What a brave and beautiful thing she did. So many of us all are feeling those feelings and say thank you. When we also need to stand up, it helps so much to know others are standing with us the same way ✊🏼.
After I've read these posts I feel as if I've been in a swing boat, do you remember them, you sit in a seat opposite someone and you pull a rope alternatively to swing the boat! I feel pushed and pulled between sadness and despair and then elation and belief we will win!! I'm tired of being on the swing boat, when will this lunacy and denial end🥺. It exhausts me but I can't give in..for me, my daughter, her beautiful young friends with babies, for all women adult human females with a cervix, for those troubled women in 'safe spaces', for the older lady fearful of who will come to wash her frail body...I will try to be braver, to speak out more, to talk of those children being groomed in our schools about subjects they don't need to know about, taught to believe they can change their sex and on and on..the list of horrors continue. Who will stop this insanity, who will save us. 😵😳
So much blame to go around. So much cowardice all around. I’m thinking of all the brave and beautiful twenty-year-old women acting courageously in the sixties and seventies, the second wave of feminism. What the hell has happened to that courage?
Now in our 70s and 80s, we are re-emerging on Twitter, on Substack, on Reduxx, on 4W etc -- as fourth wave feminists. It feels very unsafe to give our names or show our faces.
Too busy taking selfies for TikTok and Instagram; paying for slug eyebrows, bum n breast implants, getting fake tans and taking shite all night long on Facebook. Meanwhile the young boys have so addled their brains on porn they actually have no clue what an actual woman should look like with her clothes off. Glad I was born in the 60s.
These young women -- the transmaidens -- have not had to experience real life, but all us aging women know that they will eventually, even if protected by money and class.
Brave woman in the dystopian GenderWorld of 2022. The young have lost touch with a reality they're not even old enough to have known yet. Gene editing makes vaccines and fortunes: but basic biology is blasphemy and murderous bigotry against the patriarchal God of Gender Identity.
"Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where WO-men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of WO-men."[with apologies to Roger Casement]
Gosh , the attitude of some of those people !! Transgenderism is telling young men that it's brave to surround and bully women ,instead of being the cowardly action it really is. Absolutely everything about their cult is evil and it's there for all to see.!! Why ANY WOMEN , including WOMEN'S GROUPS, would support this is so incomprehensible and makes me so angry !. It's the biggest HATE group the world has ever seen and every word they say is a lie !! Hard to believe that IRELAND ,of all places ,is doing this to women. It's really lost its way . Thank you for sharing your story and stay safe .♥️ History will show you were on the right side ,however long it takes xx
Considering what I have seen in Irish Catholicism in the U.S. I have zero trouble believing this. It is so poisoned with misogyny and hate and abusiveness it staggers the imagination.
Were it not for The Countess and The Glinner who would know about this? Once again, from the other side of the world, I found myself alerting a Dubliner about the War on Women ... in Dublin itself.
I think it’s quite telling that the 18 year old psycho male who is housed in Limerick Jail with ACTUAL REAL WOMEN and who has pulled eyelids off a social worker, threatened to murder his mother, attacked her physically, etc., calls himself Barbie Kardashian. And has slug eyebrows. And to all those so called feminists - the middle class sanctimonious Irish Times reading fuckers living in south Dublin who think it’s ok to house women who have committed minor crimes in prison with violent child and women abusing misogynists, what I’d like to say to you ‘sisters’, is - we will not forget that you pile of bitches supported some form of ideology including some bizarre form of ‘feminism’ which centred men. FFS. If Flann O’Brien were to come back, he’d have a field day writing about this surreal shite and onions. Btw that’s just a wee reference to J Joyce. Let’s say I wouldn’t be rushing to rescue any of them if they happened to all fall into the Liffey.
Kellie Jay is right. We all need to be billboards and get the word out. The more people know, the quicker we will win. I’m awaiting my suffragette scarf which I hope will arrive by St Patrick’s Day!!! Tomorrow (17/3) Talking of which, I do think Mr Linehan @glinner should do an Irish Terf Special tomorrow. Everyone should wear green (and white and purple) and tell 17, or 3 even, new people what’s going on.
