What has Ireland exported

old hippy · 01-07-2014 02:45PM #1

Besides the diaspora - what are our famous/familiar/well loved exports?

This is in response to this comment "Ireland has exported a few poets I suppose..trying think what else" :rolleyes: on that site I was trying to get new blood in.

TireeTerror · 01-07-2014 02:45PM

Gingers.

solomafioso · 01-07-2014 02:46PM

Maudlin'

elefant · 01-07-2014 02:46PM

Butter

jester77 · 01-07-2014 02:47PM

Do you have Kerrygold in Ireland?

Donkey Oaty · 01-07-2014 02:47PM

Bananas, beef and Botox.

P_1 · 01-07-2014 02:47PM

Butter, beef, porter, medicines and computer chips come to mind

Links234 · 01-07-2014 02:48PM

Tayto

shruikan2553 · 01-07-2014 02:48PM

Babies

Nemeses · 01-07-2014 02:48PM

Computers..(indirectly)

House of Blaze · 01-07-2014 02:49PM

In years gone by.. nail bombs?

Sir Arthur Daley · 01-07-2014 02:49PM

All the youth.

obriendj · 01-07-2014 02:49PM

jester77 wrote: »

Do you have Kerrygold in Ireland?

And the Horse that we sent to France.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Z4crBt-iM

MonkeyTennis · 01-07-2014 02:50PM

Whiskey

TireeTerror · 01-07-2014 02:50PM

Its amazing how much Irish butter gets exported, because its not a patch on Clover or Lurpak!!!

Son Of A Vidic · 01-07-2014 02:51PM

old hippy wrote: »

Besides the diaspora - what are our famous/familiar/well loved exports?

'The Craic', much sought after and loved the world over.

Nodin · 01-07-2014 02:51PM

House of Blaze wrote: »

In years gone by.. nail bombs?

Bombs of all sorts.

Dodgy politicians.

Good cops, bad cops and all kinds of in-between cops.

Firemen.

Soldiers.

Gangsters.

Priests.

Begrudgery.

Stout.

A few songs.

The clatter.

SEPT 23 1989 · 01-07-2014 02:52PM

One of the most successful airlines in the world

Nemeses · 01-07-2014 02:54PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

One of the most successful airlines in the world

Which one?

TeaBagMania · 01-07-2014 02:55PM

Guinness

ancapailldorcha · 01-07-2014 02:55PM

Dell PCs.

NewCorkLad · 01-07-2014 02:57PM

The "Irish Pub"

jester77 · 01-07-2014 02:57PM

Nemeses wrote: »

Which one?

Ryanair, Aer Arann can hardly be considered that succesful

K-9 · 01-07-2014 02:59PM

Viagra, computer chips to watch porn and I think we are big manufacturers of prozac too!

Indigenous wise I suppose Baileys is a big success as is Irish whiskey. Traditionally Scotch is a bigger seller but the Irish whiskey manufacturers are targeting that market big time.

Back in the early days of the state our best export was the Irish sweepstakes. Great example of Irish cute hoorism:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/irish-sweepstake-scandal-remains-a-lesson-to-us-all-26237690.html

Fascinating story that is still remembered to this day, even got mentioned in Breaking Bad.

Famously Poets and writers, infamously Boyzone, Westlife and the Corrs.

--LOS-- · 01-07-2014 03:02PM

Agricultural exports: cattle, beef, dairy

donegal__road · 01-07-2014 03:34PM

Botox.

Westport is botox capital of the world.

ok, its the Mirror, but hey...

PLUG71 · 01-07-2014 03:37PM

Delorean?:rolleyes:

House of Blaze · 01-07-2014 03:42PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMY0ilNUAoE

Bejaysus!

whisky_galore · 01-07-2014 03:47PM

Agricultural machinery and bicycles. Pierce's of Wexford made both and once had offices in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Also cars and tractors (Fords in Cork) and tyres (Dunlop)

If you count the island of Ireland, then ships (Harland & Wolff and Workman Clarke Belfast) and linen. Beleek for crockery.

Donegal for textiles, tweeds etc., Limerick once made military uniforms for both sides of the US civil war and Portlaw, Co Waterford had a cotton mill.

Now, a lot of seafood is exported to france, esp shellfish as we're too picky to eat most of them.

Menas · 01-07-2014 03:49PM

Software, lot of it.
Services.
Airplane leasing - lots of it.

Sleepy · 01-07-2014 03:50PM

Bananas apparently...

What has Ireland exported

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