How Irish are ya?

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 1:12am #1

I stepped out...I stepped in again...I stepped out..I stepped in again..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J3s3F1VXFQ4&list=RDJ3s3F1VXFQ4&start_radio=1

LessOutragePlz · 12-01-2019 1:13am

I'm as Irish as a bag of Tayto

Witchie · 12-01-2019 1:18am

Very. I have an Irish flag on my balcony, wheaten soda bread, Kerrygold butter, a hape of Tayto in the cupboard and my boyfriend walks around singing "Are you right there Michael".

The fact I had to move to Kuala Lumpur and get a Malaysian boyfriend to feel remotely Irish has no bearing on the facts.

Plumbthedepths · 12-01-2019 1:21am

My passport says I'm Irish, who am I to argue.

DubiousV · 12-01-2019 1:21am

Pure true, just like kerrygold

Iseedeadpixels · 12-01-2019 1:23am

Veryyyyyyyyyyy pale and fair haired, so 100% potato man

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 1:32am

The rhythm is good now Julia....

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-01-2019 1:33am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My passport says I'm Irish, who am I to argue.

Mine even has a birthplace in Ireland on it.

MaryBrosnan · 12-01-2019 1:33am

I have had Irish in me.

antodeco · 12-01-2019 1:34am

Sure if you didn't drink Guinness as a baby, what are ya?

Defaulter1831 · 12-01-2019 1:34am

98% according to Ancestry DNA. 2% Scottish.

Hammer89 · 12-01-2019 1:36am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

My passport says I'm Irish, who am I to argue.

Were you arrested in Russia this week?

12-01-2019 1:45am

Lorelli! wrote: »

How Irish are ya?

According to that Ancestry.com DNA test I took a few months ago I was 95% "Ireland and Scotland". The remaining 5% was: Finland/Northwest Russia 1%
Great Britain <1%; Europe South <1%; European Jewish <1%;Polynesia <1%.

Got an email a couple of weeks ago to say that with further matches I'm now 100% "Ireland and Scotland". Curious that they don't distinguish between Ireland and Scotland.

gammygils · 12-01-2019 1:47am

I hate Bacon & Cabbage!

Turnips

Guinness

Trad music

Irish Country & Western shlte!

Westlife & Boyzone

Gaelic Football (Inter county the way it's played now :rolleyes:) Love hurlin' though!

So I'm kinda Irish

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 2:11am

6 long months I spent in dublin.....six long months

I stepped out. ..I stepped in again...

Hit

Boys oh boys this then there was ruptions....

Kevin Finnerty · 12-01-2019 2:14am

I hate Bonio.

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 2:16am

Kevin Finnerty wrote: »

I hate Bonio.

welltodo · 12-01-2019 2:17am

Lorelli! wrote: »

I stepped out...I stepped in again...I stepped out..I stepped in again..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J3s3F1VXFQ4&list=RDJ3s3F1VXFQ4&start_radio=1

You have to go back

Noveight · 12-01-2019 2:18am

I know 2 or 3 Richie Kavanagh songs off by heart.

Where’s my medal?

Plumbthedepths · 12-01-2019 2:18am

Hammer89 wrote:

Were you arrested in Russia this week?

Nah still in Roscommon but they might be the same.

Plumbthedepths · 12-01-2019 2:19am

Kevin Finnerty wrote:

I hate Bonio.

Bonio are doggy treats not surprised you hate them.

StupidLikeAFox · 12-01-2019 2:22am

I hate myself but also think I'm better than everyone else

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 2:27am

Anyhow ..whatever anyones's feelin .....there's whiskey in the jar....:)

Plumbthedepths · 12-01-2019 2:28am

StupidLikeAFox wrote:

I hate myself but also think I'm better than everyone else

You're not just Irish but you have Bono syndrome.

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 2:41am

I stepped in again......

Ipso · 12-01-2019 7:30am

Defaulter1831 wrote: »

98% according to Ancestry DNA. 2% Scottish.

Still 2% is too much. We better hide the Irn Bru and lock up the haggis.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-01-2019 8:51am

I'm one hundred percent Catholic Irish.

