A Drawing Of Me Complaining To My Cat About How Flavourless Chip Shop Chips Are.

hell yeah

you tell em

Saying this as an Irish person since the new Hozier album just came out and there are lyrics in Irish; it’s Irish or Gaeilge (pronounced “gwhale-ga” or “gale-ga” depending on region), not Gaelic or Celtic or any other name people come up with.

It’s just a normal language that people speak in their everyday life. We learn it in school in the republic. People like myself are bilingual in Irish and English. It’s not a “fairy aesthetic cottage core leprechaun” language.

Please respect it. Our language is a touchy subject seen as how England tried to erase it by forcing English on us and severely punishing those who spoke Irish.

At the same time that does NOT mean it is a dead language. Our (in the republic) road and safety signs are in both Irish and English, same with legal documents. Our politicians speak it, and we are trying to preserve the language!

Anyways enjoy the album!

GUESS WHO GOT A DISTINCTION (90/100+) IN ART FOR SCHOOL?? :D

(it was me, that’s who got a distinction)

Secret of Kells art book my beloved

So cool

It’s so fecken funny to have a horny allo friend who’s obsessed with politics as an apolitical sex repulsed asexual because what do you mean you think Simon Harris is a smash 😭.

like 😭

everyday it’s *insert Irish politician * is a smash 😭

hello all

i feel it is my utmost responsibility to bestow the greatest word in existence upon you all.

that word is…

🥁🥁🥁

Bumbóg!

the Irish for bumblebee! it is pronounced ’Bum-bowg’ and it is my favourite word in any language:3

that’s all bye :D

I’m so GODDAMNED FRUSTRATED at the state of Irish poetry.

I’m not talking about poems in English by Irish poets, I’m talking about poems in Irish by Irish poets! Especially ones you learn in Junior Cycle Irish. Stuff like ‘Stadeolaiocht’ and others. Want to know the premise of Stadeolaiocht???

a man is waiting at the bus stop

he goes to check the bus app on his phone to see when the bus will arrive

as he’s looking up, the bus is driving past him, bus driver staring him down.

that’s it. That’s the poem. The poem they want us to write a couple of paragraphs explaining the themes of. This is what we have to work with. Another one: Jeaic ar Scoil (Jack in School). This poem entails a mother whose son, Jeaic, is walking to the bus stop for his first day of school in junior infants (4-5 year olds). This poem supposedly signifies a mother’s love and a child growing up. While this is true, it’s all fine until you see what we’re studying in common level English.

In English we are learning and studying poems such as After The Titanic by Derek Mahon, a poem which details the degrading mental state of the manager of the White Star line, Bruce Ismay, after he got away from the sinking titanic and how he felt that he died that night with the sunken. This is a beautiful and complex poem MADE BY AN IRISH POET!!!

Ireland is known for our incredible poets and beautiful language! What I don’t understand is why poems as gaeilge do not have the same emotion and meaning as the poems in english! Could it be that the Department of Education is so desperate for Irish poetry that they will take any of the poetry as gaeilge that they can get! 

PROBABLY!

THIS WILL BE THE SUBJECT FOR MY CBA2 IN ENGLISH THANK YOU.

rant over return to sane tumblr

‘The Only Thing’ by Sufjan Stevens is S4 Jmart’s song. This represents them perfectly, in my opinion. You should check it out seriously.

I might make an animatic to that song for them soon :3

when you want to be able to speak fluent Irish but your primary school teacher was more interested in P.E than teaching you your native language >>>

(no hate to that primary school teacher tho he was cool)

This is a comic of my two ocs: Orion and Nora! It displays Nora’s crow like romantic gestures. I couldn’t be bothered to colour Nora in :(