Is your partner Irish?

beach_walker

How many of ye are going out with foreigners? I suppose the advantages are that you can get a proper insight into another culture and talk sh!te about your own. Also by introducing new blood, you're greatly helping our gene pool. Fair play.

Do you find yourself thinking of it often or is it just one of those things? Any downsides?

My gf is prego

podgemonster

She's protestant. I fúcking love the soup!

drdeadlift

Shes from Norway,a better place than here.

fixXxer

Wife is from Zimbabwe but has Irish citizenship. Been over to visit a few times and to South Africa, places I probably wouldn't have made it to had we not been together.

Kintarō Hattori

Polish missus here. Been together 12 years this year and have gone to the country dozens of times.

FTA69

My one is from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. She likes stupid things like cricket and soca music. We were planning to go at some stage but the gaff is crazily violent and can be very edgy where she is from.

Cluiche iascairi

Guys ye have some exotic girls there, fair play. I'm stuck with the girl from my estate :-)

ElChe32

I'm from cavan, my gf is puerto rican..neither place a hurling stronghold.

Calypso27

My missus is German, so there are cultural differences but it isn't like there is a vast divide. Mostly it's just funny, there are things she will never understand about Irish people and vice versa, though there are things that I much prefer about German culture and people and I have been introduced to different dishes and foods, which is sometimes good, sometimes not. She makes occasional errors when she is speaking English and sometimes they are quite amusing too. She has ruined me for Irish people now!

Shenshen

I'm German and my husband is English.
Makes for interesting times when the footy is on.

Tilly

Yup he's Irish but lived in England for 17 years so has an English accent.

Menas

My long suffering is English. But she has been living here for nearly half her life so has a lot of irishisms. Still has her accent though. But when she goes home to her family they take the piss out of her for sounding irish.

maudgonner

My partner lives in my imagination.

So I guess Irish? Or possibly a native of oh-it's-a-pretty-crazy-place-in-here-land.

discobeaker

I'm from Monaghan,the wife is originally from Brazil. It's nice to have the option to stay in Ireland for the summer and feck off to her folks in Brazil for the winter while everyone is freezing their bollocks off here.

SEPT 23 1989

She is from the Northside

MonkeyTennis

Wife is Czech. Yes I am a lucky ****

murpho999

I am Irish, wife is Dutch, with some Spanish background thrown in as well.

Sounds very exciting but can sometimes be difficult. One is going to have to sacrifice their home country for another.
Lived in Netherlands for a few years, enjoyed learning the language but found the people and their lifestyle to be incredibly dull/

Back in Ireland 10 years and it’s fine but she does get homesick.

eamonnq

Neither me nor the wife are not Irish.

AndyBoBandy

The missus is from Lithuania.

I spent 18 months there on a work assignment, spent 9 months single , and 9 months with herself .
awesome, awesome country.
she then got a transfer from her multinational employer from there to here, and I got a home based job with my employer.

Merkin

Mr. Merkin is from Laaaandaaan taaan.

lawred2

Scottish

Boom_Bap

My partner in crime is German, so there were lots of cultural differences to overcome when we first moved in together. For example, she insists that the cutlery don't go in a drawer whereas I am the opposite.
I've started to look at things in a more functional way since being with her and she has started to look at things aesthetically.
When we we buying a car, there was a list of criteria to be met, it didn't matter on how the car looked.
Now we are looking again a few years later, and the appearance has become a factor rather than storage space.

OldGoat

My missus is Australian - English and Welsh parents and was brought up in South Africa.
You'd think she'd understand rugby but nooooooo...

Squall Leonhart

Very vanilla myself.

Irish & Irish.

pajor

Herself is Dutch. I've been here in NL since last January. Long distance relationship before that. Have been together 3 and half years now. Haaaaaapy days.

super_furry

Irish in the streets, Galway hippy in the sheets.

Squall Leonhart

I'm curious about that one person that said 'other', I don't know what other combinations are possible?
(unless a single person answered??)

osarusan

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I'm curious about that one person that said 'other', I don't know what other combinations are possible?
(unless a single person answered??)

Sheep don't really have nationalities I suppose.

beach_walker

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

I'm curious about that one person that said 'other', I don't know what other combinations are possible?
(unless a single person answered??)

