A gift for someone you're visiting abroad...

Jay D · 24-11-2010 4:15pm #1

Bit of a backwards way of buying a souvenir but just wondered what people would bring as a gift if they were visiting them? Something Irish that's great, if of course you felt it exists

Nothing to extravagant of course, simple thoughtful and effective.

sensibleken · 24-11-2010 4:16pm

A bodhrán

Orando Broom · 24-11-2010 4:17pm

Jay D wrote: »

Bit of a backwards way of buying a souvenir but just wondered what people would bring as a gift if they were visiting them? Something Irish that's great, if of course you felt it exists
Nothing to extravagant of course, simple thoughtful and effective.

If they're poor, Marlboro cigarettes and Coca Cola.

Really show them what a big man about town looks like.

FatherLen · 24-11-2010 4:17pm

lyons tea

El Horseboxo · 24-11-2010 4:18pm

A hurl and a sliotar.

That's what i'm bringing over to cousins later today in the States.

Mr Trade In · 24-11-2010 4:18pm

Check out Carrolls in town,maybe a Bodhran.

AnonoBoy · 24-11-2010 4:22pm

If you're buying them a bodhran, buy them a penknife as well to play it with.

Bottle of whiskey is yer only man for these occasions.

pickarooney · 24-11-2010 4:26pm

A sod o' turf and a sack o' shamrock
Package o' Tayto
Potato farls
An oul rasher sangwidge

Sonnenblumen · 24-11-2010 4:47pm

Stayaway card?

Otacon · 24-11-2010 4:49pm

If you are visiting Irish people living abroad, buying some Tayto and a Club Orange does wonders!

I-Shot-Jr · 24-11-2010 4:51pm

I generally bring the whiskey. All the main brands seem to have copped on to this and thus market "special" bottles in the airport that whoever you're bringing it to would have no chance of seeing in their own country. Last time I bought a couple of bottles of Jameson that were in some special box, it was a wedding gift and everyone was admiring it. I didn't get the fuss but it seems to go down a treat I did this at two weddings, one in France and the other in India and each time everyone loved the gift.

Princess Peach · 24-11-2010 4:54pm

You can get Christmas cards that have photos of your town on it, that would be nice! And Lily O'briens chocolates, their Irish and everyone likes chocolate!

All I want to do is eat chocolate for the rest of my life.

pickarooney · 24-11-2010 4:58pm

Otacon wrote: »

If you are visiting Irish people living abroad, buying some Tayto and a Club Orange does wonders!

These and hickory smoked rashers are the only things I ever ask for

Most Irish whiskeys can be bought here for about 40% cheaper than in Ireland but a good bottle of rare booze is a good bet.

Snakeblood · 24-11-2010 4:59pm

Jay D wrote: »

Bit of a backwards way of buying a souvenir but just wondered what people would bring as a gift if they were visiting them? Something Irish that's great, if of course you felt it exists
Nothing to extravagant of course, simple thoughtful and effective.

syphilis

FatherLen · 24-11-2010 5:02pm

Princess Peach wrote: »

You can get Christmas cards that have photos of your town on it, that would be nice! And Lily O'briens chocolates, their Irish and everyone likes chocolate!

All I want to do is eat chocolate for the rest of my life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UK322rW7I

Jay D · 24-11-2010 5:36pm

Thanks for the responses, alcohol is out and was hoping to move away from the typical chocolates style gift. Something different but good (just like chocolate is)

24-11-2010 5:38pm

baileys chocs from the duty free :pac:

waterford crystal
(from the duty free :pac:)

Princess Peach · 24-11-2010 5:41pm

FatherLen wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UK322rW7I

And thats why I can't

jester77 · 24-11-2010 5:42pm

taytos is all you need!

starbelgrade · 24-11-2010 5:48pm

The full 6 inches.

Donkey Oaty · 24-11-2010 6:57pm

Something made from bog oak. It doesn't have to be expensive.

dubpunter · 24-11-2010 9:16pm

I'd go for smoked salmon and soda bread/ brown bread.

Aodan83 · 24-11-2010 9:26pm

FatherLen wrote: »

lyons tea

Surely you'd be giving them Barry's tea, if you're going to give them tea! None of that Lyons crap.

red menace · 24-11-2010 9:37pm

Visiting Rels in Canada
We brought
Cadbury's Roses went down a storm with everyone way nicer than Canadian Chocolates
A bottle of Jameson and a bottle of Baileys all highly appreciated

citizen_p · 24-11-2010 9:41pm

get them somthing irish out of a craft shop or somthing.....
not a tacky irish thing with leprachauns etc... on it.

all i know is that i hate when a person coming back from their holidays decides to buy you a mini eiffel tower or statue of liberty, or a mini licence plate or keyring with your name on it.....
*cringe*

kowloon · 24-11-2010 9:41pm

Government bonds, the gift that keeps on giving.