My heart breaks to read this. I will never allow my society to break down like this. I live in a conservative asian society and our edgy young feminists are getting infected with this ideology but women like me will push back because we have the terrible example of the west as a warning.
Ireland seemed to have had about five minutes there when women weren’t trodden underfoot by men. Maybe on the day abortion was finally legalised. Before that, the State was run by men in frocks (priests); only now to be replaced by another bunch of even uglier (as trying to pass as women) men in frocks (so called trans ‘women’). Ireland is no place for women. The North is no better. I recently did a course in Norn Iron. A women only course. The woman running it from one of the political parties and she was incapable of sending out information about the course without informing everyone, in every missive, just what her pronouns were. On the actual course, JK Rowling was mentioned as an example of a woman who had endured very real economic deprivation as a young mother until luck and talent struck and she became fairly rich and very famous following the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. She was only mentioned I think because some blurb about her was in materials printed before Maya. The trainer woman felt obliged to downplay JKR’s achievements and obviously felt uncomfortable mentioning her name, starting off with something like, well whatever you might think of JKR... well she did overcome a lot of diversity in the early days, blah blah... I became friendly with a couple of the younger women than me on the course. The only time we weren’t all laughing our heads off was when I said, well she who’s organising the course shouldn’t need to tell us her pronouns. These (all young mothers ffs) stared icily at me as though I’d just declared I wanted to kill one of their wains. I never could ever vote for any party in Northern Ireland because they were all anti abortion except the Alliance Party and they’re mainly a bunch of halfwits on economics. Now, I cannot vote for any party because they now all subscribe to this trans malarkey except the Unionist parties who still know what women are. Just about. And I can’t vote for them cos they ain’t exactly understanding either about economics, and haven’t a great deal of time for anyone who regards themselves as Irish or was brought up Catholic (moi).
I now feel that both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are quickly becoming almost uninhabitable for women and therefore children too. Schools both sides of the border teaching shite about 101 genders in pre and primary schools. N Irish education department policy clearly states on the website nonsense about gender and fuck all about sex. In RoI, in recent years feckin creep Tatchell was invited as an advisor to the Education Minister there. Tatchell laughed at a rally of some sort how parents in Northern Ireland could be forced in effect to have their children taught shite about whatever the fuck gender is.
Tatchell as we all know from his writings in The Guardian is constantly trying to lower the age of consent in UK and argued in print that ‘sex’ between children and adults is ‘not harmful’ all the time.
You see where this is all going?
No boundaries for women or children.
Both states I feel are being taken over by men who care little for women and children and who are now employed in both states in positions of power. These include gay men, priests, men I know who have sold pornography in country areas and offered prostitutes for hire, men and women attached to Catholic schools who have covered up serious cases of child abuse in schools! Men and women purporting to care about NI’s historical institutional abuse who don’t care to know what is happening in the present to children and women.
It’s all very fucked up.
Which is why I’m moving to GB.
Ireland is no place, if it ever was, for women and children. The brave men and women of 1916 - Pierce, Connolly, The Countess, Grace Gifford - would all turn in their graves. Even De Valera with his political expediency and his mad notions about women staying in the home (enshrined still I believe in the Irish Constitution) would turn in his grave. Where he was just meaning comely maidens like John Major did in his ravings about warm beer, bicycles and village greens, women are now being literally driven back into the home because of the increasing removal of women only toilets.
Ireland lost its soul the day whatever feck said the phrase Celtic Tiger. It’s now all about money, power, property, transactivism and the hatred of women and the abuse of children.
Well, I am hesitant at times to say all that because individual Irish are held in high esteem but as a nation I share your concerns. I’m Scottish with one eighth Irish but my late husband had total Irish ancestry. He was as good a man as you could get and would not be taking this behaviour against women lightly. The rest of the men in his family wouldn’t bother their shirts if it interfered with their pints or their football. Our three daughters are GC and actively spreading the word.
