Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:50:56 PM No.24561545
I really try to read but this book is insufferable
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Anonymous
7/18/2025, 7:57:22 PM No.24561560
>>24561545 (OP)
Ireland is a shithole and it's only getting worse. I went there for work once, the whole country feels like a white trash trailer park.
Ireland is a shithole and it's only getting worse. I went there for work once, the whole country feels like a white trash trailer park.
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Anonymous
7/18/2025, 8:13:03 PM No.24561602
>>24561560
The entirety of Northwest Europe is like. Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, all trailer park trash, nothing like the Aryans of Scandinavia.
It is no surprise the only time those people have built anything is when they were under the control of the Jews. A perfect slave race almost on par with the Chinese.
>>24561570
Hideous.
The entirety of Northwest Europe is like. Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, all trailer park trash, nothing like the Aryans of Scandinavia.
It is no surprise the only time those people have built anything is when they were under the control of the Jews. A perfect slave race almost on par with the Chinese.
>>24561570
Hideous.
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 11:32:26 PM No.24562160
>>24561560
As an Irishman I can't help but agree. We are the most pitiful inheritors of modernity in the Anglosphere, with America shortly behind. Collectively we haven't left the 1990s.
Joyce perfectly describes this liminal interregnum between past and future within the collective consciousness of Irish society. We are in a state of intellectual and spiritual purgatory. Nomads with nowhere to go.
>>24561567
Yes, because getting pissed is the only way one can tolerate living here.
>>24561570
God no. You should know what inbreeding can do to a gene pool. The romanticisation of Irish women is purely fetishistic.
As an Irishman I can't help but agree. We are the most pitiful inheritors of modernity in the Anglosphere, with America shortly behind. Collectively we haven't left the 1990s.
Joyce perfectly describes this liminal interregnum between past and future within the collective consciousness of Irish society. We are in a state of intellectual and spiritual purgatory. Nomads with nowhere to go.
>>24561567
Yes, because getting pissed is the only way one can tolerate living here.
>>24561570
God no. You should know what inbreeding can do to a gene pool. The romanticisation of Irish women is purely fetishistic.
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Anonymous
7/18/2025, 11:48:58 PM No.24562213
>>24561560
"Ireland is a shithole" is kind of the whole point of Joyce's work, much of which he wrote any place but Ireland, and made a point at the end of his texts to underline that the works were written in such-and-such cities, information on which he could easily have remained silent, but didn't want to. Toward the end of Portrait, when Cranly speaks of "this stinking dunghill of a world", he might as well be naming the country of Ireland specifically. A few pages later, Joyce/Stephen gets the hell out (of Ireland), and Joyce concludes the text:
Dublin 1904
Trieste 1914
The Book of Kells (on which I did an extended research project, motivated entirely by the Penguin choice for the FW book cover, shown in the OP) was itself stolen c. 1000, and later recovered "under a sod", that is, buried rather crudely and probably in a very shallow patch of dirt. The thought is that the thief or thieves stole the book primarily to get whatever fancy, bejewelled cover it once had (which was ripped off), leaving the text behind in Irish dunghill soil.
"Ireland is a shithole" is kind of the whole point of Joyce's work, much of which he wrote any place but Ireland, and made a point at the end of his texts to underline that the works were written in such-and-such cities, information on which he could easily have remained silent, but didn't want to. Toward the end of Portrait, when Cranly speaks of "this stinking dunghill of a world", he might as well be naming the country of Ireland specifically. A few pages later, Joyce/Stephen gets the hell out (of Ireland), and Joyce concludes the text:
Dublin 1904
Trieste 1914
The Book of Kells (on which I did an extended research project, motivated entirely by the Penguin choice for the FW book cover, shown in the OP) was itself stolen c. 1000, and later recovered "under a sod", that is, buried rather crudely and probably in a very shallow patch of dirt. The thought is that the thief or thieves stole the book primarily to get whatever fancy, bejewelled cover it once had (which was ripped off), leaving the text behind in Irish dunghill soil.
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 11:57:02 PM No.24562241
Anonymous
7/18/2025, 11:58:39 PM No.24562247
Ireland may suck ass, but I don't blame the Irish people outright. They have been getting raped for centuries. Now the corpos are swooping in...it's so over. I can't image being a young Irish lad and being hopeful for the future in that country. Good luck getting a house. Also, the houses and neighborhoods in Ireland are ugly as sin. They have a terrible fashion sense over there too. A country of peasants with no class.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 1:37:41 AM No.24562535
shout out to Irish monasticism. Those autists saved literature.