Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
4.25K subscribers
12.3K photos
1.9K videos
74 files
4.7K links
Irish Nationalist History & Politics Channel, with a side dish of shitposting. Use of the channel has changed since August 2020 but name stays cause its funny.

No, I am not on Twitter at all. I repost stuff from Twitter.
Download Telegram
An interesting few lines in an Oswald Mosley interview by Irish-American conservative William Buckley stating that the Irish issue within the 6 counties was predominantly a religious division and not an economic one - pointing out how the likes of trots like Bernadette Devlin were trying to make about economics

Also says he believes most English people want to get rid of this issue as soon as possible.

His solution for dealing with it I presume was his proposition of a United States of Europe idea

https://www.oswaldmosley.com/william-buckley-interview/
Forwarded from Keith Woods
It's been a bad couple of years for the Irish left
Sinn Féin candidates are referring to Dublin Working Class folk as ‘Yissers’ to mock their accent
American Marxist from DSA comes to Ireland to help left-wing parties after reading Lenin his entire life and is aghast at how at odds he is with actual working-class Irish people over migration.

🔗
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
''I am not a socialist, I am an individualist...and I have never been. I have never met a West Cork man during the period who said he was a socialist.''

- Tom Barry, IRA commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
''One of the things worrying us fellas, the people, our own people in Ireland, is that the whole best part of the country seems to be going over to foreigners''

- Tom Barry, IRA commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
''Any place in Cork City now, and every week there's some place taken over by the foreigners''

- Tom Barry, IRA commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column
Liam O'Dwyer, Officer of the 6th (Beara) Battalion of the West Cork IRA addressing subversive members of an Irish-American group in Detroit, 1926:

"Communism should be left out of this organisation entirely, our struggle was for the independence of Christian Ireland."
"It [the Irish struggle] is in complete opposition to the dialectics of the Marxist Materialists."

- Seán Moylan statement to the Bureau of Military History (pg. 21)
Forwarded from MEON
"Immigrants have been recorded as leaning toward a pro-British position on a United Ireland when polled. Why would they care for a centuries old blood-feud?"

In his debut for MEON, Ríastrad casts a critical eye on contemporary Irish Republicanism.

https://meonjournal.com/read/evaluating-contemporary-irish-republicanism
Irish Socialist Republicians in Anti-Imperialist Action holding up an image of the true Gael, Cathal O’Marcach
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
A video from 2020 during the height of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter as the Irish media daily released an article for months on how evil Ireland is

Perhaps an updated version is due, given all that’s happened since….
Twitter Analytics: Measuring and Optimizing Your Social Media Impact