Hiya Marion, if your husband has total Irish ancestry, then so do I. No one does. We’re probably all emigrants from China or Abyssinia or the Caucasus Mountains or all three. Way way back. My family on my father’s side have lived in Ireland since the Norman (very benign) Conquest in the 1100s. Were then said to become ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’ as they assimilated and adopted fiefdoms similar to the Gaelic ones. The Head of the Walls clan in each province was known as An Fealtach. So Magherafelt say in Mid Ulster was likely the Plain (Machaire) of The Fealtach. There’s a place just outside M’felt called Wallstown. Kinda backs that up. My great great grandfather on the same side started the first National School in Ireland. Reputedly. All the Irish names with ‘de’ rather than O, Ni, Mac or Ui, are Norman or Spanish origin names. Chris de Burgh (what a bore), Eamon De Valera (I saw him in Donegal as a child), Tomas de Bhaldraithe (famous Irish dictionary person), etc.
On my mother’s side, same old story. Except there’s no evidence of invasion. So probably was just immigration from somewhere millennia ago.
Jeremy Paxman wrote a book years ago called something like A History of The English People. Key message was that no one is totally English.
If more people got it that we’re all immigrants/emigrants or our ancestors were, then perhaps there would be less warring in this world. Less virulent racism, etc.
Can we meet in Baile Atha Cliath one of these fine days, Missus? We can talk about Dublin in the rare ould times... btw the guy Pete Mooney - a wonderful Irish man who wrote that song died the other day in Blackrock at aged 90. He’d too be turning in his grave at what is happening now to Irish women and children. I could take u to the pub where JFK first drank Guinness in the 50s? Or go break our own hearts, as though not broken enough on a tour of Kilmainham Jail. Or I could get us in free to Book of Kells exhibition in TCD? Just DM me on Gettr. Am there as Just An Actual Woman with a TCD chandelier to identify me, and maybe some tulips. We will win this, as beautiful Kellie Jay daily reminds us. This is an unholy war on women. Tiocfaidh ar la. Px
I need to say this and I hope I do t offend but I think there is something wrong with the Irish. All these years you have put up with such shit. Priests dictating your family life, men who bullied and kept you pregnant, education that taught you how to write books and poetry but not to be free. Individual Irish people are great but you are not good to each other or for each other.
Not quite fair. The yoke of Rome has been broken in Ireland now. Abortion & same-sex marriage is proof of that. As for this infernal trans-rights-movement: its high priests, acolytes & serving brothers & sisters are bent on converting Western societies & that with a zeal equal to Tomas Torquemada & his dogs.
Irish men are big and strong yet this woman was afraid in her own street. Where were these men in the past when priests ruled the roost and where are they now when women are getting a hard time. Graham is not getting the support of his compatriots and many just keep their heads down.
The problem with the notion that the yoke is broken is that people do not change overnight. It resembles the supposed acceptance of gay men and lesbians in the U.S., an acceptance that seemed to occur super quickly and we can now see never actually happened. Lip service to "being nice," no actual heartfelt empathy towards homosexuals and what they had had to suffer. My Czech exchange student understood that though Czechs were no longer under the thumb of the Soviet Union, they were still utterly prostrate before authoritarianism which dominates their educational system.
A colonised people Marion end up with a lot of issues. Many of them contradictory. The British were oppressing and abusing the Irish long long before the Catholic Church took hold. RC Church really only got a grip on the people after The Famine, which in effect was a good ole attempt, which partly worked, of Irish ethnic cleansing by the English. I say English, cos the English also well fucked over the Scots too. The Catholic Church therefore has only had influence in Ireland for 150 years maximum. That’s a tiny amount of time in the history of the ancient kingdom of Ireland. Now they’ve fecked off pretty much and this new form of abusing women and children with some power hungry men in charge has taken a new form - men’s rights activism/transactivism. We’ll get rid of it a lot quicker than we did the priests. Any culture which is brutalised by another will produce particular patterns of response. The Irish aren’t any more fucked over than Black people have been or Jewish people in the Holocaust.
I lived in Scotland for six years in my life. I hated it. I faced a great deal of aggression there as both a woman and as a Catholic born Irish person (lived in Glasgow). As for Scottish men, I’d rather banish myself to an island than ever have relationships with a single one. The greatest bunch of weirdos I ever met. Im(personal)ho.
