Search: Flann O'Brien, Wilde of course, the Virgin Prunes, Father Ted.
Destroy: leprechauns, St. Patrick's Day-related idiocies in America.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Benjamin, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― nathalie, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ally, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
destroy: the current amurrican hard on for all things irish.
― jess, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
"Father Ted" was a load of arse-juice but the "D'unbelievables"...
― jel, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
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.
― Brennan on the Moor, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Now, Irish Americans, that's *quite* a different story.
― The Unicarn, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
I love Ireland solely because of Guinness, Murphy's and Bailey's. I'm a lush.
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Kerry, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Lyra, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― JM, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Greg, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― DG, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― ethan, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
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..."
― Joe, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
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.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― DV, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
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
― cabbage, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Anybody want to recommend some traditional Irish music? There's so much stuff out there and a lot of it looks terrible.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:34 (eleven years ago) Permalink
And it's quite a late night for me.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink
'search' and 'destroy'? UMkay
― humansuit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Ned, not quite full blown trad....but you can't go wrong with Christy Moore.
― Ronan, Friday, 29 June 2007 01:21 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
The Dubliners ain't half bad either.
― Ed, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
luke kelly.
― darraghmac, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:45 (eleven years ago) Permalink
also, what's with lack of WB Yeats love upthread?
― darraghmac, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Ned's question inspired me to dig out that Planxty 2004 album. It is GRATE.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 10:08 (eleven years ago) Permalink
My lord, the prosecution cites "Don't Forget Your Shovel".
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:42 (eleven years ago) Permalink
search: Planxty's "The Well Below The Valley", if only for the title track.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Also "The Voyage", and his version of "Ride On".
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:44 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― Ed, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:45 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― Tom D., Friday, 29 June 2007 11:49 (eleven years ago) Permalink
yes well, not every track! I'm out of my depth here, and I've forgotten my shovel.
― Ronan, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:51 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:59 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― Tom D., Friday, 29 June 2007 15:02 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:31 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2007 19:08 (eleven years ago) Permalink
top scientist claims irish less intelligent than other ethnicities,
blames leprechaun influence.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:49 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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.
http://www.dk-ink.com/AngelsRemembered/files/leprechaun.gif
― burt_stanton, Friday, 19 October 2007 03:38 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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!
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 03:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
um, hibs aren't the 'irish' team in scotland.
― darraghmac, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
they are one of the Irish teams, as far as I know. especially if you live in Edinburgh. Scots may know better.
― Ronan, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:42 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Hibs were the "Irish" team in Scotland before Celtic were.
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
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?
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:49 (eleven years ago) Permalink
And yet still they persevere.
― gyac, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:31 (one month ago) Permalink
ive come along rapidly to the "it could be a lot worse" kinda thinking looking around yknow
also....i mean, ran the cumann ff family if we're conffessing
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:41 (one month ago) Permalink
👀👀👀👀
― gyac, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 19:48 (one month ago) Permalink
So, that Karen Bradley eh?
Honestly amazed at how I’ve gone from “the North should decide what it wants for itself” to “UNITE IRELAND NOW” in like a relatively short period?
I had a fight with my parents about this recently and our perspectives might as well be miles apart now.
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 10:03 (two weeks ago) Permalink
with apologies to gyac for bumping other thread with this:
we'll talk about it in here so i spose
the statement by SoS for NI made to the house of commons yesterday is not just a resigning matter but should be an international scandal the scale of which should see ambassadors, foreign ministers and idk any human rights, justice or military union either country is involved in involved and investigating as a priority
its not as important as internal labour party intrigue obv but hey this is probably a good reminder that yknow countries really should rule themselves
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:36 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:42 (two weeks ago) Permalink
its absolutely true tho about becoming a republican all of a sudden!
not just this but a few accumulated bits and pieces, brexit and tories being tories i guess are central
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:44 (two weeks ago) Permalink
It's almost as if NI has always been a bad faith pretence of a country that's ignored by the English unless there's some political advantage wants milking
― Mike Skeavee (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:54 (two weeks ago) Permalink
are you...Hibernosplaining
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:55 (two weeks ago) Permalink
lol hes not wrong maybe
i dont usually feel like a naif but i mean oof
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:58 (two weeks ago) Permalink
re thread, I was mostly joking, níl aon fadhb again leat i ndairíre...
