ilivebetweenconcretewalls:

‘Although Cillian Murphy is a very talented actor, he cannot imitate an Irish accent to save his life. Actually, his Irish accent is the worst ever, worse than many mediocre imitations I’ve heard from NON-English speakers. And it creates a constant feeling of dissonance that you can never put out of your mind, throughout the movie.’

Comment on ‘Breakfast on Pluto’.

I nearly died laughing.

He’s an odd egg.

For example, he made a concerted effort to create an atmosphere where Jews were seen as a welcome minority in Ireland. Despite the Jewish population in Ireland only being about 2,000 strong at the time, he appointed a Chief Rabbi and ensured Judaism was name dropped in the Constitution. However, he also offered official commiserations to the German ambassador in Dublin when Adolph Hitlers suicide was made public.

He undeniably did Ireland a huge amount of harm, but I can’t really imagine Ireland’s early days being done any differently. He was a massive penis, sure, but we kind of needed a massive penis at that time.

Let’s just say I find him “controversial” and leave it at that :)

ellentansey:

I’d quite like something on my wrist, but don’t want to make myself totally unemployable :/

I’d quite like to get the colour sorted out on my feet too, but I shouldn’t think that’d be too extortionate. 

Also I’m not a massive fan of script, but would really love ‘Tiocfaidh ár lá’ somewhere, or the International Brigades symbol from the Spanish civil war.

Hmmmmmm

To be honest I wouldn’t recommend Tiocfaidh ár lá, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

It’s almost solely associated with the Provos, who were only one element in the much wider Republican movement. Also, one which deliberately turned its back on the overt Marxism of the prior incarnation of the IRA. And disbanded in 2005.

There’s also a widely held consensus over here that people not born in Ireland with Irish tattoos are generally arseholes, or at the very least plastic paddies. Especially when it’s that phrase. You’d be made feel as unwelcome in Ireland as you would in Britain.

Like, we’ve followed you long enough to know that you’re not a fool and are genuine about the sentiment, but there are better phrases which are less contentious and more applicable to Republicanism nowadays. You’re going to get a lot of grief, and quite possibly put yourself in danger, with that tattoo.

Admittedly, I got a bit carried away with that post.

It’s not that the English (who I have more contact with than Scottish or Welsh folks) have no concept of Emmigration, but it’s nowhere near as normalised as it is in Ireland. I know one woman in London who worked in Australia for a year, as a kind of J1 sort of deal. That’s it. It’s very, very rare that I can go to a gig or a bar in London without bumping into someone who moved over from Ireland around the same time I did.

English peoples perceptions of Ireland, at least amongst people I know, is more “I went there on holiday a few times as a kid”, not “that is a totally valid destination for work/study”.

Admittedly, I now live in London, where everyone moved to, rather than away from, so it could be different in other parts of the country. But amongst everyone I’ve met in here, studying “abroad” would be a very, very strange and rare thing to do.

Ooops, cats out of the bag now.

Also, dollars are pretty useless to Irish people. Unless they’re Australian dollars, I guess.

Totally agree, the only difference is that we generally don’t see that as a good thing.

Depends, are they going to play Give Ireland Back To The Irish?