Gives me so much joy that upper class WASPs seethed at Joyce's success. I want the english people to have nothing. Éire will rise again.
>>25172704>being this
Tiocfaidh ár lá, Saxon bitches.
>Éire will rise again.
>>25172711>believing anyone has a day>being cucked by the idea of having a day>happy birthday champ
Ireland will create something for itself eventually
>>25172704https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbHI7mSHVw8&list=RDnbHI7mSHVw8&start_radio=1
>>25172704>>25172711Seethe moar. Your culture has been completely subsumed by ours. Your colonisation is irreversible.Your writers use our language, and you retards think it's a victory for Irish nationalism.Read "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," and STFU.
>>25173066/thread
>>25172704I’m a Wexford man myself but you really should get over it. The UK & Ireland both are in the most embarrassing states they’ve ever been in.
joyce is the goat but lets be real, for every great irish writer there are 30 great english ones
>>25173079Very very sadly true. The war between Ireland and Britain is one which both sides have been losing for a while now.>>25172711Our day, and the Brits' day as well, will come when a united, nuclear-armed Europe gets its act together.>>25172704It's true that what Woolf wrote about JJ was moronic. JJ was the son of a gentleman, went to one of the best schools in Europe, breathed high clean European air; VW was a talented but miseducated daughter of congenitally insane protestant cultists.But JJ was not an angry weepy petty nationalist. Ulysses is not a merely national book: it is European literature like the Commedia which speaks from and to educated Europe. And the perfection of the nation, of Ireland as much as any nation, is the growth of its best sons into the flowers of European intelligence.>>25172918You are getting confused by a word that sounds specific but is actually impossibly vague.
>>25176291>It's true that what Woolf wrote about JJ was moronic.Never liked this bitch, not a bad writer and good utilisation of stream of consciousness, but greatly surpassed in overall quality by the Dubliner. And you you go on to explain yourself why, that is, his education, cultural enrichment no doubt proving conducive for cultivation of writing.
>>25172711Had a grand time at the Tullamore Trad Fest recently. More young people have the Irish language than ever before. I reckon it's cool now to speak it. And it was beautiful to hear our traditional music ringing out from morning to night at every street corner. I must have gone to more trad sessions those two days than I have in the past 2 years. And the pints were flowing. Met me a cute Connemara girl. Hope something nice comes of it. And I've got a nice little trip to Gaoth Dobhair coming.tiocfaidh ár lá, lads
>>25172745Skrewdriver ended over thirty years ago. Let‘s check how Britain is doing today…
>>25172745Anti-wokeness is a product of rootless, golemized ulster-scots protestants in the anglosphere and atomized 'self-employed' middle and lower class precariat in Germany. It's an inconvenient truth for the nu-right, but secure, landed Europeans tend toward wokeness. A perfect example being 'heritage Americans' in the US. The descendants of the mayflower are 100% all-in on wokeness and Kamala while the muttized descendants of southern planters and vast heartland polish/mexican biomass swung for Trump. Epstein was infatuated with the proliferation of your ideology because antisocial golems are great at creating the conditions for further financialization and privatization.
>>25177116Nice inversion of reality Juan
>>25177056You know, I never did learn the language, either that makes me deracinated or I was born far too long afterwards; I don’t live there anymore anyway, so it’s not like it matters. Have you ever been to Enniscorthy? Just outside Wexford? I was there not long back and it’s the first time I’ve been since I was a kid. it’s a rather cozy town I wouldn’t mind spending my twilight years in.
>>25172922must they always subvert
>>25177116brainless drivel
>>25172711Joyce did not think highly of Gaelic revivalists, or post-Parnellian Irish nationalists. He wrote in ENGLISH and left Ireland for good, for a reason. He knew it was a cultural and intellectual backwater.
>>25174702Most of the great "Irish" writers are Anglo after all
>>25172704Yeah
The main common trait of Irish writers is that they all leave and Ireland and never come back.
>>25176291>The war between Ireland and BritainThe Irish never put up a fight in their lives. They prefer to blow up funerals by remote control.
God I love James Joyce, even if I don't understand 3/4s of what he's on about. I've been deep into his books for almost a year now, a smartphone rotbrained cunt and he managed to get me out of it.
>>25177589That’s great to hear anon. Might I ask, what is it you don’t get? Only thing I’d say I have difficulty these days with is Oxen of The Sun (but not too much) and Finnegans Wake.
>>25177595I've been dealing with "intellectual" pursuits for just over two years, previously being a port worker with a cocaine addiction who has never read much (I still have substantial holes, not just in literature) and I've been trying to get better at it, along just bettering myself overall. So I got derailed plenty of times by reading up on general history, Shakespeare, Dante etc.
>>25177599Good stuff lad, I was a cokehead once too in my late teens. I stopped instantly after a very bad comedown which pretty much scared me out of it so I was rather lucky you could say. And I suppose with having had Shakespeare and Dante (to a lesser extent) you were able to understand a lot of his work? Take Scylla and Charybdis from Ulysses which is of course a debate and the whole postulation on how Hamlet, his father’s ghost and Gertrude were most likely inspired by Shakespeares own life at that time, what with the death of his son and his father, and did you manage to pick up how that sort of correlates with the characters in Ulysses too. There’s always a lot to go back to in that book.
>>25177612I didn't because I didn't know that about william boy. Damn. I have a pdf called "Life in Shakespeare's England", a pale-yellow cover, one day I'll read it. I never read Homer either, not to a meaningful extent. Philosophy is a 0 too. I mean. Sometimes it's overwhelming but as long as I am not doing it just to kill time...
>>25177630Just take your time with everything. When it’s something you truly enjoy you will always go back to it, or find a way to fully appreciate and understand it. It’s good that you’re thinking about this stuff anyway. You’re not obligated to read everything before you read a certain book because there are references, just whatever you enjoy. But having said that, it’s always fun to revisit some books that you know you can get more out of.
>>25177513You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.>>25177268You exaggerate, but this is an interesting point. Pretty clear to see why men of for example Joyce's or Beckett's temperament would leave Ireland as it was in their lifetime. But it's also a rather common trait of English writers. The Continent exercises a very strong pull on writers from cold northern islands. Voluntary exile plays a very important symbolic and psychological role in many writers's ability to realize their talents and visions.
>>25178556>I Ran Away
>>25177056>More young people have the Irish languageWhy did you phrase it like that?
>>25177056>I reckon it's cool now to speak it.Precisely. Its adoption is purely performative.
This april fools joke sucks
>>25172711Are the two unmasked ones FTMs?
>>25177116Buenas dias senor