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:01 (two weeks ago) Permalink
ffs first ilx fucks up my attempt to post itt and then autocorrect does too, now I know how Wolfe Tone felt
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:03 (two weeks ago) Permalink
lollllz
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:17 (two weeks ago) Permalink
It's a fair cop, just wanted to acknowledge this week's shitshow tbh
― Mike Skeavee (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:22 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Now I know how Wolfe Tone felt, now I know how Wolfe Tone felt,As the blade rose to his proddy throat and he drained all his heeeealth
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:23 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Patriotism is not my natural reaction when I see what is happening in the UK.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:41 (two weeks ago) Permalink
im not sure anyone is advocating blind patriotism as opposed to reminding ourselves of the merits of home rule
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:59 (two weeks ago) Permalink
any support for that feels fairly theoretical or abstract to me i suppose - i don't know what steps would have to happen for a united ireland or whether i would want them to happen.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:04 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Yeah that seems like an odd take considering the tone of the respective posts.
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:09 (two weeks ago) Permalink
well i felt relatively confident in darragh's ability to have a discussion
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:11 (two weeks ago) Permalink
I'm sure a post-Brexit uk government will take a strong line on protecting the human rights of all of its citizens
― Mike Skeavee (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:13 (two weeks ago) Permalink
xp honestly just killfile me, it doesn’t have to be like this. I’d certainly never mind seeing a reply from you again.
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:14 (two weeks ago) Permalink
As I ever, autocorrect owns me. I’d certainly never mind NOT...
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:15 (two weeks ago) Permalink
lads!
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:19 (two weeks ago) Permalink
i will never killfile anyone tbh. i am happy for people to discuss things here as long as it doesn't become meta or personal.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:22 (two weeks ago) Permalink
the question of a 32 county republic is much more on the table as a result of the actions of the dup and tories this past two years, its a natural topic
i now think it will happen in my lifetime, and i wouldn't be particularly surprised to see it happen in the next twenty years
what the unionist minority sop could look like under any such move is hard to imagine, but then so were the strides from 94 onwards and so would have been the gaffes and missteps of doddsy and may et al recently
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:23 (two weeks ago) Permalink
xp then just don’t bother responding to my posts if you’re unable to bring yourself from calling me “unreasonable” or whatever. If you must take the worst possible interpretation of things I write & then fall back on sneering when I react to your interpretation of things I never said, there’s really no point in us interacting, ever.
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:26 (two weeks ago) Permalink
xp I don’t see it in my lifetime, but I said that about abortion.
For me I think much more about Catholics north of the border now, and what their lives are like, and the past three years just make me really angry for their lived experience of this shit. I get what some of them mean when they say that Ireland abandoned them, is what I’m trying to say.
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:28 (two weeks ago) Permalink
i guess it feels like a lot of things are in flight at the moment, instability makes many things feel up for grabs, but what i meant upthread was that for me although i sort of am sympathetic to the idea of a united ireland it feels like the things that would lead to it are potentially fairly sinister, eg a hard brexit or whatever. i can't easily separate the thing itself from the events that are most likely to lead to it.
besides i suppose the usual demographic slide 'it'll happen eventually' idea which has always been around i guess. i mean even reading the stuff today about the anti-eu irish republicans is fairly disturbing. so many things feel like a roll of the dice at the moment.
xpost i didn't respond to your post. you targeted me as doing so. seriously you are just as able to attack others so don't act like a victim because i joined a discussion and didn't precisely agree with you. killfile away.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:28 (two weeks ago) Permalink
I would if they had killfile for Safari, but as ever I’m glad to see that my initial suspicions about you were correct, so I guess that will just have to do instead.
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:31 (two weeks ago) Permalink
i disagreed with darragh as well itt - just get over yourself ffs, i have nothing against you whatsoever i just sometimes disagree with you, like plenty of us do with other people on here. i can post on a thread without someone defensively sneering about my opinion being an 'odd take' or whatever and then acting as if i'm the one carrying stupid grudges.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:36 (two weeks ago) Permalink
if ive to stop this car
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:16 (two weeks ago) Permalink
what the unionist minority sop could look like under any such move is hard to imagine
I remain convinced they'd be singing Fuck The Queen in a heartbeat if they could possibly be convinced they're ahead out of the deal, not sure how you manage it though.
