What are the Irish equivalent of famous people, places, cultural events etc abroad

badabing106

What is Irelands Coachella?

Who is Irelands posh and becks?

Is the sugar loaf our Mount fuji?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

badabing106 wrote: »

What is Irelands Coachella?

Who is Irelands posh and becks?

Is the sugar loaf our Mount fuji?

Craogh Patrick is probably as close as anything to a Mount Fuji based on the number of foreign tourists who have heard of it. That or the Cliffs of Moher.

AS for the other two?! They don't even exist to Irish people!

Yer Da sells Avon

badabing106 wrote: »

What is Irelands Coachella?

Féile (The Trip to Tipp) or Lark in the Park, probably.

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Coachella...hardly of note to most.
Posh and Becks...,.hopefully we're not that shallow.
Fuji....Cliff of Moher, Skelligs, lots of natural features that tourist cone to see.

BarleySweets

What is Irelands Coachella? The Easter Rising commemorations in Arbour Hill every Easter weekend.

Who is Irelands posh and becks? Michael Collins & Kitty Kiernan.

Is the sugar loaf our Mount fuji? No, The GPO is our Mount Fuji but it’s even better than just a mountain.

One eyed Jack

badabing106 wrote: »

What is Irelands Coachella?

Who is Irelands posh and becks?

Is the sugar loaf our Mount fuji?

Electric Picnic I suppose would be the equivalent of Coachella given that both events are portrayed as music festivals, but neither are actually about music at all.

Ireland's Posh and Becks? I suppose that'd be Pippa O' Connor and Brian Ormond, given that neither couple are particularly relevant to the general public.

And I suppose Carrauntoohil* would be the equivalent of Mount Fuji.

*I don't remember it being spelled like that in 2nd class geography class, but I'll go with that.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Féile (The Trip to Tipp) or Lark in the Park, probably.

One of the problems with a large Irish festival is the logistics. With the exception of Glastonbury, most of the big European ones are quite central making it easier to get to on a budget - especially when they involve camping.

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Samuel T. Cogley

Why does there need to be a cultural equivalent? Ireland has it's own culture.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Why does there need to be a cultural equivalent? Ireland has it's own culture.

I think this is the basis of the OP's question: what specific aspects of Irish culture (popular and traditional) are known abroad?

Samuel T. Cogley

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I think this is the basis of the OP's question: what specific aspects of Irish culture (popular and traditional) are known abroad?

Our constitution has been the subject of quite a bit of study in nations gaining independence. But I digress.

I saw it as trying to say The Irish Posh and Becks are..., The Irish Blitz was..., Ireland's Winston Churchill was*... I'll defer to your interpretation though as it doesn't piss me off.

*Well Winston Churchill but you get the picture.

Nagikami

Live in Japan. Pretty much everyone knows Enya here.

NIMAN

BOD and his wife are definitely our P&B...if you ever check out the Independent website.

No idea who Coachella is.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

NIMAN wrote: »

BOD and his wife are definitely our P&B...if you ever check out the Independent website.

No idea who Coachella is.

Unless you're a rugby fan, few people outside Ireland know who Brian O'Driscoll is. Even fewer know who is wife is. And even fewer again check out the Indpendent website!

Samuel T. Cogley

Guinness, 'special' illegal immigrants. Literature. Oddly enough the child porn severity index was come up with by UCC.

mrsdewinter

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Unless you're a rugby fan, few people outside Ireland know who Brian O'Driscoll is. Even fewer know who is wife is. And even fewer again check out the Indpendent website!

Their profile outside Ireland isn't the point, surely.
The parallels between the couples are: he gained fame through sport; she's acknowledged as having found fame in a different field of endeavour; the media absolutely adore the fact that such attractive & famous people have built lives together. (I'd argue that Bod & Amy are less fame-hungry than Posh & Beck's, and that the comparisons end there.)

Rows Grower

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Their profile outside Ireland isn't the point, surely.
The parallels between the couples are: he gained fame through sport; she's acknowledged as having found fame in a different field of endeavour; the media absolutely adore the fact that such attractive & famous people have built lives together. (I'd argue that Bod & Amy are less fame-hungry than Posh & Beck's, and that the comparisons end there.)

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Their profile outside Ireland isn't the point, surely.
The parallels between the couples are: he gained fame through sport; she's acknowledged as having found fame in a different field of endeavour; the media absolutely adore the fact that such attractive & famous people have built lives together. (I'd argue that Bod & Amy are less fame-hungry than Posh & Beck's, and that the comparisons end there.)

I'm going on the basis that he specifically says "abroad" in the title, but it could do with some clarification.

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Coachella is the epitomization of vacuous, self-absorbed, hypocritical, ignorant, greedy, shallow and pampered US top 1% excess; and it appropriately takes place in the land of soulless, techiebro wannabe, anti-feminist Silicon Valley and snowflake, self-congratulating, sickening Hollywood. Vile and putrid gathering of modern day elite society.