I moved to Ireland from Canada to do my MPhil and PhD and have very much enjoyed the academic community, which has largely been welcoming. #MedievalTwitterhttps://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1194506701220798464 …
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There are problems like anywhere obvs but I have thoroughly enjoyed living here, and having access to what has been a very helpful and welcoming community.
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There are people here on the far right, who use Irish/Celtic imagery for their far right shit. But it does not surprise me that English racists who are infuriated at the suggestion that we should move past using AS in medieval hist. hate Irish ppl
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But for my MPhil, I was looking at how a particular symbol was examined in the past to today (the Lia Fáil). And I read shit from British Israelites, whose ideology was racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Irish. They called themselves Anglo-Saxons.
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And they got permission from a landowner here to dig up Ráith na Senad on the Hill of Tara to find the Ark of the Covenant, which they believed buried there
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They believed it was their (Great Britain) manifest destiny to rule the world. This was at the end of the 19th into the early 20th c.
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They ruined a site of great heritage for their bullshit ideology. That is the kind of history “Anglo-Saxon” as a term has. It’s racist use isn’t recent. #MedievalTwitter
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