Sired by an O'Connor and bore by an O'Neill woman.

The O' Connor family were the last High Kings of this island.

Ruaidre.

JupiterKid · 12-01-2019 9:01am

Belfast born, father from Belfast and mother from Tyrone. Lived in Dublin most of my life. Family surname Scottish in origin.

My sister did one of those DNA ancestry tests - turns out we are 90% Irish/Scottish, 6% Scandinavian and 4% Iberian.

So mainly Irish with a bit of Viking and Spaniard in me...:pac:

BeerWolf · 12-01-2019 9:05am

I'm a mutt, half Irish (Mother) half Indian (Father).

cdeb · 12-01-2019 9:12am

Witchie wrote: »

Very. I have an Irish flag on my balcony, wheaten soda bread, Kerrygold butter, a hape of Tayto in the cupboard and my boyfriend walks around singing "Are you right there Michael".

There's always one little thing trips ye shape-shifting impersonating aliens up...

facehugger99 · 12-01-2019 9:18am

Cut me and I will bleed mashed potatoes.

smurfjed · 12-01-2019 9:23am

British & Irish 98.4% /Broadly Northwestern European 1.6%

That DNA test was a waste of money:)

arybvtcw0eolkf · 12-01-2019 9:43am

I've red hair, freckles and a temper.. I'm probably pretty much 100% Irish.

rafatoni · 12-01-2019 9:46am

Born in damascus but moved here 5 years ago but i am a fuly qualified engineer... so yes. Im irish... even gave me a little piece of paper to tell me that i am..

Graces7 · 12-01-2019 9:59am

I am ENGLISH but two sets of not very far back ancestors are Irish. One is OK ...the other we do not talk about :eek:

The first time I met the ferryman who is now my neighbour and was asking re long term rental here , he was delighted to hear about the good ones and I kept quiet re the others..

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 10:02am

facehugger99 wrote: »

Cut me and I will bleed mashed potatoes.

Im a quarter English afaik but I refuse to wear Reebok classics...

bear1 · 12-01-2019 10:17am

Father Irish and mother is Italian.
Born in London.
Have polish residency.
**** knows I guess

nim1bdeh38l2cw · 12-01-2019 10:54am

JupiterKid wrote: »

Belfast born, father from Belfast and mother from Tyrone. Lived in Dublin most of my life. Family surname Scottish in origin.

My sister did one of those DNA ancestry tests - turns out we are 90% Irish/Scottish, 6% Scandinavian and 4% Iberian.

So mainly Irish with a bit of Viking and Spaniard in me...:pac:

From that, you're mostly a Scottish planter and not much Irish.

Mint Sauce · 12-01-2019 10:59am

Depends on which passport I present at border control.

Poll Dubh · 12-01-2019 11:08am

I’ve got some Spanish sailor in me

JohnnyFlash · 12-01-2019 11:28am

I'm very much Irish, but have never had to bother getting one of those idiotic DNA tests to prove it. A fool and his money and all that.

Anyways, born in the Whest of Ireland, a native Irish speaker, winner of an All Ireland club football medal, played for Gaillimh in Croke Park at underage level, keen fiddle player, passable uilleann pipe player, heavy drinker, occasional fighter, raconteur.

I wear my Irishness lightly though, as I'm comfortable about it. I have started visiting some of those Pop Up Gaeltacht events recently and I must say I'm quite the object of admiring female attention. The events are usually frequented by very serious young men with that terrible, clipped, and contrived South Dublin Gaelscoil Irish. You know the sort: beard, glasses, tweed jacket with leather patches, SF supporter, usually with a Planter surname clumsily translated into Irish. Interminable bores rambling on about history while sipping their pale ales. As a result, most of the ladies who attend are most impressed with meeting a wild-eyed native speaker who speaks the language with such fluidity and joy. Flirting, story telling, and truly enjoying getting to speak the language in our capital city.

Don't want to go into too many details, but the Pop Up Gaeltacht events have done wonders for my sex life. Pulled a glamorous divorcee at one of them before Christmas. It was great to hear her shout, "go suas orm, Johnny. Tuilleadh, tuilleadh!" as we went at it like two randy lunatics.

