Bronte-Marie Wesson

It makes sense that we as humanity have been fascinated with fairies and...

fantasy and trees for so long I think.

Yes I can.

So I grew up with the knowledge that my mother, my grandmother was Irish and that her last name was O'Connor but not really anything else about her except for the fact that she married a Pom which I'm sure went down really well with that side of the family.

As an adult, I started to get really into history and I started to do a lot of reading.

And I was really fascinated by this cultural void around Ireland pre like the 1800s.

And what you learn when you start to read into it is that there was this really concerted effort to absolutely demolish any semblance of Irish culture.

They weren't allowed to speak their language.

They weren't allowed to dress in their cultural dress, which is why we don't have any version of that outfit prior to like Irish dancing, which is modern.

And the only way that you can find what cultural dress used to be is you have occasionally historians who've taken scraps of writings and put together what they think this would look like.

And so you have so much that has lost a time because of the British empires leaning upon Ireland in general.

And I found it so interesting.

And that evolved into just like generally being fascinated by anti-colonialism, which is probably the more Irish sentiment in general.

I've never met someone from Ireland who wasn't like, you know what, fuck colonialism.

And so whenever it comes into play in history where you have an empire that goes up against –

a smaller country, that becomes a really fascinating example of resistance in many small and large ways, because not every country has a military.

Not every country can afford to lean against an empire, but the culture is not lost ever because people will continue finding ways to speak the language with which they were born and people will continue dressing the way they want to dress.

No matter how you do it, they will find different ways to do so, and they might be doing so in secret.

So when it came to Logar and Fiocre, when I had Logar first and Fiocre came into existence, and in the map you see that Fiocre is like huge, right?

Like it's this huge landmass that's connected.