Fake Irish stuff

whisky_galore

It's that time of year again:

Paddy's Day Parades: US invention.

Pipe bands: British Army invention.

Wearing kilts: a fun one. A 19th century reimagining of Highland dress now thought of in some quarters as Irish. Family Tartans are just as fake.

Irish Wolfhound: 19th century recreation of an extinct breed. A mash up of Great Dane and Scottish Deerhound that will struggle to live to the grand old age of 7.

Irish-Americans calling themselves "Irish".

Classic urban Irish pub: adaption of an English gin palace.

Full Irish: twist on Full English, popularised by the tourist industry.

Aran sweaters: product of a 19th century west of Ireland employment scheme, lots of faux folklore bunk attached to them, eg patterns help in identifying a body recovered from the sea.

Any more?

passatman86

Happy st Patricks day

SouthWesterly

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You must be fun at a party 😝

Redneck Avenger

That we as a culture are welcoming when in fact we are closet racists and privately take part in discrimination.

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121900432#Comment_121900432

Irish people are very friendly - in reality they're just very nosy!

BolloxChop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121900432#Comment_121900432

I have a book for you...

Danzy

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Stopped reading after the first few were readily dismissed, that's because I read history, am interested in it.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121900432#Comment_121900432

Enough about you.

Redneck Avenger

I see some are still in the closet ;)

mulbot

Every country is a little racist

BolloxChop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121901378#Comment_121901378

No no. Only white countries are racists. It's impossible for other countries to be..

ongarite

Denny sausages, fake irish product.

Not one bit of Irish pork in them, comes from Dutch pigs. Won't see any Irish logo or Bord Bia logo on the packaging.

kyote00

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121901378#Comment_121901378

At 5foot 8in , Hitler was surely a little racist.

z80CPU

St Patrick's milk shake from MacDonalds.

Same as vanilla shake, but green dye added and bit of mint.

There.

How long will the milk shake machines last.

Ash.J.Williams

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Irish Americans are more than welcome to call themselves Irish

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121901923#Comment_121901923

No way. Only Irish people can call people Irish who 45 degrees of separation from Ireland.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121901974#Comment_121901974

Wha?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121901983#Comment_121901983

It was a witty rejoinder on how Irish people criticize other people for calling themselves Irish, but have no problem calling other people Irish when it suits; Daniel Day Lewis etc.

Water John

OP, I think it was the 'crois' hand knitted belt that was individual to families on the Aran Islands.

What is fake? Everything borrows from something else. Scotch Wisky derived from Irish Whiskey.

Fr Tod Umptious

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Irish-Americans calling themselves "Irish".

It's just a product of how people identified themselves and distinguished themselves from other immigrants in the second half of the 19th century in America.

When an Irish person arrived in America they learned pretty quickly that no American cared of you were from Galway or Cork or Dublin, you were simply Irish.

And you used this new label to differencate yourself from other immigrant groups like Germans or Polish etc.

So in this day and age Irish Americans see themselves as American first and foremost but they call themselves Irish to distinguish themselves and their heritage from other Americans.

Fr Tod Umptious

I think we should also include the word "craic" in the OPs list.

It's just a Gaelicization of the the north of England word "crack".

Lewis_Benson

Did you know that St. Patrick's traditional color wasn't even green? Historically, the saint wore blue (and he was British, not Irish).

mulbot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121901432#Comment_121901432

Oh yea, forgot that we're told to believe that

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121904313#Comment_121904313

That's why the Northern Ireland soccer team wears blue as it's away colour.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121904088#Comment_121904088

'Crack' rocketed in popularity/usage in Britain after its Gaelicisation.

'Craic' popularised the term 'crack' and brought it worldwide.

So much so that no matter how you spell it, people think it's Irish - including many Brits.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121904082#Comment_121904082

Do they see themselves as American first? Biden calls himself Irish for some reason.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121900432#Comment_121900432

In the past the 'land of a thousand welcomes' had to do with hospitality.

Obviously if you are trying to organise mass migrations of people from all over the globe it is different.

'Welcoming the stranger' never meant relocating 10s of thousands and 100s of thousands of foreign peoples as permanent new residents.

Field east

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Or/and very very curious

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121904313#Comment_121904313

St Patrick's tale (taken from Wales to Ireland as a slave by raiders) is taught in primary school to every school child so how can it be new information to any Irish person?

Field east

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Items ‘Packed in Ireland ‘; ‘Assembled in Ireland’, etc in small print on the package