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.

http://www.dk-ink.com/AngelsRemembered/files/leprechaun.gif

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?

I can report that portions continue to be small

Don’t want to sound too cynical, but can anyone who’s seen British blue ticks talking about their Irish citizenship post anything they see about historical prosecutions? Can’t say it seems to have crossed any radars...

Superb.

https://twitter.com/NoContextDunphy

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The pinned tweet is classic, there’s so much Dunphy I wonder if I imagined

pic.twitter.com/KtSRf2WtI8

— No Context Eamon Dunphy (@NoContextDunphy) November 6, 2019

see, if you were listening to yr second captains football podcast youd hear it in the intro twice a week

(they do social/political stuff every now and then fyi, not to a great degree or anything tho)

You are literally the third person to recommend this to me in the last ten minutes!

we cant all be wrong

Richie sadlier will be president of ireland some day, mark my words.

it's a good podcast

I think probably most of us have seen this already, but for those who haven’t:

This letter in today’s ⁦@IrishTimes⁩ https://t.co/wqR6Bi1kSz pic.twitter.com/XWfvYE34BG

— Hugh Linehan (@hlinehan) December 21, 2019

‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. I love this photo. pic.twitter.com/RyiENzbgb9

— Davenant (@SirWilliamD) December 23, 2019

this Inge Morath pic is incredible. That it is a 20th century social history pic full of rich detail that is unmistakably from a long gone era and also looks like it could have been taken only yesterday - is just one of its many qualities.

Thanks to both of you there - that letter is amazing, and so is the photo - my mother would have been 9 at the time.

There was a follow up to the letter: nb, it’s tough reading

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mother-grieving-loss-of-all-three-children-says-there-is-too-much-space-around-me-now-1.4122965

I see Liveline has spoken for the nation. Wtf is number 10?

Your high points of the last decade!! ⁦@RTENewsNow⁩ ⁦@rteliveline⁩ ⁦@rtenews⁩ pic.twitter.com/dGyRUp4xPF

— JOE DUFFY (@joeliveline) December 23, 2019

"closure of head shops" not especially conducive to highs I would have thought

Despite heavy rain, the wrenboys were out in force in Dingle collecting for charity.

The west Kerry town is one of the last strongholds of the St Stephen's Day tradition that is believed to have pagan origins | Read more: https://t.co/dwWItCbqYD pic.twitter.com/wA4RFoprYv

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 26, 2019

So, this is when that Wenceslas dude did all that looking out at the snow, eh?

Byrne aged quickly, like many Irishmen.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 December 2019 21:42 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

:(

I went from top pretty boy to getting stopped for police line-ups between the ages of 17 to 22. This is definitely a thing!

hmph its prettier i get

Depends very much on yr genes & lifestyle same as anyone else, there’s lots of variation in my own family

Is aoibhinn libh é a fheiceáil
https://i.postimg.cc/6QC2VWSd/D32-E87-DC-8068-42-A1-968-D-5-BC90-E0-A7661.jpg

Come Out Ye Black n Tans No. 1 in Ireland, No. 3 in Britain ... Fine Gael got their answer .... https://t.co/3rOa8XiyEN

— The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 (@wolfetones) January 9, 2020

this was retweeted by my main homey RLB. I always remember the Wolfe Tones - Rifles of the IRA album hidden at the back of the record shelf, like it might be illegal to own it!

Did RLB really retweet thT It’s not on her TL

oh no it's someone using a play on her name, forget it.

these bloody twitterers and their hilarious spoonerisms!

Ten years ago: man slips on ice in Dublin. More with @rtearchives https://t.co/96jTx8I501

— RTÉ (@rte) January 8, 2020

have you not seen the plaque!

a terrible shame that an American company had to be the one to do it

have you not seen the plaque!

this was retweeted by my main homey RLB. I always remember the Wolfe Tones - Rifles of the IRA album hidden at the back of the record shelf, like it might be illegal to own

That 'Let the People Sing' album is a common sight in charity shops in Glasgow - or was.

Are you joking? Please be serious. Where is it?!?!

it's some 'viral marketing' courtesy of Coors Light

https://images.app.goo.gl/TGYVgZiV6QkGpbhp7

Rifles of the I.R.A. is the fourth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones.

The cover shows the band members dressed in the traditional dress of the IRA. The folk singer Christy Moore said of the cover, "I equate that particular record sleeve with Foster and Allen, dressed up as leprechauns. It was the very same thing. It had the same significance at the time.

C Moore wasn't impressed with that album cover

it is quite comical. as are the tones tbh - not that i don't know half their catalogue

The Wolfe Tones are playing in a pub near me in upstate NY. Should I go see them?

I found a bunch of their records in the bookshop of one of the local libraries a few years ago.

bloody hell ...they still get about a bit! I can't remember much about their sound tbh.

Room for a Mighty Mighty Bosstones collaboration while they're in the States

my wife saw them play at a midtown pub a few years ago (dragged by a friend, she had no idea what to expect) and said it was a good show but also a little alarming in its political fervor.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:37 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

like, if that sounds like yr bag.

twouldnt be mine

I see Come Out Ye Black and Tans is supposedly number one here too now? Diaspora i assume, confirms the most obvious Eurovision theory of them all.

This poster doesn’t hold back!

Anti-recruitment poster in Enniscorthy (c. 1909): "Join the Army. Sell your souls, your country, and your God for the Saxon shilling. Join England's hireling murderers. Go to India, to murder women and children and shoot down men who are fighting for liberty." https://t.co/RdV1T0o94x

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) January 7, 2020

This poster featured heavily in Unionist political literature after a copy was reproduced by the Union Defence League ('Irish Facts' Vol. III) for propaganda purposes. pic.twitter.com/PVt9dDcsgG

— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) January 7, 2020

My great granddad was one of them Irish sellouts for the Saxon shilling! He got quite badly disabled at Gallipoli and was lucky to survive because the ambulance ship that rescued him was taking sniper bullets or something. My historian minded uncle who has the full story is currently dying of prostate cancer and the NHS can't operate on him because his kidneys are gone, but I'm it was a good story iirc but i just can't remember most of it.

Maybe we can get #ComeOutYeBlackAndTans to number 1 in China too. pic.twitter.com/4Cj5fUViLU

— Des Bishop 毕瀚生 (@Desbishop) January 9, 2020

Aertel chic
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https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0114/1107299-election-announcement-tracker/


Ádh mór dúinn

Ireland's rail network, 100 years ago vs now. Seriously. pic.twitter.com/8bO8p7dFfG

— Dr Shaun O'Boyle 🏳️‍🌈 (@shaunoboyle) January 22, 2020

looks even worse than what the Beeching Cuts did to the UK.

That’s hardly the worst thing about it

https://youtu.be/SW-tdaO2s9o

the mid 20th century rolling stock with asbestos lined ceilings at least had comfy chairs with enough knee-space for anyone over five ft tall. Although that won't save you from an insufferable Gleeson clone! How did that crap how so many credits at the end?

That wasn’t a Gleeson clone, that’s him!

it just goes to show, never give up hope - keep chasing those dreams!