I read an anthropological work years ago about an island off the coast of Ireland, and if you read how oppressive the priests were, it becomes more understandable. People had to sneak off the island to get to GB or America, as did Quebecois, leaving towns in the middle of the night to avoid the priests. The Quebecois didn't even have the books or poetry, most being illiterate.
It’s mesmerising. I hear, as she’s the ultimate perfectionist, that she spent a long time ensuring her pronunciation was just right. It is. She clearly doesn’t forget her Irish musical roots and is paying tribute to her mother Hannah. Just a lovely song. Wiki is interesting on the various versions. Do u then play the fiddle? Am impressed. X
Hiya Missus. Starting to get drunk here. Busy af. It’s my birthday today! Why I got called Padraigin. On the speckled hen, gonna have pizza and hit the Jameson’s! Will get to gettr later... x ps small party. Listening to Leonard Cohen - im your man - wot a man!
Kate Bush is one of the most remarkable singer/songwriter ever and she's always acknowledged the influence on her melodies of her Irish heritage.
When I lived in London, I used to go play at Irish sessions at least once a week, sometimes, four times. I acquired quite a lot of tunes and a serious beer gut.
What a brave and beautiful thing she did. So many of us all are feeling those feelings and say thank you. When we also need to stand up, it helps so much to know others are standing with us the same way ✊🏼.
This is so powerful. Thank you.
After I've read these posts I feel as if I've been in a swing boat, do you remember them, you sit in a seat opposite someone and you pull a rope alternatively to swing the boat! I feel pushed and pulled between sadness and despair and then elation and belief we will win!! I'm tired of being on the swing boat, when will this lunacy and denial end🥺. It exhausts me but I can't give in..for me, my daughter, her beautiful young friends with babies, for all women adult human females with a cervix, for those troubled women in 'safe spaces', for the older lady fearful of who will come to wash her frail body...I will try to be braver, to speak out more, to talk of those children being groomed in our schools about subjects they don't need to know about, taught to believe they can change their sex and on and on..the list of horrors continue. Who will stop this insanity, who will save us. 😵😳
Well save ourselves. Hang on in there.
So much blame to go around. So much cowardice all around. I’m thinking of all the brave and beautiful twenty-year-old women acting courageously in the sixties and seventies, the second wave of feminism. What the hell has happened to that courage?
Mind you, we didn't have bona fide women's organizations telling us that men were women, and women were men.
Now in our 70s and 80s, we are re-emerging on Twitter, on Substack, on Reduxx, on 4W etc -- as fourth wave feminists. It feels very unsafe to give our names or show our faces.
The gene for religious lunacy must have been recessive. Now it's expressing itself with a vengeance in the younger generation.
Too busy taking selfies for TikTok and Instagram; paying for slug eyebrows, bum n breast implants, getting fake tans and taking shite all night long on Facebook. Meanwhile the young boys have so addled their brains on porn they actually have no clue what an actual woman should look like with her clothes off. Glad I was born in the 60s.
I think you've summed it up nicely! Endless self-indulgence, no thought, little empathy, zero real-life experience.
These young women -- the transmaidens -- have not had to experience real life, but all us aging women know that they will eventually, even if protected by money and class.
Shameful that this happened in Ireland . Some people have very short memories. The new priest caste. 😢
Brave woman in the dystopian GenderWorld of 2022. The young have lost touch with a reality they're not even old enough to have known yet. Gene editing makes vaccines and fortunes: but basic biology is blasphemy and murderous bigotry against the patriarchal God of Gender Identity.
"Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where WO-men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of WO-men."[with apologies to Roger Casement]
He’d love that! Maith thu! X
Gosh , the attitude of some of those people !! Transgenderism is telling young men that it's brave to surround and bully women ,instead of being the cowardly action it really is. Absolutely everything about their cult is evil and it's there for all to see.!! Why ANY WOMEN , including WOMEN'S GROUPS, would support this is so incomprehensible and makes me so angry !. It's the biggest HATE group the world has ever seen and every word they say is a lie !! Hard to believe that IRELAND ,of all places ,is doing this to women. It's really lost its way . Thank you for sharing your story and stay safe .♥️ History will show you were on the right side ,however long it takes xx
Considering what I have seen in Irish Catholicism in the U.S. I have zero trouble believing this. It is so poisoned with misogyny and hate and abusiveness it staggers the imagination.
