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Are there any universally loved Irish people

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    John Hume (with the exception of that stupid c*** Eoghan Harris).

    Mentioned him. What an inspirational person. Forgot he was voted most loved irish person 10 years ago. Biggest compliment was from a Provo who wanted to shoot him and ended up holding him in esteem. For someone to have that effect on someone who has lived and breathed armed conflict all his life shows the amazing man he was

    https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/john-hume-when-i-was-jail-my-ira-comrades-said-we-should-shoot-him-now-i-admire-man-2932314

    His life in pictures is amazing

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/john-hume-1937-2020-in-pictures-1.4320601


  • Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭paddythere


    The Irish Patriot, John Waters


  • Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Character Building


    John Sheahan. Musician, poet, gentleman and all around national treasure.

    I couldn't imagine anyone could speak ill of him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    John Sheahan. Musician, poet, gentleman and all around national treasure.

    I couldn't imagine anyone could speak ill of him.

    Absolutely amazing man. All the Dubliners were and the Clancy Brothers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Outspan from de commitments.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 39 Plode


    Mister Tayto


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭bobbyy gee


    do they have to.be alive


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    Larry Mullen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Colm Meaney.

    I don't know, seems to be quite affected in recent years, the accent isn't what it was etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    John Sheahan. Musician, poet, gentleman and all around national treasure.

    I couldn't imagine anyone could speak ill of him.

    Agreed, and he's been mentioned earlier. I'm fairly sure he's Sheehan though, and in the context of this thread I think it's worth mentioning.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭hurleronditch


    Me! :)

    I don't know the woman but for some unknown reason or maybe no reason at all she irritates the hell out of me.

    I have nothing against her at all personally, her music isn’t to my taste but she clearly has a great voice but I used to be so irritated by her as she had a period around 5/6 years ago where you couldn’t turn on RTÉ for a few years and she wasn’t being rammed down your throat. Imelda May does fake Jools Holland, Imelda May’s New Years show, The Late Late featuring Imelda May (agaaaaain), Imelda May presents the Sunday Game...

    RTÉ go through these phases, it feels like Nathan Carter was after Imelda, they’ve migrated to his brother now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,370 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Arthur Guinness

    Terry Wogan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭guitarhappy


    Second that on Dubliners, Clancy Brothers, Imelda May and John Sheehan.

    Has anyone mentioned Paddy Moloney, the late Derek Bell, and any/all of the Chieftains?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭screamer


    Universally loved????? They’re not even universally liked. No one is, Irish or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Shane McGowan. Ireland’s best ever ballad writer and many consider one of our best poets. He epitomises everything which is great and bad about genius. A perfectionist whose songs are amazing. How in almighty god is he still alive and I know it can get uncomfortable with how his alcohol abuse has consumed him but you can still see the twinkle.

    His 60th birthday with its performers and audience including our president showed how loved he is but would be unfair to use him singing.

    But to me, even though others sang it more melodically, the fact he wrote the song below, understood it and lived it makes him one of my heroes.

    And another legend of a Tipperary man.

    https://youtu.be/R-3CxYV3BqY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    screamer wrote: »
    Universally loved????? They’re not even universally liked. No one is, Irish or not.

    Bet your fun at parties. Next you will be telling us he didn’t get out of the cockadoodie car!

    https://youtu.be/IxFa0w8n8iY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,776 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Well George clooney does coffee ads and Brad Pitt does whiskey ads in Japan. But more than likely was a follow on from his Brexit rebuke and also he quite openly lambasted the British press about their treatment of Martin McGuinness. He strikes me as loving any opportunity to stick it to them.

    Here's where Clooney's coffee money goes

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-clooney-nespresso-spy-sattelite_n_3681937


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara



    And that’s where his Paddy Power Money goes and the reason he was in Star Trek. set up a satellite to spy on he Brits. But keep it hush.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,040 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Relieved not a mention of the odious Bob Geldof, surprised no mention of Sinead O Connor

    Can I nominate myself?

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    joeguevara wrote: »
    More of a tongue in cheek but if he steps forward on the world stage and says he considers himself Irish, whose going to turn down Jack.

