Irish people and English people

You are very interested in this Ireland/England thing, didn't you have a thread before on differences between living in Ireland and England?

Imo being in contact with lots of English people face to face, I can see very little difference between us if anything from my own experiences the English are possibly more polite in general particularly in London but that is only my own experience.

I'm shocked by the OP. Didn't you see how well the North mixed.

This is an interesting topic I think OP.
I would equate the English 'national character'
or cultural one with ESTJ (using the MBTI system),
while the Irish one is more INFP or INFJ. Definitely
opposing on sensing/thinking and intuition/feeling
anyway. America registers as ESTP for me.

/0.02

I'm hugely confused Ted.

I think we are similar enough in general terms, except that English people are more polite and reserved, wittier and have a greater sense of fair play. At least those that were reared in ye olde England or in urban areas away from the underclass. There is a reason why in Ireland we like the English but dislike the British. Subtle but profound difference.

I like the English psyche myself, maybe more than our own (a certain young Lady probably has me perceive things through rose tinted specs). One area where I see a real difference, is that over here we like to break or bend rules (too lax) where as in the UK, they are more rigid, less flexible, to much by the book.

Huh?

Nothing a tussle with google wouldn't
solve I'm sure. :pac:

irish tend to be a little bit more perochial, but other that, i dont really see any great differences that are not explained by localisation.

its easy to say there are vast differences between english and irish, but then again, there are vast differences between dubs and kerry people.

i think if you look at it from a higher view, youll find that general attitudes, social acceptances and overall cultures have tended to come closer together over the last 50 years.

To a china man we are all the same.

There are local differences among people, but if you look at the vast differences between some of the different cltures all over the world, ourselves and the Queens subjects are essentially the same.

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I would agree that there is very few differences between us and our pond sharing neighbours. I've enjoyed myself every time I've been over there. Nice folks, the English.




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Good to hear, I'm a Welsh man living in Ireland and always enjoy myself on trips to the uk...

I am moving to England soon. As a Northerner I have never felt at home here. England has always seemed much more sensible and straight-forward to me.

We didn't have RTE growing up so as a Northerner, I think I share much more with the English than those in the Republic possibly due to media influence.

In terms of history taught in schools, I think there appears to be a massive anti-British indoctrination process and a re-writing of history. I have a friend, who acknowledges that the history books say that there was no popular support for 1916 and says instead there was indifference!

People are much more conservative here but I think that it is because the people currently in power, in politics and industry etc, were developed in what amounted to a puppet state of the Catholic church. The younger generations will not have that hanging over their head and as a result I think future generations in Ireland will be much more similar to their English counterparts.

But I suppose, given globalisation, mass communication and corporatism; they will be more similar to the Americans, Australians and other nations with the same mother tongue.