How did a nation with such a small population produce so much of the greatest works James Joyce, Raymond Chandler, WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Becket, Jonathan Swift, C.S.Lewis, Patrick Kavanagh, George Bernard Shaw, John Banville, Bram Stroker, Brendan Behen just to name a few,
they practically beat the english at their own language
I actually thought Raymond Chandler was american until now Anyways, Ireland is the most inspirational place you can live. There's a reason Joyce wouldn't shut the fuck up about Dublin
Christian Ortiz
this
Benjamin Hughes
but their countryside is shitter than britains
Easton Jackson
Because they're not utilitarian anglos. Not complicated. Jews anglos and asians don't have the propensity for great art.
really enjoyed what i've read of Bernard Shaw. also a fan of William B Yeats.
Adam Rivera
what the fuck are you smoking?
James Phillips
>Raymond Chandler Chandler was born in 1888 in Chicago, the son of Florence Dart (Thornton) and Maurice Benjamin Chandler.[3][4] He spent his early years in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, living with his mother and father near his cousins and his aunt (his mother's sister) and uncle.[5] Chandler's father, an alcoholic civil engineer who worked for the railway, abandoned the family. To obtain the best possible education for Ray, his mother, originally from Ireland, moved them to the area of Upper Norwood in the London Borough of Croydon[6] in 1900.
Jacob Taylor
>they practically beat the english at their own language I see you're forgetting both Thomas and Richard Brinsley Sheridan are Irish too
Alexander Long
Right, because all those people were tricolor-waving, potato-eating, brogue-speaking, tweed-wearing, car-bombing leprechauns, whose style was Irish to the core.
Levi Sanchez
well, not all of them craw on like you, but they do all have style.
Aaron Brown
You mean "capacity", not "propensity", I think. (If you really do mean propensity, it would be "a", not "the".) Also, from an Anglo, hahahaha, you are so wrong. We Anglos conceal a passionate yearning for the infinite beneath our laughably buttoned-up exteriors.
Lincoln Torres
Doesn't matter, it's like Catholics. Whether practicing or not, patriotic or not, they make good literature.
Sebastian James
>"a" not "the" If he did mean propensity, it would be the specific propensity for great art, and still the definite article. Learn to English.
Mason Moore
but they don't even study the bible
Hudson Long
the thousand years where they were the only ones with the documents to translate or annotate the bible gave their descendants a free pass on needing know what's in there now.
Aaron Peterson
>Chandler American >Beckett Protestant >Swift Protestant >Stoker Protestant >Shaw Protestant >CS Lewis Protestant >Yeats Protestant
Logan Garcia
It's a nice blend by the name of having good taste
Blake Johnson
Wolfe Tone was a prod too, m8, try to remember the other 700 years of history with the English.
Hunter Hughes
Ireland is such an illiterate shithole full of aboriginal tier cavedwellers that it causes the few individuals with some semblence of a developed frontal coretex to launch themselves into literature to compensate
Ireland is basically a blackhole for culture and it emits writers in the form of hawking radiation to the rest of the universe while it gorges on all good
Cooper James
Don't forget Joyce is a Norman name
Ryan Robinson
CIA contributed more to Western Civilization than everyone on the left panel
Grayson Hughes
>yfw a working class drunk in Ireland has more poetry memorized than you Are you one of those cunts that thought Jim Casey was a real poet?
Asher Turner
>Churchill is good >Shane McGowan is bad the absolute taste of (You) and (you) are queen.
Matthew Sanders
>CIA Pasternak's telenovella tier romance is not that good.
Elijah Collins
Where does it say good or bad? These are just prime examples of their respective races
Logan Gutierrez
out of all these, putting Lynott as AngloIrish is the most hilarious.
Dominic Gray
>Jim *Jem
He'll never find it with google if you give him a near pseudonym.
Isaac Morris
not your safe space
Carson Evans
I would have but Bach is the greatest artist who has ever lived so I'll give my teuton friends a pass this time.