ChikiChiki · 12-01-2019 11:32am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I'm very much Irish, but have never had to bother getting one of those idiotic DNA tests to prove it. A fool and his money and all that.

Anyways, born in the Whest of Ireland, a native Irish speaker, winner of an All Ireland club football medal, played for Gaillimh in Croke Park at underage level, keen fiddle player, passable uilleann pipe player, heavy drinker, occasional fighter, raconteur.

I wear my Irishness lightly though, as I'm comfortable about it. I have started visiting some of those Pop Up Gaeltacht events recently and I must say I'm quite the object of admiring female attention. The events are usually frequented by very serious young men with that terrible, clipped, and contrived South Dublin Gaelscoil Irish. You know the sort: beard, glasses, tweed jacket with leather patches, SF supporter, usually with a Planter surname clumsily translated into Irish. Interminable bores rambling on about history while sipping their pale ales. As a result, most of the ladies who attend are most impressed with meeting a wild-eyed native speaker who speaks the language with such fluidity and joy. Flirting, story telling, and truly enjoying getting to speak the language in our capital city.

Don't want to go into too many details, but the Pop Up Gaeltacht events have done wonders for my sex life. Pulled a glamorous divorcee at one of them before Christmas. It was great to hear her shout, "go suas orm, Johnny. Tuilleadh, tuilleadh!" as we went at it like two randy lunatics.

Corofin or Caltra? A great achievement winning an all Ireland with the club. Even better than county imo. Fair play to ya.

mr_edge_to_you · 12-01-2019 12:17pm

If we take the Joe.ie approach to being Irish, such as "this video of a man eating a chicken fillet roll is the most Irish thing ever", then I'm very much Irish.

Thespoofer · 12-01-2019 12:18pm

I get knocked down but I get up again, you ain't never gonna keep me down...

Lorelli! · 12-01-2019 12:31pm

Thespoofer wrote: »

I get knocked down but I get up again, you ain't never gonna keep me down...

Other than pissing the night away, that reference couldn't be less Irish if it tried

Bannasidhe · 12-01-2019 12:39pm

Defaulter1831 wrote: »

98% according to Ancestry DNA. 2% Scottish.

I'm waiting to get mine back. According to the old family tree I'm Irish with a hint of Channel Isles but then the auntie got her DNA done and despite Irish surnames traced as far back as the 17th century it turns out she only 2% Irish.
Going by that I could be a grand mixture of a mongrel... which would explain why I hate crisp sambos, am punctual, not a Roman Catholic, never voted for either FF or FG, no interest in the GAAAA, don't like tea, the last place you would find me when abroad is in an Irish bar (apart from the one time in Rome where it was the only place I could watch the 6 Nations)

...or someone got the Auntie's test mixed up and I'm just an oddball...

judeboy101 · 12-01-2019 12:56pm

I'm level 2 Irish, meaning im born in Ireland, to Irish parents who were born in the free state. My kids are level 1 Irish as the are born to parents born in the Irish republic.

Badly Drunk Boy · 12-01-2019 1:39pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'm one hundred percent Catholic Irish.

Sired by an O'Connor and bore by an O'Neill woman.

The O' Connor family were the last High Kings of this island.

Ruaidre.

Yeah, you're right! The O'Connors messed up big-time!!

LOSERS! :pac:

seamusk84 · 12-01-2019 1:40pm

I have my dinner at lunchtime on a Sunday.

Witchie · 12-01-2019 1:43pm

cdeb wrote: »

There's always one little thing trips ye shape-shifting impersonating aliens up...

Not at all. I don't use stupid nonsensical words for objects when they have a real meaningful name.

I also blame my Tyrone mother and spending my formative years in Canada eh.

Samsgirl · 12-01-2019 1:53pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

I stepped out...I stepped in again...I stepped out..I stepped in again..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J3s3F1VXFQ4&list=RDJ3s3F1VXFQ4&start_radio=1

You posting that is beyond freaky. I only had a conversation in work about The Bards on Thursday and yesterday showed that exact link to a work colleague.

How Irish are ya?

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