976703
I know a dave in my course. But not dave
>>56976830
does he have a nose like a jew?
>>56977025
And from Enfield?
>>56976689
>>56976689
>The Normans initially fought against the Gaelic Irish, it's a major reason why some Gaels were willing to swear an oath to the King, so their lands would be protected under law, instead of Normans and Gaels fighting over de facto control of lands.
during the tudor conquest? nah gb2 school, they were the ones who initially resisted
>It was only after the Normans were ostracised by the English themselves that they entered into rebellion. They couldn't run their lands and their wars how they wanted. They felt too Irish for the English, and too English for the Irish. The Normans didn't look out for Gaelic Ireland, they were looking after themselves and they were -very- willing to sell out any Gaels that went into rebellion alongside them, so that they could retain their lands.
kek m8 fuck off you dont have a clue and have created some revisionist shite to present gaelic ireland as some monolith when in actuality the norman and gaelic lords operated exactly the same, purely on a self serving basis
>>56977053
fuck that is dave
haha wtf?
>>56977098
Haha. He's a good friend of mine in college. Ireland is too small man
>>56977130
yeah man it really is
i went into the parade today with the nazi cunt haha
>>56977258
Let me guess, was there grass or md at play also today?
>>56977308
no man, just went down for a pint,
it was fucking packed
>>56977360
I probably would've met you in person today. I was gonna head in, but I thought it'd be packed so I decided to make this thread.
>>56977421
ah you missed out
it really was magical
>>56977489
Were you pair on O'Connell Street? How long did the parade go on for?
>>56969840
>The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. Wikipedia
>Period: April 24, 1916 – April 29, 1916
why not celebrate it from 24th april to 29th april?
>>56977564
we watched the ceremony separately but got together after and didnt really watch the parade, it seemed to last a fair bit tho
>>56977070
>during the tudor conquest? nah gb2 school, they were the ones who initially resisted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_conquest_of_Ireland
>The Hiberno-Norman lords had been able to carve out fiefdoms for themselves but not to settle them with English tenants. As a result, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in the wake of Irish rebellion, Scottish invasion, the Black Death and a lack of interest on the part of the London government, the territories controlled by those lords achieved a high degree of independence. The Butlers, Fitzgeralds and Burkes raised their own armed forces, enforced their own law, and adopted Gaelic language and culture.
>Beyond those territories large areas of land previously held by authority of the English crown were taken by the resurgent Gaelic Irish, particularly in the north and midlands. Among the most important septs were the O'Neills (Uí Néill) in central Ulster (Tir Eoghain)—flanked to their west by the O'Donnells—the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles in County Wicklow, the Kavanaghs in County Wexford, the MacCarthys and O'Sullivans in County Cork and County Kerry and the O'Brien (Ó Briain) lordship of Thomond in County Clare.
>the only one of the Norman houses to actually enter into revolt was Fitzgerald
Yeah, it was the Normans and not the Gaelic Irish who fought the Tudors :^)
>>56977706
i said initially and you realize there were two Fitzgerald earldoms and they controlled noncontiguously the vast majority of the island under one house?
>>56977566
Because it took place on Easter week and this is easter week. How does this not make sense to you?
>>56979480
makes much more sense to celebrate it on the actual days, if nothings stopping you.
March 27th =/= April 24
>>56958188
how dare you tá mé ag gaeilge líofa go deo mar sin más é do thoil é
Why are the only /fa/ Irish soldiers the pipers and everyone else just wears the standard vomit green Anglo-American uniform?
>>56983330
Cinnte...
>>56979558
Why do we celebrate Easter on different dates every year?
>>56961495
why do always this meme
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/12204524/Easter-Rising-it-is-time-to-apologise-to-the-Irish.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/what-should-britain-feel-about-the-easter-rising-how-about-shame-a6954251.html
http://news.sky.com/story/1667596/ireland-commemorates-easter-rising-centenary
Why cant the brits let it go?
Why are they so butthurt we fought back?
Why do they think that we need to apologise for fighting them in WW1?
I dont understand these people
these celebrations are pretty hollow considering how little we did with our independence really
>partition
>pure tokenism towards the language
>subordinating the constitution to EU law
>>56986253
Because they're British.
>>56986463
How the fuck did these gobshites rule half the world? Honestly we must have been in a right fuckin state to allow these eejits to take us over holy shit
>>56977566
Half of the rebel leaders were atheists too so it really makes no sense
James Connolly = Filthy communist
>that faggot on the phome when Higgins placed the wreath
Disgusting
>>56986959
This, remove Connolly
