The Irish

destroy: the current amurrican hard on for all things irish.

"Father Ted" was a load of arse-juice but the "D'unbelievables"...

Destroy: What Ned said about St. Paddy's in the USA, my ridiculous "Kiss Me I'm Irish" relatives: stop the Erin Go Bragh insanity please!, the Cranberries, Hothouse Flowers, the Troubles (wouldn't that be nice?).

I lurve leprechauns. And shamrock shakes.

Now, Irish Americans, that's *quite* a different story.

I love Ireland solely because of Guinness, Murphy's and Bailey's. I'm a lush.

Destroy: The food.

I believe it was Shane MacGowan once poignantly said: "Ertwas swillin' 'n' sllen/ inna mrsts o' Culcllan/ er pour me a-point o' whiskey t'day..."

My favorite Ireland memory: driving up the Conor Pass on the Dingle Peninsula, parking the car and hiking up a mountain. The view of the countryside, the ponds, the sheep and the sea was breathtaking, of course. But what was really remarkable was just how quiet it all was -- I could hear the grass crunching under my feet and I thought I was stepping on dried out grass, till I realized that it sounded so loud only because it was so quiet. I'd literally never "heard" silence like that before. I realized then how really loud even "quiet" moments are where I live, how there's always some sort of ambient noise in the background disrupting the perfect quiet. And then you just stand there, with the knockout view in the closest thing to perfect peace and quiet I'd ever experienced. Then you walk down and throw some money at the person playing some cliche Irish music on a harp at the foot of the hill.

destroy people who say: "I'm Irish, my mother's brother's budgie was bought from a pat shop in Galway"

paddy's night in Kilburn too, destroy that, even more so in Neasden.

search: Tony Cascarino

Anybody want to recommend some traditional Irish music? There's so much stuff out there and a lot of it looks terrible.

Ooops, sorry I thought this was an ILM thread 'cos I was on ILM and then I did a search and so I thought...I know...I am dumb.

And it's quite a late night for me.

'search' and 'destroy'? UMkay

Ned, not quite full blown trad....but you can't go wrong with Christy Moore.

Specifically, I'd recommend Planxty's 2004 (or is it 2005? I can't remember) live album, which is brilliant and has Christy Moore singing on it. Any one of the first four Chieftains albums are also top class. Martin Hayes is also very popular and good, and there's a great, great singer called Iarla O Lionaird who sings unaccompanied Irish songs. His voice is beautiful, but it can get a little wearing after a while if you don't understand what he's singing about.

The Dubliners ain't half bad either.

luke kelly.

also, what's with lack of WB Yeats love upthread?

Ned's question inspired me to dig out that Planxty 2004 album. It is GRATE.

Ned, not quite full blown trad....but you can't go wrong with Christy Moore.

My lord, the prosecution cites "Don't Forget Your Shovel".

search: Planxty's "The Well Below The Valley", if only for the title track.

My lord, the prosecution cites "Don't Forget Your Shovel".

Also "The Voyage", and his version of "Ride On".

xpost

If it's the same one the Devil's Interval do then it's got incest and 6 cases of abortion/infanticide, body count is the hallmark of a good folk song.

Planxty, yes - I only know the first three albums though. Also that Andy Irvine+Paul Brady album - in fact, is Andy Irvine famous? He's certainly not as famous as he should be! (He's also from London, of course!)I don't know as much about Irish music as I should.

yes well, not every track! I'm out of my depth here, and I've forgotten my shovel.

Planxty, yes - I only know the first three albums though. Also that Andy Irvine+Paul Brady album - in fact, is Andy Irvine famous?

he is famous enough, but maybe not as famous as he deserves to be. He plays live a lot in Whelans, and every time I go to see him I kick myself for not going to see him every time he plays, as he is awesome.

In a piece of inspired supportage, the first time I saw him was when he was supporting Will Oldham; a whole new generation of fans was born.

He is awesome. Everything I've ever heard him do, from Sweeney's Men onwards, has been great, and he always seems like the most talented and yet least well known in whatever setup he's involved in.

I think he is all about the music rather than about the self-promotion.

I love his song about how Ronnie Drew is actually a culchie.

CINCINNATI -- A man was caught Tuesday morning inside a car with his pants down.

Police said Kim Leblanc broke into a parked car overnight on Central Parkway, and the owner found him asleep inside and called police.

Officers said Leblanc was not wearing any pants when they arrived.

Investigators said Leblanc told them he had done drugs and believed that a leprechaun had let him into the car.

Leblanc remains in police custody on a variety of charges.

top scientist claims irish less intelligent than other ethnicities,

blames leprechaun influence.

Thieving Irish. Here's something funny: I'm American, and my grandfather raised us to be conscious of our Irish heritage. We just find out our Irish side actually came from England ... and had lived there for centuries before coming to the US, rather than actually coming here from Ireland during the potato/weird root tasting beer/cable knit sweater famine.

So what's the deal with that - English, Irish, what? I'm sure most of the people who claim Irish heritage here are less of Irish heritage than suspected.

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Oh who knows. My family could care less about it, we're American...but my boyfriend's family is v v proudly Irish...except at this point all their relatives back home live in the Leith district of Edinburgh. At least they're all Hibs supporters!

um, hibs aren't the 'irish' team in scotland.

they are one of the Irish teams, as far as I know. especially if you live in Edinburgh. Scots may know better.

Hibs were the "Irish" team in Scotland before Celtic were.

