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Do you care that your Irish?

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  • #32
    gariceimo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭gariceimo


    i enjoy being Irish, but i don't advertise it, well i do have an Irish Flag tattoo on my forehead. But besides that....


  • #33
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Anyone who plays up to the american stereotype of the Irish, leprechauns and that shi!te, needs a slap.



    Im glad that I was born here and am Irish.


  • #34
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I just care that (at least) I'm not English, and I thank God every day for it!










    *puts on helmet*
    :D


  • #35
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    I'm always proud of my culture and heritage. I think its very important and its something I'll pass on to my kids.


  • #36
    Rockery Woman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Rockery Woman


    Im Irish. I always liked being Irish.

    I doubt the greater universe cares whether Im Irish or not. I have friends from other countries and I dont judge anyone by their country of origin, rather whether they are a decent soul or not.

    I havent been abroad for 4 years, maybe the Irish arent as popular in "mainland Europe" nowadays - I know one girl who got hostile treatment while staying in Brussels last year because she's Irish:mad:.

    I love my country. I dont love what has happened to my country over the past 12 months though....


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  • #37
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    veryangryman wrote: »

    Pro Accent works with the foreign ladies...god bless em ;)
    Con Dignity is hugely diminished

    I'm a Northsider with a D4 accent, I don't gain much respect at all.


  • #38
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    Rockery Woman wrote: »
    Im Irish. I always liked being Irish.

    I doubt the greater universe cares whether Im Irish or not. I have friends from other countries and I dont judge anyone by their country of origin, rather whether they are a decent soul or not.

    I havent been abroad for 4 years, maybe the Irish arent as popular in "mainland Europe" nowadays - I know one girl who got hostile treatment while staying in Brussels last year because she's Irish:mad:.

    I love my country. I dont love what has happened to my country over the past 12 months though....
    What happened her.


  • #39
    namelessguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭namelessguy


    Proud to be Irish? Genetically, culturally or nationally? Either way it's a bit pointless isn't it. I was born with fingers, that doesn't neccessarily make me proud. Neither does being Irish. It just is.


  • #40
    Rockery Woman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Rockery Woman


    Hi Scientific1982!

    Well she got hostile treatment in bars and restaurants, some even turned on her about Irelands economy. Basically the natives were rude to her - seemingly because she's Irish.

    Im only going by what I was told at the time, but I know she will never travel to Brussels again.


  • #41
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Mousey- wrote: »

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjLBXlieI0




    If the UK built a massive new modern airport and wanted to advertise it by showing off some national pride how would it compare to this video?


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  • #42
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I do care about it. I love living here, I love Irish people and, to be honest, I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather have grown up in. I do have a lot of love for Ireland, simply because I grew up here and my family and friends are all from here. That's not to say I don't love travelling too and I love lots of other places in the world, however, I do think I'll end up back in Ireland again at the end of my life. It does mean a lot of to me to be Irish. It's an identity thing. I love the culture and the history and all that. There's all that 'oh, I'm a human being, it's an accident of birth that I'm Irish', but, as far as I'm concerned, it's a very happy accident indeed.


  • #43
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Rockery Woman wrote: »
    Hi Scientific1982!

    Well she got hostile treatment in bars and restaurants, some even turned on her about Irelands economy. Basically the natives were rude to her - seemingly because she's Irish.

    Im only going by what I was told at the time, but I know she will never travel to Brussels again.

    This is what gets me questioning defining yourself by a nationality.

    It creates division like the above case. Belgian person defines an Irish person by generalities and Irish person defines Brussels by one bad experience in a boozer there.

    Makes no sense, either way.

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  • #44
    Schapiro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Schapiro


    I like our island, and weather..and music..and language, and culture in general I suppose. We've a rich history and I think we're a grand lot overall.

    Can't say that I wake up every morning and say to myself "Another Irish morning! My life is fantastic because I'm Irish! Today will be a good day because I'm Irish!" though. I'm afraid it doesn't quite work that way.

    Anyway, would rather be able to say I'm Irish than a lot of other things.


  • #45
    bobsoice23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭bobsoice23


    Im only going by what I was told at the time, but I know she will never travel to Brussels again.[/QUOTE]
    Lol never going back to Brussels is a bit extreme.She got a slagging about her country's economy..that's too funny.Oh Im an atheist by the way and I love Ireland..I even cried when we lost to spain in penos in 2002 and had a mighty battle holding them back when keano went home:D


  • #46
    thecool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭thecool


    Yeah I'm very proud and honoured to be Irish and I'm a city dweller I love our culture and language , some people offend me when they're so anti Irish , I'm an atheist/catholic..
    But yeah , we were the country that could and can.

    It's crazy to think that if there was no genocide by the British, that Ireland's population would be 28 million now.
    I'm quiet a nationalistc person but I don't support Sinn Fein.

    There's not really any sort of leaning right political partys in Ireland.
    I'd like if there was a centre-right/right but not far right political party here.

    But yeah I'm proud to be Irish and always will be.