That or they're going out with someone like Tom Hanks in that movie where he lives in the airport because he had no citizenship.

Red King

Herself is Persian.

Just celebrated Persian New Year after Paddy's Day. They give each other presents like at Christmas. Good times.

Funnily enough I thought there would be huge cultural differences but there really isn't many at all, in a lot of ways the Persians are quite like us.

VisibleGorilla

I'm Irish, she isn't. I've zero interest in Irish women.

ShaShaBear

Irish and Irish here. But I did have an Aussie and an Asian boyfriend in the past.

pablomakaveli

I'm Irish but my missus is English. She does have some more exotic heritage though having Jewish blood from her dads side and Romany from her mothers.

simdan

My wife's Turkish and I'm half English.

JackieBauer

My wife is from Syria. She's the bomb in bed

silverharp

Boom_Bap wrote: »

My partner in crime is German, so there were lots of cultural differences to overcome when we first moved in together. For example, she insists that the cutlery don't go in a drawer whereas I am the opposite.
I've started to look at things in a more functional way since being with her and she has started to look at things aesthetically.
When we we buying a car, there was a list of criteria to be met, it didn't matter on how the car looked.
Now we are looking again a few years later, and the appearance has become a factor rather than storage space.

My wife is German too but we met in the 90's when economically there was a big difference between the 2 countries. things like lack of mixer taps and low pressure water would drive her daft in the house and in fairness an 1980's Irish house was nowhere near as good as German standards at the time.
My wife anyway is good with money which seems to be a German trait so things like new cars or keeping up with every fashion doesn't rate high.

maudgonner

Red King wrote: »

Herself is Persian.

Just celebrated Persian New Year after Paddy's Day. They give each other presents like at Christmas. Good times.

Funnily enough I thought there would be huge cultural differences but there really isn't many at all, in a lot of ways the Persians are quite like us.

Is Persian a nationality?

Are you sure she's not a cat? :pac:

Squall Leonhart

maudgonner wrote: »

Is Persian a nationality?

Are you sure she's not a cat? :pac:

Probably call her Iranian these days?!

turnikett1

She's as Irish as it gets. My first girlfriend was French, and we went out for 3 years. After we broke up I told myself I want an Irish girl! I don't strictly go looking for Irish girls though, but every girlfriend since then has been Irish. I don't mind, obviously, I like Irish women. Though I occassionally wish she was English or Scottish merely for the sake of having one of those sexy accents as opposed to a townie Offaly accent (Not that I dislike her accent, but sometimes you can't help but laugh at some of the things she says, the ways she says them...)

cherryghost

My wife is from Argentina. It's a good excuse to visit South America, amazing place.

Polo_Mint

My Missus is German

Works perfect

Her logic neutralize my chaos

Red King

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Probably call her Iranian these days?!

Yes Iranian. It is interesting to see the different reactions you get when you say Persian rather than Iranian in Ireland.

pickarooney

In Ireland they say Pewjoan.

Women from that country are among the most beautiful in the world IMO.

Squall Leonhart

Red King wrote: »

Yes Iranian. It is interesting to see the different reactions you get when you say Persian rather than Iranian in Ireland.

I can imagine. Persian kinda conjures up funny cats, fancy rugs, the prince of persia computer game etc.

Iran conjures up ayatollah's and middle eastern troubles.

Funny what a word can do.

fixXxer

maudgonner wrote: »

Is Persian a nationality?

Are you sure she's not a cat? :pac:

Or a rug.

maudgonner

Red King wrote: »

Yes Iranian. It is interesting to see the different reactions you get when you say Persian rather than Iranian in Ireland.

I knew you meant Iranian, just pulling your leg :pac:

eviltwin

Married an Irish man, best blokes in the world

muppetkiller

Irish with a Hungarian lady
She hates the pub scene in Ireland which can be a pain for me ... but the more I'm with her the more I see her point.

EazyD

My partner is Irish (born here, raised here), her family emigrated in the early 80's from Hong Kong.

murpho999

muppetkiller wrote: »

Irish with a Hungarian lady
She hates the pub scene in Ireland which can be a pain for me ... but the more I'm with her the more I see her point.

Don't let her take that away from you. What scene has Hungary got?