In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

no ur not, i would see u

I was in "county roscommon" all week eating the pint of harp

nobody drinks harp=u are not in ireland

where did u even find harp on draught

well it was the metaphorical harp, really i was just eating loads of butter and various meat puddings

i had "the pint of guinness" though just like james joyce once did

anyone remember that dennys rashers ad with the irish guy and his american wife getting a phone call rom the old sod

how did you enjoy "the trip to ireland" max?

michael do you mean the denny ad where "it's breakfast time back home"?

I deeply enjoyed myself "local policeman" (via Gaelic). I went, with my grandmother, to the town from where my great great great grandfather emigrated. I also read the first hundred or so pages of Murphy. All in all, I would describe it as a "crack."

i have never read any joyce

kindof ashamed

Really though, I had a great time--everyone I met was friendly and helpful and the food, despite what I expected, was great. Good job on your country.

bought ulysses a few months back but can't get into it, despite liking musil/broch and stuff that gets compared to him a lot. max it's "craic" tho you probably knew that. "crack" is a drug which is frowned upon in Irish culture.

where in Roscommon was it? my friend's parents have a house in Boyle that I've been to a lot.

i have only been to roscommon to go to hyde park

is one of those places i don't think i've ever met anyone from (aside from while being there)

nah they all flee to galway

I was near Boyle in a tiny town called Castlecoote. Very pretty but probably insanely boring to live in.

Joyce is great. But I read Ulysses in college with one of "those" professors and feel like I totally "got" it & by extension "the soul of all Ireland."

Really though the reason I "get" Ireland is cause I've seen that Harp ad.

you are more irish than the irish themselves

x-post otm, did you see sally o'brien at all while "home"

sally o'brien was irl a brit sori to destroy ur illusions

she was on the late late to break it to the nation i saw it on reeling in the years

can't believe i lusted after a brit...an insult to the patriots

sorry were gonna take you out and shoot you now RIP i guess you had a good run

sher

I didn't see Sally O'Brien, I was too busy frying eggs, thousands of them, for in Ireland, unlike the Iberian peninsula, eggs are plentiful.

Disgusted to find out she's a Brit. What would my great great great grandfather, John Kerry Regan of Ballyghadoreen, County Roscommon, say?

ah sher this is it, i'll be dead now in a minute. mad altogether.

mad is right

is crack really frowned upon? what kind of drugs to people do there?

The pint of harp

^^ see xposts

Fierce.

My strongest memories of distinctively Irish ads involve the president of the IFA or someone monotoning about brucellosis and vaccinating your cows or somewhat. YouTube knows nothing.

cailini deas in shawls getting all moony eyed over a fucking cup a soup.

is this what john o'leary wanted for us?

i was thinking about it, and as far as i can tell, pound for pound, ireland has produced better ilx posters than any other nation

i dunno if they have a statistically significant number of ilx posters though

we punch drunk above our weight

i have been deeply enjoying this series of irish viral videos on the awl

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-part-one-irish-rap

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-the-secret-pregnancy-of-ham-sandwich

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-part-three-the-gardai

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-the-peculiar-madness-of-pat-kenny

sorry man but grabbing him bloody out of the womb and plunging him into your shoebox to prove to everyone how important your irish identity is = NAGL

― harbly formed dn pun (zvookster),

this is a good point, tbf

I just love how the mother in the Kerrygold ad clearly hates the German wagon who stole her son away. In her own head she is a wronged woman who gave him everything, everything, only for him to become bewitched by some flaxen-haired temptress from another country and leave his only home. In his head she is a nagging old biddy who is never happy about anything and he couldn't wait to get away from her. It's the oldest story we have.

sally o'brien gutted too

can't believe max is one of the regans from ballaghadereen tbh.

Ahhh, sally o'brien

what kind of crazy marketing fairydust magic makes you nostalgic for a place you never left, sher

Fiersh

and the pint of harp

this thread!

liam brady!

this thread breaks my heart because it is impossible to find the breakfast time back home ad

this is maybe the pinnacle of these ads

Cannot believe that's not on youtube. Travesty.

its kindof like never gonna happen now i think. like we've reached the end point of people still watching movies taped off the telly years ago so you're not gonna start lolling over a "this madness must end sooun" and wanna upload it y'know?

whats the point of the fucking internet. so appalled.

there's some brand of bog roll that used to pride itself on its irishness on the wrapper? always used to make me chuckle

all of them tbh?

hey, while we're all in one place, has anyone yesterday's independent? my uncle's only been featured or printed or somesuch in a 'new irish writing' supplement or something?