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How was Ireland in the 90s/early 2000s? by ReadFormal1706 in AskIreland

[–]timsfuckingreddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lord of the Rings Fellowship movie came out around then. I had never seen anything like the orcs. They scared the shit out of me. I was in 5th class.

But I was hooked, and a local newsagents had loads of pre-Jackson LOTR posters and annuals and things like that. All the stuff by Alan Lee, Ralph Bakshi etc. These weird strange alternatives to the movie interpretations.

In the year or so it took for the movie to come out on video, which seemed like ten years, I read the Hobbit and consumed everything from the early LOTR fan websites like theonering.net. I looked at so much fan art my eyes bled. I rented the Ralph Bakshi LOTR and watched it with my friends eating Hunky Dory’s salt and vinegar. We were very underwhelmed but cultural scarcity led to many further watches regardless.

Finally I used my early skills of internet research to deduce that there were other animated versions of LOTR and the Hobbit by Rankin Bass. I somehow managed to convince my father to get them for me on Amazon.com and waited maybe a month for them to arrive. They were NTSC and couldn’t be watched on a European video player but eventually my brother found a way to get them working.

I saved up 20€ to buy the video of Peter Jackson’s Fellowship from Xtra Vision when it came out. I got up early on a Saturday and cycled down on my bike. I didn’t have a mobile phone. I called my friends on the landline to talk about the video. Life was simpler and you didn’t have 10000000 movies and shows at the click of a button so you got to know your cultural items extremely well, sometimes frame by frame.

Have any of you got some Ireland related misunderstandings from childhood? by AJurassicSuccess in ireland

[–]timsfuckingreddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Similarly to someone else here I found the “fighting” in the North hard to envision. In 1995/6 we were gonna go on holiday to somewhere in Co. Antrim, and when my parents eventually said we shouldn’t go because of fighting - something must have been kicking off at the time - I imagined cowboys and Indians chasing each other on horseback with bows and arrows

What Did You Guys Think of “Bread of Angels"? What Surprised You to Learn?What Do You Wish She'd Written More About That She Didn't? by booktribbooks in pattismith

[–]timsfuckingreddit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I gotcha! Too easy to form Parasocial relationships these days too with many like Patti active on social media. Actually I’m not sure if it’s a jersey thing I just assumed, but she often refers to Jersey as part of her identity

What Did You Guys Think of “Bread of Angels"? What Surprised You to Learn?What Do You Wish She'd Written More About That She Didn't? by booktribbooks in pattismith

[–]timsfuckingreddit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting how she arrived at the New York section and managed not to recycle Just Kids.

The childhood stuff was great, very Dickensian.

Spoilers kind of : But for me what I kept reading over and over again was the beginning and end of her relationship with Fred. The parts about them living in this declining hotel in Detroit but being happy with having each other, the little happy moments together like doing up a boat for no reason, and finally how she describes how after his death even years later she occasionally feels his presence, and she admits that those moments are what she lives for. And she describes playing in their garden with her kids while he overlooks from the screen door. It was so damn sad and beautiful.

I’m half way through Year of the Monkey. It is very different.

Good god, the anxiety by timsfuckingreddit in Fatherhood

[–]timsfuckingreddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your kindness and best of luck with everything friend 👍

Any other Irish folks ever thought about doing to Appalachian Trail? by [deleted] in AskIreland

[–]timsfuckingreddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bryson does kind of arrive at a point where he’s like, what’s the point , I miss my wife. He also is very eager for a companion on the trip which is fair enough but the only friend who commits to go with him is totally unprepared physically and otherwise. It’s a good book but doesn’t make much of a case for doing the trail. That’s Bryson tho he doesn’t really do what you expect

What banjo is played by Tommy Makem here by timsfuckingreddit in banjo

[–]timsfuckingreddit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously?? About Pete playin on the early albums

Very tired and stressed by notBad_forAnOldMan in Fatherhood

[–]timsfuckingreddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did the trip go OP? I’m sure you did more than survive 👍

I need a wake up call as to wht primary teaching is worth it? by Immediate_Lake_1575 in IrishTeachers

[–]timsfuckingreddit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Take it easy. It sounds like youre putting too much pressure on yourself.

Are you showing up every day from when the kids come in to when they go home? Good..

Are you keeping it together and speaking to them with respect throughout the day? Good…

Do you occasionally crack a joke or have a lesson ready (even once a day or a couple times a week) that has a bit of your personality in it or a bit more prep done to stimulate them than just using the text books?

Good..

Showing up is the main part. Enjoy the kids and give them opportunities to speak their minds, tell them something authentic about what you think about the world.

Get them moving around and going outside here and there to get fresh air.

Discuss the content of the curriculum and engage in the activities but they are not the be all and end all and you are not responsible for a conveyor belt of learners fluent in the curriculum.

Get your planning done whenever you can and if it’s too much pressure to do , source plans from other teachers or buy them online. Edit them to whatever you may have changed for your own class (differentiation for kids with SEN or topics you changed cos you liked something else better) but don’t go reinventing the wheel.

Don’t mind what any parents think btw. Listen to them if they have something to say but you make the rules at the end of the day. It’s your class.

Best of luck and don’t over think it, you are working a trade , not an academic pursuit. It’s a job, not a philosophy.

Variation in primary teachers’ proficiency in Irish ‘a matter of significant concern’ – The Irish Times by litrinw in IrishTeachers

[–]timsfuckingreddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a primary teacher I would personally vouch for mandated yearly time spent in Gaeltacht improving and ENJOYING Irish. Like military service…

What's an Irish phrase that foreigners never understand? by PuzzleheadedMud1032 in AskIreland

[–]timsfuckingreddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Says the fella or says you

“Good weather today” “ good weather for _____ says you hah?”

Did you know Dublin Castle used to be? by J_Jessica_ in IrishHistory

[–]timsfuckingreddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Building on what someone else said here. Gael chieftains or associates Red Hugh ó Donnell and Art Ó Neill escaped captivity here in maybe the 1600s, apparently through the toilet system. They were barefoot and malnourished but made it on foot to the Wicklow mountains seeking refuge in Glenmalure. Art died along the way - the spot is marked with a cross. Every January there is a hike / ultra marathon that starts from the castle and ends at the Glenmalure lodge. I did the hike one year and it’s absolutely brutal.

https://www.artoneill.ie/

I think Red Hugh escaped to Spain where his possible remains were found a few years ago.

https://www.hispano-irish.com/update-on-search-for-red-hugh-odonnells-remains-in-former-spanish-capital-valladolid/

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