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Why are the Irish the best writers?

>> No.8918516

>pretending the Spanish don't exist

>> No.8918540

>>8918516
>Cervantes, Lope de Vega... I could go on

>> No.8918563

Joyce, Beckett, Wilde, O'Brien, Yeats, Swift..

>> No.8918568

>>8918510
because the English, French, Italians and Germans were too busy creating an everlasting and stupendously glorious Western Civilization - and side projects like the House of Lords, the Academie Francaise, The Vatican, and the Prussian General Staff - and somebody had to write the fart-fetish letters and wait for Godot

>never was a pill more red

>> No.8918585

>>8918510
they unironically aren't though

KEK

>> No.8918594

>tfw irish and can't write

How can this be?

>> No.8918609

>>8918510
Probably because of their catholic culture and upbringing and the shoving of the bible in youth.

>> No.8918620

>>8918516
>>8918609
Maybe Catholics are just the best writers

>> No.8918634
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8918634

>>8918594
Because you have to be Anglo-Irish

>> No.8918644

>>8918634
shane macgowan is literally the most talented person on that image

>> No.8918661

>>8918609
>catholic culture and upbringing and the shoving of the bible in youth
catholics don't read the bible
t. raised catholic

>> No.8918670

>>8918634
CIA is Irish?

>> No.8918672

>>8918634
Don't really understand why you lumped in Anglo-Irish with Englishmen of Irish descent

>> No.8918685

>>8918670
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidan_Gillen

It's pretty easy to tell too, he's shit at accents.

>> No.8918696

>>8918661
Can confirm

>> No.8918699

>>8918685
I love how his accent in Game of Thrones completely changes every year

>> No.8918708

>>8918634
Half of the Anglo Irish in that image are Irish that loathed England

>> No.8918713

>>8918670
watch calvary, best role hes ever played

>> No.8918719

>>8918540
bolaño
borges
cortazar
rulfo
neruda
huidobro
juan villoro
rodrigo rey rosa
javier marias
enrique vilamatas
jose donoso
octavio paz
quevedo
gongora

the list goes on and on desu

>> No.8918740

>>8918719
Is this a joke? Do Americans really think South Americans are Spanish..? Just glazing over there are a handful of Chileans and Argentines there.

>> No.8918745

>>8918644
>Implying and that it isn't based Daniel O'Donnell

https://youtu.be/pTkxkTrzKwQ

>> No.8918751

>>8918740
thats a sudaca you're replying to

americans are dumb but not dumb enough to think bolano is good

>> No.8918755

>>8918740
oh i thought he meant spanish literature
sorry my bad brb killing myself

>> No.8918763

>>8918634
>putting shane mcgowan in irish as if he isnt fantastic

>> No.8919604

>>8918763

>as if 'A Pair of Brown Eyes' isn't one of the prettiest lyrics set to song

>> No.8919638

>>8918672
There's also a couple of English people that happened to live in Ireland at some point in there, as well as the firm favorite Irish people that moved to England and converted to CoE to work too.

>> No.8919646

>>8918634
>>8919638
Oh, and a good chunk of the more embarrassing Irish bit are Anglo-Irish

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8919936

According to the Blind Beast, it's because the language/culture in which they write is not their own, which allows them a lot more freedom.

>> No.8920850

>>8918516
fpbp

>> No.8920867

>>8919646
Bono's half-Anglo anyway, and "John and Edward Grimes" sounds very suspicious.

>> No.8921074

>>8918634
>>8918563
>No George Bernard Shaw
???

>> No.8921268

>>8918644
This

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8921316

On this topic, has anyone read this? Opinions?

I haven't gotten to it yet, but it sounds like a good book for someone who wants more madcap Joycean stuff.

>> No.8921365

>>8918634
'Anglo-Irish' doesn't refer to people of English and Irish descent for fuck sake. It's a term used to describe Aristocratic landholders in the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

John Lennon and Peter O'Toole wouldn't be considered 'Anglo-Irish' extraction. Not even sure why Rooney is in that pic.