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Hibernian hasbara account.
May 30, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This Brahminical assertion is less a claim on the Aryan and Vedic legacy than an ingratiation of old WASP Brahminhood. I have never seen such an egregious specimen of aspirational ethnography. LARPing would be the wrong word for it because its associations are with play and joy. Indians do have a genuine, ancient and living connection to the ur-tradition of the Indo-European peoples, to which they are entitled to some measure of real pride, and yet their diaspora somehow manage to reduce this connection to the level of ethnic careerism. Remarkable.
May 4, 2024 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
I will know we are back in business when I hear of an Irish helicopter raid on the park of Chillingham Castle.

Osborn Bergin, 'White Red-Eared Cows', Ériu, Vol. 14 (1946), p. 170.
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Image A more thorough and up-to-date discussion of this motif, which the author agrees was quite probably inspired by the ancestors of the Chillingham cattle.

Dorothy Ann Bray, 'Further on white red-eared cows in fact and fiction', Peritia, 19 (2005), pp. 239–255.


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Mar 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The killing blow was delivered by Walter Devereux of Balmagir, a Wexfordman. More below.
Aug 9, 2023 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
'[The Irish] system of rhyme remained basically unchanged from the first attested poetry of the sixth century through the end of the Early Modern period in the seventeenth century.'

Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics (Oxford, 1995), p. 119. https://t.co/XHFjjKI1LF
Image '...the structural position of the poet in each society, is remarkably similar in India and Ireland, and the Irish system remained basically static over the 1000 years from the beginning of our documentation to the collapse of the Gaelic world.' P. 75-6.
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Jul 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Coming of age for males in early historic Ireland was, by millennia-spanning continuous pre-historic transmission, a transition from the plundering Fían-chuire ('Fenian-*kóryos') to the householding tuáth (*teuteh2, from whence 'Teutonic').


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Image A youth spent in the cuire (*Koryos) preceded an adulthood as an aire (*Aryos), meaning a freeman.

The archaicism of Gaelic Ireland was remarkable to the point of absurdity.

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Jul 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Observations by John Carey on the Scythian (among other things) self-identity of the medieval Irish.

John Carey, 'Russia, Cradle of the Gael', Studia Celto-Slavica I (Coleraine, 2006), pp. 149–161, p. 153-60.


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May 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Everybody calls it Derry in private. Even The Honourable the Irish Society, the consortium of City of London livery companies who undertook the Londonderry Plantation and still own Derry's walls, from whom the 'London' bit comes, call it Derry in their internal publications. I have a lot to say about the Honourable the Irish Society by the way, and all going well have something longform finished about them shortly.
May 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For better or worse, my ideas are entering the mainstream of Irish discourse. Image
May 6, 2023 • 26 tweets • 12 min read
In 286 A. D., a figure of obscure background known as Marcus Aurelius Carausius assumed power, proclaimed himself emperor, and ruled Britain (perhaps indeed the whole island) until his assassination in 293. Let us take a look at some interesting evidence concerning his origins.
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Image He is believed to have been of Menapian Belgic race, and to have been a ‘citizen of Menapia’, but to have been such he must have belonged to a city of that name, and the city of Menapia (or Manapia) in Ireland (identified with Wexford, Waterford or Ferns) was the only such city. Image
Apr 19, 2023 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
Perhaps the wildest exemplar of the Irish Catholic adventurer is William Lamport of Wexford (c.1611–1659), who plotted (likely influenced by use of peyote) to make himself, by Indian uprising, king of an independent Mexico in which slavery and the oppression of natives would end.
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Image R. D. Crewe, 'Brave New Spain: An Irishman’s Independence Plot in Seventeenth-Century Mexico', Past & Present, 207(1), (2010), pp. 53–87.


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Apr 14, 2023 • 22 tweets • 18 min read
George Thomas (1756–1802), 'the Raja from Tipperary', is a notable specimen of the Irish archetype of castaway adventurers. Deserting the British navy (into which he was likely pressganged), he became a mercenary in India, a lover of Begum Samru, and the ruler of his own kingdom.

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Image Herbert Compton, A particular account of the European military adventures of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803 (London, 1892).


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Mar 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
On a serious note, there is abundant evidence of some kind of connection between the Semitic (or at least Afro-Asiatic) and Insular Celtic peoples.
Mar 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
This book by Joseph Johnston (which he wrote when he was only twenty-three) is perhaps the clearest introduction to the economic structure of British exploitation of Ireland under the Union.

Joseph Johnston, Civil War in Ulster: its objects and probable results (Dublin, 1913). ImageImageImageImage Johnston was a Home Ruler of Ulster Protestant background and eventually a senator in the Irish state. ImageImageImageImage
Dec 30, 2022 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
James Touchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, The Earl of Castlehaven's Review: Or His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars (London, 1864). There is an idea that the Irish Confederates were Royalists without national consciousness, but Castlehaven, an English Catholic Royalist who fought alongside them, described the Irish rebellion which triggered the Confederate Wars explicitly as a 'Milesian' nationalist uprising.
Dec 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I dislike the tendency among some Irish rightists in this sphere to countersignal the Palestinian cause out of anti-Islamism and reactive aversion to flag-in-bio Nu-Republicans. It is essentially the same as what Logo is doing here. Image If we allow ourselves to be mired in this reactive antipathy we will become no better than the German-surnamed teenagers in Idaho who earnestly hate Ireland because it goes with the Boston Brahmin LARP they are performing.
Dec 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Ireland has never really had peasants according to the classic European conception of an inert and mentally languid soil-tiller reconciled to some form of social contract with his feudal magnate. In Ireland 'peasants' have always been seen as cunning, energetic and political. The Anglo-Irish landlord Henry Piers (in general a relatively sympathetic observer of the Gaelic Irish) noted this in his 1682 Chorographical Description of West-Meath.

Pic: Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, Vol. I, ed. Charles Vallencey (Dublin, 1786), p. 115. Image
Nov 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Orin D. Gensler, A Typological Evaluation of Celtic/Hamito-Semitic Syntactic Parallels (Berkeley, 1993), 2.

Image Heinrich Wagner, ‘The Celtic invasions of Ireland and Great Britain: Facts and Theories’ (1987: 19–20), quoted in Hewitt, 'The Question of a Hamito-Semitic substratum in Insular Celtic' in Compass 3/4 (Jul., 2009), pp. 972–995. Image
Oct 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Foster regards the triumph of liberalism in Ireland as an ethnosectarian triumph of his own enlightened Protestant tribe over the barbarous Papist tribe. From his book Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970 (Oxford, 2008). ImageImageImageImage It is almost impossible to overstate the damage his Anglo-Irish school of revisionist historiography has done to spiritual, cultural, intellectual, moral and artistic life in Ireland. ImageImageImageImage
Oct 20, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Here is what Pevsner the great architectural historian of Britain had to say to his Irish protegé regarding the Irish Georgian architecture breathlessly boasted about by the Anglo-Irish and their apologists. From Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (London, 2011), by Susie Harries, p 711. Do not misunderstand me. I appreciate Irish Georgian architecture, support its preservation and highly encourage building in organic conformity with it. But I am annoyed by the attitude which overrates it, which is allied to various kinds of philistinism.
Oct 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Extracts from John Banville 'The European Irishman' (review of Hubert Butler's essay collection Independent Spirit), The New York Review, June 12, 1997.

Look upon this abject shoneenism and vomit. ImageImageImage Pops0n (may he RIP) used to joke about how some ghetto blacks he knew thought white people were magical beings. A certain type of Irishman of whom Banville is chief thinks Prods are elves. He equates them with the Tuatha Dé Danann.