Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
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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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I never ever want to hear BAPists calling Irish Nationalism “petty brown third worldism” ever again
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From the earliest occurrences & usages of the term Fían (pl. Fíana) to describe a certain group of armed men in Irish historical and legal sources, McCone, the most recent scholar to have studied
the phenomenon, arrived at the following definition:

“The early Irish Fían catered for the propertyless males of free birth who had left fosterage but had not yet inherited the property needed to settle down as full landowning members of the tdath [i.e. the local unit of territorial self-government in early Ireland].”’

In this socially recognized unit of the Fían specific types of raiding-group activities were condoned. McCone has further connected Fían behaviour with various manifestations of young warrior cults in other Indo- European areas, in particular, the close relationship between the Irish grouping and the Germanic Männerbund.

How these groups, who may or may not have had some mercenary soldier aspects, might fit in with the legal picture of the fan from the Irish law tracts is not entirely clear.


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From the earliest occurrences & usages of the term Fían (pl. Fíana) to describe a certain group of armed men in Irish historical and legal sources, McCone, the most recent scholar to have studied the phenomenon, arrived at the following definition: “The early…
…Certainly in the thinking of early Irish jurists they have a recognized placein society. The phase of legally licensed delinquency for young adult aristocratic males (and sometimes females) may be of relatively brief duration if the young man comes early into a sufficient landed inheritance.

It may last much longer if inheritance is blocked or too meagre to afford sufficient status. The phrase in the late Old-Irish text, Tecosca Chormaic (The Teachings of Cormac), expresses this succinctly: ‘Everyone is a fian until inheritance.’

…A rhetorical contrast was soon established between the disruptive hooliganism of the Fían members, the maicc báis (‘sons of death’), and the good young Christians, maicc bethad (‘sons of life’).”

Intro to translation of 12th century text ‘Acallam na Senórach’
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‘Diversity is another word for conformity’

Morrissey (Ó Muirgheasa) discusses the word ‘diversity’
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Reminder Israeli forces have murdered 15 Irish soldiers' between 1980-2000 and they'll still hold fire, pathetic.
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Kid in finglas went to his primary school dressed as zorro on a horse 😂

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“What the Greek was to the ancient world the Gael will be to the modern”

- Pádraig Mac Piarais, 1897
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Kid in finglas went to his primary school dressed as zorro on a horse 😂 🔗x.com
Supposedly Zorro is based on William Lamport (1615 - 1659), an Irish Catholic in the service of the Spanish in Mexico

Odd character, started a rebellion in Mexico and claimed to be half-brother of King Phillip IV

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamport
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If you want to understand Mary Lou’s Sinn Féin then look no further than this Danny Morrison tweet.
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If you want to understand Mary Lou’s Sinn Féin then look no further than this Danny Morrison tweet.
Seem to be a spat between Shinners and PBP types over Sinn Féin going soft on Israel

For example, Sinn Féin voted to expel the Russian ambassador but not the Israeli ambassador

https://x.com/olcan85/status/1718301574135534021
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Fine Gael embracing their future of being the party for ‘conservative’ Pajeets

https://x.com/fergusodowd/status/1718313163786252598
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