If by "Irish" you mean "charitable club set up by members of the Catholic church to provide aid to poverty stricken Catholics who were mostly Irish immigrants" or something. Hibernian means Irish, doesn't it?

xxp pint baby reincarnated for the pandemic age

My "day we'll do a proper trip to Ireland" ambition is to go to Donegal and see all the Liam McCormick churches

I wanted to go to the Skelligs but obviously Star Wars has fucked that idea

I also want to go to Derry and see the hands across the divide statue

i want to do that boarded mountain lakeland walk in leitrim

I want to go to Glendalough.

Let us indulge in the scrapings of schadenfreude while we can.

AirBnb parasites offloading their properties onto Daft.

Rents are about to plummet. pic.twitter.com/wy5McRuX4f

— Revolution 57%🐊 (@Revolution_IRL) March 19, 2020

sea

My mam said to me yesterday that she was proud to be Irish and like
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I can’t say she isn’t right like?

our pretty decent figures and the likes of the above are a really welcome burst given everything, yeah

the shops are well stocked, the ventilator place in galway is set up for 24 hour shifts and hiring, the govt are ahead of our figures so far and testing, isolation and treatment facilities are coming online quickly to keep ICU clear

40k volunteers with expertise to help out with HSE efforts

big redeployment to social protection and hse from public service over next week for admin work

medical personnel are contracting it at a rate of 1 in 5 which is a worry

and notwithstanding the numbers going up and the worry, etc, we're doing about as well as we could imo

two people who sit within a few feet of me at work currently awaiting tests - and have been for at least a week

“...we got colonised by these pricks?”

haaaaa

love a separate thread punchline

golly we were nearly not having this level of conversation but look

whomst amongst ust hasnt lapsed into faux hugh grant inst order tost instroduceth an awkward concepth

I don’t say it enough, but I love Michael D

The future that will come after this virus will be radically different from what we have experienced before. It is my sincere hope that we will be able to develop in parallel both an inclusive immediate response to the pandemic and an adequate, comprehensive approach to the underlying challenges associated with the growing inequalities and environmental devastation inherent in our current models of connection between economy, society and ecology.

The coronavirus reminds us that poverty, disease and climate change are global phenomena, which do not respect man-made borders. To address these global challenges, we need international cooperation and solidarity. Now is the time for more, not less, multilateral coordination and assistance, and for a reinforcing of our bonds.

As President of Ireland, may I thank all the members of the Irish community in Britain, whether by birth or by association, for their efforts.

I am particularly thinking of our elderly Irish at this time. Between 1955 and 1960, a quarter of a million Irish people left Ireland for the U.K. and again in the 1980s when, with others, I was associated with the Action Group for Irish Youth, at a time of social welfare and housing cuts.

May I also ask you all to continue to take the greatest care at this time, to follow advice, and retain a sense of patience and commitment to the core values of a shared citizenship. These are difficult times, but times that will pass.

now he's talking some big sense pic.twitter.com/h5LUd3USyV

— New Year, New Me (@JurassicArse) March 25, 2020

Sorry but

The Angelus but the bongs have been replaced with Cardi B and Michael D Higgins saying Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/SCHNWuOGYC

— Ciara Knight (@Ciara_Knight) March 25, 2020

A+

No need to be sorry.

no need to aaaargh, you

I posted about this initiative before but it’s seriously good

"It's a real feel-good initiative and one of the best things I've ever done."
A fundraising campaign to feed hospital and emergency workers in Ireland has raised more than €330,000 in just ten days.#feedtheheroes #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/paX6r0mKcP

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 26, 2020

lads

most days i pass the aras and look not a sign of them

twont do

The dogs?

well the dogs but id settle for himself i spose

I’m just in awe of his pronunciation

coronaviiiiiiirus

And that poem he wrote was lovely

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I’m legitimately considering buying a box of <classic Irish product that isn’t Tayto>. Is this wise considering I don’t know when I’m home again? Y/n

lyons or barrys

Don’t drink tea. Nah it was Manhattan popcorn but I got as far as checkout before seeing the cost of delivery!

never heard of it

is it like chicago pizza

when there's only one brand of popcorn nobody knows its name

perri

....

i mean do you mean prepopped?

kelkin

i think thats all i got without checkin

Lads come on!

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Perri popcorn is not good, though I will always have a soft spot for the brand after winning a box of their crisps as a child. It doesn’t help that the prepopped popcorn you can buy here is luxury shite that’s not half as good for twice the price.

the professed Manhattan ignorance is a bit odd alright

id know the bag now i see it

less analysis, more contribution there now please

People say the crisps are good but I’ve never seen them on sale anywhere. My school’s shop used to routinely sell out of their popcorn.

Can this Limerick man please do all the governments social distancing announcements from now on? pic.twitter.com/nBL6ZSc3HW

— The Blindboy Podcast (@Rubberbandits) March 27, 2020

Definitely one for the “I love the Irish accent 😍” crowd.

lol

have that then

chrisht a man watches a movie and the whole fuckin country gets shut down

we just got the pay cuts chat from our CEO today, so that was the cherry on top

fucks sake, really sorry to hear NN

best thing is, today was just the teaser. We find out the amount on Monday!

but sure lookit, could be much worse and I'm confident I won't lose my job so can't overly complain

people have been saying lookit far too often for my comfort recently

but lookit, it is what it is

#Breaking: Dept for Foreign Affairs is warning Irish nationals in the US on short-term visas, who risk losing employment, financial security & health care due to the Covid-19 to return to Ireland

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 27, 2020

sorry to hear that nn, hope its short and as painless as possible

It must be admitted that the English people are at present doing their utmost to justify the low estimate in which their rulers hold them.

— James Connolly (@ConnollyEbooks) March 28, 2020

A headline appropriate for any day of any year between 1171 and today. pic.twitter.com/il6F4V7xXd

— Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) April 1, 2020