| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 7/17/2009 3:53:35 PM | I was born in Belfast and all my ancestors that we can trace (back to about the mid-1700s) were born in Ireland (Ulster and elsewhere) so I think I qualify as being Irish, though I live in Canada.
Never bothered me particularly if others don't have the same sense of humour as I. I don't think all Irish share the same sense of humour either. The Irish aren't a race. There are many different groups of people that made the Irish. I'm certainly not ashamed of being Irish -- it's part of what defines me as an individual, but I don't think the Irish are any more unique than any other group of people. And even amongst the Irish there could be some ... ahem ... animated discussion on what makes someone 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: 7/21/2009 11:28:46 AM | This is an Irish woman who lives in Arkansas, USA. I was born with green eyes and red hair and my family was thrilled to have another wee one in their midst. That was 48 years ago and I have learned the "hard way" that we are not all accepted for who we are and the lore and love of our homeland that we cherrish. I once saw this in a bar "As long as there is one blade of grass to hold on to - an Irish drunk with still be standing". Interesting - huh? My family and I celebrate the old traditions and yes, there is drinking and dancing and great peels of laughter! If anyone would like to reply to me personally, you are welcome to email me at eurekaoldwaysww@yahoo.com 
Bright blessings to all! Sundance | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 7/29/2009 1:25:39 PM |
Actually you're 100% American with a bad case of cultural schizophrenia. Your'e not Irish and you never will be.
A tad xenophobic, aren't we?
Do you know the man personally?
Do you know where he was born?
Do you know where he has lived his life?
Do you know his entire family line?
Frankly, if his family line is Irish, that's good enough to make him Irish, and that's something to be plenty proud of even if you don't live your life in the country. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 7/29/2009 5:46:01 PM | I am not irish by blood, but I am an "IBM" (irish by marriage)or should state was for 20 years , now I guess I am "SWF".. LOL
I have spent a couple of years in Ireland and still continue to visit on a regular basis.
The Irish humour is an aquired taste, I can see how some people can be offended by the slagging, and the F*** off comments. ...but how can you get upset with someone that tells you to F*** off with a smile on their face???
Also my son is a San Francisco police officer and he is a 1st generation Irish American and he said in the last 3 months he had to place more drunken Irish men (from ireland)in the drunk tank then he had in the past year....an they were all smiling while being taken in to custody!! That is the sense of humour that you have to admirer.
FYI~to Irishsquaw,
In the American Indian language the definition of Squaw=" A woman's private parts . it is a slanderous assault against Native Americans to use the term.
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 7/31/2009 8:53:52 AM |
Luthion, as per usual you err on the side of PC correctness and accuse rather than peruse a post, it's a tad ultra boring of you
And as per usual, you err on the side of belligerent troll, and *that* has been boring for days now.
*laughs* Wow, I think that's the first time in my entire life I've *ever* been accused of that. It's usually the exact opposite. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 8/7/2009 6:41:10 PM | Well, I'm not Irish or Canadian but I had an Irish boyfriend in Canada (and he took me to Ireland), and I have to tell you you guys are the BEST!!! I am still totally in love with your accent and GREAT sense of humor! My old boyfriend had me in stitches allllll the time... I hope to meet another one of you guys sometime!!! Your craic is the Most Wonderful Ever!!
But you're a bunch of wankers 
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 8/9/2009 10:21:15 AM | hey salsa,
You never heard of Des Bishop. He was delighted he is from New York and quite a renowned comedian in Ireland. Remember him saying that in school most of the other lads had nicknames such as murph or chronic or whatever whereas he had a title, ¨The Yank¨. My wife got called a yank too, mind you even she copped fairly on that people here have their own sort of racism like ¨ah sure what are you hiring a Kerry plumber for, don´t you know they know nothing about plumbing¨ or that sort of thing. So she shrugged it off and it became an injoke. What really pissed her off though was the assumption she was one of the know it all yanks we often get over here. Once people got to know her[about a day or so lol] that assumption just faded. Trouble is even she met the know it alls. The ones who pined for their 99Litre 4 tonne 20 foot wide ¨small runaround¨ as the cars here were so tiny kind of bs! Or the whiners who constantly went on how things were much better back in the states because....[at the because statement must people start doing their shopping list mentally or whatever waiting for the silence to kick in]
Having lived in the states I have to admit having to tell people we DO NOT say top of the morning and all that bs gets kind of tiring too, but then thats what a Hollywood education gets you, right?
