What do you think about Carrolls shops?

DanaScully

Hello there,

I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate Garlic.

In Carrolls shops, Leprechauns items (drinking beers and saying rude things) are numerous! They seem to be one of the most popular stuff.

I am just wondering, what do Irish people think about Carrolls shop and about leprechauns items? Do you go there times to times?

Thanks for sharing

Chucken

Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?

kowloon

Their lasagne is doing well since so many of the other brands have been pulled off the shelves.


See, I can do current issues too.

Chuck Stone

I'm an actual Leprechaun.

I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

Shure it doesn't get much better than this.

Chucken

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'm an actual Leprechaun.

I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

Shure it doesn't get much better than this.

But do you say rude things?

3rdDegree

I've only ever gone there when entertaining foreign guests - usually American family or friends. Once I brought a small group who were visiting from India. They loved it. Apart from that, I would have no reason to visit such an establishment.

wretcheddomain

I thought Carroll's shops only sold their own cigarette's.

whiskeyman

Any true Irish person has leprechaun items adorning every room in their house.
Carrolls is the IKEA for Irish people

mickdw

Carrolls shops are full of tacky crap and as such they are only located in the tourist areas. Ive been in one in Dublin once and once was enough.

crockholm

they are a painful reminder from our history

judgefudge

Standard tacky tourist shop. I'd imagine few Irish people actually go in there.

DanaScully

Chucken wrote: »

Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?

Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.

admiralofthefleet

tacky and cheap

DanaScully

crockholm wrote: »

they are a painful reminder from our history

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

jaffacakesyum

DanaScully wrote: »

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

Yes the English killed them all. That's the main reason there has been strife between us and the Brits all these years

Chucken

DanaScully wrote: »

Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.

Ahh right. You see in our part of the country we grow our own leprechauns*so really have no need for shops that sell them

*Secretly of course

crockholm

DanaScully wrote: »

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive

kowloon

I can't see why anyone would get too bothered by them. They have shops that sell biscuit tins with the queen on them in London. (although I've met natives there that buy the fcuking things)

fasttalkerchat

DanaScully wrote: »

Are Leprechauns part of History ?

They were. Until the English came...

DanaScully

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

They were. Until the English came...

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

crockholm

DanaScully wrote: »

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

thats dubarry's you're thinking of.

castletownman

crockholm wrote: »

yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive

Why the short temper?

Afro Patsy

Don't like Carroll's. Benson and Hedges FTW.

Chucken

DanaScully wrote: »

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

:mad: Excuse me?

Cereal Number

Funny how they are irish shops, yet are full of Chinese scrap.......

Sofiztikated

DanaScully wrote: »

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

OMG, you can't just say that!

DanaScully

Chucken wrote: »

:mad: Excuse me?

lol ... So Leprechauns = Irish = tiny men who hide gold ?

crockholm

I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?

Chucken

This is our President:

http://static.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25334482.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/higgins

This is our Presidents victory poster:

http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/userpix/2_michael_d_higgins_election_posters_president_of_ireland_1.jpg

No leprechauns? huh! :mad:

DanaScully

crockholm wrote: »

I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?

I don't see ...

DanaScully

Chucken wrote: »

This is our President:

http://static.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25334482.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/higgins

This is our Presidents victory poster:

http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/userpix/2_michael_d_higgins_election_posters_president_of_ireland_1.jpg

No leprechauns? huh! :mad:

But where is the gold?

kowloon

Archaeologists often get tourists walking onto sites, they shouldn't be there in the first place. There are people all over the world who have returned home having been witness to archaeologists excavating a genuine Neolithic Lepreesheean settlement.

crockholm

I thought that being our friends and neighbours that you would have learned some bit of Irish history,you know all this EU bollix.

Leprechauns existed,they just died out,there are half bloods, that we mentioned above.
First it was the english,they developed a taste for them.Long before you had fish n chips, you had chaun n chips.FACT.
The last leprechaun king died in mortal combat with another king of sorts called Big Joe Joyce in the battle of Mullingar.

Chucken

DanaScully wrote: »

But where is the gold?

Well you see we also have *pixies. Now, we affectionatly call them names like *Seanie *Bertie * Cowen etc or *"developers"...you know?

They had the gold but they wanted to give it to the *Germans.

We dont like *pixies :mad:





*you may change the word pixie to suit your mood.

Mr Benevolent

DanaScully wrote: »

Hello there,

I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate Garlic.

In Carrolls shops, Leprechauns items (drinking beers and saying rude things) are numerous! They seem to be one of the most popular stuff.

I am just wondering, what do Irish people think about Carrolls shop and about leprechauns items? Do you go there times to times?

Thanks for sharing

'There are certain things one must do. Punching a Frenchman is one of them.'

Sir Philip Bin, 'Bleak Expectations'.

McChubbin

I know the manager of the one in Talbot Street and I always get a discount on my pride flags and t-shirts. Also, they sell whiskey-infused chocolate so they can't be THAT bad.

WoollyRedHat

Cereal Number wrote: »

Funny how they are irish shops, yet are full of Chinese scrap.......

That's manafacturing for ya.

Mr_Spaceman

In fairness to Carroll's they have an excellent collection of fridge magnets - essential souvenirs.

DanaScully

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

In fairness to Carroll's they have an excellent collection of fridge magnets - essential souvenirs.

Lol yeah especially the one which is a bottle-opener

Steve O

DanaScully wrote: »

What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

Someone didn't read as a child.

suicide_circus

Leprechauns are from folklore/mythology. The first one was the son of an evil spirit and a fairy. They love playing tricks on people. They make shoes and hide their money at the ends of rainbows. If you catch one they can grant you a wish.

Scruffles

never heard of carolls but its possibly where all the huge pencils am bought from dads visits home,its a tradition where he always gets one whenever he is over,theyre fuking useless without a big sharpner.

Steve O wrote: »

Someone didn't read as a child.

looks like someones not been practicing what they preach, as an adult-
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20

Steve O

Scruffles wrote: »

looks like someones not been practicing what they preach, as an adult-
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20

My post was in reference to this

"Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies.."

I was merely saying he mustn't have read The Elves and the Shoemaker as a child.

Get over yourself, you aren't a mod.

Grayditch

Do they still serve coddle in a Bodhrán?

debabyjesus

Those shops are good craic. I bought my French missus a hat that says 'Is maith liom mo hata'. It wasn't tacky at all, kinda cool actually.

DanaScully

Steve O wrote: »

My post was in reference to this

"Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies.."

I was merely saying he mustn't have read The Elves and the Shoemaker as a child.

Get over yourself, you aren't a mod.

The Elves and the Shoemaker? What is this book about?

Turtyturd

McChubbin wrote: »

I know the manager of the one in Talbot Street and I always get a discount on my pride flags and t-shirts. Also, they sell whiskey-infused chocolate so they can't be THAT bad.

They sell 'authentic' Irish soil that's made in Poland. It's like a legalised version of selling laptops out of a white van.

I don't really know why this in After Hours. Sorry OP, it doesn't belong here.