Sorry This Is V Off Topic For Me Dont Worry Im Just Checking Whether Or Not Im Having A Stroke - I Was

sorry this is v off topic for me don’t worry I’m just checking whether or not I’m having a stroke - I was in the Keats house in London today and I looked at the guest book in one of the rooms and it seems I may have possibly been there at the same time as CS Pacat ????? what

The poetry of my people.

I have yet to drum up the energy to get my hands on Mister Impossible - please someone hype me if it’s worth it

CDTH SPOILERS will tag also but just so you’re warned

The use of the word Fenian in CDTH is so jarring to me. Like I’m sure she’s trying to invoke Fenian in the sense of a member of the Irish mythological Fianna ? But like... it’s unavoidably political as a word ?

I could delve into a better explanation of this but I’m currently in a doctor’s waiting room so have this Wikipedia explanation of the term.

Being associated with Boudicca as an organisation makes it weirder that it’s being used and isn’t political to me. (There are probably a host of reasons why Boudicca as a figure could also complicate this further, but I just mean in the barest sense of it being a shady dangerous group, not that they appear to be even remotely paramilitary in nature, which also adds to the weirdness)

I mean lbr here is a man who must have memories of being from Belfast during the Troubles as evidenced by his shared past with Niall discussed in Chapter 64:

And calls himself the New Fenian apolitically ? As a henchman of this group ?? So odd.

I mean the term even has specific American history too.

I just don’t think any of the reasoning behind this will touch upon any of the connotations/history of this in itself - I mean that’s absolutely not the point of CDTH, nor do I particularly think it should be. So just... why ? Is it just that it sounds like a cool rebel name ? If so that surely would be shrouded in the actual historical rebellion it’s linked to ? Being from Belfast when Niall would have been there, there is no way he’d be ignorant of the word or immune to its connotations, he wouldn’t use it without those being considerations, and I don’t know why he’d particularly want to in this context regardless of political leaning. Therefore: very strange.

Like generally when people are talking about the Fianna even you wouldn’t say “Fionn mac Cumhaill was a Fenian” you’d say he was a leader of the Fianna? Diarmuid Ua Duibhne - solider or member of the Fianna. Calling them Fenian would be weird. It’s still an extremely recognisable term today.

Anyway this is my off the cuff rambling as a confused Irish reader.

the funniest thing about the whole mallory tea subplot in BLLB is not the subplot per se  but rather the fact that both Blue, who’s family has a whole tea-selling business which even if the tea in question is home mixed stuff, they’re making tea with tea bags for breakfast in TRB, and Ronan, raised by two people from Ireland (essentially), would have definitely known how to make a cup of tea and were just electing not to for an entire book in a united front of anglophobia and wanting to watch gansey fail at something over and over again 

so sad for everyone who isn’t Irish right now and therefore isn’t experiencing the rush of the 2010 episode of Reeling in the Years dropping tonight after a decade’s wait truly what a blessing