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Perceptions about Ireland that people just assume but aren't true

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  • #252
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    mdudy wrote: »
    That is literally not what I said. Try again.

    it is if you read your earlier reply to me in which you cite northern ireland as an example of ireland being very nationalistic


  • #253
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    mdudy wrote: »
    I wasn't only talking about the Union Jack.

    I'm aware. He was talking about Brits and Americans, to which I pointed him in the direction of Irish (and British) in the North. There are Irish people in the North, I hope you're aware of that, because it seems that you are not.

    It seems that you're unaware of the fact that the Northern Ireland and the Republic are separate countries.


  • #254
    mdudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭mdudy


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    it is if you read your earlier reply to me in which you cite northern ireland as an example of ireland being very nationalistic

    At no point did I ever say it was an accurate picture of nationalism. It was used as an example of Irish(/British) nationalism. You can twist it all you want, but you brought accuracy + picture together, not me.

    What point are you trying to prove here? You misrepresented my position, by altering the terms of reference, by trying to say I said something in '[my] own words', which I did not. Clearly you need to work on your literacy comprehension.
    Rothko wrote: »
    It seems that you're unaware of the fact that the Northern Ireland and the Republic are separate countries.

    Don't worry, West Brits like you make sure people like me never forget :)


  • #255
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    mdudy wrote: »
    What point are you trying to prove here? You misrepresented my position, by altering the terms of reference, by trying to say I said something in '[my] own words', which I did not. Clearly you need to work on your literacy comprehension.

    How ironic


  • #256
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Why would we be ashamed and embarrassed? Prior to the pandemic Ireland had full employment, good wages, a good education system, good standard of living, a multicultural democratic society, what is there to be ashamed and embarrassed about?
    FFG and their ar$e-lickers like you !:eek::eek:


  • #257
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    blinding wrote: »
    FFG and their ar$e-lickers like you !:eek::eek:

    That Irish people are articulate.


  • #258
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    blinding wrote: »
    I suppose we are very ashamed and embarrassed as to what we have done to the Country of Thomas Clarke and James Connolly ! And we are right to be ashamed and embarrassed.

    What have we done to Scotland?


  • #259
    mdudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭mdudy


    Rothko wrote: »
    How ironic

    What is ironic?


  • #260
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    What have we done to Scotland?
    Of course scum like you wish to run down James Connolly and Thomas Clarke.

    If you were around in their time you would have been informing on them ! !:eek:



    Mod

    Banned


  • #261
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    the british education system teaches the nations youth nothing about the wrong s committed by the british state

    The British education system teaches them nothing if the Brexit scandal is anything to go by. Following the referendum the most googled thing was "what is the EU"?


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  • #262
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    blinding wrote: »
    Of course scum like you wish to run down James Connolly and Thomas Clarke.

    If you were around in their time you would have been informing on them ! !:eek:

    I have great admiration for Connolly as a matter of fact. I was merely pointing out that he was in fact Scottish, a fact I would have thought a great republican like you would be aware of.


  • #263
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    Can we really criticise the British education system when at least one of the posters on this thread doesn't know that Northern Ireland is a separate country from the Republic of Ireland?


  • #264
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    CBear1993 wrote: »
    FVP3 is a W.U.M.

    Don’t feed those who crave reactions.

    He didn’t even answer what you had pointed out. Doesn’t suit his narrative.

    Oh, hang on. Two posters don't know that Northern Ireland is distinct from the Republic.

    Hard to believe really, but there it is.


  • #265
    mdudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭mdudy


    FVP3 wrote: »
    Oh, hang on. Two posters don't know that Northern Ireland is distinct from the Republic.

    Hard to believe really, but there it is.

    I'm from the North you t0sser.


  • #266
    CBear1993
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭CBear1993


    FVP3 wrote: »
    Oh, hang on. Two posters don't know that Northern Ireland is distinct from the Republic.

    Hard to believe really, but there it is.

    Enjoy your night of fishing for bites WUM :D:D


  • #267
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mod:


    Cut out the nonsense or cards will follow, if you have an issue with a post, report it.


  • #268
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    I have great admiration for Connolly as a matter of fact. I was merely pointing out that he was in fact Scottish, a fact I would have thought a great republican like you would be aware of.
    He was a better Irishman than all but a Very Few !


  • #269
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    blinding wrote: »
    He was a better Irishman than all but a Very Few !

