Have you ever experienced prejudice for being Irish?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-07-2016 09:41PM #1

I've traveled a bit and have being treated well for the most part. I was referred to as a mick a few times in New York but is was pretty much in a jokey fashion. The friend who I was visiting who lives there said that blue collar Italians sometimes refer to the Irish as White N1ggers.

The one time I did experience some hostility was in Holyhead Wales. I was drinking at bar in the town with a friend of mine. I noticed some bald headed neanderthal eyeballing us out of the corner of my eye. When we got up to leave he grabbed my arm as I passed him and said "The ferry is that way paddy"

I didn't react I just walked out the door.

Tombi! · 16-07-2016 09:42PM

Once in England I was nearly beaten up as a child for being Irish (granted, the other people were teenagers and more like general chavs than normal people).
And online all the time but I don't really care about that

Crumpets · 16-07-2016 09:45PM

Lived in Germany for a year and everyone seemed to get a bit excited when I mentioned I was Irish. Just based on my experiences, we seem to be fairly liked.

failinis · 16-07-2016 09:45PM

Gotten some rubbish from students at an English Uni but nothing you can't shrug off.

Two Tone · 16-07-2016 09:46PM

One minor bit of "You Irish are a bunch of terrorists" crap from an English guy on holiday one year, to which a bunch of other English people stood up for me. Otherwise the only negativity about Irish people I encounter is from Irish people here on Boards. Can be incredible - particularly from two posters whose usernames contain participles of the verb "to be".

theoldbreed · 16-07-2016 09:47PM

Have travelled fairly extensively and the only place was in a pub in Nottingham. I was ordering and the guy next to me heard my accent and said F**k off back to Ireland Paddy. I'm female, didn't want to get into anything so just ignored it. We didn't stay for too long.

darkpagandeath · 16-07-2016 09:51PM

I have the reverse here, Have a soft Irish accent due to the time lived here but always get asked "Where are you from ? You're not Irish."

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 16-07-2016 09:52PM

I have visited and lived on every continent and never got any negative response to my being Irish. Quite the contrary.

Full Marx · 16-07-2016 09:54PM

Yes, off English scumbags in Brittany of all places. Was in a pub watching football (celtic in champions league) and they started with the paddy, terrorist crap. When the locals copped what was going on it didn't go down well, got thrown out to a chorus of "up the IRA" and go home british soldiers

The english lads werent the brightest in fairness

Full Marx · 16-07-2016 09:55PM

David Shapely Hedgehog wrote: »

I have visited and lived on every continent and never got any negative response to my being Irish. Quite the contrary.

Really? I've heard the penguins in Antarctica are awful cúnts who can't stand us taigs

Slydice · 16-07-2016 09:55PM

My one and only trip to London was for a weekend at a music festival with a cousin.

During one of the breaks, we went and got a couple of beers.

Three lads came over and started calling us Paddys and from the sounds of things.. trying to get a fight going. I dunno, I must have been in great humour cos it all just seemed so stereotypical and I just laughed and laughed the more they did it.

They seemed to be getting more and more upset about that though so we moved along swiftly.

darkpagandeath · 16-07-2016 09:55PM

Full Marx wrote: »

Yes, off English scumbags in Brittany of all places. Was in a pub watching football (celtic in champions league) and they started with the paddy, terrorist crap. When the locals copped what was going on it didn't go down well, got thrown out to a chorus of "up the IRA" and go home british soldiers

The english lads werent the brightest in fairness

Odd that in France. Prob just scumbags.

Your Face · 16-07-2016 09:57PM

Four times.
Once in England
Once on the way to the States
Twice in Ireland.

I didn't shoot any policemen over it though.

r93kaey5p2izun · 16-07-2016 10:00PM

Once in Florida, a few times in England and many times in Belfast. None too serious, just obnoxious ignorant people.

Giacomo McGubbin · 16-07-2016 10:02PM

Experienced it a lot in when I lived in NI and Scotland, but that was more about them being sectarian and anti-Catholic than simply anti-Irish as such.

Ruu · 16-07-2016 10:02PM

A few times in the US but just general ignorance and a general what the fuck to the person who asked if I was Catholic or Protestant. When I said Catholic he let out a jubilant whoop and said 'Me too!' and shook his fist in the air. I said in a hushed tone, '..but its not like we're at fistacuffs on a daily basis or anything like that..'.

BBDBB · 16-07-2016 10:03PM

A few times as a kid
Online in the last decade a lot more, mainly from Welsh rugby fans. Sad that this sort of thing still goes on

darkpagandeath · 16-07-2016 10:05PM

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1009/733038-part-four-32-things-paddy-wants-to-know-general-election/

:pac::pac::pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 16-07-2016 10:05PM

Once in the UK from a guy who was from the North, ironically enough. But he was widely regarded to be a bit of a twat.

Squall Leonhart · 16-07-2016 10:06PM

As a waiter in Australia, I had a table call management and ask for another waiter who wasn't Irish. Management refused, said I was perfectly capable and polite. They left.

16-07-2016 10:11PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

As a waiter in Australia, I had a table call management and ask for another waiter who wasn't Irish. Management refused, said I was perfectly capable and polite. They left.

I know the accents are similar but are you sure you are not a dark skinned irish person, and were in fact on a holiday in South Africa?

Ozzie Apartheid...

:P

Starokan · 16-07-2016 10:12PM

Once in North London I got a bit of abuse alright, probably picked the wrong pub to go into I guess, been in the UK a lot over the years and never anything else.

My guess would be the guys I encountered would have abused anyone that day regardless of nationality etc as they were totally off their heads, heard later they absolutely wrecked the pub about two hours later so I was kind of glad i had left by then

andekwarhola · 16-07-2016 10:13PM

Once, when in Scotland for a match, from a bunch of local lads. Usual Fenian something crap but they scuttled off when they realised I was in a group of lads. Don't take offence to your normal Paddy type banter though. You know yourself what bad intent is and isn't.

failinis · 16-07-2016 10:14PM

*received/receiving a lot growing up in N.I but thats more sectarian than anything else and it would be odd with out it in a bizzare way.

listermint · 16-07-2016 10:16PM

Only on boards because there is alot of self hatred and country depreciation on here.

KatW4 · 16-07-2016 10:18PM

Once in London. A drunk homeless man asked me for some change and I told him I didn't have any. He said "**** off back to Ireland!"

darkpagandeath · 16-07-2016 10:18PM

KatW4 wrote: »

Once in London. A drunk homeless man asked me for some change and I told him I didn't have any. He said "**** off back to Ireland!"

Should have gave him a Scottish pound and say try spending that.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-07-2016 10:19PM

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

As a waiter in Australia, I had a table call management and ask for another waiter who wasn't Irish. Management refused, said I was perfectly capable and polite. They left.

I was in Perth for 5 months in 2010 and got a bit of casual guff also. At the time there was a problem with drunken young Irish people out causing trouble, which was true to an extent, I witnessed it myself.

At the time I was there the Western Australian Police made a plea to the GAA clubs in the city to try and get the Irish community in order.