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Should I hand back my Irish card?

  • 14-09-2019 9:44pm
    #1
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭


    I've watched the proms (especially the last night) for as long as I can remember. My dad is an opera fanatic so I suppose I had no choice really.
    Is it wrong for me as an Irish woman to watch and enjoy such British pomp?


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  • #2
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Yes you tan


  • #3
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


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  • #4
    bobbysands81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭bobbysands81


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    I've watched the proms (especially the last night) for as long as I can remember. My dad is an opera fanatic so I suppose I had no choice really.
    Is it wrong for me as an Irish woman to watch and enjoy such British pomp?

    Enjoy it. Be confident in your own identity, it’s no threat.


  • #5
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    I used to want to plant bombs
    At the last night of the Proms
    But, now you'll find me with the baby in the bathroom
    With that big shell listening for the sound of the sea


  • #6
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.




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  • #7
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I'll even admit to knowing the words and singing along with the last few songs. Never God Save the Queen though.


  • #8
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,307 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

    2 of my favourite songs!


  • #9
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    I'll even admit to knowing the words and singing along with the last few songs. Never God Save the Queen though.

    I know a few words of that:

    God save the queen
    Her fascist regime
    A major moron
    A potential h-bomb

    Great tune.


  • #10
    Mahony0509
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Mahony0509


    Hope the soup was nice.


  • #11
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    bobbysands81 wrote: »
    Enjoy it. Be confident in your own identity, it’s no threat.

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  • #12
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Some of the pieces are good in fairness. I look at it the same way as a lot of music from a few hundred years ago, or artistic works by Michaelangelo, da Vinci, etc. Sponsored by the church, who are *****, but nevertheless great art. You can enjoy it for what it is ... and ignore the context to an extent.

    But the obvious answer is ... you enjoy what you want, **** the rest.


  • #13
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    BuboBubo wrote: »
    I know a few words of that:

    God save the queen
    Her fascist regime
    A major moron
    A potential h-bomb

    Great tune.

    Older brother was a Sex Pistols fanatic and got me into them.


  • #14
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    Older brother was a Sex Pistols fanatic and got me into them.

    I like your older brother! ;)


  • #15
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,005 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    I've watched the proms (especially the last night) for as long as I can remember. My dad is an opera fanatic so I suppose I had no choice really.
    Is it wrong for me as an Irish woman to watch and enjoy such British pomp?

    I watch it, I've given material and more support to the IRA in the 80s and 90s.

    Sure let them enjoy the occasion, it's their's.

    Nothing wrong with being who you are. I don't want to stop them being them, long as they let others be.


  • #16
    moonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭moonage


    There's nothing wrong with praising England's green and pleasant land.


  • #17
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    I'll even admit to knowing the words and singing along with the last few songs. Never God Save the Queen though.

    Sing along with this song.

    https://youtu.be/VKj7FLg3WVA


  • #18
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    Is it wrong for me as an Irish woman to watch and enjoy such British pomp?

    Just the pomp or did you enjoy the circumstance too?


  • #19
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There used to be a fella who brought a big Irish tricolour to it - is he still doing it?


  • #20
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,439 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    I just realised how republican I must be when I don't know what proms are.

    To thine own self be true



  • #21
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,307 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I just realised how republican I must be when I don't know what proms are.

    I had no idea about it till flicking through the channels, I came upon it.
    Watched it for all of 10 seconds


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  • #22
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    There’s a bit of a ‘bang’ of nostalgia for Great Britain and the empire off it, but the music itself is extremely enjoyable for anyone who isn’t a complete philistine.


  • #23
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    There used to be a fella who brought a big Irish tricolour to it - is he still doing it?

    Neil Horan? No idea what happened to him after Britain's Got Talent...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #24
    somesoldiers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,844 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Neil Horan? No idea what happened to him after Britain's Got Talent...

    One Direction..


  • #25
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Danzy wrote: »
    I watch it, I've given material and more support to the IRA in the 80s and 90s.

    Sure let them enjoy the occasion, it's their's.

    Nothing wrong with being who you are. I don't want to stop them being them, long as they let others be.

    Thank you Col Ghaddafi!!

    As long as the op doesn't start doing that stupid bending the knees up and down to the music then its all right by me lol


  • #26
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    somesoldiers wrote: »
    One Direction..

    Back-street boys?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #27
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    From the news it seemed as though it got tediously political?

    Shame that.


  • #28
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,849 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Not at all. I am I am Irish born and bread but have watched many a British show, film and station as I am sure most of us have. That does not make me any less Irish just open minded.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #29
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    AMKC wrote: »
    Not at all. I am I am Irish born and bread but have watched many a British show, film and station as I am sure most of us have. That does not make me any less Irish just open minded.

    Irish Pride, or are you one of the Brennan's?
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  • #30
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    AMKC wrote: »
    Not at all. I am I am Irish born and bread but have watched many a British show, film and station as I am sure most of us have. That does not make me any less Irish just open minded.


    :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    Marhay70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    I always thought Pomp and Circumstance was a great tune, regardless of the lyrics.


  • #32
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    AMKC wrote: »
    Not at all. I am I am Irish born and bread but have watched many a British show, film and station as I am sure most of us have. That does not make me any less Irish just open minded.

    Uppercrust Irish?


  • #33
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Neil Horan? No idea what happened to him after Britain's Got Talent...

    No I don't think it was that mad bastard. I'll do a bit of googling and see what comes back.

    Edit 1: Old boards.ie thread here about it.

    Edit 2: You can see one at the most recent event:

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