All the 'oirish' stuff is rubbish, get them something they might actually like.

citizen_p · 24-11-2010 9:44pm

red menace wrote: »

Visiting Rels in Canada
We brought
Cadbury's Roses went down a storm with everyone way nicer than Canadian Chocolates
A bottle of Jameson and a bottle of Baileys all highly appreciated

seriously?
roses are utter ****e latley. especially in the past few years when they took out a load of the nice ones. the crispy orange one and purple one and a few of the praline and truffles.

ehmmm....bring white pudding.

winston82 · 24-11-2010 9:45pm

double-ended dildo?

easyeason3 · 24-11-2010 9:49pm

Take a picture of a dole queue & out current Government for them. So whenever they feel their life is shyte they can take out the pictures & marvel, & be thankful, for the fact that they don't live here.

Also everyone wants a leprechaun.

SERIOUS ANSWER: Get some photos of landscapes or historical landmarks. If it was up to me I'd go for a nice sunset over a bay or a black & white stormy looking landscape because it will fit in with eveyones decor. And it will last longer than chocolates.

red menace · 24-11-2010 9:51pm

seriously?
roses are utter ****e latley. especially in the past few years when they took out a load of the nice ones. the crispy orange one and purple one and a few of the praline and truffles.

way better than the canadian choclates sadly
They seemed to like em really well, they ate a kilo box in an evening between 4 of them

lil_lisa · 24-11-2010 10:03pm

I recently brought over a Newbridge Silverware gift, a Galway crystal gift and a few little €3 porcelain leprechauns from the gift shop in the duty free in the airport. It really depends on whether the person in question is Irish or not. Gifts like these I wouldn't give to an Irish person but gifts like tayto, blackcurrant juice (oh I miss it), chef sauce and rashers would be ideal!

McConkey · 24-11-2010 10:21pm

AH answer: Yore Ma

Serious answer: are they Irish or have they been to Ireland? If not maybe....a coffee table book.

Met an older US couple a few years ago at a conference in the UK. They had been to Ireland for a week or so beforehand and taken lots of pictures (her great- great- someone or other was Irish).

A few weeks later I heard from them that their camera got stolen back at home so they had lost all their pictures from Ireland and were really gutted. Around the same time I saw a fantastic coffee table book simply called 'Ireland' in a second hand bookshop in Galway, was in great nick. Magnificent pictures, not that wordy or anything and only cost about e15 IIRC.

So I posted it over to them and they were so delighted. Honestly I thought they would burst. They even wanted to send me the money for it....sure I couldn't tell them how little it cost plus they were so delighted I felt a bit cheap then. But they were really chuffed. Some people love that kind of stuff

jackiebaron · 24-11-2010 11:32pm

Put together a hamper for them:

Rashers, sausages, farls, b&w pudding, brown sauce, some packets of soup, salad cream, Crunchies, lucozade, a little Christmas ham, bottle of whiskey, you get the ideas. Maybe not all that stuff but use your imagination.

It all depends on which country they live in. If they live in New York then all that stuff is available in the Irish shops there anyway....albeit expensive.

An Irish recipes cookery book, assuming that they can get the ingredients locally....bacon, decent spuds, etc.

Bisto gravy granules. Bisto is the holy grail!!!

Selection boxes...cheap and cheerful.

Damart incontinence knickers and Complan if they are ancient :pac:

littlefriend · 24-11-2010 11:42pm

Newbridge do some nice silver Christmas decorations. I brought friends some one year I visited in December. They always mention them on Christmas cards. They aren't expensive but look like they are.

http://www.newbridgesilverware.com/gift/ChristmasHangingDecorations/XMASHANG/0.aspx

woolyhat · 09-01-2011 1:26pm

jackiebaron wrote: »

Put together a hamper for them:

Rashers, sausages, farls, b&w pudding, brown sauce, some packets of soup, salad cream, Crunchies, lucozade, a little Christmas ham, bottle of whiskey, you get the ideas. Maybe not all that stuff but use your imagination.

It all depends on which country they live in. If they live in New York then all that stuff is available in the Irish shops there anyway....albeit expensive.

An Irish recipes cookery book, assuming that they can get the ingredients locally....bacon, decent spuds, etc.

Bisto gravy granules. Bisto is the holy grail!!!

Selection boxes...cheap and cheerful.

Damart incontinence knickers and Complan if they are ancient :pac:

How do you order from Damart they will not allow you complete their form on line without a postal code and it's impossabe to get them on the phone left holding and they do not give a contact address.
Can anyone advise please?

A gift for someone you're visiting abroad...

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