The Irish

if paul delaney isnt ronan he's not far off him

obv michael white for #3

have we a candidate ilxor for #1?

irrationally angry thread a good place to start id say

holy jaysus Eamon Coghlan as Davy Jones on the Late Late

looking at Aiden Gillen's wikipedia page and saw this

2014 Citizen Charlie Charles J, Haughey Miniseries, pre-production

also features Risteard Cooper in an uncredited role.

yeah Nidge is playing PJ Mara. Christ knows what kind of accent Aido will be attempting for this one

http://www1.evoke.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tom-vaughn-lawlor-pj-mara.jpg

this is actually going to be amazing

http://cdn3.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/article29673070.ece/3e56c/ALTERNATES/h342/NWS_20131019_OPI_014_29325131_I1.JPG

I know mary harney well

please let them stream this live on RTE player worldwide like they do with the Toy Show!

I just pictured him talking to "Maaaaaara" in his Littlefinger accent and lost it.

amazing
http://img.rasset.ie/0008d6c9-642.jpg

The United Kingdom Independence Party has rejected as "nonsense" criticism of the party using an Irish actor in a poster about the impact of immigration on British jobs.

The poster was published last week as the party launched its campaign ahead of elections on 22 May.

It features a builder in hi-viz vest and a hard hat begging on the street next to the slogans "EU policy at work" and "British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour".

But it has emerged the man featured on the poster is Irish actor Dave O'Rourke, prompting Conservative MP Bob Neill to criticise the party.

"British actors are hit hard by unlimited cheap luvvies".

a friend put this up on his FB of an independent Offaly candidate in the '11 election

http://irishelectionliterature.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/jbracken11a.jpg

standard

Theres a fella up on posters here i'll report back as and when

crazy teddy woman remains the gold standard for Irish election posters

crazy teddy woman remains the gold standard for Irish election posters

― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:20 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Link?

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/237/522242086_6db4c7e333_b_d.jpg

no way is she a child

I am not disappointed.

omg

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1907977_289059031260493_8433660874202538089_n.jpg

i am currently reading a fb thread slagging this guy and his everythings that he happened across it is something

at least he put a tie on for his picture, sort of

i'd be the first one to decry shallow image-based politics but if you knew you was having a photo took that was gonna be turned into big posters that wd be asking people to vote for you who didn't know you then surely

if he spruced himself up a bit he could have a Paul Dano thing going on

reminds me more of Catherine Tate tbh

lolll

???

Linda Ervine's soft voice and gentle manner bely a formidable passion for the Irish language - and for why Northern Ireland's Protestant community should take it up.

"There is every reason why Protestants should be learning Irish," she said. "Ninety-five percent of our place names come from Gaelic… We are using words in our language every day that come from the Gaelic language. We are steeped in it."

compelling case

ulster-scots: webee steeppit unnit

Soooo....do you just turn up at a police station here like you do in the motherland or

― gyac, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:56 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It turns out you do not. Fuckers!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnIOmxrCAAAP8Fq.png

Haaa

old photographer from down home has started uploadinghis pics to fb if there's scope for a 'real ireland' thread idk

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/darts.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/darts.jpg

soz

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/weaving.jpg

ah god i'll be here all night

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/strawboy.jpg

3rd world force field

idgi but im assumin you refer to yon strawboys

they appeared at a local wedding i dragged ms mac to a couple years back, it was up the coast a bit and wild enough of a spot and she was lairy enough of the locals as it was (she was not helping herself with her mary poppins vocal delivery and mannerisms, quite frankly) and when these yahoos in what she (understandably? idk, they're just strawboys to me like) took to be wicker klan outfits jumped out of the back room and rushed the band she was scrambling for the exits ah good times

she has told me a million times and more that we will never settle anywhere near the island ;_;

3rd world forcefield

that thread ^

them creels or whatever are amazing

ok now i've looked up strawboys wow

there's no website does them justice, all bets are off ime

i grew up next door this

http://www.bookapartmentsinlondon.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Abbots-Bromley-Horn-Dance.jpg

but it's not in the same league tbh

it's a bit murky but the origin i always believed is uninvited neighbouring lads after a bit of grub/drink/fighting/dancing crashed in disguise and it spiralled from there into something that terrifies visitors, which imo is the best type of tradition

i'd say that story is an excuse after the fact cos that headgear looks v ancient and evil to me

ah yeah i'd say they had the hats lying around from rituals beyond speaking like, but the crashing the wedding thing was separate

my aunt danced with one up beyond the horseshoe bridge one night and when he took the hat off it was the devil himself she says, and she swears left hoofprints on the rocks that are there yet as he ran away from her (she never said what it was made him take off in the interim but i know the woman with years and can offer a few suggestions and when we said (round eyed, cos the devil was the only man that could friken you when you were seven out wesht, him and the banshee from darby o'gill) could we go and see the rocks and the prints she snorted and said 'the rocks will be long gone you eejits but i know for a fact the prints are still on them' this is the kind of rearing we got

years later we got our own back when we slipped an unsuspecting cousin the wrong lotto results and sent him up to the kitchen (we were never let near the kitchen) with what we knew to be her numbers and i know for a fact her handprints are still on my arse

http://thumbsupdevice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/thumbs-up-icon-blue-reallytiny_border.png

I think a thread of 'post pictures of your local sports teams' (focusing on things like darts and bowls and dominoes etc.) would be entertaining.

ah yeah i'd say they had the hats lying around from rituals beyond speaking like, but the crashing the wedding thing was separate

my aunt danced with one up beyond the horseshoe bridge one night and when he took the hat off it was the devil himself she says, and she swears left hoofprints on the rocks that are there yet as he ran away from her (she never said what it was made him take off in the interim but i know the woman with years and can offer a few suggestions and when we said (round eyed, cos the devil was the only man that could friken you when you were seven out wesht, him and the banshee from darby o'gill) could we go and see the rocks and the prints she snorted and said 'the rocks will be long gone you eejits but i know for a fact the prints are still on them' this is the kind of rearing we got

years later we got our own back when we slipped an unsuspecting cousin the wrong lotto results and sent him up to the kitchen (we were never let near the kitchen) with what we knew to be her numbers and i know for a fact her handprints are still on my arse

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