Were it not for The Countess and The Glinner who would know about this? Once again, from the other side of the world, I found myself alerting a Dubliner about the War on Women ... in Dublin itself.
I think it’s quite telling that the 18 year old psycho male who is housed in Limerick Jail with ACTUAL REAL WOMEN and who has pulled eyelids off a social worker, threatened to murder his mother, attacked her physically, etc., calls himself Barbie Kardashian. And has slug eyebrows. And to all those so called feminists - the middle class sanctimonious Irish Times reading fuckers living in south Dublin who think it’s ok to house women who have committed minor crimes in prison with violent child and women abusing misogynists, what I’d like to say to you ‘sisters’, is - we will not forget that you pile of bitches supported some form of ideology including some bizarre form of ‘feminism’ which centred men. FFS. If Flann O’Brien were to come back, he’d have a field day writing about this surreal shite and onions. Btw that’s just a wee reference to J Joyce. Let’s say I wouldn’t be rushing to rescue any of them if they happened to all fall into the Liffey.
Kellie Jay is right. We all need to be billboards and get the word out. The more people know, the quicker we will win. I’m awaiting my suffragette scarf which I hope will arrive by St Patrick’s Day!!! Tomorrow (17/3) Talking of which, I do think Mr Linehan @glinner should do an Irish Terf Special tomorrow. Everyone should wear green (and white and purple) and tell 17, or 3 even, new people what’s going on.
I see you don't agree with an Irish friend in NYC who wore black on St Patrick's Day!
Sorry I don’t understand what you are referring to?
So beautifully written. Thank you to whoever you are.
My heart breaks to read this. I will never allow my society to break down like this. I live in a conservative asian society and our edgy young feminists are getting infected with this ideology but women like me will push back because we have the terrible example of the west as a warning.
Ireland seemed to have had about five minutes there when women weren’t trodden underfoot by men. Maybe on the day abortion was finally legalised. Before that, the State was run by men in frocks (priests); only now to be replaced by another bunch of even uglier (as trying to pass as women) men in frocks (so called trans ‘women’). Ireland is no place for women. The North is no better. I recently did a course in Norn Iron. A women only course. The woman running it from one of the political parties and she was incapable of sending out information about the course without informing everyone, in every missive, just what her pronouns were. On the actual course, JK Rowling was mentioned as an example of a woman who had endured very real economic deprivation as a young mother until luck and talent struck and she became fairly rich and very famous following the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. She was only mentioned I think because some blurb about her was in materials printed before Maya. The trainer woman felt obliged to downplay JKR’s achievements and obviously felt uncomfortable mentioning her name, starting off with something like, well whatever you might think of JKR... well she did overcome a lot of diversity in the early days, blah blah... I became friendly with a couple of the younger women than me on the course. The only time we weren’t all laughing our heads off was when I said, well she who’s organising the course shouldn’t need to tell us her pronouns. These (all young mothers ffs) stared icily at me as though I’d just declared I wanted to kill one of their wains. I never could ever vote for any party in Northern Ireland because they were all anti abortion except the Alliance Party and they’re mainly a bunch of halfwits on economics. Now, I cannot vote for any party because they now all subscribe to this trans malarkey except the Unionist parties who still know what women are. Just about. And I can’t vote for them cos they ain’t exactly understanding either about economics, and haven’t a great deal of time for anyone who regards themselves as Irish or was brought up Catholic (moi).
I now feel that both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are quickly becoming almost uninhabitable for women and therefore children too. Schools both sides of the border teaching shite about 101 genders in pre and primary schools. N Irish education department policy clearly states on the website nonsense about gender and fuck all about sex. In RoI, in recent years feckin creep Tatchell was invited as an advisor to the Education Minister there. Tatchell laughed at a rally of some sort how parents in Northern Ireland could be forced in effect to have their children taught shite about whatever the fuck gender is.
