Gearóid Ó Riain

Gael-Mheiriceánach. Scríbhneoir. Múinteoir. Ilteangach. Caitliceach. Multilingual Irish-American Catholic writer and teacher. 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 🇻🇦

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

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[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

@JesseWinkler837 @drogo9166 I mean, we have no idea really, but it’s best to block him anyway

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Not sure homeland Irish libtards realize that when foreigners see a people constantly trashing their own diaspora in the harshest terms in public, they see it as pure weakness to be exploited and it lowers ALL Irish in the eyes of EVERYBODY except other post-nationals

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

@drogo9166 @JesseWinkler837 I just blocked that guy, he took screenshots of somebody who had “Follower of a Jewish craftsman” in his bio as “proof” that he’s secretly not Irish when that’s clearly a reference to Jesus and you’d have to be a moron to not get it

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

@drogo9166 @JesseWinkler837 You’re doing exactly the thing she said

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

@drogo9166 “Follower of a Jewish Tekton” means he’s a Christian, I’m now going to block you

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Also, newsflash, anybody rational doesn’t want to learn a “language” which is mostly a completely useless and dysfunctional Anglicized creole that’s shattered into a million different idiolects in reality and the ONLY reason I’m still here is 1) I was born Irish, and 2) I received intergenerational transmission from a native speaker and I consider that a sacred inheritance, otherwise I would’ve stopped talking to you insufferable faggots decades ago

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Yes, congratulations, after 13 years of Irish classes & an entire lifetime in Ireland you have a larger vocabulary than a guy who started seriously learning three years ago while he was also publishing multiple books’ worth of articles including for A-tier pubs, very impressive

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

If you view Ireland as a real nation and Irish as a real language none of it makes any sense, but if you view it as a retarded British social club where members gain more privilege by excluding more people it 100% makes sense why they’d attack a committed diaspora learner

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Often I’ll get into an argument with somebody and totally move on and then days, months, even years later I find out that they’re still extremely butthurt about me to the point of stalking me from behind blocks or flooding my mentions and DMs on a new acc before I block them 💀

[Samurai Ghost Girl🇷🇺☦️🍃 @SamuraiGhostgal]

"I know."🍃

[Adan Salazar @AdanSalazarWins]

Here's the AJ segment that triggered Levin 🤣

[Закат @ZakatLex]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Я - украинец и я за завершение войны на любых условиях. Срал я и на донбасс и на всё остальное, я хочу свалить из этого фашистского государства "Украина"

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Sober at the AOH meeting Groyper

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This year the National Party lost @PQuinlanDW aka an actual effective charismatic public-facing politician and gained @fosandair, an extremely private, pedantic, and off-putting Gaeilge nerd. The group chat is going places!

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Unblocking you just to post this—I’ve posted three years of content in spoken Irish Gaelic while you couldn’t even produce a single word of speech when put on the spot. I’m also a professional language teacher and getting basic pronunciation right is essential in any language

[Filib Ó Sandair 🅾️ @fosandair]

Gearóid never writes or speaks in Irish - he always responds in English even when addressed in Irish.

Free composition and learner autonomy is the single best way to pick up the lexicon and grammar of any language. ESL encourages it and it's the most successful approach that exists. Irish has a vast lexicon of 20k-30k headwords and a difficult grammar that has to be memorized and practiced. It has dense tradition of idioms and expressions.

You can do phonemes all you want - chapter 1 of most grammar books - but if you haven't gone through 2-5 years of internalizing the body of the language all is you're doing promoting "the Irish accent" - i.e. you're an eejit.

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

Please get a life, I genuinely don’t care about you and have much bigger fish to fry

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

@Cernunnos88

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Speaking of foreign influence ops

Ireland had referendums to legalise same sex marriage and abortion because of an American politician who moved from the States

She got the government to run both referendums and American NGOs and multinationals backed them while US tech companies censored the opposition

Both measures passed and she later returned to the States

Republicans did absolutely nothing to help those who wanted to oppose either vote, either before or since, but they do regularly chip in on happenings in Ireland with such nuggets as 'Wow what happened to Ireland they're all gone woke over there'

Just while we are on the subject

[Gearóid Ó Riain @GearoidUnchaind]

There’s a variety of reasons—1) without Gaelic fluency and Catholicism there’s no positive identity so it has to be negatively constructed (Not British, not Irish-American, not Israeli), 2) middle class Irish in London invented “plastic paddy” to distance themselves from “cringe” working class Irish diaspora and then British society ran with it, 3) the modern Irish government has always been fundamentally based in partition and disavowing certain Irish based on geography/national boundaries, 4) they get “validation” from foreigners on social media, 5) the Democrats/Labour have had excessive influence since the 90s, it’s multifaceted