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Proud to be Irish
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Dudess, wanna watch Micheal Collins, the film on at 11:10pm on TG4 above all stations(ya know that Irish lang station)?
To think that our little nation was one of the first to get independence from the mighty British empire makes me proud considering the likes of India(pop 500m at the time) had to wait another 25yrs!0 -
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Ok im extremely disappointed by the course this thread has run and regret that some mods havent taken action against certain posters. My intention was to explore things that make us proud in our identity - things like culture, heritage, tradition, history, achievement, success.... i made it crystal clear in OP that i wanted positivtiy. Positive contributions from people proud to be Irish.
For me it's a really simple situation: if you're proud of your nationality and identity, throw in a few reasons why
Anything you want - proud of our supremely talented Poets past and present, our sports men&women, our musicians and actors, our achievements in industry, our armed forces and peace-keepers, our stance on human rights and charity,....whatever it is, whether it's massive or deeply personal, i wanted to hear it.
If you're not proud of your nationality, by all means dont contribute to this thread. There was never a "?" in this thread. It was never a "Proud to be Irish: Discuss." thread. This was a simple "i'm proud to be irish" thread, that has been derailed by standard cynisim and negativity.
I was playing a team poker tournament this summer, televised in 2008 sometime, i was asked how did i feel about being Captain of my country, my response was "it's an absolute honour to represent my country in any discipline and i hope i can do her justice". That sums up my feelings.0 -
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Requiem4adream wrote: »Ok im extremely disappointed by the course this thread has run and regret that some mods havent taken action against certain posters. My intention was to explore things that make us proud in our identity - things like culture, heritage, tradition, history, achievement, success.... i made it crystal clear in OP that i wanted positivtiy. Positive contributions from people proud to be Irish.
For me it's a really simple situation: if you're proud of your nationality and identity, throw in a few reasons why Anything you want - proud of our supremely talented Poets past and present, our sports men&women, our musicians and actors, our achievements in industry, our armed forces and peace-keepers, our stance on human rights and charity,....whatever it is, whether it's massive or deeply personal, i wanted to hear it.
If you're not proud of your nationality, by all means dont contribute to this thread. There was never a "?" in this thread. It was never a "Proud to be Irish: Discuss." thread. This was a simple "i'm proud to be irish" thread, that has been derailed by standard cynisim and negativity.
I was playing a team poker tournament this summer, televised in 2008 sometime, i was asked how did i feel about being Captain of my country, my response was "it's an absolute honour to represent my country in any discipline and i hope i can do her justice". That sums up my feelings.
There are alot of very shallow people in Ireland at the moment. People with no sense of pride or identity, people who are full of self hate. People who think that to feel like this makes them more intelligent than the rest of us. It makes them feel they can talk down to the rest of us. They feel because of how they are its ok to label the rest of us racists or nationalist, or whatever other label they can pin to us to give themselves a feeling of higher authority.
I feel sorry for those people.
Ireland, I love Ireland.
I think there's no better country in the world. I think there's no better people in the world. Experience has given me a huge feeling of pride in myself and my nationality.
I've served under the UN flag as an Irishman. With NATO as an Irishman. I've fought on Irish team's (kickboxing & Judo) abroad and competed at other sports under the Irish flag.
Look at 'famous Irish people' on wikipedia and there's hardly another country with a list as long and distinguished, comparable in size to our country.
No matter where I've been in the world I've always taken pride in my nationality and have always looked forward to coming home.0 -
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Lads your wasting your time with Dudess.
First Dudess is a woman, so you'll never get the last word in and already in this thread she's uttered the dreaded "yea, yea whatever".
SEcond and more importantly, she's from the Republic of Cork. Down there they consider themselves cork (what do you call people from Cork?.. Langers or something?).. Anyway she's from Cork, she consider's herself Corkownian first and Irish somwhere else.
But since Dudess is a dyed in the wool liberal she probably consider's herself Corkownian first, Nigerian/Roma second & Irish third.
''Up the independent Republic of Cork yiz langers"!!! 0
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