Éire Playing The Harp

Geiléis talks about Northern Ireland

I was talking about this the other day to a friend of mine but why not share some of it here?

Northern Ireland is a fun guy to write honestly, because he is different from Ireland and Britain in many ways. He wants to be known as his own person and not a reflection of what Ireland and Britain are or were. Which also plays in part of how he doesn’t want people to know that Ireland and Britain are his parents! He despises that they are his parents.

Northern Ireland just in general doesn’t take shit from people. He refused to stay with Britain in his house in 1921-1922 and lived with one of the the six counties that were now in his land.

That’s all! Now I shall continue to write my N.I headcanons.

It’s Éire before an unfortunate event happens!

I’m thinking about writing and posting my Éire hcs here, because I have an entire list that I still need to finish writing.

I had no idea that people made Gaelic Ireland as a person, which makes no sense either as well, I’m surprised no one ever looked into what Gaelic Ireland was when making them a person. I actually have seen people personify Ancient Greece but I haven’t seen that in years so that might’ve changed now. I sometimes feel as if people just don’t want to look into anything because if they did then I suppose they wouldn’t have that in the first place.

Geiléis being confused

I have no clue what to title this but you know something that has always confused me? It’s when I’ve seen people make Éire’s parent the IRA(Irish Republican Army), or the IRB(Irish Republican Brotherhood) OR OR SOMETIMES JUST HIMSELF?? LIKE ÉIRE BEING IRELAND’S PARENT DESPITE “ÉIRE” IS JUST IRELAND’S NAME IN GAEILGE.

I wish to understand why I’ve seen some people make Éire’s parent or parents those people.

Also wouldn’t Éire need to exist first before the IRA and also the IRB to exist? And it’s not like I’ve seen these people mention another Ireland personification before that Ireland.

I don’t know it just confuses me

Northern Ireland!

Northern Ireland headcanons

I know I said awhile back I was going to do Éire hcs but I actually finished N.I’s before him. so N.I it is! 

1 - Northern Ireland is blind and deaf. He was born deaf, but became blind during WWII when a bomb blew up in his face.

(He did die from that! However he came back to life due to he isn’t disappearing anytime soon)

2 - He has a dog. He loves her a lot.

3 - Northern Ireland refuses to see Ireland and Britain as his parents. He doesn’t want anything to do with them and he’ll only talk to them if necessary. 

(However he is close to some people on Éire’s side of the family. Those people being Down, Fermanagh, Antrim, Londonderry/Derry, Armagh, and Tyrone. He also sometimes talks to the other counties. N.I and Wexford don’t get along though.

He isn’t close to anyone on Britain’s side)

4 - When he became blind he needed help to get around, so county Fermanagh helped him out the most! Fermanagh stills helps Northern Ireland to this day. 

5 - Northern Ireland had a twin, whose name was Southern Ireland. The two were quite close but were opposites in many ways. 

6 - He’s bicurious 

Okay so finally after like a couple of days of working on this and my art program crashing or lagging every time I wanted to continue drawing this, I have finally finished the fanart!

Oh and I’d like to say that I only made the drawing. The designs don’t belong to me they belong to Alohafromangel. And this is fanart of “Hawaii and the Celtic Nations” which was written by Weirdestarrow. Check them out they’re both amazing writers and artists!

Here’s the art!

Woo an Ireland animatic!

Geiléis talks about Dublin!

Baile Átha Cliath or Dublin is a very fun character for me to write(as I’ve written her quite a lot I’d say). I talked about to this a friend of mine but I wanted to share it here!

Dublin is quite full of herself due to the fact she holds the capital in her county, Éire accidentally making her believe she was the Kingdom of Dublin, and that she gets to go with Éire to wherever he goes and be in the public eye sometimes.

Dublin feels special because of that. Also time to bring in the fact that she wants be like her father in a way. Whenever Éire was gone, she took the lead because she wanted to be like him and be a leader. Northern Ireland has brought up that fact that Dublin seems to act like Éire in I think “The girls are fighting!” one-shot.

She tries to act like Éire because she also thinks people will like her more and that she will become Éire’s favourite child. She wants Éire’s attention especially when he started distancing himself from the counties in the 19th century all the way up to the early 20th century.

Dublin hasn’t talked to Éire about how she(and the other counties) feel about him distancing himself from them even if it was in the past and he’s apologised for it. It hurt the counties a lot.

That is all! Slán!

Geiléis talks about Éire’s gender

I’ve mentioned this before in a post way back in the tags that I never could decide what Ireland’s gender would be. So let’s talk about that. I mean my first ever design I gave him was a girl because I just wanted him to be a girl that was my only reasoning.

But when I was going to design the lordship of Ireland, I didn’t quite like the idea of the lordship being a girl and just couldn’t imagine it. So this then made me change Éire to a boy! I went back and forth on his gender because while I imagined the lordship as a guy I couldn’t imagine the kingdom as a man.

At one point I actually made the lordship, the kingdom, and Éire(from the 1800s-present time) all different people.

This lasted from December of 2022 to February of 2024. Finally after so long, I just said fuck it and made Éire the same person from throughout the centuries. Just know he isn’t cis because that makes my life oh so much easier and I quite like the head canon of him not being cis.

The funniest thing I find is while I struggled with Éire’s gender, I never did with Northern Ireland’s. I did once make N.I a woman but I changed him to be a man as I preferred it and that was it.