Things Irish people erroneously think are uniquely Irish.

Scanlas The 2nd

I'll start with banter.

mattjack

Dancing in their front room....

Timfy

20 pints then driving home "on the back road"...

MJ23

Red hair

later12

Barack Obama.

doyle61

Tayto

some random drunk

Thanking the bus driver when getting off the bus. They do this in New Zealand too.

Seaneh

doyle61 wrote: »

Tayto

Tayto is uniquely Irish...

The company thats operates in the UK are just licencing the name and recipe. Totally different company.

Wade in the Sea

Northern Ireland

Daveysil15

Greatness.

peasant

Celts

Augmerson

Misery, complaining and begrudgery.

passatman86

four leaf clover !

Zebra3

Stout.

Which is actually an English drink.

darrcow

fat and ugly women:D

Markcheese

Crap weather

uberalles

I'll bike you. Parent with no intention of getting said item.

mikemac1

Corrupt politicians

Our boyos are saints compared to the Italians

dirtyden

A good fry-up. Probably erroneous but I dont think you can get a fry as good outside of this fair isle.

A good pint of Guinness.

Sandwich Ham.

Proper spuds!

YouTookMyName

Saying That wan or your man.

LiamMc

The brand Bulmers cider.

Dry Stone walls

European Colony

8thC writing

Irish = Celt

Monoglotism

English-Language Students from Spain in the Summer.

Calling French, Italian and Spanish English-Lanaguage Students "Spanish Students"

Black Pudding

White Pudding

Red Lemonade

opti0nal

The Jig (Irish: port) is a form of lively folk dance in compound meter, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite (the French gigue; Italian and Spanish giga).[1] Today it is most associated with Irish dance music and Scottish country dance music.[2]

OurLadyofKnock

Counties - they are as British as Finchley

Irish Trad Music - French import around late 1700s

Galway City - English invention

Every single UK soccer club - we have something called the League of Ireland.

OurLadyofKnock

Everybody loves us.

spurious

Hating your own language....oh no wait...

kleefarr

Anyone that's famous.

Quorum

dirtyden wrote: »

A good fry-up. Probably erroneous but I dont think you can get a fry as good outside of this fair isle.

Yup, the great British fry-up includes a sinful slice of crispy fried bread. Nom nom nom.

Quorum

YouTookMyName wrote: »

Saying That wan or your man.

No, that is definitely, definitely uniquely Irish.

Vita nova

Lyons Tea

Used to be Irish but was taken over by Unilever (Anglo-dutch MNC), and production (selection/blending/packing etc.) was moved to their PG Tips production facility in Manchester. Not sure if they used a different blend for the Irish market but certainly not an Irish product.

dirtyden

Quorum wrote: »

Yup, the great British fry-up includes a sinful slice of crispy fried bread. Nom nom nom.

The brits do a decent brekkie, and a mean cup of tea. But they cannot beat a proper irish one.

dirtyden

LiamMc wrote: »

Monoglotism

I had to google monoglotism. Does that make me a zeroglot?

joolsveer

Guinness

Cee-Jay-Cee

Driving a car registered in another country on the roads here.

Ireland is the only place this happens. No where else would tolerate it. Blaming VRT or high road tax is a pathetic excuse for blatant disregard for the law.

finty

.....

seven_eleven

Cadburys

crusher000

The Irish Daily Star, The Irish Sun, The Irish Daily Mirror. You get the point.

LiamMc

dirtyden wrote: »

I had to google monoglotism. Does that make me a zeroglot?

I don't know what 'zeroglot' is. But I believe that using only one word of a language means you are using that language. So, I believe lots and lots of Irish speak lots of languages all the time.
Maybe something for the list.

Only experts should perform task.

Foreign Good, Domestic Bad.

Build them up to knock them down

Education system is one of the best in the world.

Young Country

OurLadyofKnock

Great Little Sporting nation. That one is not even close to being true. All these tiny East European countries which sprang up in the last decade or so have put that Jimmy McGee delusional psychosis to rest.

Seaneh

LiamMc wrote: »

The brand Bulmers cider.

Bulmuers is uniquely Irish.

The Bulmers brand in the UK is totally different and basically just a UK brewer relaunching a dead range to compete directly with the irish product, even copying the packaging and logo to an insane amount.

LiamMc

Seaneh wrote: »

Bulmuers is uniquely Irish.

The Bulmers brand in the UK is totally different and basically just a UK brewer relaunching a dead range to compete directly with the irish product, even copying the packaging and logo to an insane amount.

Your post is the reason this thread was created. To counter the presumptions.
Your post just contradicts itself. 'The Bulmers brand is unique, 'cept for the brand in the UK'.

Bulmers of Plough Lane Hereford, England.
Incredibly their was a Percy Bulmer who made cider and created a company using his family name.
When Bulmers (Irl) wanted to sell in the UK market, they righted were required to change the name of their Irish product. They chose their own family name of Magner.

Bulmers (Hereford) branded bottle (not the same font or logo)
http://www.bulmers.com/

National Association of Cider Makers
http://www.cideruk.com/members_and_links/bulmers/

When in Hereford (UK) visit Cider Museum in the small town
http://www.cidermuseum.co.uk/
Interactive, family-friendly, industrial and process-making. I definitely recommend it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

dirtyden wrote: »

The brits do a decent brekkie, and a mean cup of tea. But they cannot beat a proper irish one.

What, exactly, is the difference? I've always wondered...

Wade in the Sea

Use of the word "hole"

E.g.


Talking thru 'ur
Shut 'ur hole
Kick in the hole
Pain in me hole
Stick it up 'ur.........

RossyG

The Irish international soccer team.

ejmaztec

TV3 and 3e

sock puppet

CJC999 wrote: »

Driving a car registered in another country on the roads here.

Ireland is the only place this happens. No where else would tolerate it. Blaming VRT or high road tax is a pathetic excuse for blatant disregard for the law.

OurLadyofKnock wrote: »

Great Little Sporting nation. That one is not even close to being true. All these tiny East European countries which sprang up in the last decade or so have put that Jimmy McGee delusional psychosis to rest.

I think you guys need to read the thread title.

LivelineDipso

The oil and gas off our coasts.

purple'n'gold

The best football fans in the world.

LivelineDipso

purplengold wrote: »

The best football fans in the world.

That's the one. Without a doubt the greatest delusion this island ever produced.

They are not even into Irish soccer!

ConstantJoe

I heard somewhere that the word "craic" isn't actually Irish, it originated in England and was brought over.

Mully_2011

purplengold wrote: »

The best football fans in the world.

The most deluded fans maybe.

LiamMc

purplengold wrote: »

The best football fans in the world.

LivelineDipso wrote: »

That's the one. Without a doubt the greatest delusion this island ever produced.

They are not even into Irish soccer!

Mully_2011 wrote: »

The most deluded fans maybe.

I read purple'n'gold's phrase as 'The best Football fans in the World' is a phrase not unique to Ireland but is used elsewhere to describe other groups of Fans.

What also isn't different is that Irish Journalists describe a group as such, but the group get the blame.

What may be unique is one of the reason's presented by Irish Journalists. To prevent Republic of Ireland football fans going down the same road as English club fans and England NT fans in the late 1970's and early 1980's. They would use patronising phrases and attempt to humour the RoI fans by explaining that they were never like their neighbours. The fact these journalists were attempting to embed prejudices within Irish Football fans is lost on the journalists.