My tips are to drop the know it all attitude no matter what country your in or from and you´ll fit right in.
I now live in the UK and always get asked to go drinking with groups as having a true drinker would help them...
I rarely drink due to a medical condition so I just politely refuse and move on.
That said people that know me tempt me with Coffee![not Starbucks as those clowns flavour their coffee beans with artifical coffee flavour so they don´t have to add as much coffee and also decided on their own worthless version of fairtrade!] Yes I am a caffeine addict. Yes I loved the states for one simple reason ¨free refills¨ at almost everywhere you ate.
I live now in a small rural village and love it!
I meet chat and work with my neighbours regularly and yes I still get ribbed about the funny accent, but thats people being people and having a laugh with you, not at you. learn to give and take in all things I think the man said :-)
Have fun,
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 8/13/2009 5:19:50 PM | | absolutely unique- for good or bad! we cant be americanized, I dont think. Im 3rd generation u.s. my great grand dad came here, and I learned a lot about my heritage. I know you natives may laugh at us yanks who profess our "irishness", but it's amark of pride for me. Im no plastic paddy. we as a people were flung world-wide, and I am saving my pennies til I can visit the motherland! Eri-go-bragh!! | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 8/22/2009 6:08:05 PM | Hey Meeker,
Looks like your one of the first ones out of the country. I believe they are putting back up the sign that used to be over Immigration in Shannon in the 80´s You must have seen it surely! 
¨Wrong Way, Turn Back¨
I have spent a while in East Tennesse, Just don´t touch their Michael Collins Whiskey, its basically bears fermented urine.
And now the folks back home tell me Biffo and the gang are going to try and tax their way out or a recession.....sheeeh!!!
I got out nearly 2 years ago now, didn´t have to be a genius to figure out if the housing market stuttered it was all going to go pearshaped. Oh well at least we have the Peoples Republic of Cork now  | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 8/22/2009 8:32:06 PM |
am 100% Irish and just moved to the states and its hard to fit in here with somethings.Alot of people dont get my humor about things and it is frustrating when that happens.I wish though more people in the states would see that probably in most of them there is alittle of us in them and they need to get back to their roots.
I'm not Irish, I'm just an American with English Ancestry - some of us keep in touch with our roots. The American way is to cut the line and forget the real past and adopt the "Myths" sort of like when the Angl0-Saxons assimilated the Island of Britain in the 600-700AD. Also you are in a country now that the average person doesn't even know where they are on a map of the US, let alone know where Ireland is. Most people here couldn't care about anything other than their little Utopia, Washington and New York and that's it. They are Americans and they don't care where they came from.
But give it time, you'll get used to it everyone here does eventually. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 9/20/2009 1:28:40 AM | my gran was an Enright born in Dublin and she instilled these wise words into me
BE PROUD OF YOUR IRISH HERETAGE. REMEMBER WE ARE MADE OF TOUGH STUFF.
SHE would be fined ten pounds every time she went to the opera in Melbourne Australia because she refused to stand for 'God Save The Queen'.
You can't spin in a circle without meeting someone of Irish decent in Australia. Irish Catholics everywhere. We were not alway tollerated in this country. My mother married an Irish Catholic and her Methodist Scot parents never spoke to her again and my brother and I were never acknowledged as members of the extended family... never mind we have always been accepted IRISH and thank God for that because we can always laugh at ourselves, enjoy a good sing-a-long, a pint of guiness and whip around with a raffle.
The genes are stronger.........red curly hair and hazel eyes just keep popping out in the offspring.
cheers,
Suzannah, Irish catholic Australian and BLOODY PROUD OF IT!!! | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 9/22/2009 8:26:20 AM | Are you Irish DaVincibro?
