Americans living in Ireland

uln · 21-03-2012 12:43AM #1

It came up in conversation with some friends recently that Americans in Ireland live a very quiet existence. Apparently there may be up to 15,000 of them here but we struggled to name more than a handful beyond Des Bishop.

Who are we forgetting about?

galwayrush · 21-03-2012 12:44AM

uln wrote: »

It came up in conversation with some friends recently that Americans in Ireland live a very quiet existence. Apparently there may be up to 15,000 of them here but we struggled to name more than a handful beyond Des Bishop.

Who are we forgetting about?

From your estimation, 14,999 of them...

eth0 · 21-03-2012 12:46AM

They came over here for a bit of peace and quiet. Let them be

Super-Rush · 21-03-2012 12:47AM

Are we supposed to know them all by name or something?

Where To · 21-03-2012 12:51AM

If they're quiet how do you know they are American?

tiredcity · 21-03-2012 12:58AM

We have a few in college. After two years here they've taken enthusiastically to Irish slang and wander round merrily roaring "scarleh on yer ma", asking people if they're knackers and reciting all the Luas line stops as gaeilge, as if they're poetry. They're demented but sweet.

benway · 21-03-2012 12:58AM

Quiet? They come round here stealing our fields and our women...

PseudoFamous · 21-03-2012 01:01AM

There's a man everyone calls "The Yank" who always seems to be in a pub in the town, but I don't think he's ever actually been to America.

the scrote · 21-03-2012 01:05AM

your after blowing their cover op,their a sleeper cell here for when the oil starts flowing they'll take over & bring us freedom & democracy. F*ck yeah

cloptrop · 21-03-2012 01:07AM

My mate has about 3 yanks a day , he needs glasses and always has a sore wrist.

mconigol · 21-03-2012 11:01AM

IMF??

sbsquarepants · 21-03-2012 11:06AM

They're in hiding cos they've heard about the new septic tank tax.
Des bishop better cough up, we know about you, ye fúcker!:)

MarkR · 21-03-2012 11:09AM

I'm here. With a job. And an Irish wife. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

mikemac1 · 21-03-2012 11:23AM

They steal our fields :mad:

And they are tax dodgers and run their profits through offshore countries
But since they do it here, they are welcomed. Welcome Yank

minidazzler · 21-03-2012 11:24AM

A Barman in the Bodhran in Cork is American, he's sound. My friends mam is American and he and his sisters all hold passports so that's 6. I know a Psychologist working here who is American. A fair number of staff in American Multi-nationals are Americans living here.

I know dozens of American students from the last 3 years or so.

Birneybau · 21-03-2012 11:36AM

Jedward.

I think...

I Heart Internet · 21-03-2012 11:37AM

Well remember there's quite a sprinkling of Americans in middle/senior management in the various multinationals and financial services companies.

I know a black american guy in the place where I work. I realise african americans are a minority in the USA anyway, but you don't seem to meet all that many working here. Thing is - he's doing a farily bog-standard job, not highly paid at all. I always expect americans in Ireland to be in ****-hot jobs.

mikemac1 · 21-03-2012 11:41AM

Pub on the Aran Islands called the American Bar

You might think some American visited the islands, fell in love with the place and decided to live there and open it

Not realy, it's just called the American Bar to pull in the Yanks and their tourist money.

No romance, just money

mawk · 21-03-2012 12:36PM

if we are looking for quiet americans we should probably check where brendan fraser is

Killer Wench · 21-03-2012 12:55PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Well remember there's quite a sprinkling of Americans in middle/senior management in the various multinationals and financial services companies.

I know a black american guy in the place where I work. I realise african americans are a minority in the USA anyway, but you don't seem to meet all that many working here. Thing is - he's doing a farily bog-standard job, not highly paid at all. I always expect americans in Ireland to be in ****-hot jobs.

I'm Black American and I lived in Ireland. I was a student at TCD and there was another Black American in my course. Funny thing is, most Irish thought we were African, but the Africans pointed us out and said that we weren't anything like them.

Orando Broom · 21-03-2012 12:58PM

My wife is an American. BOO YAH!

Deus Ex Machina · 21-03-2012 12:59PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

No romance, just money

The great unfortunate truth of life.

cloptrop · 21-03-2012 01:00PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

I'm Black American and I lived in Ireland. I was a student at TCD and there was another Black American in my course. Funny thing is, most Irish thought we were African, but the Africans pointed us out and said that we weren't anything like them.

Bloody racist africans , pay no attention dude , you are like everyone and just as equal.

The King of Moo · 21-03-2012 01:01PM

I always see lots round Galway, particularly round college, and in particular during the summer when they come to study. There was a Californian guy in my class when I did my masters here.

Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the new Star Trek and was Sylar in Heroes, studied in Galway a few years back and worked in Java, a coffee shop in the city centre.

Bon Iver, singer-songwriter, also lived here a few years back (not sure if he was studying) and worked in a Vodafone shop in the Eyre Square Centre.

Killer Wench · 21-03-2012 01:12PM

cloptrop wrote: »

Bloody racist africans , pay no attention dude , you are like everyone and just as equal.

Haha.

It's true though. Black Americans on average are at least 12.5% to 25% European and some have 6.25% to 12.5% American Indian blood. Even in the States, those who are African immigrants distance themselves from Black communities. My ancestors were from western Africa but I am heavily mixed so to them, I just didn't "look" like them. That was what one Nigerian bus driver told me.

housetypeb · 21-03-2012 01:20PM

My kids are American,as was my late wife.

Dyr · 21-03-2012 01:36PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

Haha.

It's true though. Black Americans on average are at least 12.5% to 25% European and some have 6.25% to 12.5% American Indian blood. Even in the States, those who are African immigrants distance themselves from Black communities. My ancestors were from western Africa but I am heavily mixed so to them, I just didn't "look" like them. That was what one Nigerian bus driver told me.

Not to worry yiz all look to same to us honkeys :pac:

And ask that nigerian how many of his family have been killed by wildlife, him getting all uppity, pfft.

grundie · 21-03-2012 02:01PM

My wife is American.

She came to Ireland to work in a specialised healthcare field. She had no family or emotional conenction to Ireland. We met over a crowded dating website, got married, had some children. All is well.

She does feel a little homesick and one day we will probably move to the States, but right now we are settled.

Hazys · 21-03-2012 02:08PM

uln wrote: »

It came up in conversation with some friends recently that Americans in Ireland live a very quiet existence. Apparently there may be up to 15,000 of them here but we struggled to name more than a handful beyond Des Bishop.

Who are we forgetting about?

What do you expect them to be doing? Running up and down the street chanting U-S-A! U-S-A! America No1! while firing their guns into the air or something?

Because you know some are not like that and most would likely fit easily into Irish society unnoticed except for a strange accent.

Paulie Gualtieri · 21-03-2012 02:10PM

MarkR wrote: »

I'm here. With a job. And an Irish wife. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

They took our jobs ???

They took our jobs !!!!!

Vandy West · 21-03-2012 02:16PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Jedward.

I think...

We will take Jedward if you take Michael Flatley by-gore-ah

Americans living in Ireland

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