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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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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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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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Jul 9, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Máire Herbert, 'Sea-divided Gaels? Constructing relationships between Irish and Scots c. 800-1169', in Britain and Ireland 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change, ed. Brendan Smith (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 87-98, at p. 90-91. Image
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What makes this theoretical inclusion of Scotland as a provincial kingdom under the High King of Ireland interesting is that Scotland itself self-identitfied as an Irish colony until the 14th century.
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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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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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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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 5 tweets 3 min read
In a 1969 letter to Foreign Office official Kelvin White, British Ambassador Andrew Gilchrist reports a conversation he had with Irish Times proprietor Thomas McDowell over how to coordinate a response to the fact that the editor was not following the British line closely enough. Image 'Major McDowell's Offer of Assistance to Britain', Irish Political Review, January 2005, p. 15. Image
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
Mar 8, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
The language of William Molyneux's classic 17th-century articulation of the Anglo-Irish patriot interest anticipates the American Declaration of Independence.

William Molyneux, The case of Ireland's being bound by acts of Parliament made in England stated (Dublin, 1698), p. 54. Image Molyneux wrote in the interests of fellow Protestant settlers, but his arguments were first formulated by the Old English Confederate Catholic Irish lawyer Patrick Darcy in 1643.

C. E. J. Caldicott (ed.) 'Patrick Darcy: An Argument', Camden Fourth Series, 44, 191 (1992), p. 197. Image
Jan 3, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Cromwell's odium persisted in Ireland because his men were rewarded with the land of the Irish and formed the landlord class in Ireland thereafter, as though Generalplan Ost had succeeded and 200 years later the remaining Slavs were labouring for Oskar Graf von Dirlewanger VI. Image
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The consequences of the Confederate War were a living legacy until the Land Acts, concluding with the Wyndham Act of 1903, broke the power of the Anglo-Irish landlords in the late 19th century, meaning that Cromwell's impact was continuous until recently. Image
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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