Noah Lopez
not a place for the discussion of literature either apparently
Isaac Martin
Germany and Austria are the undisputed kings of music, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Schubert, Haydn,
it triggers anglos who don't have a single note worthy composer and are the most unmusical country in Europe
Xavier Green
That post is talking about writers. Sorry if it triggers you Tiernan
Dominic Jackson
In Irish mythology and folklore, Tír na nÓg ([tʲiːɾˠ n̪ˠə ˈn̪ˠoːɡ]; "Land of the Young") or Tír na hÓige ("Land of Youth") is one of the names for the Otherworld, or perhaps for a part of it. It is depicted as a paradise and supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy.[1][2] Its inhabitants are the Tuatha Dé Danann, the gods of pre-Christian Ireland.[1] In the echtrae (adventure) and immram (voyage) tales, various Irish mythical heroes visit Tír na nÓg after a voyage or an invitation from one of its residents. They reach it by entering ancient burial mounds or caves, or by going under water or across the sea.[1]
Other Old Irish names for the Otherworld include Tír Tairngire ("Land of Promise/Promised Land"),[1][3] Tír fo Thuinn ("Land under the Wave"),[1] Mag Mell ("Plain of Delight/Delightful Plain"),[1] Ildathach ("Multicoloured place"),[4] and Emain Ablach (the Isle of Apple Trees).
Matthew Jenkins
>Anglos Anglians were German, most of Britain don't have German blood. There wasn't enough immigration from Germany or even Scandinavia for them to mix that noble Briton blood. "Muh Anglo race" was a meme made by 19-20th century revisionists, and spawned Nazism, American racism (in terms of having a "WASP" ideal)
>don't have a single note worthy composer and are the most unmusical country in Europe *Blocks ur path* youtube.com/watch?v=GowMI4wvmU4
Justin Allen
I think you mean Britain. Britain after all likes to absorb Irish writers under the title 'British'.
Jaxon Gutierrez
>writers born in ireland to parents of english extraction, who then spent their entire adult lives in london >"""irish"""
Bach wasn't much of an artist. He was more of a mathematician, an artless autistic composer. That's not to say he wasn't brilliant. Wagner, however, was a great artist.
Gavin Ross
You keep posting this bullshit. Are you just talking bout one person? I feel like Irish writers are more attracted to Paris than London anyway. All these guys could write in French: >Samuel Beckett >James Joyce >Oscar Wilde
Kayden Murphy
rats in the walls is funny though
Daniel Hill
falling for the 'Bach was a mathematician not an artist" meme is a clear indication of a pleb
Bach is the greatest artist the world has seen. There is no debate. In classical millieu, people ask who is the second best musician? Because it's understood Bach is the greatest.
Grayson Rodriguez
>Bach is the greatest artist the world has seen. Shakes and then Bach.
Jeremiah Rivera
Houellebecq > Shakes >Bach
Samuel Fisher
J.S.Bach>C.P.E.Bach>W.F.Bach>J.C.Bach>plebs
Michael Howard
Bougereau > Shakes > Bach
Carson Lee
"I know them; you don’t. They hate themselves. I lived for years in Ireland. The majority of intelligent Irishmen dislike Irishmen, and they’re right." - Orson Welles
Asher Stewart
Correct it now!
Aaron Foster
>but their countryside is shitter than britains >shitter than Britain's
Easton Turner
C.S. lewis was British, as probably many others you listed were.
Jonathan Adams
CS Lewis wrote a book called My Irish Life, because he lived there til he was in his teens and shipped to England.
Samuel Cruz
>Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism toward the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman, he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race. After all, there is no doubt, ami, that the Irish are the only people: with all their faults, I would not gladly live or die among another folk."[21] Throughout his life, he sought out the company of other Irish people living in England[22] and visited Northern Ireland regularly. In 1958 he spent his honeymoon there at the Old Inn, Crawfordsburn,[23] which he called "my Irish life".[24]In 1921, Lewis met Yeats twice, since Yeats had moved to Oxford.[17] Lewis was surprised to find his English peers indifferent to Yeats and the Celtic Revival movement, and wrote: "I am often surprised to find how utterly ignored Yeats is among the men I have met: perhaps his appeal is purely Irish – if so, then thank the gods that I am Irish."[18][19]
Chase Howard
As an Irish man I think it helps that we are completely self aware. People who make presumptions or openly insult us has little to no effect. We are the first to poke fun at ourselves and are quite open about our faults. I think every intelligent Irish person has the makings of a good storyteller because we grew up listening to them and reading them. There is humour always and a sense of proud timeless mysticism to our older lore and we thrive on it, relish on the fact that we believe our history, our ancient yarns have a uniqueness that cant be found elsewhere. But in true Irish form, most of our would be great story tellers will never truly bloom because we would and do find the idea of being a famous writer simply absurd. Stories are best kept for cold, wet nights, by the fire in a pub. So my wise old Grandad claimed.
