Has Ireland effectively re-joined the British Empire?

uln

All around us in Ireland we see examples of English things:

• Newspapers and magazines
• High street shops
• Reality TV (including obligatory Irish contestant)
• Premiership soccer (to the detriment of League of Ireland)
• TV, including soap operas
• Banks
• ... Etc etc

Two questions:
1. What are other examples of things we import from England?
2. Have we effectively re-joined the British Empire?

mike65

If the above is a measure then Ireland never actually left....carry on!

Nodin

Suns out today. Probably mosey out later and take a goo at the wimminz.

Glenster

uln wrote: »

All around us in Ireland we see examples of English things:

• Newspapers and magazines
• High street shops
• Reality TV (including obligatory Irish contestant)
• Premiership soccer (to the detriment of League of Ireland)
• TV, including soap operas
• Banks
• ... Etc etc

Two questions:
1. What are other examples of things we import from England?
2. Have we effectively re-joined the British Empire?

I ate at a chinese last night, ****ing imperialists.....

Nodin

Glenster wrote: »

I ate at a chinese last night, ****ing imperialists.....

Don't you disrespect the Glorious Chinese People!!!!!!!!!!!

who the fug

Gets beer and popcorn


this should be fun

TheZohanS

That sounds an awful lot like a question you'd be given in college...

You could say the same thing about the US, we import a lot of their culture too, TV shows, fast food (Subway, McDonalds)...Starbucks coffee, sayings; awesome, mom etc., companies, Microsoft, Apple, HP, Wyeth Medica...tons more.

A study was carried out a few years ago and it found that Ireland was the most globalised country in the world.

Leftist

uln wrote: »

All around us in Ireland we see examples of English things:

• Newspapers and magazines
• High street shops
• Reality TV (including obligatory Irish contestant)
• Premiership soccer (to the detriment of League of Ireland)
• TV, including soap operas
• Banks
• ... Etc etc

Two questions:
1. What are other examples of things we import from England?
2. Have we effectively re-joined the British Empire?

If you zoom out of the minor details like gaa and tayto crisps etc it basically is the same culture. Very dependant on the UK for culture.

theboss80

Etc Etc is far more Irish than British tbh

Fratton Fred

uln wrote: »

All around us in Ireland we see examples of English things:

• Newspapers and magazines
• High street shops
• Reality TV (including obligatory Irish contestant)
• Premiership soccer (to the detriment of League of Ireland)
• TV, including soap operas
• Banks
• ... Etc etc

Two questions:
1. What are other examples of things we import from England?
2. Have we effectively re-joined the British Empire?

I've noticed British food get more and more popular here as well.

It is now quite common to see people eating Britain's national dish in pubs and restaurants all over Dublin.

I prefer the Lamb Biriani myself, but the chicken is just as nice.

mick087

Well if we are back in the empire.
Then i hope some one opens up a good fish and chip shop in Dublin.
Your carn't beat the Brits for Fish and chips.
Yum yum.

mike65

Anglo-Italians make the best chips, the only question is why that's the case...do Italians eat chips in Italy?

dpe

Since there's no such thing as the British Empire anymore, then....(wait for it)....no.

The Franco-German Empire on the other hand...

Son Of A Vidic

Just when we thought we had a bit of a lull, this shyte starts up again.

kfallon

As long as we have Bacon & Cabbage and Coddle we'll always have our independence

wicklowwonder

Rory McIlroy can be added to that list as well.....

spider guardian

In some place at this very moment a cute little puppy is laughing at the idiocy of this thread

Dravokivich

TheZohan wrote: »

A study was carried out a few years ago and it found that Ireland was the most globalised country in the world.

So we're whores then?

:cool:

Daegerty

Don't shop for it


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgos it

who the fug

Dravokivich wrote: »

So we're whores then?

:cool:

No just posh travellers

Fratton Fred

mike65 wrote: »

Anglo-Italians make the best chips, the only question is why that's the case...do Italians eat chips in Italy?

My local chippie is a member of the Irish Traditional Italian Chipper Association so I guess they do.

Leftist

What study was carried out that said we're the most globalised nation? Is this from the same body that says we're the hardest workers and most oppressed people in history?

vampire of kilmainham

mike65 wrote: »

Anglo-Italians make the best chips, the only question is why that's the case...do Italians eat chips in Italy?

no they dont

TheZohanS

Dravokivich wrote: »

So we're whores then?

:cool:

Well yes, but lets try and stay on topic!


"Man is an economic animal".

ejmaztec

Fratton Fred wrote: »

My local chippie is a member of the Irish Traditional Italian Chipper Association so I guess they do.

That's okay if you like traditional Italian woodwork.

mick087

Leftist wrote: »

What study was carried out that said we're the most globalised nation? Is this from the same body that says we're the hardest workers and most oppressed people in history?

Id say the Jews might have something to say about that.
Or Parts of Africa.

Leftist

mick087 wrote: »

Id say the Jews might have something to say about that.
Or Parts of Africa.

Them and many others I'd imagine. We seem to have this fetish for declaring ourselves the best at basically anything we can think of.

