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How has such a tiny island produced such legendary writers as Joyce, Beckett and Rooney?

>> No.20839742

>>20839736
why are they flooded with niggers now?

>> No.20839745

>>20839736
Their strongly Catholic culture unironically contributed to it as it enabled them to gain wisdom from a higher source.

>> No.20839750

>>20839745
how much of their wisdom do they owe to the tanakh?

>> No.20839784

>>20839742
What a waste of a first post

>> No.20839791

>>20839736
English settlement.

>> No.20839810

>>20839736
>>20839742
>>20839745
>>20839750
>>20839784
>>20839791
Friendly reminder that 90% of famous "irish" writers were of anglo irish british origin
The irish will complain about the british and yet claim their aristocratic writers as their own

>> No.20839848

>>20839810
>anglo irish british origin
cope more. no one would even care either way. Anyone can claim authors as their own, and you're basically defending genocide

>> No.20839908

>>20839810
Then all great anglo writers are German

>> No.20840161

>8 posts
>no mention of Flann O'Brien
I am really not sure if nu-/lit/ has heard of him. The Poor Mouth is very funny.

>> No.20840249

>>20839736
Because there's nothing else to do, you stupid cunt. There's nothing on or in Ireland but bogs, sheep, and culchies. You were either telling stories, farming, drinking, fighting with fists or sticks, or engaging in a legal battle. There's more Irish-language text from the medieval era than all other non-Latin European languages for a reason. Granted, most of it was just legal records, because Brehon Law involved constant legal disputes over everything.

>> No.20840301

>>20839736
>How has such a tiny island produced such legendary writers
It didn't
>>20839742
They're called celts

>> No.20841263

>>20839745
spbp

>> No.20841429

Something about the melodic nature of Irish-English makes them better at writing.

>> No.20841436

>>20839736
>Joyce, Beckett and Rooney?
>Rape, Grievous Bodily Harm, and Jaywalking
kek

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>>20839736
> Joyce, Beckett and Rooney

>> No.20841467

English is a very musical language (Joyce demonstrates this masterly in the 'Sirens' chapter with his wily playing around with lexical stress), and the Irish were able to tap into that in a way the English seemed not to.

>> No.20841826

>>20841436
I don't get it

>> No.20841845

>>20839745
I was expecting this. Oh yeah the Bible made them smart, I guess before they read the magic words they were shit-covered barbarians who spent all day either beheading or bumfucking each other.
This is what what christcucks believe. The white man has the dignity to ennoble the big book of Jewish bullshit by virtue of his unique racial intelligence, and you people are in such a dearth of shame that you can stand up and say it was the book that made the men.

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20841850

>and Rooney

>> No.20842701

>>20839736
Will Rooney write another one?

>> No.20842943

>>20842701
I'm still stunned by Beautiful World

>> No.20843471

>Joyce
>Beckett
>Rooney
One of these is not like the others

>> No.20843507

>>20843471
Beckett doesn't have a Y in his name.

>> No.20843533

>>20839736
Ireland has a misty mystic mystique and is very pastoral, quaint, and rural. It's a cool, green, soggy and overcast land much of the time . These climatic characteristics are conducive to a melancholic, reflective that's mood best suited to writers. It's Celtic heritage -- or what's left of it-- has a robust oral and tradition with an emphasis on folk legends. Because of it's relative isolation from the mainland, Ireland is conducive to boredom. And boredom is kindling for the imagination.
Even the Irish accent is mellifluous and lilting, which makes words chime and ring, and perhaps as a consequence of this Irish culture is prone to linguistic wordplay and witticisms. The island also has grievances with its easterly neighbor, so its writers have a motive to write better English than the English.

>> No.20843540

>>20843533
>melancholic, reflective that's mood
Butchered this.
Meant to say "a melancholic, reflective mood that's best suited"

>> No.20843546

>>20843540
Too late, I've already dismissed you're entire post.

>> No.20843730

>>20839745
And yet Beckett, Yeats and [if you count him] Wilde were all Anglicans?

>> No.20843837

>>20843533
Apart from the fact that virtually all famous irish writers are not of irish descent :)

>> No.20843877

>>20843533
>and is very pastoral, quaint, and rural. It's a cool, green, soggy and overcast land much of the time
Which is why all of Ireland's writers were Englishmen in Dublin a smoggy city

>> No.20844244

>>20843877
Cars have existed for a long time now anon

>> No.20846233

Misery
>>20839742
Why, do you want some?

>> No.20846282

>>20841826
Jaywaking and GBH are much more heinous than rape