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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 4/8/2009 10:13:18 AM | | Gotta admit...... Always wanted to see Ireland. There seem to be more then a few transplants from there, here in the 'states'. Love to hear the accent. Living near Boston, one can only imagine how bad our accents are around here. lol Every year we hold the largest free 'folk festival' in the country in a nearby city. Its always the Irish music that makes me stop and stick around for a bit. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 4/12/2009 12:26:31 PM |
I think we are the only immagrants that are accepted worldwide cause we built your roads, policed your country, etc, etc, etc.
God loves the Irish!!!!
Hmmm.....check out a recent Aussie movie released on DVD called “Dying Breed”. The story’s all about the lives of “some” Irish immigrants in Tasmania, Australia. Its good stuff.
Enjoy.
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 4/18/2009 8:21:43 PM | My father was the first generation in my family born in the US. His parents immigrated from Cork while my grandmother was pregnant with him. My family has always been incredibly proud of our Irish heritage. The Irish are a strong, steadfast and giving people. Generous of spirit, friendliness and wit. My father passed away a very long time ago, never having lived to see his "home" as he called it.
I had the pleasure and good fortune to have been able to travel to Ireland with my family a few years ago. The minute our feet hit the soil, my daughter and I began to weep. We had made the trip my father and her grandfather had only dreamed of. Everyone we met was gracious and kind. I have traveled and lived all over the world, but the trip "home" will always be my fondest memory. While I am sure there are plenty of native Irish who dislike being part of the tourism trap and dealing with all the "Yanks" seeking their presumed heritage, this was not my experience.
So, I am standing proud (Yank and all) with a loud and boisterous AYE. Thank you all for allowing me to post.
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 5/24/2009 2:30:26 AM | My mom was a Fitzpatrick...You can't get more Irish then that..........
Hey it's even easy to write the word IRISH..
Try spelling Scostish, vetimeeeese or Englash...Even they have
give them selves nick names like Limmy,Scotts or Canucks.
Cause they can spell it either...LOL....Get my drift ????
Yep green beer and Shamrock love ..thats the ticket...
and being IRISH if you got a problem with this post...
Say some thing againt Us and i punch you in your Ugly Face....
LOL Irish is what Irish dose..... | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 5/26/2009 8:56:51 AM | The Scottish are the Irish who learnt to swim.
My mother is from Ross Common and my father from Perth Scotland. I was born in Oxford UK and was always too loud, too irreverant etc despite a priveledge pommy upbringing. I now live in Australia and ironically for the first time began to meet Irish friends. Most of whom within about ten minutes of conversation would state I had to be Irish despite my upper class accent. I fear they are right....or do I fear it? Not on your nelly, most of my friend that are my substitute family have Irish blood running in their veins.
Um,Irish isnt a race,its a nationality.
twenty years ago I would agree with you. I no longer do so. I have found consistently that the mad wacky wonderful, generous to a fault friends I have are all Irish in one form or another. Point in case. I was walking to petrol station with can. Aboriginal woman stopped and asked if I wanted a lift. We hit it off immediately, her gift of the gab beat mine. Go round to her house the same evening....laugh, drink, laugh, fall over, laugh, discuss literature, music, life, men, sex, babies and finally bloodlines....she has been a friend now for 10 years....my aboriginal friend has a full blood Mulluck Mulluck (Northern Territory) mother and a full blood Irish father. I would suggest that the culture breeds even selects genetic preferences and that takes a lot longer to water out than just moving country and a couple of generations. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 6/8/2009 8:07:37 AM | | Born bred and buttered here in Belfast Ireland and its great place to be and only 30 miles from the border (that isnt patrolled any more btw) ....but we have great big town called Newry ( a border town this side ..North) and its cheaper base from which to visit the South from...Dublin being only 50 miles away from it! Carlingford is only 10 miles over the border from Newry(on the way is Dundalk and Drogheda then Dublin) Carlingford is oldest village in Ireland and full of history and is coastal with stunning views of the Coolie mountains! Ahh i just love the views there! | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 6/25/2009 10:12:00 PM | | I actually had a pretty generic upbringing. We were not associated with any ethnic group. I don't look Irish. My name is not Irish. I was brought up Protestant. I heard that we had some Irish in our ancestry, along with German, Scot and English. In 1983 I went to see a movie called "the Grey Fox". The soundtrack was by the Chieftans. The minute I heard this wonderous music I fianally knew what the term "soul music" meant, and I knew without a doubt that I was Irish. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 6/28/2009 4:56:08 AM | | Ive never had the experience of feeling frustrate with people not getting our sence of humour, maybe I havent travelled enough but as a proud and patriotic Irish person I have to say there is one very negative thing that makes us unique. That is that with the amount of us that are here now and have been here for so many centuries we have to be the only race of people with a population as big as ours who has let our very own native language which had been for over two thousand years the only tongue spoken on our shores slip through our fingers the way we did and given opertunities to revive it back since we get independence in 1922 we've disastracely failed. I mean come on look at the Jews and the way they restored Hebrew from being as dead as a door nail to today having over one million fluent speakers and also look at the Welsh with a population of how many people in Wales and they manage to have about 600,000 fluent speakers over there with their native tongue. How many have we got? Including all the Gaeltachts, all the kids attending Gaelscoileanna in the 32 Counties and everone else who carries the torch of full fluency on this Island maybe we manage to muster up over 300,000 speaker. Something unique about us which is something not to be proud of what so ever unless your one of those people who doesnt think that our native language is of importance to what it means to be uniquely Irish. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion but anybody with an open, intelegant and non-ignorant outlook can see that our native language is the most important thing that makes us unique as a race. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 7/14/2009 6:51:57 PM | | yeah im a irish and as much irish as the next man. i was raised as a protestant in a prostetant enviroment, but it dosnt make me any less proud to be irish! im an irish prosestant and proud to be one. one needs to understand that we in the north are brought up educationaly different as in our history etc but as ive got older and wiser ive found that there is room on my island for all mixes and creeds as it should be and wud welcome anyone to this fair isle of mine. | |
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