What's your heritage?
I ask because I don't believe being punctilious is an Irish trait nor such extreme bitterness and such woeful rudeness.
If it's your wish to represent Irish people in this way apparently the rules allow that. But I find your posting style very irritating personally, you bully and harangue complete strangers who profess a love for Ireland, Irish culture and who claim pride in their Irishness just because you want them to hate this country and it's culture as much as you.
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 10/25/2009 6:13:32 PM | What's with the Forum comment calling a man a 'twat'? The UK has such asinine words. Using such words does not make you tough. This attitude so many were raised with that 'you have to be tough, and in order to do that, you should ridicule others' is so stupid. Some Irish people are angry because the majority of Irish people live in America, including my Flanagan cousins ? Oh well. Work on that. Don't spread your anger throughout the world, you'll never be happy.
Why are so many of the world's insults directed towards women or women's body parts ? Hmm.. we got over talking about testicles and sex and bathroom jokes at age 13. We all know the sounds sex and bathroom noises make.. why do so many comedians and people find this funny? Always wondered that. Because they can't handle the emotions sex brings so they make a mockery of it. Let's grow up.
Why are so many profane words about women's body parts? disrespect of women? Talk to your mommy that way? If the irish are so attached to their mommies, calling someone a 'son of a b' , a 'twat' a 'cnt' etc. is just an insult to mothers. Why aren't they called 'sons of aholes'? Here, a grown man that is attached to mama is ridiculed and called a mama's boy. When you grow up, you are supposed to leave mum's house and marry a WOMAN. It's called being a man. Yes, it's also being a man to take care of your mother if she is older or ill.. but not in lieu of a wife! Let's stop the anger and name-calling. You all came from a woman, and you cannot get around that . | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 10/25/2009 6:34:43 PM | Suzannah: My best friend is Australian-born Irish.. she still lives there in Mackay.
The 'we are made of tough stuff' is worldwide, and many people of different cultures tell their children that. Mine always told me 'you are made of tough stock' whenever I had to face anything very difficult or was very ill, because I am mostly German and Slovak.. now that's tough stuff! We just don't talk about it all the time and we are sadly lacking in the Clannish closeness of many in the Irish culture. Our bodies are still built for the peasant fields! No novacaine for teeth fillings, that's my family. My brother had all four wisdom teeth pulled out without going under and we just smirked at the shocked dentist and told him: 'We're German! We're tough! Don't mess with us'.
That is the kind of work they did for generations, my great- great grandmother gave birth in a field! I told my Irish boyfriend stories about my ancestors hardships that made his hair curl, he couldn't believe such horrors . Makes me hurt just thinkin' about that. We are such wimps nowadays. Our body type is not accepted in Amerikay, land of thin and petite. From what I know of Ireland history and Eastern European history, they both had it terrible. No one holds the market on that. Potato famine? Oppression? Some of my frickin family members couldn't even visit this country until 1992!! Iron curtain. I only met them once. Hundreds of thousands of years of oppression that no one has to tolerate. That is not exclusive to Ireland.
People are people no matter their culture or where they lived. They make fun of each other. So anyone that hurls insults at others but then gets offended, just remember.. if you dish it out, you have to be willing to take it. | |
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| Hands up and all say 'aye' if you are Irish and believe that means we are a unique race ..
Posted: 10/26/2009 2:05:25 PM | Wow, just read through this entire thread, what was the question again?
Land of Saints and Scholars, hmmm...does that mean that some are saints and some scholars, or is it, both saints and scholars? Don't see much evidence and what little l do see is diminishing...
Famine? there has never been a food shortage in this country, the famine is a myth, there was a shortage of potatoes. That is not to say that people were not starving, but it needs to be recognised that this land has never failed her people. Here's a question! Has lreland's people ever failed her?
Lets make this interesting and add a bit of depth! A Game: Mirrors, A light mirror shows you something good about yourself when you look in it. A dark Mirror shows you something bad about yourself when you look in it. Now lets look at the light and dark mirrors of the lrish psyche, both the male and the female! What do you see? | |
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