To think Irish people have more personality and character

What a stereotype... do you imagine all Irish people to be jovially having "a bit of craic" while dancing a jig in the pub and telling stories about leprechauns.

The thing about stereotypes is that they don’t form for no reason! The Irish generally are funny!! Obviously not all but many are.

Many are great writers and storytellers.

First generation Irish immigrant here - obviously Irish as my dad gave me a name that’s basically‘Irish McIrish face’ I’m a dullard and my dad was a twat - I’ve met many dull/twatty people around the world so wouldn’t make being ‘dull/twatty’ a specific Irish trait either.

Yes 👍 and all gay men are fabulous/bitchy/love interior design and all black people are cool/have great rhythm/a whole host of negative stereotypes etc.

YA obviously BU.

I think they like to think they are and anyone that is vaguely Irish (about 50% of the city I live in) goes along with it to be more interesting.

But you are....

And no I don't agree.

Irish school leavers, though, get more GCSEs (equivalents) and gain better grades than any other part of the UK. So education is better in NI.

I think some Irish people are a bit mad (in a good way). Generally not as stiff as other cultures imo.

I hate the idea that certain types of people have more personality. It's always the extroverted idiots who insist on holding court isn't it? They're generally extremely boring attention seekers.

Give me a quiet, interesting person any day.

Yeah we are class in fairness!

I think what you said is far more bizarre!
She didn't say she can only get sexually excited if there's some Irish around 😂

Jesus Christ 😂 anyone with a brain can see that your post was meant to be a positive one but oh no lol massive pile on and you are now a racist.
I expect I will get some replies to this explaining to me how trying to say something nice and positive is just patronising and fetishising a whole country.

Stereotypes exist for a reason and not all of them are negative and i wouldn't say being known as witty and full of character is a bad thing to be described as and every Irish person I have ever met has been just that.
Apologies to all the Irish people who are not that though and are offended by something that was meant to be lighthearted, you are right, some Irish people are miserable bastards and funnily enough nobody but Irish people have mentioned leprechauns and how they don't sit around talking about them all day lol, I didn't think they did anyway so I don't know why they got a mention.

To the person that mentioned southerners not being as friendly as northerners, I'm a southerner living up north and can confirm that it is definitely more friendly up here, now I have just gone and offended myself ffs I will never learn

I’m kind of with you. All the Irish people I know have a certain charisma.

My DP is Irish so I’m biased but he is the most wonderful, and hilarious person I’ve met in my life.

He has a very big family, who are also all lovely, and he comes from a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. There is a great community there, you’d never find anything like that in England. There’s fuck all to do (except the pub) but it’s a lovely way of life with everyone really looking out for each other.

I’m also half Irish and I feel like I definitely identify more with my Irish half! There’s a certain Irish sense of humour that me and my DP both have and it’s the reason we get on so well.

I’m sure there are arseholes there but definitely not in the quantities you’d find in England.

Yeah, that Daniel O’Donnell fella is a riot isn’t he. 😐

If you are a young single woman, non-Catholic, "gone to schools", "talk to men with no shame", maybe vulnerable or if your skin is of colour... There's plenty of Irish characters around who will be nor interesting, nor funny with you.
Could easily make a few dark&depressing episodes for The Peaky Blinders today.

My experience is not a revelation of some greater truth (we can imagine how that would go down!) - it is just the other side of the same coin. They both make a whole.
Every silver lining has a cloud 😁

Agree with not being stiff. We do like the craic and can talk for days (often shite, as you are about to witness).

All nationalities have their good and bad points (generally speaking of course as no nationality is one monolithic group). So with that being said,

My favourite nationality are Scots. They just see through bullshit better than anyone else imo (no nonsense, think that's why they make great football managers).

The English to me always feel like the grown ups in the room. Sensible people, very grounded and seem to have more common sense than the rest of us. They are the nationality I'd nominate to represent us if aliens visit us.

Welsh, always seem to have big booming voices. Cannot think of a softly spoken Welsh person. It's the valleys doing I think. They also produced my favourite boxer Joe Calzaghe who is the classiest fighter I've ever seen.

Germans don't have much of a sense of humour but they are very efficient (best cars)

If you want honesty and directness ask a Dutch person

Canadians are very polite

Americans (two versions for this one), the people in the coasts, sensible folk, those in between, we are hiding them if aliens visit us as we'd get exploited as a species otherwise.

Aussies are everyone's mate and I love how they often use nicknames.

Kiwis, like the English very sensible, and without question they have the best (beest) accent (the standard English accent a close second..would much prefer to pronounce car "Ca" instead of "Key-arr" as I say it).

Japanese, very orderly, and focused. Their mind isn't full of emotions which leaves plenty of room for thinking straight which results in them making us all great video games.

Scandinavians, all similarly cool as a cucumber to match their enviroment. Just completely unflustered folk.

French, passionate, full of flair, and I admire their love of the French language as they seem to be the one nationality that refuses to submit to English as the dominant language (indicative of this is Zidane who flat out refuses to speak a word of English in interviews despite knowing full well what the words mean)

Italians, even more passionate, and they seem to excell at everything. Food, fashion, cars, sport, art, architecture... immense.

I have lived all over the place, starting from childhood. So I feel well-positioned to say that a country absolutely has a certain ‘cultural character’ and this difference actually makes the world an interesting place.

I am not sure why British people of all people are offended by this. Not everyone is like you

Silly post

I'm part Irish and the rest British. No different from anyone else and having lived abroad would say Brits are well liked. Favoured even in the US and Canada.

Stupid comment verging on racist and unless you've lived in every town or village in England bloody ignorant comment too.

Yes, just like many English writers and storytellers, and American, French, German, Nigerian, Indian, Jewish, Welsh, Latin American, Japanese, Russian, Czech, Austrian, and Canadian writers and storytellers (continued on page 96...)

My family are a mix of Scottish and Irish although I live in England now and I can see communication differs in England, broadly. Both Scots and Irish have a pride in chat/patter/craic, a tradition of deliberate raconteur behaviour, storytelling etc that the English don't have to the same extent. Ofc this can play out as a bore on a stool in a pub going on forever, same as it can anywhere, but when you get people who have the gab they are quick and engaging in a way that's recognisably similar to other Scots and Irish folks and different from other people. I couldn't put my finger on it but I know it when I see it. Slightly choppy speech patterns, momentarily longer pauses, a lot of dead-panning. It's a thing, I'd say.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Ireland, and almost every person I have met has been great - but I met lots of different personality types. I have met a few idiots too, I enjoy learning about Irish culture and history, and would happily spend more time there. Is it asshole free? Nope, but nowhere is