What constitutes being Irish?

AttackThePoster

After stating in a thread that Daniel Day-Lewis had Irish citizenship I then received some hilarious pm's from some guy who obviously had some sand in his vagina.

Others that received the wrath of this user were Éamon de Valera, James Connolly, Tom Clarke etc.


So, what constitutes being Irish? Tony Cascarino answers most welcome.

FlutterinBantam

Everything has to end up in a 'sing song'

alwaysadub

Having red hair and freckles.
And drinking Guiness :rolleyes:

hal9000

90% Bog water
10% Potatoes

fontanalis

Not speaking Irish, claiming Bill Clinton, Obama, John Wayne are really irish but laughing at people with irish backgrounds calling themselves irish.

mikom

AttackThePoster wrote: »

What constitutes being Irish?

When an exorcism involves calling in Satan to remove a priest from your son.

PeterIanStaker

having a deep sense of guilt and worthlessness instilled into you by Independent Newspapers and the RCC.

cantankerous

A low IQ due to our smart genes being slowly siphoned away from the populace by the religious orders.

Xluna

Alcoholism,depression,cynicism and either a inferiority complex or (if from Cork) a superiority complex.

Dravokivich

AttackThePoster wrote: »

So, what constitutes being Irish?

March 17th

humanji

I'd go with the "being an Irish citizen" option, tbh. Anything else is moot.

DrumSteve

Collective guilt for ruining a generation of children.
Stew.
The Crapolic church.
Gay Byrne being a celebrity (swine).
Begorrah.
Feeling the need to drink excessively because we're irish and to be sure isnt' that what we do?
Continuously voting in gombeens every year.
Parish Pump Politics.
The Bull McCabe.
Thinking we're mostly funny.
"if your irish, come in to the parlour...!"
Tommy Tiernan (the above two apply to him)
Giving loads of money to save kids from other countries during lent.
NAMA.
Bono (ugh).
Father Ted.
Bertie.
Paddy's Day.
Drunken Irish Literary heroes.
Good Friday booze ban.
Off Licences closing at 10.
Paying taxes that go towards nothing and having to pay for everything else.
Loads of motor tax, ****e roads.
VRT.
*****PEOPLE IN IRELAND DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!!!(JUST LOOK AT WILLIE O'DEA)*****
The beauty of the west coast.

And did i mention booze?

IrishManSaipan

In the eyes of the law? Being born to an Irish parent.

Gone Drinking

AttackThePoster wrote: »

I then received some hilarious pm's from some guy who obviously had some sand in his vagina.

With a user name like that, you're asking for it!

Duggy747

A pack of Taytos

Shopping in Penneys

No matter how many times you seen them, you'll still watch an episode of Father Ted if it's on TV and laugh your ass off!

Bacon & Cabbage (I hate cabbage :pac:)

The country shuts down on Good Friday hence the day is so boring that everyone wants a drink!

Not being able to speak Irish

Truly embarrasing home-grown comedy from our so-called TV channels.

Concurrent sentences in hotels prison

And back in fashion, The Dole

AttackThePoster

Gone Drinking wrote: »

With a user name like that, you're asking for it!

Haha, but seriously, this guy is something else. Not sure where all the football talk came from

wolfpawnat

Hating Brits!!!!!!!!!!!!

800 years of Rape, Murder, Pillaging and Soup!!!!!!

tony 2 tone

Drinking tae at any hour, day or night.
Calling any one going against republican ideals a West Brit.
Calling any one with republican views a 'RA head.
Crisp sandwichs.
You buy enough beer on the Thursday before Good Friday to last a week.

enda1

Not sure you're supposed to be posting PMs on thread OP

But yeah I'm Irish and I guess any citizen is as long as they see themselves as Irish too. What other test can there be?

Ruu_Old

National anthem at the end of the night in pub/club of your choice and by God you'll stand and fucking sing!

Hagar

Having the irressitable urge to choke the living sh1t out of whoever sent those PMs in the OP.

AttackThePoster

enda1 wrote: »

Not sure you're supposed to be posting PMs on thread OP

But yeah I'm Irish and I guess any citizen is as long as they see themselves as Irish too. What other test can there be?

Not sure if you're meant to be back seat modding!

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Sofiztikated

I'd go with holding Irish Citizenship.

And on being able to rant on for fecking ages about "Dem Brits" and the 8000 years of oppression from the Welsh.

orourkeda

Hang Sangwiches

Getting F*ckfaced on March 17th.

Getting f*ckfaced on every day other than good friday and christmas day and complaining that you cant get f*ckfaced on good friday or christmas day

Pherekydes

IrishManSaipan wrote: »

In the eyes of the law? Being born to an Irish parent.

And to be an Irish parent you'd have to have an Irish parent, I suppose? (and so on and on back to the dawn of time, or 1949, whichever came first (or last-this is getting confusing)).

