What has Ireland exported

old hippy

Besides the diaspora - what are our famous/familiar/well loved exports?




This is in response to this comment "Ireland has exported a few poets I suppose..trying think what else" :rolleyes: on that site I was trying to get new blood in.

TireeTerror

Gingers.

solomafioso

Maudlin'

elefant

Butter

jester77

Do you have Kerrygold in Ireland?

P_1

Butter, beef, porter, medicines and computer chips come to mind

Donkey Oaty

Bananas, beef and Botox.

Links234

Tayto

shruikan2553

Babies

Nemeses

Computers..(indirectly)

House of Blaze

In years gone by.. nail bombs?

Sir Arthur Daley

All the youth.

obriendj

jester77 wrote: »

Do you have Kerrygold in Ireland?

And the Horse that we sent to France.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Z4crBt-iM

MonkeyTennis

Whiskey

TireeTerror

Its amazing how much Irish butter gets exported, because its not a patch on Clover or Lurpak!!!

Son Of A Vidic

old hippy wrote: »

Besides the diaspora - what are our famous/familiar/well loved exports?

'The Craic', much sought after and loved the world over.

Nodin

House of Blaze wrote: »

In years gone by.. nail bombs?

Bombs of all sorts.

Dodgy politicians.

Good cops, bad cops and all kinds of in-between cops.

Firemen.

Soldiers.

Gangsters.

Priests.

Begrudgery.

Stout.

A few songs.

The clatter.

SEPT 23 1989

One of the most successful airlines in the world

Nemeses

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

One of the most successful airlines in the world

Which one?

TeaBagMania

Guinness

ancapailldorcha

Dell PCs.

NewCorkLad

The "Irish Pub"

jester77

Nemeses wrote: »

Which one?

Ryanair, Aer Arann can hardly be considered that succesful

K-9

Viagra, computer chips to watch porn and I think we are big manufacturers of prozac too!

Indigenous wise I suppose Baileys is a big success as is Irish whiskey. Traditionally Scotch is a bigger seller but the Irish whiskey manufacturers are targeting that market big time.

Back in the early days of the state our best export was the Irish sweepstakes. Great example of Irish cute hoorism:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/irish-sweepstake-scandal-remains-a-lesson-to-us-all-26237690.html

Fascinating story that is still remembered to this day, even got mentioned in Breaking Bad.

Famously Poets and writers, infamously Boyzone, Westlife and the Corrs.

--LOS--

Agricultural exports: cattle, beef, dairy

donegal__road

Botox.

Westport is botox capital of the world.


ok, its the Mirror, but hey...

PLUG71

Delorean?:rolleyes:

House of Blaze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMY0ilNUAoE

Bejaysus!

whisky_galore

Agricultural machinery and bicycles. Pierce's of Wexford made both and once had offices in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Also cars and tractors (Fords in Cork) and tyres (Dunlop)

If you count the island of Ireland, then ships (Harland & Wolff and Workman Clarke Belfast) and linen. Beleek for crockery.

Donegal for textiles, tweeds etc., Limerick once made military uniforms for both sides of the US civil war and Portlaw, Co Waterford had a cotton mill.

Now, a lot of seafood is exported to france, esp shellfish as we're too picky to eat most of them.

Menas

Software, lot of it.
Services.
Airplane leasing - lots of it.

Sleepy

Bananas apparently...

ScumLord

We export enough milk to feed 44 million people. Apparently.

There are some high tech engineering companies exporting parts to the likes of NASA and car manufacturers.

H3llR4iser

Mostly genes (or the anatomical parts involved in the exchange of such), as wherever you go there'll always be an inordinate amount of people claiming to be at least "half Irish"!!!

AdolfHipster

The workforce

jimgoose

You know those huge Liebherr gantry dock-cranes? They're made in Killarney. :cool:

gugleguy

Macalpine's Fusiliers.
Up to the end of the 19th century soldiers for the British Army - Irish men made up 40% of it.

SEPT 23 1989

jimgoose wrote: »

You know those huge Liebherr gantry dock-cranes? They're made in Killarney. :cool:

are the unions not in the process of fcuking that up as we speak?

uch

Semen to the UK, apparently they haven't enough

House of Blaze

uch wrote: »

Semen to the UK, apparently they haven't enough

Lot of **** in the uk.

jimgoose

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

are the unions not in the process of fcuking that up as we speak?

Probably! :pac:

uch

House of Blaze wrote: »

Lot of **** in the uk.

Not enough I'd say, hence the shortage

Kimbot

Ireland exports all of its money to Germany :P

Jagdtiger

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoney_Technology_Limited_of_Ireland

Who knew?

Fate Amenable To Change

Grammar. Something as simple as spaces between words in Western writing would not exist except for its invention by Irish monks.

DoesNotCompute

Tayto

gugleguy

Waterford Glass/Crystal

House of Blaze

gugleguy wrote: »

Waterford Glass/Crystal

And newbridge cutlery!

Duggy747

I saw in a supermarket out near Syracuse in NY that you could buy a massive block of Kerrygold cheese for a steal at $140.

T'wuld make a fine sangich to wash down with some TK 'arange.

Tail Docker

jimgoose wrote: »

You know those huge Liebherr gantry dock-cranes? They're made in Killarney. :cool:

And a hell of a factory it is too. We also export a large proportion of the Hydraulic rams used across the world(who knew, even Ze Germans use thousands of them), a huge quantity of farm machinery, a lot of Vaccines, thousands of Articulated lorry refrigeration units, all made in Ireland, mongs of cat and dog food, sure the list goes on and on. We make and export a lot of stuff.

jimgoose

House of Blaze wrote: »

And newbridge cutlery!

Newbridge do some nice silverware of all kinds - quite classy indeed; and not mad dear.

Sunnyisland

Off shore bank accounts :-)