Irish in Ireland AMA

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Following on from a Dane in Denmark, I'm Irish, living in Ireland AMA

Martine and Nathan's voices work really well together.

Jane- DH and I were just saying that.
I love a duet!

Ah thanks lads! Half twelve at night and I can't sleep now because I've got "Wagon wheel" going round in my head.

Jeez... I'd murder a Wagon Wheel, but y'know, #Lent

Wagon wheels are so much smaller than they used to be! I don't think we did school trips in primary school but in first year we went to Holyhead on the boat, it was so exciting! This thread is so funny, i think everyone on it is Irish, and no one is asking anything, we are all just having a chat. I wonder are we breaking some kind of ama rules.

Anyone see David Grey on Ray Darcy Show (Irish tv chat show) last night!

Fuck I love a bit of Wagon Wheel....

Oh and I also came across a screenshot of the blackboard from Derry Girls.

YOU'RE WELCOME

Did you rob that from the Prod tray bake thread Elspeth?
I must say, I feel like we've missed out with our lack of tray bake knowledge in the Republic, but you really can't beat good soda bread or your mammys apple tart.
I also had no idea that hot cross buns were considered a Catholic thing. I don't ever remember seeing them in shops growing up, they struck me as very "English" (and therefore Protestant) when I was younger.

No! I haven't even gone on that thread! I am not familiar with tray bakes, really. I might have a look though.

If Brexit happens are M&S, Tesco, Next, Boots, Jigsaw, Monsoon, The White Company, Joules, Whistles, Hobbs etc going to have huge taxes on their goods for customers in Ireland ?

Were we in school together?
Or was it the Gaeltacht?
Or did you friend Niamh shift my cousin Declan?

We had a Fr Trendy who actually said the immortal words "Just call me Fr Joe... I'd like you to think of me as a friend rather than a priest"

Omg we were in conniptions. The rest of the day we were going around mimicking him behind his back, we were little bitches.

He is still a local PP and by all accounts is still very nice so I feel a bit bad now.😂😂😂

And needless to say whenever Fr Peter comes on screen in Derry Girls, I lose my shit entirely and DH says "This is all hitting a bit close to home then?"

Laughing at how this thread has wandered subject. Odd for a thread that ends up full of Irish people!

I did the Drogheda school tour too. And the Japanese Gardens in Kildare. I used to wake up early on the day of the tour literally sick with excitement. Think I almost missed a couple as my mother was worried I actually would be sick. My granny would have given me money to buy sweets for the bus. We would all arrive with our bag of sweets and crisps. I think we spent most of the journey eating crap.

Never did Knock but my Nana did a few times and Lourdes and brought back loads of religious tat. I had an altar in my bedroom for a while with all my holy Mary stuff. I was fierce religious for a while. I went to Legion of Mary meetings for a while too. Never got a lifetime ban though. Sadly.

And yes I have White Ladder somewhere.

beanaseireann - I really don’t know but I would imagine there will be some price increases at the very least. Am still hoping it will never happen. Maybe I should say a prayer to Our Lady and Padre Pio. Or Obi Wan Kenobi. Anyone will do.

I haven’t watched Derry Girls. Must rectify that.

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dti an leitris.

We never had any young, trendy priests The all girls Catholic school culture from Derry Girls is so familiar, though my school didn't have many nuns left teaching in my day.

I haven't watched Derry Girls...feel I'm missing out.

Ahem, I did Lough Derg with Mammy and my auntie Mary (fo' real).
As a very, very naive 18year old. After the Leaving Cert. God!
I think I had visions, from lack of food and sleep. And the bare feet and the cold. And the black tea, and the way it might look at you .

Love the traybake thread...15s are not a feature here (down south, can't really get more southerly).

I love to bake- a nice Victoria sponge and an apple tart- sure, it would take you anywhere.

Our young, normal and (mildly) trendy curate turned out to feel like a lay person rather than a priest because he had a partner and children on the other side of the city to his parish.

Mind you, long before this was revealed (and he vanished, to reappear twenty years as a social worker at a local addiction clinic) I used to avoid him for confession because he was crap at even pretending it was an anonymous transaction — even in the old-fashioned confession boxes where there was a curtain as well as a mesh grille — and would say ‘Give my regards to your mammy, BeGood’ at the end, every time.

We all used to go to the eighty-year-old deaf Canon, as he probably had no idea if you were confessing to white lies or manslaughter, and only ever gave you three Hail Marys. No one ever went to the parish priest who had Modern Notions and who preferred a ‘reconciliation room’ where you sat face to face while you made up sins.

Far from tray bakes we were raised! I don't think I saw a hot cross bun until I moved to England.

This is thinking back to national school days on school tours, lovely memories (mostly), I went to national school starting in 1980.

We went to a variety of places usually several in a day. Looking back it all had a sort of a theme to it mainly gardens, shops, cathedrals and factories.

Fun places – the Zoo, Lambert puppet theatre, cinema (there wasn’t one in our area growing up for at least 40 miles so a real treat) Bettystown beach and amusements at it, The National Wax Museum,

Gardens - Botanic Gardens, and the Japanese Gardens in Kildare
Shopping - Clerys / Arnotts / Brown Thomas department stores, Dun Laoirghe shopping centre,

History – Kilmainham Gaol,

Cathedrals - Drogheda yes to see St Oliver Plunketts head) mainly Christchurch cathedral

Factories - We went to a local abattoir (a lot of us left quickly, I was only 8), went to Coca Cola factory, HB factory

Northern Ireland - The Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, followed by a supermarket (not sure which one now) Great times.

Other memories include which may be familiar to others;

Coming home from national school just after 3pm and starting to eat dinner while watching Live at 3 with Derek Davis and Thelma Mansfield. (to balance out my TV levels obviously) as watched TV-AM while getting ready for school (cos they had a clock on screen so always the right time) and when getting ready “had” to do the workout.

@BeGoodTanya you must be up Donegal direction then?

Good God smurfy. You started national school in 1980? I left school after leaving cert in 1981. God I feel bloody old!

Yes to watching Live at 3 with Derek and Thelma if I was home. Mam watched it. Dad often worked on it as he worked at RTÉ.