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Irish Nationalist History & Politics Channel, with a side dish of shitposting. Use of the channel has changed since August 2020 but name stays cause its funny.

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Ezra Pound's schizo correspondence with Irish government ministers
The American ambassador to Ireland, David Gray, was doing schizo satanic rituals in Phoenix Park to communicate with the ghosts of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR's mother and Arthur Balfour so that he could ask them how pro-Axis Joseph Walshe was and other Irish politicians.

Joseph Walshe was the Secretary of the Department of External Affairs during WW2 and was viewed as being Pro-German and him and Dev sent the condolences to Germany on the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

David Gray really wrote letters to FDR telling him all about this schizo shite.
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Map showing the main monasteries in Ireland during the Early Middle Ages From Early Christian Ireland, 1958 by Máire de Paor
Another map of ecclesiastical sites founded by or associated with Irish monks during the 5th-12th centuries, many of these were the foundations for the Carolingian Renaissance during the reign of Charlemagne which British Historian Kenneth Clark states was the means which 'Western civilization survived by the skin of its teeth' during and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Not a complete map though, as few sites on continent I can see not on it.

From Early Christian Ireland, 1958 by Máire de Paor
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Another map of ecclesiastical sites founded by or associated with Irish monks during the 5th-12th centuries, many of these were the foundations for the Carolingian Renaissance during the reign of Charlemagne which British Historian Kenneth Clark states was…
One thing to keep in mind during this expansion of the Irish during the early middle ages was that

Here you had a people, never touched by the Roman Empire, coming into former Roman territory and becoming leading scholars, abbots, Bishops etc

Back then anything outside Roman Empire would be considered barbarous so to see the dedication of 'barbarous' men from the edges of the earth, not known to the Roman Empire, having this absolute will and zeal to just come and establish centres of learning and Faith must have been baffling and inspiring to many

This also lead to contentions, as Irish had own law (Brehon Law) and never really adapted into Roman Law/Customs (as wasn't part of the Roman Empire) which would had been more common on continent, so some mannerisms would have been seen as 'non-civilized' i.e. 'non-Roman' in their eyes.

These misunderstandings are what later tried to justify the Norman invasion of Ireland.
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“If the Brehon laws had been at all derived from Roman law, the resemblances would have been far more numerous, intimate and vital, and the whole judicial structure would have probably been different, and with the law itself some of the Roman technical terms would have been adopted, as in all counties that have copied from Roman law.

None of those terms are found in the Irish manuscripts. Many of the Irish laws are as a old as the Roman Law itself. Whether they are good or bad, creditable or otherwise to our race, they are essentially, substantially, and characteristically Irish.”


Excerpt from last chapter where Ginnell argues that Brehon law was truly Irish and very little, if any, foreign influence. Argument supported by Sir Samuel Ferguson.
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The noblest share of earth is the far western world
Whose name is written Scottia in the ancient books;
Rich in goods, in silver, jewels, cloth and gold,
Benign to the body, in air and mellow soil.
With honey and with milk flow Ireland’s lovely plains,
With silk and arms, abundant fruit, with art and men.

No fury of bears is there, and the Irish land
Never has nurtured the savage seed of lions;
There no poison harms, no serpent glides in the grass,
No frog harshly sings his loud complaint in the lake.
Worthy are the Irish to dwell in this their land,
A race of men renowned in war, in peace, in faith.

Poem originally in Latin by 9th Century Irish Saint Donatus, Bishop of Fiesole about his love for Ireland, which he misses. He is buried in the Fiesole Cathedral near Florence.

Painting is the 15th Century, Piazza Madonna by Andrea del Verrocchio showing Saint Donatus with John the Baptist with a Madonna and Child.
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"Well Tom, the situation generally is beyond anything I could any longer hold out hope for. As you often said, I always held out hopes to the last, but really all are blighted now, and as far as I am personally concerned I feel all my life's work has been in vain. Surely this is a terrible way to feel. Would we could even get back all our glorious dead."

Liam Lynch letter to his brother Tom, June 1922 on the results of the 1922 Irish general election. Civil war broke out the next week.

