What you think embodies Ireland

x00065954 · 10-07-2015 11:04AM #1

Hi all,

My girlfriend and I were chatting the other day what you think embodies Ireland from an Irish point of view. Now, we all know the stereotypical and usual associations that will quickly come to peoples mind,, i.e. leprechauns, harps, Irish dancing, Bono (oh dear god) yadda yadda yadda.

But I mean, we are in the 21st century, and we have surely moved on from clichéd point of view of the Irish. Now interestingly enough, what do the Irish think of what best symbolises us in one unique figure/image?

I suppose I'll get the ball rolling and my suggestion to herself was Mr. Tayto. Come on, the man embodies Irishness (is that a word? Im going with it). No where else you can get delicious cheese & onion flavoured crisps or the good aul reliable smoky bacon or salt & vinegar.

What you guys think? What best embodies Ireland from an Irish point of view?

Menas · 10-07-2015 11:07AM

I would much prefer it if every visiting dignitary was taken for a tour of Newgrange rather then the photo op in the Guinness storehouse...help stop that alcohol symbol that many associate with Ireland.

donegal. · 10-07-2015 11:07AM

water.

biko · 10-07-2015 11:12AM

Good thing you posted a pic of Mr Tayto in case I was thinking of the other one

x00065954 · 10-07-2015 11:12AM

Menas wrote: »

I would much prefer it if every visiting dignitary was taken for a tour of Newgrange rather then the photo op in the Guinness storehouse...help stop that alcohol symbol that many associate with Ireland.

Interestingly enough, never been to Newgrange. Must pop down some day...

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-07-2015 11:16AM

Are you one of Mr Taytos hired goons?

Tabnabs · 10-07-2015 11:16AM

x00065954 wrote: »

What you guys think? What best embodies Ireland from an Irish point of view?

Hate to say it... but begrudgery.

Mr.Goodman · 10-07-2015 11:21AM

http://entertainment.ie/images_content/dougal_.jpg

Akrasia · 10-07-2015 11:22AM

Apologising to people who bump into you on the footpath.

Nothing more irish than that.

biko · 10-07-2015 11:22AM

Culchies - knitted jumpers
Jackeens - corduroy blazers

wp_rathead · 10-07-2015 11:24AM

Umbrellas that have been turned inside out by the wind

lakesider · 10-07-2015 11:25AM

How well we take it up the ass from a bunch of gombeen politicians feathering their own nests:mad::mad:..we are famous now for that!

Thundercats Ho · 10-07-2015 11:25AM

Our generosity as a nation.

Reoil · 10-07-2015 11:26AM

Green.

RayCon · 10-07-2015 11:26AM

Nepotism

Reoil · 10-07-2015 11:26AM

(Northern Ireland - flegs).

the evasion_kid · 10-07-2015 11:27AM

Drinking....we're some country for it

fed up sick and tired · 10-07-2015 11:29AM

Akrasia wrote: »

Apologising to people who bump into you on the footpath.

Nothing more irish than that.

A quintessentially British trait actually.

Come to think of it - what better to define the Irish zeitgeist than the passive consumption of popular British cultural norms... mate.

valoren · 10-07-2015 11:29AM

Michael D for me.

Small in stature but Passionate, Articulate and Scholarly.

conorhal · 10-07-2015 11:33AM

What embodies Ireland.

I think Yeats poem September 1913 pretty much encapsulates Ireland, craven, money grubbing and lacking in any kind of pride or self respect.

He did ammend his view post 1916 (in his poem Easter 1916) when he declared 'a terrible beauty is born', but that was just a blip, we squandered our nascient national and cultural self-determination so that we could (as in September 1913) return to 'fumbling in the greasy till and selling ourselves like the cheap whores we are for another shot at a bubble economy.

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csallmighty · 10-07-2015 11:35AM

Whin bushes

Streetwalker · 10-07-2015 11:35AM

I've always thought the tag line "The fighting Irish" was a bit of a joke. When you look at what our supposed betters have hoist upon us the last few years and the way we have taken it lying down I think " The cowardly Irish" would be a more fitting slogan.

the evasion_kid · 10-07-2015 11:57AM

Streetwalker wrote: »

I've always thought the tag line "The fighting Irish" was a bit of a joke. When you look at what our supposed betters have hoist upon us the last few years and the way we have taken it lying down I think " The cowardly Irish" would be a more fitting slogan.

Awful nation of spineless wonders nowadays

doulikeit · 10-07-2015 12:03PM

Alcoholism
Moaning cnuts
Great mammies (for boys anyway)
Giving out about the weather
The weather
Desperate political leaders
The RA
Hang sangwidges
Antisocial behaviour and last but least de bleedin faa chung wans in der pajamasis

Son Of A Vidic · 10-07-2015 01:08PM

x00065954 wrote: »

What you think embodies Ireland

Rain, lots and lots of rain.

JustTheOne · 10-07-2015 01:10PM

lakesider wrote: »

How well we take it up the ass from a bunch of gombeen politicians feathering their own nests:mad::mad:..we are famous now for that!

17th best out of 250 countries for corruption in the world

Whinge whinge whinge.

JustTheOne · 10-07-2015 01:12PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Awful nation of spineless wonders nowadays

Because people know deep down they have it quite handy compared to other countries.

I think moaning is up there. Moaning about how hard done by we are.

lakesider · 10-07-2015 01:13PM

17th best out of 250 countries for corruption in the world

Whinge whinge whinge

Daddy a TD then?:pac:

Joe prim · 10-07-2015 01:13PM

Cheese'n'onion crisps and incest, often contemporaneously.

sbsquarepants · 10-07-2015 01:17PM

This weekend - Conor McGregor:D

JustTheOne · 10-07-2015 01:18PM

lakesider wrote: »

Daddy a TD then?:pac:

Good one.

What you think embodies Ireland

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