Ellie Stone

Hi #PortfolioDay! ☀️ my name is Ellie - I’m a designer by day and an illustrator by night who adores drawing flora and fauna 🌻 enjoy a little sneak peek at my most recent illustration I’m working on ☀️

50.52 400m PB and W for Sharlene in Savona! 😮‍💨 #IrishAthletics

What a day. What a game. What a team 💚🌊 to have the Aviva the way it was today was absolutely incredible. Huge props (see what I did there) to @IrishRugby for all the work and effort that is so deserving of our mná 🙌🏻 #IREvSCO #womenssixnations

H’YUP THE LADS 🦌❤️ #MUNvLIO

Full-time! That's playoff rugby and Champions Cup rugby for next season secured 🙌 A brilliant, gritty performance from the lads 💪 Thank you to all our supporters who got us over the line tonight! #SUAF 🔴 | #MUNvLIO

Boycotting Eurovision is literally the easiest thing ever and some people can't even mange such a basic level of solidarity with the Palatine people

Katie McCabe leaves the pitch for the last time as an Arsenal player 💚 She captained the Gunners at Liverpool for her final appearance. The away end was littered with Irish flags 🇮🇪 She blew them a kiss as she was subbed off late on

Anyone have a spare t*cket going for Child of Prague tonight?

@Mick_Finnegan Highly recommend the Airborne Museum, was taken there by some Dutch friends last time I visited 😊

I'm off to Arnhem in the morning.

So proud of our girls fighting for that third try 💪🏻 deserved and they knew it, a few missed calls for our girls but that’s what happens when you have two very passionate sides against each other. #IREvWAL

@shadowmaster132 Oh 100%, if we were to deep dive into it there are so many tangents that could be taken, from education to literacy and so on. I think here the assumption is that it’s somewhat purposefully difficult with it being referred to as “comically convoluted” is the frustrating element

@ellsdesign_ As someone with an English (as far as we know) surname I also have to spell constantly I think people assume way too much about a name not being easy to spell

I’m not an angry person but the lack of knowledge & respect given to Irish names - including the anglicised versions - annoys me so much 😭 our language is different phonetically, just because we use the same letters as the English language (as others do too by the way) does…

@dying_lava 100%, and don’t forget our ogham too, but yeah was mostly talking about the modern context 😊

@ellsdesign_ IIRC Irish was actually using the Latin alphabet well before English.

@_SpiderFang There just comes a point and it’s so insulting at this stage for sure!

@ellsdesign_ My irl name is the most common name they show americans to mock and make fun of how its spelt and pronounced and honestly im so sick of it

@greenzeldy Thank you for engaging and I’m delighted to hear how Irish helped you know more about how things came about etc… I just wish to flag though I don’t see this as just an American issue, I’ve experienced the same through both Dutch and English friends 😊🙌🏻

@emiliesutalun2 Crazy 😭

@ellsdesign_ I am old enough to remember when the Merriam-Webster account had to delete a post on here mocking the ‘disconnect’ between spelling and pronunciation of Siobhán. ‘Ire from the other side of the pond’ I think was the explanation/excuse they used.

@ItsAndyRyan And how many skits we’ve seen on their shows about it too 😅

@ellsdesign_ The mocking is surprising common from the states, given the number of Irish descendents living there. I found people there baffled by my surname being Ryan. "You've got three first names!".

@GreenClermont So fair, and definitely something that you probably get used to over time. Just don’t like it being used as a joke 🤣🙌🏻

@ellsdesign_ As someone with a consistently mispronounced Irish name, I don't care. It's not what people are used to and that's fine

Not give you grounds to mock or insult it. And yes I don’t think it’s too much to ask that instead of making a joke you ask yourself the question why? Why haven’t heard of Irish? What’s it like? A little google will do you no harm. Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam 💚

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