The Irish

curious about a compare/contrast between Americans, the English, and, say, Germans visiting Ireland.

give ireland back to the irish i always say

Funny you should say that but when I was last in Ireland it was full of Americans, the English, and Germans.

Every in Europe is full of Americans, the English, and Germans though.

English visiting Ireland:

THESE ROTTEN ENGLISH TOURISTS JUST ROARED ABUSE AT US THEN THREW A PIGEON’S HEAD AT US!!! WHAT THE FUCK ! pic.twitter.com/iyEhfLacwB

— d3rb (@bitnch) September 22, 2018

French visiting Ireland: https://youtu.be/Mxl0UmXi8a0

prefer edinburgh but then we holiday v upper middle

Ok the gentleman with the bad trousers and bad attitude make sense but you're going to have to explain every aspect of that butter commercial xp

that was as explicit as sex on irish tv got til oh imma say miley ridin the babysitter in the woolly jumper

The aul one is not his mother but is giving off that kind of energy so I want to say his dead wife’s mother who lives with them? The horse belonged to his dead wife. As deems says, the French woman is in there and the son doesn’t quite get what’s going on.

when she says "you cook like a frenchman" she means he is cooking the horse for dinner, this is my truth tell me yours

There is a lot going on.

A lot of classic Irish adverts have an underlying theme of people either leaving or revisiting an idyllic home life in towns and villages that are too small to keep you - remembering the local pub when you’re on the other side of the world, flying home to family at Christmas, etc. The strong implication here is that yr man is preparing to tell the family they are moving to France with his fancy woman. The kids have already kind of worked it out and mammy / dead wife’s mother, who won’t come out and say anything, is kind of passive-aggressively communicating that she knows something is up and doesn’t like where it is heading. You have that resistance to change and familial division (and foreigners tbh) butting up against its inevitably.

I believe that is a semi obtuse last tango in Paris reference, nobody is eating the horse for fear of the death glare of his mother in law

ty for tansplaining, aul one is not his own mammy cos he calls her Mrs Mack, but in the style of rural farming families she would have lived with the married couple

referencing last tango in paris in a butter advert is next level

with the wife dead a woman has been told off from the village matrons to ensure the men dont starve or fester

shes mainly fucked off because yerman makes his own sauce, and a fancy one at that

look theres a lot going on were not a great ppl for the exposition

Is the point not that your man can fulfil his basic shelter and food needs and French woman can fulfil his other needs

Meanwhile mammy in law doesn’t want to live in France/a home & she saw glenroe with Miley and Fidelma last night so she knows what’s going on

these foreign biddies were always at it. Nothing could sate their lust for our finest butter and menfolk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOLus5AFqTE

I mean, the men too.
https://youtu.be/aSkQij6lGJ4

I’d say the spuds weren’t the only thing he was buttering.

the sod is classic

i mean im not the man to ask but the kerrygold ppl rly distrust/dislike the rural irish mammy its a theme

lads are we back to the classic thread abt irish adverts

there was a thread?!

yeah but I believe all the youtubes are dead

Strong implication that the mammy in 'Andre' might get a crack whoever the young wan doesn't want, I'd say.

The matching 1% don't knows in those graphs might be post-GFA "well I know I've been to a border county, and we did go out in the car..."

gbx should visit with jjj imo

― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, April 3, 2019 1:16 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good idea, i approve of it

why r ye redoing my classic thread here? get ye're own ideas jeez

In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

its p easy to search

fp for anyone who mentions sally o'brien here

also pretty easy to look down ILE & see that thread was posted to last night after this discussion moved there!

don't try and shift the guilt

if you can't be nostalgic for the nostalgic ads thread then I don't even know...

well for him in london and tellin all paddy what to do

lookit now buck you have a nice brexit now and you dont be mindin us over here or what we do be at gullad

whoah! The Great Irish Famine is the next ep of In Our Time in 20 mins.

a little light listening hey

In Our Time, putting the Great back into the Great Irish Famine.

the great set of tory lads in Westminster doing a cracking job of aiding the famine shocker!

Famines very much in character - it was a feature, not a bug. They’re all still obsessed with the Corn Laws to this day.

Oh cool!

No words needed pic.twitter.com/InDTeHiW1t

— James McClean (@JamesMcC_14) May 1, 2019

UK looking for a new Defence Secretary.

I've begun reading last year's Man Booker winner Milkman, still at the very beginning but it already paints a stark and complicated picture of the people of a certain time and place

was lolling at someone reporting visiting the Museum of Irish Republicanism in Conway Mill and the guide says to him : “You’re very welcome. Just to remind you, we were at war with the British State, not the British people so have a good look around.”

Enjoyed this thread about the apartheid strikers.

35 years ago this month eleven workers in Dunnes Stores, one of Ireland’s corporate giants, refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa and went on strike. They spent 3 years on the picket, just £21 per week. But in the end they forced the government to boycott apartheid. pic.twitter.com/QkbyL9PyGv

— Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) July 29, 2019

Someone points out downthread that such action would be illegal today under anti-union legislation passed in the UK and Ireland.

They'd be sending guys round to prise up the plaque and sending it to the scrappy in the UK.

fuck, that's some righteous struggling.

at least that horrible quote at the bottom reminds us of the evil and ever present threat of Marxism.

seeing the Henry Street bit reminds me of a defunct Henry Street in Hudds where a lot of the Irish immigrants lived in squalid old-school slum overcrowded terraced houses with outdoor crappers in the early 60's which i only know of through my mum talking about them. They demolished them to build at least the 2nd or 3rd ugliest bus station in Yorkshire.

makes it more fuckin cheeky that stephen mangan lad that time

Posted for pom & others curious about pronunciation of Taoiseach. I was listening & thinking “I don’t say that <sort of dragging sound at the end of the ch I don’t know the name for> but I just listened to myself say it and I totally do. Like hearing a recording of yourself & it not sounding anything like you.
https://youtu.be/-9qK_A8dRp4

Actually listening again she’s a bit more phlegmy than me, but probably more correct ¯\_(ツ)_/¯