― ethan, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DV, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
And it's quite a late night for me.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
'search' and 'destroy'? UMkay
― humansuit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned, not quite full blown trad....but you can't go wrong with Christy Moore.
― Ronan, Friday, 29 June 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
The Dubliners ain't half bad either.
― Ed, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
luke kelly.
― darraghmac, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
also, what's with lack of WB Yeats love upthread?
― darraghmac, Friday, 29 June 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned's question inspired me to dig out that Planxty 2004 album. It is GRATE.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
My lord, the prosecution cites "Don't Forget Your Shovel".
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
search: Planxty's "The Well Below The Valley", if only for the title track.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Also "The Voyage", and his version of "Ride On".
― accentmonkey, Friday, 29 June 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
top scientist claims irish less intelligent than other ethnicities,
blames leprechaun influence.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
um, hibs aren't the 'irish' team in scotland.
― darraghmac, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Hibs were the "Irish" team in Scotland before Celtic were.
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Dundee United also followed the Hibs model and were originally called Dundee Hibernian.
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
um, oh, look, just,
look, they aren't the 'irish' team in scotland. come on!
― darraghmac, Friday, 19 October 2007 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Not any more, no. People generally support Hibs if they're from east Edinburgh
― onimo, Friday, 19 October 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
My grandparents came over from Donegal, and couldn't stand all the Irish trappings all the people here embraced. Then again, who really gives a shit.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I wd have said they were more the "Catholic" team than the "Irish" team, but, y'know, I'm not going to argue about it.
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
FOR A CHANGE
Also the bf is disgruntled by Oirish-Americans who profess love to Guinness and etc etc -- he says real Irish people drink Budweister, because it's good enough and it's cheap. Ahhh the keystone of our young love....
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The fuck is wrong with my typing this morning? Love OF Guinness, and Budweiser.
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
every post on ilx should have "Then again, who really gives a shit" as its coda.
― jed_, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Also the bf is disgruntled by Oirish-Americans who profess love to Guinness and etc etc -- he says real Irish people drink Budweister, because it's good enough and it's cheap.
that's like the way English people drink lame-o lagers instead of real ale.
It's funny though... in general I am against patriotism and nationalism, but I feel that it is very important that I drink Guinness and not foreign drinks.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel that it's very important that I drink Guinness. I also feel very strongly about not drinking horse-piss. It's a win-win situation.
― Ray, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Guiness and Budweiser. Not because I'm third generation Irish but because they taste good (to me and I like to get fucked up.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/02/ireland
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I am reading Roy Foster's LUCK & THE IRISH. Has anyone else read or even thought about it?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't read it but it sounds interesting. Are you far enough into it to decide if it's worth reading or not?
Ned, I can't believe you don't love " St. Patrick's Day-related idiocies in America." My dog has an Irish name (Declan) so he has to put up with wearing a shamrock kerchief every St Patrick's Day. He loves the beer part of it at least ;-)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/418896575_92f41654dc_m.jpgbeing tortured by wearing said kerchief at a st patrick's parade
― lyra, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yes, it's definitely worth reading! Foster always is, whatever else you think of him.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
At the moment I'm reading about Irish feminists' campaigns for contraceptives etc in the 1970s; to do what they did in that society I think they had to be very imaginative and courageous.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Did we all realise Conor Cruise O;Brien snuffed it, btw?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I'm going mad with it altogether alright
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:28 (four months ago) link
there should be a feature on messaging apps and social media that lets you opt out of receiving voice notes. like people should not even be able to begin to record one to you if you’re not in the mood. this is a good idea and i stand by it— Beth McColl (@imbethmccoll) December 14, 2023
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 15 December 2023 00:04 (four months ago) link
as someone who detests talking on the phone, I love sending and receiving voice notes
bit more personality than a text, none of the awkwardness of a phone call
― Number None, Friday, 15 December 2023 09:21 (four months ago) link
Exactly
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 15 December 2023 09:41 (four months ago) link
it takes me like a week to listen to one
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:32 (four months ago) link
yeah theyll sit there as a rule tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:33 (four months ago) link
That’s the biggest lie I ever heard Mr “I’m going to the random back of beyond will one of ye do a voice note for the car” Mac
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:55 (four months ago) link
wtf no realnames
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:56 (four months ago) link
Knick knack darraghmacListen to your phoneThe Mayo curseIs well known
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:00 (four months ago) link
that last line probably scans using offaly vowels does it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:03 (four months ago) link
I’ll send you a voice note to confirm
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 15 December 2023 14:05 (four months ago) link
*searches for "report harassment" button*
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 December 2023 16:39 (four months ago) link
so not to be a buzzkill but what survives of english folklore in those areas of the country amounts to 'don't go in the bog, don't talk to anyone you meet in the bog, take nothing you find in the bog' and in that one specific area of my life I am a firm traditionalist https://t.co/4SXKTM8PnC— Oliver Darkshire 🌈 (@deathbybadger) January 8, 2024
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 8 January 2024 14:28 (three months ago) link
having accidentally stepped onto a bog I don't advise it (alarming)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 8 January 2024 15:30 (three months ago) link
They’re scary! I was watching that video and thinking of the time I was ten and stepped on what looked like solid ground, you honestly can’t tell what’s under the surface a lot of the time
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 8 January 2024 15:53 (three months ago) link
is st brigids day getting bigger
is it getting /weirder/
or did i just move local+ its a big anniversary
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 09:17 (two months ago) link
can't say I've noticed any additional pageantry myself
― Number None, Thursday, 1 February 2024 09:28 (two months ago) link
local phenomenon so
two bands are separately closing in on a well here, honest to god the cops are escortinf them, its got potential to be that monthy python sketch where the womens guild re-enacts the batgle of bosworth etc
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 12:23 (two months ago) link
"In her honour, a perpetual fire was kept burning at Kildare for centuries"
they got bored with the perpetual fire after a few centuries
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 1 February 2024 12:29 (two months ago) link
is st brigids day getting biggeris it getting /weirder/or did i just move local+ its a big anniversary
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 12:51 (two months ago) link
yes
this lot look like they might start nailing elves and pixies to them
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 13:37 (two months ago) link
Well you know my feelings about interfering with the little people
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 13:39 (two months ago) link
Bridget is the saint of abortion this is a REPEAL thing
― plax (ico), Thursday, 1 February 2024 14:49 (two months ago) link
as always i think you have hit the heart of it
brigid is a REMAINER
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 February 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
Ty
― plax (ico), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:07 (two months ago) link
That Jack and Alice programme on Channel 4 is not good, but it was cute to see Domhnall Gleeson pretending to do chemistry while quietly singing "Tá Teidí ag Rith."
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 13:44 (one month ago) link
Limerick man has some thoughts on a 3 bed semi-detached for sale in Clontarf. pic.twitter.com/DrV78jgK9W— Tull McAdoo (@TullMcAdoo) March 29, 2024
some interesting thoughts on the housing market
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 30 March 2024 14:02 (three weeks ago) link
Deems what the fuck is this
get out and have a laugh pic.twitter.com/ItS6Jo5ypQ— Subprime 🧱 (@sbprme) April 4, 2024
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 5 April 2024 10:13 (two weeks ago) link
Caolán Hunt?
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 April 2024 10:44 (two weeks ago) link
the fuck am i being held responsible for her that fella is clearly from malahide
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2024 11:06 (two weeks ago) link
Obsolutely sending it
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 5 April 2024 11:16 (two weeks ago) link
lødz
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2024 11:17 (two weeks ago) link