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:17 (two weeks ago) Permalink
its a thought experiment for sure
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 15:20 (two weeks ago) Permalink
― gyac, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:28 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah and their lives in the sixties and early seventies before it all kicked off as a modern conflict
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 7 March 2019 14:28 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
again though, its not cheerleading like an aran sweater made flesh for the cause
and while its def a case of acknowledging the unideal environmental factors which are bringing the situation about, that in itself doesnt make the increased likelihood of the outcome a negative
the question of how to safeguard unionism is key
particularly when they vote in such utter fucking cunts like, i mean theyre not helping are they
― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:08 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Anyone else watching Derry Girls now that it’s back? (Or is it worth a thread now that it’s on Netflix & Americans are watching it?) Loved the blackboard: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1AHLEtX4AEuBXN.jpg
― gyac, Friday, 8 March 2019 08:37 (two weeks ago) Permalink
I might be stretching to its limits my ability to be that prick, but it did seem to me that the 'dignified and appropriate' was her head skipping a line, like "these deaths were an exception to the vast majority of our brave boys which etc etc". But the "not crimes" should get her sacked anyway.
In a way (not really) it's good to have as something to point at for "This is why Europe and specifically RoI feel they need a structure to make sure that the UK actually finishes its homework on NI"
Yeah, I'd been saying (possibly on ILX, but I can't find it), that some kind of truth & reconciliation committee would seem necessary. It's be an interesting test of Ireland's view of itself. I talked to a friend who's lived in Portrush for a few years (and has family in the North), and he said that he would not expect this to work at all - that when it comes to closed-loop worldviews, the average DUP voter makes a Fox News viewer look like a wide-eyed gap student.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 March 2019 13:14 (two weeks ago) Permalink
tbh i'm so much more sympathetic to, say, Arlene Foster, whose resentments seem somewhat justified by traumatic formative experiences like her father being taken out of their house and shot when she was a child than to Theresa May whose seething resentment of immigrants seems entirely fostered by having grown up sealed off from people of colour and from disadvantaged backgrounds. There are lots of people in Northern Ireland who grew up witnessing some heinous shit and in comparison the collective temper-tantrum of so many priveliged middle class brexit voters who lived through the most generous period of the welfare state seems a very false equivalence for the media to draw, and is never really registered in media discussions of the DUP-Tory marriage of convenience.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:20 (one week ago) Permalink
That Gavin Williamson statement is just repulsive, I’m still angry about it.
It’s just so disgusting, I thought I’d been angry about this but the stuff coming from the British government about this is sick making.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0314/1036367-blood-sunday-reaction/
In a statement following the decision by Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service to charge one former British soldier with the murder of civilians on Bloody Sunday in 1972, the Ministry said the British government will urgently reform the system for dealing with legacy issues.The UK’s Defence Secretary said the individual affected by the ruling will be offered full legal support.Gavin Williamson confirmed the Ministry of Defence would support 'soldier F' and pay the legal costs.
The UK’s Defence Secretary said the individual affected by the ruling will be offered full legal support.
Gavin Williamson confirmed the Ministry of Defence would support 'soldier F' and pay the legal costs.
― gyac, Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:04 (one week ago) Permalink
its gut wrenching and sickening
when david cameron looks like a fuckin statesman in comparison then youve slunk low
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:18 (one week ago) Permalink
Indeed.
Corbyn said that Cameron apologising for Bloody Sunday was basically the only worthwhile thing he ever did & he wasn’t wrong.
― gyac, Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:24 (one week ago) Permalink
"Our serving and former personnel cannot live in constant fear of prosecution."
Can too, and should.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:27 (one week ago) Permalink
would there be a case for objection to their article 50 extension ta fuck
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 March 2019 16:57 (one week ago) Permalink
I’m with the mural!https://extramuralactivity.com/2017/12/09/use-the-veto-leo/
― gyac, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:05 (one week ago) Permalink
just realised this ISN'T an anthony thread
― plax (ico), Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:09 (one week ago) Permalink
I'm inured to it tbh, I can't really take it personally when they're as angry about Our Heroic Boys being called to account for shite in Iraq or Afghanistan.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 March 2019 11:33 (one week ago) Permalink
When my parents went to Ireland with my grandfather who hadn't been there in 25 years he took them to his favorite pub. When they went in a guy at the bar said "oh god he's back"— captain glasses (@online_shawn) March 17, 2019
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2019 21:48 (four days ago) Permalink
smdh at ppl who doubt this
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2019 21:49 (four days ago) Permalink
One side of the family of publicans & can confirm otm
― gyac, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:12 (four days ago) Permalink
*is!
― gyac, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:13 (four days ago) Permalink
(An actual American guy I met a few years ago.)Me: Your first name is 'Royal'? You would definitely be bullied in school in Ireland with a name like that. What's your surname?Him: pic.twitter.com/lI8d326Oxj— Cian McCarthy (@cianfmccarthy) March 20, 2019
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 21 March 2019 14:09 (yesterday) Permalink