What's the strangest or most remote place you've met an Irish person?

razorblunt · 26-01-2017 06:19PM

lovable snowman wrote: »

Maybe I can explain why some Irish people do this. I've been living in America for almost 15 years and my wife is American. Anytime we meet an Irish person and they hear my wife's accent they immediately start rambling on about politics. We visited Ireland last year and when we got in the taxi at the airport the first question the taximan asked was "do you support Donald Trump? America has gone insane!" blah blah blah.

No other nationality does this but every Paddy has an opinion and you can bet that they'll let you know. Nowadays I try to hide my accent if I run into another Irishman. I don't want another tedious lecture about his personal political views.

You can't.

Winterlong · 26-01-2017 06:23PM

I was in beijing in the mid 90s. There were not many westerners there - to the extent that I got stopped by locals looking to take a picture of me.
So I am in the forbidden city wandering around and there is some fella with an 'opel' ireland top.
I nodded and wandered on.

dwayneshintzy · 26-01-2017 06:42PM

Winterlong wrote: »

I was in beijing in the mid 90s. There were not many westerners there - to the extent that I got stopped by locals looking to take a picture of me.

This will still happen, often.

robman60 · 26-01-2017 06:53PM

Walking through Kata Tjuta National Park deep in the Australian Outback late last September.

As I near the end of a 2-3 hour hike, I spot a Mayo Jersey coming towards me. I stopped and talked as I couldn't believe I met a fellow Mayo man in such a place. He was from Castlebar, and thought he must be near the end after about half an hour, I gently let him down that he had another couple of hours in store in the now searing heat.

I told him I was heading onto Darwin and he told me that was where he lived and worked. Sure enough I met him again in the only Irish bar in Darwin as Mayo went on to lose another All Ireland replay at approximately 4am local time.

SeaFields · 26-01-2017 07:26PM

Was on a safari tour in Kenya and one evening went to a small bar for a local beer. A lad came in the door in a Kilkenny Jersey and sat down next to me. Had a bit of craic about "you can't go anywhere" etc.

As an aside on the same trip was stopped at traffic lights in Nairobi and there were lads selling newspapers to the cars in traffic. Guy that taps the window of our Jeep is wearing a Down jersey.

bodhrandude · 26-01-2017 08:27PM

In a Gulag in South Russia in 1986.

somefeen · 26-01-2017 09:34PM

I was in Sicily a while back. Not that remote or anything it was just the circumstance.

The mafia is still very active there especially around inner Palermo where I was hanging around. I dunno if its bull**** or not but I was told that you could actually tell the mafioso's around the place because they were the lads sitting having coffee in the middle of the night on a cordoned off bit of the street with no shops or **** all around the place.
It was bizzare but I was walking past them on a nightly basis for about a week through a fairly grimey part of the city (even by Palermo standards)

One night I seen this lad, big Irish head on him, saunter into their little enclave, and with a general Irish country accent inquire; "How's the form?"
One of the Sicilian lads looks up, and in a thick accent playfully goes; "Well-a Sean-a?"

Your man sits down and starts chatting away in what I presume was perfect Sicilian.

amtc · 27-01-2017 09:46AM

I worked with a girl who was fed up of her job and managed to get signed off sick for a month. During this time she went to Australia and was walking across the Great Barrier Reef ....when she met her boss who was there on holiday. As far as I know they still work in the same place

What's the strangest or most remote place you've met an Irish person?

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