Most globalised my pocket. Are we supposed to be more globalised than the US or England? For starters.

steddyeddy

ah yea it has. Since we started eating more "british" food we have rejoined the empire. Like the time when we started eating spaghetti and joined the roman empire or the great curry binge which left us worshipping cows and fighting with pakistan. Scientists are unsure how food can have an effect on a countrys geography but their sure it definatly definatly isnt boll*x.

TheZohanS

Leftist wrote: »

What study was carried out that said we're the most globalised nation? Is this from the same body that says we're the hardest workers and most oppressed people in history?

Here you go:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=702433&postcount=1

CerebralCortex

TheZohan wrote: »

That sounds an awful lot like a question you'd be given in college...

You could say the same thing about the US, we import a lot of their culture too, TV shows, fast food (Subway, McDonalds)...Starbucks coffee, sayings; awesome, mom etc., companies, Microsoft, Apple, HP, Wyeth Medica...tons more.

A study was carried out a few years ago and it found that Ireland was the most globalised country in the world.

Except for our stupid habit of not wanting to live in cities and exporting our youth.

Dravokivich

TheZohan wrote: »

Well yes, but lets try and stay on topic!


"Man is an economic animal".

Ah, now I get ya, just like Sheep then yeah?

Bloody Nipples

Leftist wrote: »

Them and many others I'd imagine. We seem to have this fetish for declaring ourselves the best at basically anything we can think of.

Most globalised my pocket. Are we supposed to be more globalised than the US or England? For starters.

Do you mean that they have more immigrants or something? Cos that's not globalisation.

We import much more popular culture than they do so in that regard we are more globalised than them. We also got rid of our own individual currency and no longer speak our native tongue.

bonerm

We never left. Over on soccer they're in withdrawals waiting for the premier league to start up again. Wouldn't even mind the obsession if they actually had the best teams.

Leftist

Bloody Nipples wrote: »

Do you mean that they have more immigrants or something? Cos that's not globalisation.

We import much more popular culture than they do so in that regard we are more globalised than them. We also got rid of our own individual currency and no longer speak our native tongue.

I misunderstood, you are correct.

TheZohanS

Ireland is the second most globalised country in the world according to Ernst & Young’s Globalisation and the Changing World of Business report. Ireland gained one place in 2010, displacing Singapore from the second spot. The report, compiled in collaboration with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), forecast Ireland taking the top spot in 2011 – and possibly retaining it until 2014. Among Western countries, Ireland ranked first as the most globalised.


The Globalisation Index measure the extent to which the 60 largest countries (by GDP) are connected to the rest of the world, using 20 key indicators that capture cross-border integration of business. Those indicators fall into five broad categories: openness to trade; capital movements; exchange of technology and ideas; labour movements; and cultural integration. The index is relative rather than absolute, meaning that the degree of openness in a country is decided against it’s own GDP, rather than the absolute value of those elements being exchanged.
The report said that after struggling in 2009, countries would continue to steadily globalise between now and 2014, driven by advances in technology and the rise of emerging markets. Ireland gained in 2010 because total trade (exports and imports) rose to 197 per cent of GDP, compared to 166 per cent in 2009.
Ireland topped two of categories measured – international exchange of technology and ideas, and international exchange of labour.
The top ten most globalised countries are Hong Kong (7.48), Ireland (7.34), Singapore (6.78), Denmark (5.93), Switzerland (5.86), Belgium (5.82), Sweeden (5.80), Netherlands (5.59), Hungary (5.35) and Finland (5.29). The UK came in at 15th position and the U.S. at 28th. The least globalised countries were Iran (2.27), Algeria (2.62) and Venezuela (2.85).]

Source.

Vicxas

RABBLE RABBLE!


If i can be serious for a moment, we are a mix of many cultures. Id agree with Zohan, we are the most globalised country in the world.

Badgermonkey

Firstly, without a touch of travel in a seriously pimped DeLorean, there is no empire to rejoin.

Gibraltar, the Falklands and Guernsey do not an empire make.

Secondly, this thread had brought the hunger upon me and as a nod to the Raj, chicken rogan-josh shall be enjoyed this evening.

Thanks OP.

Killer Pigeon

No, we haven't re-joined the British Empire/ Commonwealth. However, we have joined the European Monetary Empire (EU) along with Britain, so the UK and Ireland are effectively apart of another empire.

Chuck Stone

uln wrote: »

All around us in Ireland we see examples of English things:

• Newspapers and magazines
• High street shops
• Reality TV (including obligatory Irish contestant)
• Premiership soccer (to the detriment of League of Ireland)
• TV, including soap operas
• Banks
• ... Etc etc

Two questions:
1. What are other examples of things we import from England?
2. Have we effectively re-joined the British Empire?

They took that fucker Graham Norton off us so we should be thankfull.

mackg

Has Ireland effectively re-joined the British Empire?

I knew there was some hidden sinister reason for the queens visit:eek:

getz

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I've noticed British food get more and more popular here as well.

It is now quite common to see people eating Britain's national dish in pubs and restaurants all over Dublin.

I prefer the Lamb Biriani myself, but the chicken is just as nice.

dont tell me you are now eating fish and chips