"The disaster of this war is sinking into my very bones, when I count the loss of Irish manhood and the general havoc of Civil War. Who could have dreamed that all our hopes could have been so brightened"

Liam Lynch writing to Father Tom a few months later into the Civil War, 16th Sept 1922.

Good biography on Liam Lynch is 'No other law : the story of Liam Lynch and the Irish Republican Army, 1916-1923 written in 1950s by IRA veteran Florence O'Donoghue
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‘My principle was that even if all other Irishmen chose to submit to that mean tyranny, I for my part would choose rather to die.’ - John Mitchel
Doppelganger. – Satisfactory; but I find the Irish people draw quite a different moral lesson from late events. They are becoming, apparently more moral and constitutional than ever; and O’Connell’s son points to “Young Ireland,” hunted, chained, condemned, transported, and says: “Behold the fate of those who would have made us depart from the legal and peaceful doctrines of the Liberator!” And they hearken to him.

The Ego. – And do you read Ireland’s mind in the canting of O’Connell’s son? or in sullen silence of a gagged and disarmed people? Tell me not of O’Connell’s son. His father begat him in moral force, & in patience and perseverance did his mother conceive him. I swear to you there are blood and brain in Ireland yet, as the world one day shall know. God! let me live to see it. On that great day of the Lord, when the kindred and tongues and nations of the old earth shall give their banners to the wind, let this poor carcase have but breath and strength enough to stand under Ireland’s immortal Green
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Doppelganger. – Satisfactory; but I find the Irish people draw quite a different moral lesson from late events. They are becoming, apparently more moral and constitutional than ever; and O’Connell’s son points to “Young Ireland,” hunted, chained, condemned…
John Mitchel writing in Jail Journal (which you should read in link) while being transported to penal colony, he has a dialogue here of a conversation between his imagined Doppelganger (uses it to picture what Redditors say/think) and Himself

In this, he argues Ireland isn't cucked and all about constitutional/political change etc as per Daniel O'Connell (forming the Redmonite tradition) but is ready for an armed insurrection
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Also quoted John Mitchel ''To the small farmers of Ireland'' Above all, let the man amongst you who has no gun, sell his garment, and buy one.
"The subjection of Ireland is now probably assured until some external shock shall break up that monstrous commercial firm, the British Empire; which, indeed, is a bankrupt firm, and trading on false credit, and embezzling the goods of others, or robbing on the highway, from Pole to Pole; but its doors are not yet shut; its cup of abomination is not yet running over. If any American has read this narrative, however, he will never wonder hereafter when he hears an Irishman in America fervently curse the British Empire. So long as this hatred and horror shall last – so long as our island refuses to become, like Scotland, a contented province of her enemy, Ireland is not finally subdued.

The passionate aspiration for Irish nationhood will outlive the British Empire.
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John Mitchel, The Last Conquest Perhaps, Chapter XXIV. In modern terms, as this was 19th Century, you can swap in 'Globohomo Inc/ZOG' or whatever in place of British Empire.
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"The subjection of Ireland is now probably assured until some external shock shall break up that monstrous commercial firm, the British Empire; which, indeed, is a bankrupt firm, and trading on false credit, and embezzling the goods of others, or robbing on…
The subjection of Ireland is now probably assured until some external shock shall break up that monstrous commercial firm, Globohomo Inc; which, indeed, is a bankrupt firm, and trading on false credit, and embezzling the goods of others, or robbing on the highway, from Pole to Pole; ...

The passionate aspiration for Irish nationhood will outlive Globohomo.
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"The significance of a man like Liam extends beyond his lifetime. Men of his quality are a minority of every nation, but, after they are gone from us, they become ancestors in spirit to a self replenishing heritage. He enriched that conscious sense of nationhood which is the soul of Ireland. He was in harmony with his time and in harmony with the most durable spiritual forces which have moulded and continue to mould the Irish nation. He was amongst the makers of history."

Closing statement in 'No other law : the story of Liam Lynch and the Irish Republican Army, 1916-1923' written in 1950s by IRA veteran Florence O'Donoghue
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