For this Saint Patrick's Day I went and did some looking into the 17th-century Irish Confederation that fought Cromwell. Everyone knows the Irish lost and got genocided in the end, but what the Confederacy and its armies were like is a much more obscure topic.
Turns out a small group of Irish historical reenactors made a short film more than a decade ago, centered on Confederate troops reacting to the sack of Drogheda by the Roundhead army called 'The Flag.' And for tabletop wargamers, this ancient blogger painstakingly researched the Confederates' war banners and reproduced them for his own use from 2008-12: Part 1,Part 2,Part 3. Fittingly they're chock full of Latin mottos and Catholic imagery which would've shocked & appalled the Irishmen's adversaries. I particularly like the one that literally just depicts an Irish knight torching John Calvin's book (both the Puritans and the Scots Covenanters were Calvinists) and proclaims 'THUS HERESIES PERISH', very blunt & to the point.
Up in my neck of the woods we've had the first nice weather in months, so I've been enjoying drinking Guinness on the porch while smoking a corned beef.
Cheers ya fuckin degenerates, keep on gaming.
It's called Saint Patrick's Day, ya heathen
I said what I said.
For this Saint Patrick's Day I went and did some looking into the 17th-century Irish Confederation that fought Cromwell. Everyone knows the Irish lost and got genocided in the end, but what the Confederacy and its armies were like is a much more obscure topic.
Turns out a small group of Irish historical reenactors made a short film more than a decade ago, centered on Confederate troops reacting to the sack of Drogheda by the Roundhead army called 'The Flag.' And for tabletop wargamers, this ancient blogger painstakingly researched the Confederates' war banners and reproduced them for his own use from 2008-12: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Fittingly they're chock full of Latin mottos and Catholic imagery which would've shocked & appalled the Irishmen's adversaries. I particularly like the one that literally just depicts an Irish knight torching John Calvin's book (both the Puritans and the Scots Covenanters were Calvinists) and proclaims 'THUS HERESIES PERISH', very blunt & to the point.
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Look up the history of St Patrick if you haven’t
Hope all you fellow filthy Irishman and yts of Irish decent are wearin' green today.
Taking the opportunity to plug some actual Irish culture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6__HssHW8
Irish and German, for good measure.
My wife demanded I wear green today. So I wore a tie I got from my brother when he lived in Schwerin.
Based and greenpilled.
Good thread.
Now back to vidya before I have to go back to work in the morning.
Up in my neck of the woods we've had the first nice weather in months, so I've been enjoying drinking Guinness on the porch while smoking a corned beef.
I'm not drinking for Lent, but give a cutout for St. Patrick's Day, so had some Irish whisky, and still have a Guinness to drink too.
Had potatoes, cabbage, and beef,
Irish whisky sour I made was pretty killer, too.