    Also, surely everyone in this video is universally loved. Well everyone loves Tipp.

    Martin Sheen and Ronald Reagan.

    Remember my parents bringing me to ballyporeen to meet Ronald when I was about 5

    Yanks are not Irish. Including JFK.
    Born in yankland, to yank or naturalised yank parents, live their lives there too.
    Martin Sheen is a stage name, he's actually Ramón Gerard Antonio Martínez.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭karlitob


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Is there a list of acceptable accents before we look at achievements such as Olympic gold medal and undisputed champion of the world holding all belts, never done by anyone. And even though I hate religion, I never formed an opinion based on someone having a personal faith.

    Must be nice to be holier than thou.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Brenda Fricker is well liked I would say. Saoirse Ronan. And that is hard for a lovely looking young one with talent and a madly successful career. And yet I have not heard anyone talk bad about her. John Creedon. Seamus Heaney. Seamus really was a king among people. Tom Crean also mentioned before, he was first to my mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭karlitob


    .anon. wrote: »
    She's a woman though, so you can be guaranteed there'll be lads on Boards who don't like her.

    I’d say you’re a hoot at parties. Must be hard to be self-righteous all the time.

    Note to self: according to this plank, all men must like all women all the time or else they’re ..... sure let’s go with misogynists, as it sounds stupidly unreasonable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,725 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Are there any Irish people who are loved by everybody, or practically everybody anyway?
    The only 1 I can think of to even come close to it is Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh.
    Any others?
    What do you take "universally" to mean? To me, in this context, it would mean "worldwide". If that's so, then he certainly doesn't qualify. I doubt there's many outside of Ireland who have ever heard of him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Not a golf fan. What is it apart from being a grumpy pr1ck but considering what he has been to is understandable.

    So much. Allegedly cheating on his wife while she was dying of cancer is one. That was widely reported btw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭karlitob


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Vicky Phelan . Deservedly loved by everyone

    Think again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Yanks are not Irish. Including JFK.
    Born in yankland, to yank or naturalised yank parents.
    Martin Sheen is a stage name, he's actually Martínez.

    Does the concept of tongue in cheek register with you bud.

    You do know that this is not an encyclopaedia of untarnished Irish bloodline which will be used to restart humanity on Mars.

    And as for Martin Sheen. His Uncle from Tipperary fought in the War of Independence. In my book that makes him Irish. Did you fight in it? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hollywood-actor-martin-sheen-enormously-proud-of-uncles-ira-past-26817956.html

    And again as I said to the other archbishop of rules of a random thread, did you get mad when he got out of the cockadoodie car

    https://youtu.be/IxFa0w8n8iY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Does the concept of tongue in cheek register with you bud.

    You do know that this is not an encyclopaedia of untarnished Irish bloodline which will be used to restart humanity on Mars.

    And as for Martin Sheen. His Uncle from Tipperary fought in the War of Independence. In my book that makes him Irish. Did you fight in it? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hollywood-actor-martin-sheen-enormously-proud-of-uncles-ira-past-26817956.html

    And again as I said to the other archbishop of rules of a random thread, did you get mad when he got out of the cockadoodie car

    https://youtu.be/IxFa0w8n8iY

    Whatever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭SchrodingersCat


    .anon. wrote: »
    In the early '90s, the Sunday Independent used to have a hit piece on him every week. Really vicious stuff. A lot of those columnists haven't gone away either.

    The IRA shot at his house and tried to burn it down with him and his family in it, so I guess they weren't big fans of his either.

    The loyalists weren't smitten by him and his party either. They kidnapped his mate and secretary, brought them to a quarry and tortured and killed them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Does the concept of tongue in cheek register with you bud.

    You do know that this is not an encyclopaedia of untarnished Irish bloodline which will be used to restart humanity on Mars.

    And as for Martin Sheen. His Uncle from Tipperary fought in the War of Independence. In my book that makes him Irish. Did you fight in it? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hollywood-actor-martin-sheen-enormously-proud-of-uncles-ira-past-26817956.html

    And again as I said to the other archbishop of rules of a random thread, did you get mad when he got out of the cockadoodie car

    https://youtu.be/IxFa0w8n8iY

    luckily no one gives a s**t about your book, or your YouTube library


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Does the concept of tongue in cheek register with you bud.

