FOR A CHANGE
― Laurel, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:35 (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. 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
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.
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
Yes.
― hyggeligt, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the best thing to read by him then?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I've got Herod but it's one of these ludicrous situations where it just looks so imposing that I've bottled out of even opening it
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"it went all the way up my gowl"
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
no sound at work :(
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
"why do you ride hippos?"
meme potential there.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody want to recommend some traditional Irish music?
This was waaaaaay up there a while ago, but if any ilxor has the chance to glom onto a copy of the somewhat obscure CD by Alasdair Fraser (fiddle) and Natalie Haas (cello) titled Fire and Grace, they will not be disappointed.
It is musically impeccable. Virtuoso playing, emotionally charged and gracefully performed. Plus, you could dance to it. Top drawer. Hot shit. Strongly recommended.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, most of the catalog by the group Altan is exceptionally good.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
can't get this put of my head lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7birRBmNM
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
love the 'rocky road to dublin'. there's a live recording i have where youre like 'where is he pausing for breath?', hes just belting it out.
― Michael B, Friday, 7 August 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/Garda_Siochana
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm bumping this purely cos i feel some irish ilxors may enjoy, sorry about such shameless promotion. started it last sat and already have 110 followers.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 21 December 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
blocked at work, don't use twitter but will have a look later
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Monday, 21 December 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
# might hit the garda bar a bit later, can't beat hanging out with people who do exactly the same job as me in a bar named after my exact job 2:10 PM Dec 16th from web
lawl
― he "howls" the refrain in tune with the music (DJ Mencap), Monday, 21 December 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
btw I am informed that the Spurs team were spotted in Copper Face Jack's nightclub last week - trust they were well behaved
― he "howls" the refrain in tune with the music (DJ Mencap), Monday, 21 December 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i heard they were in malahide!
― Michael B, Monday, 21 December 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
they were in gibneys in malahide yeah, my local!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 21 December 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
gibneys was in the tabloids in the uk...a touching moment
just read the whole thing, lolled all the way.
― joe, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, needed something to fill the void caused by the Phil Brown Twitter's demise
― MPx4A, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
lol the media guy for that anti eu group libertas keeps retweeting it!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wanna go back tbh
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 31 October 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
where in ireland did you live?
― decent skinsmanship (Michael B), Sunday, 31 October 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― Michael B,
otm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtEKUWRpUWg&feature=related
― flags post o fu (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 February 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBGSc1iLcIw
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
racist
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
written by Michael O'Donoghue
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
fairly archaic stuff really, a bomb in a pub, in "ireland"
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
not going to watch that clip obv but i dont like the phrase 'the irish', it always seems to precede blarney sentiment or borderline racist 'bantuh'
similarly nothing interesting is ever going to be said about germany or its people by someone starting 'the germans...'
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Raymond: Do you know, when you first came in here I knew you were a services man. You can never, never disguise it. Withnail: What were you in? Raymond: Tanks. Afrika Korps. A little before your time. Don't suppose you've engaged. Withnail: Ireland. Raymond: Ooooh, a crack at the Mick.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
bemoaning the inability of the irish to rule themselves is the new irish imo- i'm pro guilty of it myself- but it's probably no more true of us than it is of anyone else, they just hadn't dev to get over
― j'en ai cache (darraghmac), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
eh not sure it's new, my dad was growing up hearing that. relative to a lot of places, we haven't been ruling ourselves that long.
― gyac, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno what "ruling yourselves" is in that context tho? by the same standards most of the population of the UK haven't been "ruling themselves" for very long, if we cd even claim that distinction now.
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 April 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEjzWvICd4&feature=player_embedded
didn't like mumford and sons before, but this is fucking disgusting.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
What the fuck?
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i know, why would you promote your own tour in a given country with a video that is basically outright racist mockery of that country?
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link