The Thinkers: Irish Disc

A Story by Abishai100

Two idealists find themselves courting radical Irish politics and marriage and embracing the complexity of modern global danger.

This is a romance-oriented patriotic story about Irish politics and modern 'troubles' inspired by the gorgeous recent film The Boxer starring Daniel-Day Lewis. Thanks so much (signing off),

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Ajay Satan, an Algerian-American living in California, became involved in an underground pro-IRA (Irish Republican Army) finance-and-resource sympathizer group and began helping the left-wing terrorist freedom-fighter organization deal with undesirable British Parliament policies with more radical turns towards munitions and subversion than were taken by the legal and political 'arm' of Irish politics called Sinn Fein. In fact, Gerry Adams called Ajay Satan the North American version of the IRA's secret Thomas Nast, since Satan began making blogs about the need for radical action to undermine Parliament biases. Satan had become a media radical.

Satan used a fictional A.I. robot named Greenlight in his blogs about the role of women in politics and IRA activities. This blogging gained a great deal of readership and followers, and soon Satan became a subculture pseudo-celebrity on the cyber-highway. Greenlight the female robot became Satan's special Barbie.

Satan met a beautiful Irish-American named Loreena Collins online after she started following his radical pro-IRA blogs about advancing more rights for Irish Catholics living as a minority in Belfast (Northern Ireland). Loreena liked Ajay's sympathetic stance towards radical views regarding the undesirable partition of Ireland based on religious settlement demographics that were descended from generations of colonial activity. In fact, Loreena had ancestors from Belfast who remembered a time when British Protestants were not the majority in Northern Ireland. Loreena and Satan began falling in love!

Satan had no idea Loreena was actually a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). In fact, Loreena was responsible for running messages and black market munitions compacts between rogue terrorist groups such as Cobra to the PIRA executives in Belfast. She'd become their special Northern Ireland 'lantern-girl' and was sometimes masked and armed when British Protestant police were commanded to storm villages to scour for signs of folk resourcing. Loreena however wondered if she should disclose her double-life to her new boyfriend Satan!

Loreen and Satan decided to go to a beautiful Irish hotel-castle in Dublin where they got married in front of friends and family in a gorgeous Catholic ceremony and a following reception which included Irish beef-stew pot-pie and Irish ale. This was an idyllic marriage between modern-day idealists, but what would be the outcome? How would democracy aid these two lovebirds in their quest for ideal political and cultural Utopianism?

The hotel-castle suite Loreen and Satan had for their wedding night was immaculate. Satan realized he was totally in love with his Irish-American bride, and Loreena knew she was marrying a man whose politics she really respected. This had all the workings of a normal and romantic modern marriage, capped by a terrific hotel-castle wedding event in Ireland itself.

When Satan returned to work, he continued blogging about the need for more radical stances on Irish Catholic rights in Belfast while secretly linking with underground groups to provide the IRA in Northern Ireland key resources and black market munitions for various initiatives. The modern IRA was geared towards selecting targets more carefully and avoiding the cost of exploring terrorism that disrupted everyday life in Northern Ireland. After all, Satan knew that modern media intelligence required a new kind of uncensored activism.

Would the marriage between Loreena and Satan be one of political idealism or political violence or both? Would Loreena's involvement with PIRA and Satan's involvement with the IRA create strange bedfellows and activity in the new millennium while media activity was creating new criterion for sociocultural imagination? How would the age-old troubles between the British government and the IRA crystallize into new forms of social historianship?

Satan decided to start penning new kinds of pro-IRA comic books online meant to draw attention to the need for more direct media attention on the interactions between British Protestants and Irish Catholics trying to live side-by-side in Belfast (Northern Ireland)? These colorful IRA comics were representative of a new folk aesthetic invested in the contours of everyday territorial fears and village and city life! Satan considered these IRA comics symbolic of his love of democracy, revolution, and his Irish-American wife Loreena Collins.

Satan remembered his idyllic wedding night and dinner and Catholic ceremony at the idyllic hotel-castle in Ireland. He remembered the way he felt about his new bride Loreena Collins and what the future held for them. Loreena was still looking for ways to confide in Satan and disclose her own underground connection to PIRA, while Satan continued his James Bond life as an Algerian-American double-agent allied to the IRA in Belfast. Would love prevail over the troubles?