    You do know that this is not an encyclopaedia of untarnished Irish bloodline which will be used to restart humanity on Mars.

    And as for Martin Sheen. His Uncle from Tipperary fought in the War of Independence. In my book that makes him Irish. Did you fight in it? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hollywood-actor-martin-sheen-enormously-proud-of-uncles-ira-past-26817956.html

    And again as I said to the other archbishop of rules of a random thread, did you get mad when he got out of the cockadoodie car

    https://youtu.be/IxFa0w8n8iY

    Martin Sheen the actor?
    The same Martin Sheen whose real name is Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez.

    I don't think he is from Ireland lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    So much. Allegedly cheating on his wife while she was dying of cancer is one. That was widely reported btw

    Widely reported. Can you show me one report? I love that word allegedly and then widely reported. It’s very strange that Heathers family never once had a bad word to say about him and how much he adored her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Martin Sheen the actor?
    The same Martin Sheen whose real name is Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez.

    I don't think he is from Ireland lol

    Well you would be wrong so bud.

    And here you go

    https://youtu.be/oAMIEM7pHc0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Martin Sheen the actor?
    The same Martin Sheen whose real name is Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez.

    I don't think he is from Ireland lol

    He's as Irish as Barak O'Bama.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    kowloonkev wrote: »
    luckily no one gives a s**t about your book, or your YouTube library

    Your ma does.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    He's as Irish as Barak O'Bama.

    Yawn

    https://youtu.be/oAMIEM7pHc0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    No.
    No human being is universally loved.
    What are we gods?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Well you would be wrong so bud.

    And here you go

    https://youtu.be/oAMIEM7pHc0

    Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez. That's his name

    Born: August 1940 Dayton, Ohio , USA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    joeguevara wrote: »

    Go to sleep, I'm not interested in any of your linky dinks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    No.
    No human being is universally loved.
    What are we gods?

    Paul Mc Grath was a God.

    Thought you said those heroes in the amazing hippy commune should be universally loved akin to John Hume in Fre Derry. Or was I mistaken.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭daheff


    Ray Houghton.....2 of the most important goals in Irish football



    Sharon Ni Bheolain/Anne Doyle??

    Johnny Logan

    Yer man who wrote the book of Kells


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Paul Mc Grath was a God.

    Thought you said those heroes in the amazing hippy commune should be universally loved akin to John Hume in Fre Derry. Or was I mistaken.
    I have no idea what you are on about.

    John Hume is loved by me. But i am not naive enough to think he was beloved by everyone. There were attempts on his life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez. That's his name

    Born: August 1940 Dayton, Ohio , USA

    His mother was called Mary Ann Phelan who married Francisco Estevez and had a kid. Like this is all well documented


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    joeguevara wrote: »
    His mother was called Mary Ann Phelan who married Francisco Estevez and had a kid. Like this is all well documented

    I see. And can you tell me where he was born?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Damien Duff

    Brian Kerr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I don't get why Americans are obsessed with their irishness ...maybe a lack of sense of belonging and rejection by their community or lack of community and they are searching for it 'far away'

    They idolize ireland in a strange way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I see. And can you tell me where he was born?
    He's half irish would you stop...he's also half spanish ..and was raised in the US making him also an american.

    Yes 99% of Irish americans are not irish. If your parent ..maybe even a grandparent is /was irish ..i can get it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    I have no idea what you are on about.

    John Hume is loved by me. But i am not naive enough to think he was beloved by everyone. There were attempts on his life.

    Don’t tell me you forget The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. You were going on like those amazing people should be universally loved and how they reminded you of the great John Hume.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Don’t tell me you forget The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. You were going on like those amazing people should be universally loved and how they reminded you of the great John Hume.
    They should be. But are they?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    He's half irish would you stop...he's also half spanish ..and was raised in the US making him also an american.

    Yes 99% of Irish americans are not irish. If your parent ..maybe even a grandparent is /was irish ..i can get it.

    Hes American so.


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