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"I'm 1/4 irish"

  • 22-09-2013 11:58AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Usually said by an American.
    Always hated this ****e, used to come up in chatrooms back in the day..

    American:"Im half irish"
    Me:Really? Where were you born?
    American: Chicago
    Me : You're American so.
    American:No...you see my great grand papa was irish he lived in the county of Cork.
    Me: You have an irish relative, You were born in the USA , You are 100% American.

    Another one: im 1/4 irish
    Me: Wow do you have 4 parents??
    Them:.....


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  • Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    May I recommend anger management counseling


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    This topic has been done to death so I'll just say this: They're not harming anyone and if it means them coming over here to spend a few bob in our tourist industry, then all the better.

    Leave them at it, who cares really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Days 298


    Never understood why people care what other people identify themselves as. At the end of the days it is his identity not yours. Not like some Irish people didn't come out with some cringey sh*t for "o'bama"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Do these people visit the country/ies that account for the other 3/4 of their heritage?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭fathead82


    .

    Another one: im 1/4 irish
    Me: Wow do you have 4 parents??
    Them:.....

    That would mean one of their grandparents was irish,you have 4 grandparents..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭ColmH81


    As long as they don't call Paddy's Day "Patty's Day", then they can claim all the Irish heritage they want.. Ha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    im 100% earthling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Fall_Guy


    The type of folks I hear coming out with this sh1te are the same folks that look funny at black people with African parents when they say they are Irish. Small country mentality.

    Is it really that hard to understand that in a culturally diverse country like the U.S people identify themselves with the country that their family emigrated from?? What about all the latino people in america who consider themselves puerto rican or mexican or whatever. Are they arseholes too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    There are two types of people in the world......those who are Irish and those who wish they were!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 pa_


    Get over it. It would be worse if nobody gave a damn.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    I'm 1/200 Iberian due to the o'neill clans routes in Iberia


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭alexlyons


    having lived in the USA all summer, they seem to believe that if they have Irish (or any other country) heritage then that's present in the culture in which they're brought up hence they claim they are 1/4 Irish or whatever.

    Bollox. Your American


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It's just a thing over there. America is a big melting pot of different cultures so many identify with where their ancestors came from. For eg Italian/Americans in NYC and NJ often refer to themselves as "Italians", it's no big deal it's not worth getting upset over.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    I'm half man half amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    America is a very young country (most of it anyway) with very little heritage of its own (aside from native american which they sort of tried to erase), I find Irish people dont care too much about their root but Americans are desperate to figure out where they came from, how their family got there and all that jazz.

    I used to get very impatient with people who made strained connections between themselves and Ireland, but in reality it makes no real odds to me. They come here, spend a pile of money, head home and fondly remember that time they had a real pint of stout in a 'real' Irish Pub. No real harm done.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    Usually said by an American.
    Always hated this ****e, used to come up in chatrooms back in the day..

    American:"Im half irish"
    Me:Really? Where were you born?
    American: Chicago
    Me : You're American so.
    American:No...you see my great grand papa was irish he lived in the county of Cork.
    Me: You have an irish relative, You were born in the USA , You are 100% American.

    Another one: im 1/4 irish
    Me: Wow do you have 4 parents??
    Them:.....


    Nearly everyone 30 years ago was born in a Dublin hospital, so technically most of Irish people are Dub's, regardless of where they live now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    America is still a relatively new country historically (Plymouth settlers, the famine ships, Irish slave transportation to Virginia) it makes sense that they would celebrate their origins and history. I think we should be proud that so many people admire our culture, history and want to be a part of it. St. Patrick's day is a global event now. There is such good will towards this country worldwide, you notice when you're on holiday how people light up when you tell them you're from Ireland. An american fellow was telling me about going to the town where his family came from and meeting some distant relatives up north, he was delighted and I was delighted for him I find geneology fascinating and what it tells us about who we are. People like the O.P. make me ashamed to be Irish :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    Nearly everyone 30 years ago was born in a Dublin hospital, so technically most of Irish people are Dub's, regardless of where they live now.

    thats crap, dublin is not the only town/city to have hospitals in the last 50 years

    i was born in a galway hospital and im over 30


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    thats crap, dublin is not the only town/city to have hospitals in the last 50 years

    i was born in a galway hospital and im over 30

    That's you because the trip from the wehst, would have been too long back then, I really meant Dublin and surrounding counties:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Usually said by an American.
    Always hated this ****e, used to come up in chatrooms back in the day..

    American:"Im half irish"
    Me:Really? Where were you born?
    American: Chicago
    Me : You're American so.
    American:No...you see my great grand papa was irish he lived in the county of Cork.
    Me: You have an irish relative, You were born in the USA , You are 100% American.

    Another one: im 1/4 irish
    Me: Wow do you have 4 parents??
    Them:.....
    Grow up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Nearly everyone 30 years ago was born in a Dublin hospital, so technically most of Irish people are Dub's, regardless of where they live now.

    What? No way is that true, there are hospitals in loads of counties that surround Dublin where women would have given birth, a small few might have gone to Dublin alright but the majority wouldn't have.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    Meangadh wrote: »
    What? No way is that true, there are hospitals in loads of counties that surround Dublin where women would have given birth, a small few might have gone to Dublin alright but the majority wouldn't have.

    All of Leinster people are Dub's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Jealous you're not a centaur?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    All of Leinster people are Dub's.

    yet another generalization eh?


    there was many hospitals in leinster though less today seeing as some have since closed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Nearly everyone 30 years ago was born in a Dublin hospital, so technically most of Irish people are Dub's, regardless of where they live now.

    They were???

    Myself, my siblings and all of my many, many, cousins were born more than 30 years ago and not one of us was born within 100 miles of Dublin but we were all born in hospitals in Ireland...:confused:

    Oh...I forgot, 'Ireland' consists only of the Pale. That crap annoys me waaay more than Americans saying they are fractionally Irish ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    yet another generalization eh?


    there was many hospitals in leinster though less today seeing as some have since closed.

    Ask you'r relations, I have cousins, and family all over the country, and all bar 1 was born in Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    All of Leinster people are Dub's.

    Ok you're obviously taking the piss... I'm in Leinster, born about 30 years ago and can only think of one of my friends who was born in Dublin, the rest of us were born in the town we're from.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭funt cucker


    Meangadh wrote: »
    Ok you're obviously taking the piss... I'm in Leinster, born about 30 years ago and can only think of one of my friends who was born in Dublin, the rest of us were born in the town we're from.

    In the bath or sommat?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    I was born in a fully functioning hospital in Cork in 1978.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    Ask you'r relations, I have cousins, and family all over the country, and all bar 1 was born in Dublin.

    ill list some towns in leinster outside dublin with hospitals at least 50 years old for you

    all of which delivered babies

    drogheda
    cavan
    longford
    athlone
    tullamore
    portlaoise
    kilkenny
    naas
    wexford
    waterford


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