The Irish

Working Class Characters by Middle Class Filmmakers
w/ @dominic_machale pic.twitter.com/KBT7SOEYnS

— Tadhg (@TadhgHickey) May 24, 2021

this is quite amusing

Bottle of Bucky is a nice touch.

Very fond of Matt LeBlanc as your uncle https://twitter.com/i/events/1398905503434960898

too much hair and healthy skin complexion suggests teetotalism!

never wear a hat in Ireland y/n?

Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario

— lady of sophistication (@janky_jane) August 15, 2021

many gems in the replies

Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes “fuck me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80’s”

— Eoin O Neill (@eoinjoneill) August 17, 2021

I was walking across O'Connell Bridge one day in the Eighties when those little fabric hats with mirrors in them were popular. A guy in front of me was wearing one, and someone coming the other way just plucked it off his head and chucked it in the river.

I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

— Loic Wright (@duffles1) August 17, 2021

^that one was a clear "I definitely couldn't hack it in Ireland" message for me--your first day, my god

someone coming the other way just plucked it off his head and chucked it in the river

HOWLING!

is this anti-hat sentiment a known cultural attribute?

Fuck wearing a hat iirc

too true

Also wore out a pink fake fur collar on a jacket one time and my friend told me I looked like I was being born 🤣🤣🤣

— Áine Kav (@ainekavo) August 16, 2021

is this anti-hat sentiment a known cultural attribute?

Acceptable hats in Ireland: plain wool beanie, flat cap if you are a man, stetson if you are a country and western singer from the Midlands.

Broadly accurate id have said

One my colleagues had an ankle-length dark green serge greatcoat, and when he burst through the office doors one day, another looked up and said: "What news of Stalingrad?" 🤣

— Philip Nolan (@philipnolan1) August 16, 2021

Incitation to hatred in all its orange glory. Yet again. pic.twitter.com/P8ahE1gKVx

— 🐉🏇 🐲Marie Błð 🇮🇪 🏇🐉 (@EalaEarendel) August 29, 2021

lol, lets live on marmalade on stale warburtons bread to own the Republic, because of course it is entirely Ireland's fault that the Westminster govt royally fucked them over!

could see the temptation to dump even more things in the Liffey judging by some of the fashion faux pas and what is already in the river.
I take it they still haven't been moved to clean it, is it a tradition that it is that filthy. I actually worked on the bridge at the time the digital clock the Time In The Slime was in there and can remember how impossible it was to read cos of the dirt that was already in the river. I was talking about the Hudson being cleaned from the early 70s after it had been notoriously filthy over the weekend and that had me thinking about the Thames getting cleaned at roughly the same time. So was thinking about the Liffey and the likelihood that it would ever be cleaned.
Seemed that there was a move pretty much worldwide to recognise the importance of clean water in towns fro a webinar I attended a few months ago.
I also remeber precautions needing to be taken by all the swimmers in the Liffey swim which I think was supposed to be an annual event. THat one had to take a shower as soon as you got out of the river. Also that the clock had to be moved at great expense

also remember the pavement on that stretch of the O'Connel Bridge being a point where people would score quite conspicuously when i was first in town, possibly right up to the time taht the police cameras went up in 97.
Definitely saw pickpockets right in front of me as I sold posters.
But in those early years I was tehre you would see waves of people crossing the bridge and often staying pretty much in step as they crossed over to O'Connel st. & then you'd suddenly see a bunch of people going against the flow as they stopped to score. The Abrakebabra on Westmoreland st was also a notorious drug den or represented as such.

So I hear ye are all antisemites now?

To a point

The centrist slugs seem pretty sure they have the receipts

I mean, this is predictable. pic.twitter.com/Cnljmpbkez

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 11, 2021

so saying fuck the Brits is the new anti-Semitism?

these wankers should concentrate on their own fascists - there's enough of the fuckers. There are MI5 papers just released in the last 10-20 years on right-wing British MPs, peers, senior military figures etc that were involved in plots ("including espionage, sabotage, unlawful private attempts to broker peace deals between Germany and Britain") to install a pro-Hitler regime in London.

But beyond these are other files identified in the de-classified MI5 dossiers which have not been released to the National Archives. They relate to yet more aristocrats, MPs and military officers who worked on behalf of Germany during the war.

the background to this is Sally Rooney refused to allow a certain publisher to publish her work in Israel, which has been twisted into "Sally Rooney refuses to let her works be translated into Hebrew"

anti-imperialism is good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBfwwfeXoAUfTLK?format=jpg&name=900x900

now that's all clarified there won't be another word on the subject.

up the roon'

Fifty year anniversary of Bloody Sunday:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2010/jun/10/bloodysunday-northernireland

how long must we sing this song?

actually you can stop now thanks

maybe you just stop posting, dickhead!

suspect that was a U2 zing there calz

not that I'd expect it to have been made in eg a similar American civil rights context, for instance

exactly!

and take that shite to ilm

My apologies, that was a lazy and ill-considered stupid drive-by post, not helpful or necessary

not that I'd expect it to have been made in eg a similar American civil rights context, for instance

it still shocks me that a country where one of the top left-wing politicians consider Thatcher a good person and a victory for representation, is actually full of complete fucking idiots!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60130486

Yuri filatov fish

Ireland's first line of defense against the Russians is something else! #Russia #moscow #YaBollix pic.twitter.com/sCElZuea2R

— Niall (@niall_staunton) January 27, 2022

POLL: Business Post/Red C
(Jan 21-26, MoE 3%)

Sinn Féin 33 (unchanged since Nov)
Fine Gael 21 (-1)
Fianna Fáil 15
Green Party 6 (+1)
Social Democrats 5
Labour 4
PBP-Solidarity 2
Aontú 2
Independents 11 https://t.co/Xb88kMTflI

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 29, 2022

I'm just glad we got the Vax before SF get in I guess

Fuck that 2% for Aontu though. What is wrong with people?

I mean 2% tho

the beauty of not having only two sides is that you see the genuine crazy separate to those that will just cynically exploit em

Crying laughing at this

He also recalled how his mother, Catherine Finnegan – known as Jean – visited the UK and spent a night in a hotel where, she was told, the Queen had once stayed.

“She was so appalled that she slept on the floor all night, rather than risk sleeping on a bed that the Queen had slept on,” Pritchett wrote, adding she personally admired anyone who allowed their principles to take precedence over a comfortable bed.

man joe

we elected the wrong Biden!

His parents were Irish

I don't think they qualify as Irish even by American standards tbh. The "Bidens" were actually English, but no votes in that.

did you also know he was the first half English/half German person with an Irish sounding surname in his family to to go into higher education?

I don't even feel as Irish as Biden does despite my dad immigrating from Kerry and my mum from County Meath but this an American thing.