Tatchell as we all know from his writings in The Guardian is constantly trying to lower the age of consent in UK and argued in print that ‘sex’ between children and adults is ‘not harmful’ all the time.
You see where this is all going?
No boundaries for women or children.
Both states I feel are being taken over by men who care little for women and children and who are now employed in both states in positions of power. These include gay men, priests, men I know who have sold pornography in country areas and offered prostitutes for hire, men and women attached to Catholic schools who have covered up serious cases of child abuse in schools! Men and women purporting to care about NI’s historical institutional abuse who don’t care to know what is happening in the present to children and women.
It’s all very fucked up.
Which is why I’m moving to GB.
Ireland is no place, if it ever was, for women and children. The brave men and women of 1916 - Pierce, Connolly, The Countess, Grace Gifford - would all turn in their graves. Even De Valera with his political expediency and his mad notions about women staying in the home (enshrined still I believe in the Irish Constitution) would turn in his grave. Where he was just meaning comely maidens like John Major did in his ravings about warm beer, bicycles and village greens, women are now being literally driven back into the home because of the increasing removal of women only toilets.
Ireland lost its soul the day whatever feck said the phrase Celtic Tiger. It’s now all about money, power, property, transactivism and the hatred of women and the abuse of children.
You heard it here first folks.
Is Mise Le Meas
Padraigin...
Well, I am hesitant at times to say all that because individual Irish are held in high esteem but as a nation I share your concerns. I’m Scottish with one eighth Irish but my late husband had total Irish ancestry. He was as good a man as you could get and would not be taking this behaviour against women lightly. The rest of the men in his family wouldn’t bother their shirts if it interfered with their pints or their football. Our three daughters are GC and actively spreading the word.
Hiya Marion, if your husband has total Irish ancestry, then so do I. No one does. We’re probably all emigrants from China or Abyssinia or the Caucasus Mountains or all three. Way way back. My family on my father’s side have lived in Ireland since the Norman (very benign) Conquest in the 1100s. Were then said to become ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’ as they assimilated and adopted fiefdoms similar to the Gaelic ones. The Head of the Walls clan in each province was known as An Fealtach. So Magherafelt say in Mid Ulster was likely the Plain (Machaire) of The Fealtach. There’s a place just outside M’felt called Wallstown. Kinda backs that up. My great great grandfather on the same side started the first National School in Ireland. Reputedly. All the Irish names with ‘de’ rather than O, Ni, Mac or Ui, are Norman or Spanish origin names. Chris de Burgh (what a bore), Eamon De Valera (I saw him in Donegal as a child), Tomas de Bhaldraithe (famous Irish dictionary person), etc.
On my mother’s side, same old story. Except there’s no evidence of invasion. So probably was just immigration from somewhere millennia ago.
Jeremy Paxman wrote a book years ago called something like A History of The English People. Key message was that no one is totally English.
If more people got it that we’re all immigrants/emigrants or our ancestors were, then perhaps there would be less warring in this world. Less virulent racism, etc.
I love your comment.
Your sentence about money, power, etc, applies equally well to the U.S. except we like to go round the world leaving countries in utter chaos.
Can we meet in Baile Atha Cliath one of these fine days, Missus? We can talk about Dublin in the rare ould times... btw the guy Pete Mooney - a wonderful Irish man who wrote that song died the other day in Blackrock at aged 90. He’d too be turning in his grave at what is happening now to Irish women and children. I could take u to the pub where JFK first drank Guinness in the 50s? Or go break our own hearts, as though not broken enough on a tour of Kilmainham Jail. Or I could get us in free to Book of Kells exhibition in TCD? Just DM me on Gettr. Am there as Just An Actual Woman with a TCD chandelier to identify me, and maybe some tulips. We will win this, as beautiful Kellie Jay daily reminds us. This is an unholy war on women. Tiocfaidh ar la. Px
I need to say this and I hope I do t offend but I think there is something wrong with the Irish. All these years you have put up with such shit. Priests dictating your family life, men who bullied and kept you pregnant, education that taught you how to write books and poetry but not to be free. Individual Irish people are great but you are not good to each other or for each other.
