The political picking are over-flowing....

These are the days of our potentially very contented contentment.


The decease of Dr Rev Ian Paisley has for one reopened the dialogue of the legacy associated with the Ahlst'r Seez NO campaign and all that fluffery kerpuffery up there beyant in the state of Northern Ireland, or 'the North' as Sinn Féin would say in an ambiguous way which allows them to still not recognise the existence of the state that they help operate. O the crafty hoors, sure look at them go.


Also, fucking Scotland! The referendum was hilarious in all its simplicities and intricacies. The contempt for the London politicians is wonderful. It's all asking to be parodied. It's gaggin' for it. They won't be pushing ahead with new devolution until after the next general election for one simple reason: to let people with little else to do to poke fun and blog to kingdom come about how ridiculous the whole thing was. Let us seize the day. Let us remember that one role that Robin Williams did that made us all want to cry into our gins and tonic.


Devo-Max. What an absolute fuck. However, President-for-Life-and-into-the-Eternal-Life-with-the-Lord-Jesus-of-the-Irish-Constitution, Saint diV would have loved a bit o' devo-max.


Hih hih, ayhh would hiv loved a bit of miximum 'diV'-looshun.


Some blend of the pseudo-history of Ireland and the Irish in Scotland (Scotti) could be blended up with the recent referendum. The Scottish facing the question of independence from Ireland, with deValera facing off against Paisley.


Dahs Yoohn-Y'n betwixt ahhr neeshuns shall be no more! Ahllst'r seez YES with ahr brethren in Scotland! Harr harr.

But Ma'am, you are four people.

Mr Gladstone stalking the streets of Landin' innit in order to find prossies ('Fallen Women') to 'rescue', comes upon a large lady in a slutty red collection of petticoats, who turns out on closer inspection to be none other but Vicky herself.

Being young and Irish and other bits

I put here the link to my intended submission to President Higgins Being Young and Irish initiative of his early days in office.


http://flootcakes.blogspot.ie/


It's amusing I think. I say about a pub table with comrades one night and we brainstormed stupid ideas and fun things that could possibly be written about a better Dublin/ Ireland for young people. We were young then, so very young, O Lord have mercy. 


I have the manuscript lists and transcripts from that night and its productivity that came form the waffling that only pub table chats can provide. It's... somewhere. Shhh...


One of the ideas was to create a realistic commentary for a realistic waling tour of the streets of Dublin, with grim and disappointing features to the fore. It should highlight the worries of Dubliners and the things that get them going. However it needs to be subtle and not just oh look at the junkies. I had a feeling about it when we talked about it first and I thought I wouldn't like anyone else's attempts to write it because it'd be shit. Sorry about yiz.


Anyway, good stuff. The BRS-HSS is open for business. It's only a little odd that this is a subsidiary of the Boyle Research Society, a non-entity as of yet. That's obviously not an issue, as the anachronisms of history are a fundamental point of reference to the founding of the BRS in the first place. Imagine the fun someone will have in writing the history of history at the BRS. It will require much research--a society of its own perhaps.

Scrambled ostrich eggs an' al' 'thon.

Okay, so here are some things that have been in my head of late.

1) Creating a version of the Diet Coke ad – the ‘I don’t want you to be no slave’ one – where the women are replaced by nuns and the guy is replaced by Dev. The end of the song should be changed from ‘I just wanna make love to you’ to ‘I just wanna vote for you’, and             rather than stripping off, Dev should just take his hat and coat off. I imagine some harvest scene, or turf-cutting being the background. Dev should wipe the perspiration from his brow with a ballot paper.

2) Something to do with Chris de Burgh leading the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. I’m thinking lots of lady in red. Perhaps the lady in red could be Aoife MacMurrough.

3ish) This got me thinking – my mind wonders – about presenting WWI as the Eurovision Song Contest. People always bitch about ‘political’ voting in the show, which could be a fun way of presenting the alliance system in 1914. Then everything went to shit. 

Archie Duke style. 

These are just some random ideas that I’ve been mulling over. They need work. Roll on the establishment!   

From the archives...

I thought that it would be an appropriate way to begin this blog with something from my personal archives of olden-year. Third year UCD to be precise, so that was 2011-2012.

Here are my initial notes verbatim from Microsoft Notepad file of the day:

Idea for funny thing.

St. Patrick was a founding member of the SDLP and perhaps leader.

Use Letter as a letter against Bloody Sunday and Muirichú propaganda battles against the druid

as battles against Unionist Party ministers.

Non sectarian, socialist, labour left-of-centre Christian party.

Of course they couldn't be sectarian, what with the Reformation not hapening [misspellings left in for authenticity, I mean I'm a historian--ed.] yet. Perhaps have
the sectarianism based on the Pelagian controversy instead.

There you are now. Having completed a BA in single subject history in University College Dublin (and as of today, an MA in Early Modern History at the same institution) the number of times I have written about St Patrick is ludicrous. For this particular idea to come to fruition, it would require re-reading both St Patrick's Confessio and that letter to whoever it was of the Christian-persecuting variety as well as Muirichu's Life of Patrick. Following that the reading of much mid-twentieth-century Northern Ireland history and biographies of the SDLP leadership.

Now, I'm all in favour of research particularly if the end result is well-written history or comedy. However, St Patrick again as well the SDLP... I must've been mad. It sounds funny though all the same.

Welcome one and all (more than likely the emphasis will be on the former) to the Historical Sketches Symposium, the comedic arm of the Boyle Research Society (as of yet unestablished and underfunded).