Cameron Flores
>is Ireland objectively the greatest country for literature? Yes. Also recommend me someone who is similar in style
Wyatt Ross
>As an Irish man LLarp detected
Carson Ross
>irish people constantly complain about plastic paddies and Americans et al taking their culture for their own >"Oh and by the way, all these American and British writers are actually ours... all part of the gift of the gab. land of saints and scholars lmao"
Bentley Sullivan
You want to British out but let the Africans in whilst you get bummed by the EU. Regardless, I admire irish culture, stories and folk songs
Jacob Bennett
>As an Irish man I think it helps that we are completely self aware.
lol what fucking bullshit
Gavin Anderson
Who are "we", the jews, eu and marxists wan't that but not the people of Ireland, most of them just haven't realized what is going on yet,
Unfortunately yes, we allowed Germany to get us by the balls and buttfuck us whenever they see fit.
Jaxon Anderson
Well I cant speak for all Irish folk, just the ones I know.
Evan Garcia
Imagine being so insecure you'd dedicate time to create this. LMAO
Camden Gomez
>Anglicans >protestant
Adrian Ross
Ireland has this weird culture of lying to foreigners and pretending to be far more backwards than they really are for no reason because they think its funny. I think this is part of it.
Isaac Edwards
this is expertly crafted bait, well done. however your satire is just as bad as the idiocy you're trying to mock. I know that right ring nutters are a tempting target because it's so easy to imitate their empty rhetoric, but the very inanity of their arguments means that even learning to imitate them isn't a productive intellectual exercise.
Jaxson Myers
Yeezy>Bach I'm sorry. That was the most boring 5 minutes of my life srs
Nathan Bell
Bach was an artist. A performance artist.
Julian Ward
>Bouguereau Shit taste
Blake Torres
Yeah, this is how you can tell Irish diaspora aren’t really Irish lol My neighbor was born in Ireland, left for the US at 4 or 5 years of age. Claims to be Irish but can’t take a joke
Dylan Hill
What is it with American randomly claiming to be from European countries for no reason?
Jayden Young
Idk mostly irishfags do it
Juan Hughes
Because many of are Europeans. Your resentment and envy of our success and culture doesn't magically transform our genes
Camden Smith
they have barely any history of their own, so they often borrow ours. can't blame them really.
Jack Anderson
What the hell? I have no resentment, I hope that I'll be able to come to America some day, which makes it even weirder what they do
Jace Ramirez
A European is somebody is from or of Europe. Many Americans are from or of Europe. Thus, many Americans are Europeans
I assume you're resentful because you're feigning confusion about a very apparent and objective truth
Adam Garcia
>I have no resentment >I assume you're resentful because
Levi Bell
Very few Americans are from America, so your naming system is really inconsistent.
Adam Long
An American of European descent is an American you tard
Owen Thompson
>often borrow ours Getting conquered and being a slave people? Lmao we must be doing a poor job of it
Jeremiah Wilson
The story at the heart of Irish culture is tragically romantic I suppose, it breeds (or bred) the sort of artist OP is describing. As an Irishman I gotta say, Dubliners sums up the Irish mindset to this day. The pining for an Ireland we can never reach, always striving for it since the Brits came. We're still stuck in this state of paralysis, a sort of cultural limbo. Caring about our nation seems unfashionable these days, we'd rather whine about some shit Varadkar said.
Whenever I feel down about the state our country is in I think of this man, the greatest writer to ever live. Joyce is Ireland through and through.
James Bailey
Resentful people are inclined to deny the existence of their resentment
Eli Rogers
I thought the same thing
Jonathan Ward
the famous No U manoeuver, a classic.
Owen Reed
Then you're a pedophile
Jaxson Rivera
He spent too much time in the US
Luke Roberts
Well said, ya bollox
Carter Perry
By definition, only a person characterized by frustrated anger would seek to correct a perception of themselves, regardless of whether it were accurate. A gracious person would smile serenely in the face of untruths.
Jace Thomas
>By definition >
Carter Jenkins
Suffering and alcoholism.
See also: Ruseland
Lincoln Gonzalez
Forgot to add strong religious traditions to the miks
Julian Young
:)
Daniel Garcia
I really can't think of anyone. He was in his own league with his very homoerotic prose, irony and witticisms. Beckett still has lots of dark and funny in his work, but it's not at all the same. Both loved Paris; Beckett got big there and Wilde died there, destitute.
Sebastian Gray
Hemiplegia of the will really struck a chord with me.