    :D:D:cool:





  • #47
    scorpioishere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭scorpioishere


    I hate being Irish.


  • #48
    thecool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭thecool


    scorpioishere go emigrate :)


  • #49
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    thecool wrote: »
    Yeah I'm very proud and honoured to be Irish and I'm a city dweller I love our culture and language , some people offend me when they're so anti Irish
    Can you speak the language fluently? Do you know the history of this nation and no not just 1916?
    I'm an atheist/catholic..
    That's a very Irish way to look at things :D
    But yeah , we were the country that could and can.
    I disagree. We were the country that could and largely didnt. Irish people have, but usually do so by getting as far away from the place as possible. As a nation? Yea I dont really see anything much of note built or done in the last 1000 years that you wouldnt find in any relatively large old town in Europe.
    It's crazy to think that if there was no genocide by the British, that Ireland's population would be 28 million now.
    Yea but of what qualiity. When people were eating grass and dying in their multitudes on the coast and their brains didnt extend to beachcombing you do have to ask yourself. When fishermen sold their nets to buy food, you just give up.
    I'm quiet a nationalistc person
    Would all your fellows be as quiet....

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  • #50
    thecool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭thecool


    That's your opinion.
    And yes to both questions .

    :)


  • #51
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    I only tend to care when i'm away. Its not something i think about day-to-day.


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  • #52
    damienmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭damienmcd


    I'm extremey proud to be Irish. I don't do all the stereotypical stuff when abroad but I do notice that we get much better treatment from foreign people when they realise we are Irish.

    Also, my girlfriend is German and she always says that I should be proud to be Irish as we are probably the most loved country in the world! Apparently we don't know how good we have it compared to living in some other countries.


  • #53
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I think pride is the wrong word to describe your nationality and feelings about it although the feelings are often analogous with pride.

    It's a diffuse, empathetic, comforting set of emotional feelings shared with others that have the same national political, sporting, historical/cultural mores as you and it's a very strong and positive feeling.

    The problem with it is the flag-waving, superiority and belittling/suppression of your own people's views (cf: "begrudgery" re: "our people" or democratic criticism of militaristic republicanism) based on your national background.


  • #54
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    If the UK built a massive new modern airport and wanted to advertise it by showing off some national pride how would it compare to this video?

    The UK is a lot bigger and older nation that Ireland and that is one of the reasons that it has had so much influence in the world stage.

    The vast majority of countries when contrasted to the UK in that regard would not compare.

    Just because Ireland's achievements (for better or worse) do not carry as much weight internationally as possibly the most influential Nation in the World in a historical sense, then that is nothing to be ashamed of.

    For a small country, with a small population that has had many obstacles and hardships to contend with throughout history I think Ireland has a lot to be proud of.


  • #55
    rusty_racer94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭rusty_racer94


    I'm not Irish and kind of happy with it, My home country needs no insurance to drive and no such thing as a provisional licence. You can drive a Dodge Viper 8.3 from day one.


  • #56
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Rockery Woman wrote: »
    Hi Scientific1982!

    Well she got hostile treatment in bars and restaurants, some even turned on her about Irelands economy. Basically the natives were rude to her - seemingly because she's Irish.

    Im only going by what I was told at the time, but I know she will never travel to Brussels again.

    The Belgians giving her grief???
    Wtf have they ever done? Are they even (in)famous for anything? Now there's a country that's a complete waste of space!

    Btw I'm proud as fook to be Irish, love my country and it's people


  • #57
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    I'm in two minds about this. On one hand, my being Irish isn't that important to me. And I can quote the Young Covey in "The Plough and the Stars": "There's no such thing as an Irishman or a German or a Turk. It's all an accidental coming together of mollycewels and atoms."

    On the other hand I'm glad I spent my formative years in Ireland. My parents are both Irish and so were all my grandparents. And I've got the Belfast accent to back me up.

    When I come across groups of schoolkids in London gabbling in their barely intelligible voices, I'm glad I'm not like them.


  • #58
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Thomas828 wrote: »
    mollycewels

    Is she Harry's sister? Heard she was a bit of a bike alright :pac:


  • #59
    Mr Marston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Mr Marston


    kfallon wrote: »
    The Belgians giving her grief???
    Wtf have they ever done? Are they even (in)famous for anything? Now there's a country that's a complete waste of space!
    "Famous for chocolate and paedophilia. And they only made the chocolate to get to the children."


  • #60
    Krusader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    galwayrush wrote: »
    I see myself more as a citizen of the world.

    Try saying that to American customs officers and see how far you get :pac:


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  • #61
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    The thing that saddens me most is the our international reputation has taken a hammer blow. A few short years ago we seemed to have it all, a vibrant economy, great standard of living, a huge percentage of people completing 3rd level courses. For the outsider looking in, we were a model country, a real example of what the EU is supposed to be about.
    Now after all those gains, the old stereotype about the feckless idiotic Irish is being reinforced again. We are once again going to be butt of many a joke.


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