Not quite fair. The yoke of Rome has been broken in Ireland now. Abortion & same-sex marriage is proof of that. As for this infernal trans-rights-movement: its high priests, acolytes & serving brothers & sisters are bent on converting Western societies & that with a zeal equal to Tomas Torquemada & his dogs.
Irish men are big and strong yet this woman was afraid in her own street. Where were these men in the past when priests ruled the roost and where are they now when women are getting a hard time. Graham is not getting the support of his compatriots and many just keep their heads down.
Agree.
The problem with the notion that the yoke is broken is that people do not change overnight. It resembles the supposed acceptance of gay men and lesbians in the U.S., an acceptance that seemed to occur super quickly and we can now see never actually happened. Lip service to "being nice," no actual heartfelt empathy towards homosexuals and what they had had to suffer. My Czech exchange student understood that though Czechs were no longer under the thumb of the Soviet Union, they were still utterly prostrate before authoritarianism which dominates their educational system.
A colonised people Marion end up with a lot of issues. Many of them contradictory. The British were oppressing and abusing the Irish long long before the Catholic Church took hold. RC Church really only got a grip on the people after The Famine, which in effect was a good ole attempt, which partly worked, of Irish ethnic cleansing by the English. I say English, cos the English also well fucked over the Scots too. The Catholic Church therefore has only had influence in Ireland for 150 years maximum. That’s a tiny amount of time in the history of the ancient kingdom of Ireland. Now they’ve fecked off pretty much and this new form of abusing women and children with some power hungry men in charge has taken a new form - men’s rights activism/transactivism. We’ll get rid of it a lot quicker than we did the priests. Any culture which is brutalised by another will produce particular patterns of response. The Irish aren’t any more fucked over than Black people have been or Jewish people in the Holocaust.
I lived in Scotland for six years in my life. I hated it. I faced a great deal of aggression there as both a woman and as a Catholic born Irish person (lived in Glasgow). As for Scottish men, I’d rather banish myself to an island than ever have relationships with a single one. The greatest bunch of weirdos I ever met. Im(personal)ho.
I used to want to visit Scotland (some Scots ancestry), but no longer! Ditto, Canada.
As someone once married to a catholic Glaswegian of Irish origin (still use my married name), I can only concur
I read an anthropological work years ago about an island off the coast of Ireland, and if you read how oppressive the priests were, it becomes more understandable. People had to sneak off the island to get to GB or America, as did Quebecois, leaving towns in the middle of the night to avoid the priests. The Quebecois didn't even have the books or poetry, most being illiterate.
https://youtu.be/shV-tT8cY-A
Let Kate Bush be the beautiful voice of the Terfs of Ireland. With her on our side, we can’t lose.
Her Mum Hannah was a renowned Irish born Irish dancer.
Go raibh mile maith agat, a Chait. X
I didn't realise she'd done a version. It's quite lovely. My partner and I play it on the fiddle. What a melody!
It’s mesmerising. I hear, as she’s the ultimate perfectionist, that she spent a long time ensuring her pronunciation was just right. It is. She clearly doesn’t forget her Irish musical roots and is paying tribute to her mother Hannah. Just a lovely song. Wiki is interesting on the various versions. Do u then play the fiddle? Am impressed. X
PS just followed you on GETTR - I'm Babavenga there.
Hiya Missus. Starting to get drunk here. Busy af. It’s my birthday today! Why I got called Padraigin. On the speckled hen, gonna have pizza and hit the Jameson’s! Will get to gettr later... x ps small party. Listening to Leonard Cohen - im your man - wot a man!
Many happy returns and good choice of music!
Kate Bush is one of the most remarkable singer/songwriter ever and she's always acknowledged the influence on her melodies of her Irish heritage.
When I lived in London, I used to go play at Irish sessions at least once a week, sometimes, four times. I acquired quite a lot of tunes and a serious beer gut.
Very well written.