anarcho-surreal.bsky.social
No Gods, No Masters, No War but the Class War!
Cynical Libertarian Communist, Celtic Pagan and Irish historian living in exile in Celtic Spain due to Irish Landlord tyranny...and my love of pinchos!
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"Wonderful things can happen when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."
--Elmore Leonard, Glitz
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Louis Marcus, Irish Times.
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That's due to the pull and tug of the devil and mammy! The stain of evil ages him prematurely, while his mother's force feeding of buttered bread and strong cups of tea keeps him simultaneously youthful.
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When didn't they shoot civilians? It was a pretty consistent practice from the 1500s to the late 20th century...maybe he stopped reading his primary school history text book when it started to get scary!?
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It's used throughout Ireland, or at least the parts I've visited.
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“Ramaphosa has repeatedly challenged Trump’s portrayal of the country’s treatment of White farmers, who a 2017 audit found make up seven percent of the population of South Africa, but own three-quarters of the country’s land in an enduring vestige of state-sanctioned segregation”
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And until 1541 it was based on the Laudabiliter. Which was the closest thing to international law of its day. As was expressed by countless Popes when Irish Lords approached them to retract it.
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Just to be clear the 1937 constitution legally acknowledges the Free State Constitution as legit. And the latter in turn acknowledged the UK as the legit former legal entity and the UK King as our King going back in perpetuity.
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If so should we acknowledge that more or change the constitution? The latter would be much easier and my preference but some people might say that we should be mature enough to acknowledge the Normans and the Papal Bull of 1155 regardless of the horrors it unleashed. But celebration is a set too far
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In all seriousness I have been thinking about something tangential to this over the last few months. According to the letter of the Irish constitution we legally recognise the British/English/Norman rule of Ireland as legit. Therefore their Kings/Lords were legally ours from 1170s.
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We'll have to wait for Nigel Farage to become PM in 4 years.
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I remember going to Kerry in May for a week of orienteering at the end of transition year in 04. The sun was beating down and honestly it was like being transported to another world. Ireland can be truly stunning in between the gloom and rain.