    He was Scottish though


  • #270
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    He was Scottish though
    Do you think that James Connolly consider himself “ Not an Irishman “ ?


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  • #271
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    blinding wrote: »
    Do you think that James Connolly consider himself “ Not an Irishman “ ?

    33 million Americans consider themselves Irish. Does it make them Irish?


  • #272
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    blinding wrote: »
    Do you think that James Connolly consider himself “ Not an Irishman “ ?

    He was born in Cowgate, Edinburgh, Scotland and lived there for 14/15 years. He was Scottish.

    Are all the Liverpool and Utd fans who call themselves Scouse and Mancs British?


  • #273
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    James Connolly was a Better Irishman than all but a Very Few !

    Ireland has always had its traitors , spys and informers.

    I’d take James Connolly as an Irishman above any of ye lot any day !


  • #274
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    blinding wrote: »
    James Connolly was a Better Irishman than all but a Very Few !

    Ireland has always had its traitors , spys and informers.

    I’d take James Connolly as an Irishman above any of ye lot any day !

    I’d take him as a Scotsman above you any day, but that’s just me. Is there any truth he played for Rangers under 6s?


  • #275
    TragicJohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭TragicJohnson


    blinding wrote: »
    James Connolly was a Better Irishman than all but a Very Few !

    Ireland has always had its traitors , spys and informers.

    I’d take James Connolly as an Irishman above any of ye lot any day !

    Take it easy on the hydroxychloroquine.


  • #276
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    That the Irish are mad for fighting. Apart from a certain ethnic group largely not true.


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  • #277
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    That the Irish are mad for fighting. Apart from a certain ethnic group largely not true.
    Probably true about 60 , 70 years ago. They would have no trouble putting young lads fighting to toughen them up a bit in those days. This was before television.

    50 years ago their would be fights outside dance halls and the like. I suppose bits and pieces of that still go on !


  • #278
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Dav010 wrote: »
    33 million Americans consider themselves Irish. Does it make them Irish?

    He was born to Irish parents, he most certainly considered himself Irish.


  • #279
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    He was born to Irish parents, he most certainly considered himself Irish.
    He would get an Irish Passport no Problem Today.

    He was more Irish than the Traitors , Spies and Informers ! !


  • #280
    kravmaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    1 sheep2 wrote: »
    You have an interesting approach to punctuation.

    The English I have met have been very fond of the Irish. Our 'accent' has been voted the most attractive in the British Isles. Perhaps there's another reason they haven't warmed to you.

    Rubbish


  • #281
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    blinding wrote: »
    Probably true about 60 , 70 years ago. They would have no trouble putting young lads fighting to toughen them up a bit in those days. This was before television.

    50 years ago their would be fights outside dance halls and the like. I suppose bits and pieces of that still go on !

    Faction fights were a thing 150 or so years ago.
    Fill the head of a blackthorn stick with lead for extra skull smashing capability.

    Men, women, everyone getting stuck in after a wedding, fair or funeral. It sounds kind of familiar.


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  • #282
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    That the Irish are mad for fighting. Apart from a certain ethnic group largely not true.

    not remember the troubles?? went on for 25 yrs:cool:


  • #283
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Positive one. That Ireland is this homely agricultural society with rolling green fields and zero crime. Very prevalent on the continent.


  • #284
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    fryup wrote: »
    not remember the troubles?? went on for 25 yrs:cool:

    Northern Ireland is not the ROI. Different country, remember?


  • #285
    Figel Narage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Figel Narage


    completedit wrote: »
    Positive one. That Ireland is this homely agricultural society with rolling green fields and zero crime. Very prevalent on the continent.

    Yeah I've heard that one a lot. If they even know Ireland exists, they think of the above and wonder if we have wifi haha


  • #286
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    fryup wrote: »
    not remember the troubles?? went on for 25 yrs:cool:
    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Northern Ireland is not the ROI. Different country, remember?

    well its still Ireland,

    and the title of the thread says...Perceptions about Ireland it doesn't differentiate


  • #287
    1 sheep2
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭1 sheep2


    kravmaga wrote: »
    The English I have met have been very fond of the Irish. Our 'accent' has been voted the most attractive in the British Isles. Perhaps there's another reason they haven't warmed to you.
    Rubbish

    According to this person, my experience is rubbish. But could it be that the English don't warm to his Anglophobia?!


  • #288
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    In fairness we have relatively low levels of crime. We're just very good at putting ourselves down.


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