Irish in Ireland AMA

[SrSteveOskowski]

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

God, yes to the Eternal Pattern of the Irish wedding. We got married secretly in our jeans with two witnesses in London to avoid Beef-or-Salmon, stone-deaf Fr Cronin saying grace and 250 cousins doing the Birdie Dance in a hotel function room.

I would say Irish weddings are similar to Scottish weddings but Scottish weddings still finish up earlier and the women don't get quite as dressed up, though still fairly fancy. Men in kilts are a nice bonus though

BeGoodTanya shocking behaviour altogether! Heathenish and unpatriotic. You may be married in the eyes of the law, but you most certainly are not married in the eyes of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Clancy Brothers, and Biddy and Miley from Glenroe.

Agreed. Has to be a choice. And it has to be beeforsalmon.

May I suggest you read Oh My God What A Complete Aisling for all you need to know about Irish weddings. Honestly, I’m being serious!

@BeGoodTanya your poor mother! Is she over it yet. The MORTIFICATION!

Fiontar you watching the reindeer?

Fiddle, Uncle Dermot and Auntie Mary are in full agreement with you. Dermot probably thinks that’s what comes of letting women go to university — they end up getting married in Foreign Parts with no photos and no one doing a wobbly soprano version of ‘Ag Críost an Síol’ at the Offertory. In fact, no Offertory.

I have a soft spot for the Clancy Brothers. Their various line-ups rival Fleetwood Mac, but what band has ever had a temporary split so that one member can concentrate on his dairy farm in Tipperary?

oh4 I suspect she got her own back for not getting to wear a fascinator by surreptitiously baptising my son in the washing up bowl the first time I brought him home.

You will be judged if there isn’t a choice of main, sorry but that’s the way it is! Usually there is a choice of starter, everyone gets the same soup, choice of main and often a trio of desserts though sometimes you get a choice there too.

And forget about your English (not sure about Scotland and Wales!) 1 drink at the drinks reception and a glass of wine per person at dinner -drinks reception booze and wine with dinner is usually free flowing plus a drink of choice for the toast.

Went to a wedding once where the reception drinks ran out. People talked....it was a bit scandalous. At our wedding we had loads of Prosecco and wine left over, but tbf we had massively over catered, no way were we going to run out!

It’s easy see why we give €150 to €200 percouple as a wedding present😂

Uncle Dermot thinks that university for the ladies is all well and good but only if you study domestic science, and preferably in 1965. Irish society started to go downhill once married women were allowed keep their jobs in the civil service. Secular weddings and no beeforsalmon are just a further step along society's road to ruin.

at some aul wan, whose best singing days are long since gone, warbling Ag Críost an Síol. That ditty doesn't give much cover for a reedy voice!

surreptitiously baptising my son in the washing up bowl the first time I brought him home

My mother has done this to all her heathen grandchildren! I caught her once (with the holy water she keeps in an old Miwadi bottle under the sink) baptising my nephew in the kitchen!

*JaneJeffer

Fiontaryou watching the reindeer?*

No! What have I missed?!

((hits shortcut to RTÉ player))

Traveller's Guide on RTE1. An Irish Traveller living with a nomadic reindeer tribe in Siberia. It's very good but a bit gruesome!

I saw it last week, must catch up!

You will be judged if there isn’t a choice of main, sorry but that’s the way it is!
And two types of potato.. At least two..

baptised in the washing up bowl.

She definitely did.

@FiddleFaddle, ah but Miley wasn't taking those wedding vows too seriously now when he was riding Fidelma in the hay.

Well Holy God!

Many years ago , I came back from US to marry an English man in Ireland.
When I suggested that we had hors d'oeuvres served , my mother said " Don't be ridiculous, it's November, you have to have soup .People won't appreciate your Yank ways "

And as for baptism, I still have a bottle of holy water that my Dad - now deceased - gave me to keep in my car.
I thought it was for my protection But he said was for giving someone the Last Rites if I was in, or came across, an accident.

Did someone other than Biddy really ride Miley? My memories of Glenroe are very vague (probably because it was the end of the weekend, and I probably hadn’t finished my homework), and mostly consist of mushrooms and Dick Moran throwing his weight around....

I was just talking about this the other day.

I’m a Nordie but my granny got the Irish News delivered every day to “read who was dead belonging to her”

And then there was a frantic race to be the first one to phone all the other angels of death to say “guess who’s dead?”

Also my aunties dad used to phone my Grandad and say “I was at the best funeral today” 😳

@MumsnetHQ a wee vote for Classics?

@SrSteveOskowskiI will blame you for me not getting my dissertation submission in on time :)

Re: Holy Water

Me and my sister (both atheists) had a total panic about what to do about the 5 litre canister - like a big screen wash container - Lourdes HW (approx 25 years old) when we were clearing the family home.

Several aunties had to be consulted. We even phoned the priest.

Consensus was to festoon the front and back gardens with it in order to get God to help sell the house fast (it did)

This thread is totally distracting me from my dissertation proposal!

1980’s Belfast

• Friday night 📺 interrupted

“Can all key holders return to their premises”

Don’t miss that one.

Highly erotic scene. Watch it and be aroused.