Citizenship is the only test, IMO.

TheZohanS

AttackThePoster wrote: »

Not sure if you're meant to be back seat modding!

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He's right don't do it again.

/caring

hacx

I was born in England, to Irish parents and have lived in Ireland since I was two and I have an irish passport.

I would consider myself Irish.

Dunjohn

Being Polish.

Xluna

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Hating Brits!!!!!!!!!!!!

800 years of Rape, Murder, Pillaging and Soup!!!!!!

Damn Protestant soup!

One_Armed_Dwarf

Eyebrows on your cheeks

Jesus Wept

A big ham head.

El Siglo

We forgot to mention fighting,
bate'n the childer,
bate'n the wife,
bate'n your brother,
Harp giving you an awful hangover,
Paddy giving you an awful hangover,
knowing somebody that was or claimed to be in the Ra,
Catholicism,
Sectarianism (calling Protestants 'black b******s'),
Shouting for anyone that plays England in anything,
Brown bread and sliced tomatoes with salt and pepper,
GAA,
Knowing your local TD and Co. Councillor on a first name basis,
Travellers,
Emigration,
TV Presenters with pseudo-D4 accents,
Newspapers that are only good for wiping your arse with.

Thomas828

Having at least one Irish parent, preferably two, spending your formative years in Ireland, holding an Irish passport, voting in total incompetents to run your country if you're in the Republic, or if you're in the North, having no say in how your country is run...

congo_90

Allowing builders and taxi drivers to hold average joe and the government to ransom and not do a thing about it!

Kev_ps3

Having an Irish surname
Irish parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents etc.
Catholic.

Think thats about it tbh.

4zn76tysfajdxp

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Hating Brits!!!!!!!!!!!!

800 years of Rape, Murder, Pillaging and Soup!!!!!!

I like soup.

fontanalis

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Having an Irish surname
Irish parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents etc.
Catholic.

Think thats about it tbh.

Do you have family tree for the last 100 generations, as for catholic give me an effing break.

PeterIanStaker

El Siglo wrote: »

Newspapers that are only good for wiping your arse with.

Nail on head.

Oh, and wanting to win the f***ing Eurovision for some reason.

Dudess

Ruu wrote: »

National anthem at the end of the night in pub/club of your choice and by God you'll stand and fucking sing!

A warning siren should sound every time Ruu swears... to prepare us...

Alessandra

Holding Irish Citizenship.

Precious flower

Haven't the British been here for 800 years so is I'd say that probably everyone is at least a mix of both Irish and English (Not meaning to sound like I hate the British or anything, I was born there and we had brillant weather every summer!:D) And I don't want to start any agruement of 'Look what the British did to us etc thats all in the past! Just curious?

Hagar

What makes you think we'ed have sex with the fnckers?

merengueca

GAA training in a Celtic/Liverpool/Chelsea shirt - down with foreign games!

Fighting Irish

Having a huge mortgage and huge CC debt, and having the balls to blame everyone but yourself

Sofiztikated

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Having an Irish surname
Irish parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents etc.
Catholic.

Think thats about it tbh.

Ah now that's just starting a row.
Having an Irish surname, well mine is in the country for at least 300 years, does that qualify it as Irish?
Yes, yes, and yes bar one.
Catholic? Am in me arse. Even if I was still part of my church, there are others than the catholic church.

Anyway, you want an Irish religion? Pagan/druidism. The Catholic thing is relatively new here as well.

Mike 1972

Wondering What constitutes being Irish?

filthymcnasty

living in an over-priced poorly built 3- bed semi where u can hear the neighbours riding/fighting/both through the walls.

Crann na Beatha

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The_Minister

humanji wrote: »

I'd go with the "being an Irish citizen" option, tbh. Anything else is moot.

Pherekydes wrote: »

And to be an Irish parent you'd have to have an Irish parent, I suppose? (and so on and on back to the dawn of time, or 1949, whichever came first (or last-this is getting confusing)).

Citizenship is the only test, IMO.

With respect, citizenship as a standard for Irishness is rather stupid.

Not only have Irish passports been sold to rich people before, but until the citizenship referendum, if two people arrived from another country, and one of them gave birth, that child would now be an Irish citizen, merely because their mother was in the country on her due date.

It is open to the Dail to change any of the criteria for citizenship at any time whatsoever.
When does citizenship stop being the watermark for Irishness?
- When a year's residence is sufficient?
- When merely holding a job in Ireland?
- When the payment of a small fee is acceptable?

Citizenship is an awful standard to use, and intellectually unjustifiable, as it's criteria can be changed at any time for any reason.

Pherekydes

The_Minister wrote: »

Citizenship is an awful standard to use, and intellectually unjustifiable, as it's criteria can be changed at any time for any reason.

Have you got a better standard?

The_Minister

Pherekydes wrote: »

Have you got a better standard?

Culture, heritage?