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Humbug's avatar

Thank you for this very moving song and video, Stephen. Thank you for speaking up for Ireland and her people. Thank you for honouring our ancestors, who must be spinning in their graves at the on-going destruction of the country that they loved enough to fight and die for. You are a true patriot.!

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Thanks 🙏🏻 yes it is truly heartbreaking what’s happening and how so many still don’t grasp the implications of what’s at stake.

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jer Savage's avatar

There are chunks from this piece that can stand alone and serve as a guiding clarion for this tossed about country, currently under the jack boot of a vacuous lifeless dimension of political fuckery, cooked up in god knows where & served up in that parasite palace of gangster house.

Thoroughly shining a light - more of this hard analysis from those who are blessed with eyes that see & a heart that feels.

Maith agat

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Cheers 🙏🏻

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Richard Kelly's avatar

I'm welled up here , beautiful ,moving and encouraging , thanks Stephen . I will share it to everyone and hope there hearts well up too. This is such a special little Island and whether they like it or not our souls are deeply tied to this land.

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Thanks 🙏🏻 yes indeed they are

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Felicity McMahon's avatar

...and thanks for the positivity....so many who "know" are struggling. Your words and song really helps.

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Thanks so much Felicity and thanks a million for the subscribe 🙏🏻 I’m blown away by all the lovely messages I’m getting from all over the country. I wanted to remind people who we are. I think it’s really struck a chord.

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Felicity McMahon's avatar

No words. This has made my day. I'll share like mad.

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Louise Roseingrave's avatar

Beautiful!

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Thanks Louise 🙏🏻

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mary whelan's avatar

Thank you for this beautiful, authentic song Mother Éiriu. Brought to tears by you're respectful description of our beautiful land and all that bonds us to it .. our teanga, our ancestors, our history, our unrelenting courage.

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Thanks 🙏🏻

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Fionnuala Murphy's avatar

The haunting of the pipes at the end and the strings would tear at your gut. The video footage marries well with the beautiful lyrics Stephen. Maith an fear! What they do to us is unforgivable (sorry God). It stirs up sadness and anger at the same time and a yearning for something we lost along the way. The modern Gaels are way too placid, As the great John Waters might say, it's time to stamp our fists on the table and kick the chair. We've had enough of their nonsense!

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

It’s painful to watch this unfold

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Dave Donnellan's avatar

This is such an important article and shows how an important alchemical process is underway around us in the moment. It occurred in my case when I read the line 'The fact that they are exploiting a poor young mentally unstable biological female to achieve this, is indicative of just how devious and wicked they are.' I confess up to that point much of my ire had been directly at this young woman personally but this sentence transformed that feeling to one of sympathy. An alchemical and mystical transformation. At the heart of all mysticism is the transformation of negative emotions into positive ones. Raising our vibration you might say today. This article helped me move along that path with Bambie Thug.

But it also showed me something even more important. The wicked individuals behind these evil manipulative machinations, the storyline editors of the propaganda machine who sit in backrooms thinking up such wickedness, are slowly but surely losing their grip on us. They'll fade into oblivion but they'll leave behind them an open canvas on which we can begin to write our own stories. That's freedom. Thank you Stephen Sutton.

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

Thanks for the great comment

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Felicity McMahon's avatar

Stephen I always relish reading John Waters ' Substack (even if I hafta have a dictionary alongside!) but you are stiff competition for him, your writing is wonderful, truthful, creative, upbeat, inspiring and positive. You've got me looking deep inside and admitting that the Ireland I love is the only place I really wanna be - with my Tribe.

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Stephen  Sutton's avatar

That’s extremely high praise indeed, John is a phenomenal writer

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