Irish in Ireland AMA

[SrSteveOskowski]

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

Show her this!

Do the Irish love a new build as much as they do here in Scotland?
I think we've got the same attitudes to funerals here as you do OP. Especially in rural Scotland. We don't have any of this invitation business.
What are weddings like where you live?

@Peridot1 - you would have lived very close to an uncle of mine, and his family, he used to live across the road from Cadbury, and my Granny lived just around the corner on Bunratty Rd!

I think I really need to go to skibereen and show my kids where their ancestors came from my Dad was born in a pub on bridge street ....

2boys That could be the corner bar, cahalanes, the Fairfield....there are a few gone from there now

Guess where I am from....(now in NI)

Yep you named i! My Grandad used to own it many years ago!

Is it true that Fungi is a cute Kerry hoor in a wetsuit?

And is a person who was born 10 miles from your town and has lived there for 60 years a blow in?

My OH is not just from Clare but ‘West Clare’

Are you an Aisling or a Majella?

I have mostly Aisling traits but didn't settle for a fella with road frontage.

I think we've got the same attitudes to funerals here as you do OP. Especially in rural Scotland. We don't have any of this invitation business.

Yeah, DH is Glaswegian (alhtough most Glaswegians are just Donegal folk with stronger accents) and they do funerals more like us, although removals aren't as common.

A car I was in once broke down on Bridge Street in Skibb, back when dinosaurs walked the earth and God was a child, and a rake of aul fellas filed out of the Fair Field House and helped us push it out of the way, and then bought us drinks, even though they were a bit shocked we were girls drinking pints.

I see your immersion question and raise you

Who took the minerals and the buns from the press?

It was ent the Fairfield but another pub mentioned Pish ,however of your talking about dinosaurs you probably went I school with my Dad ! He said he was taught by the Brothers?

Google Martin’s life cartoon, there’s a few of them. They are sketches of conversation had in every house in Ireland

Do you eat boiled cake ? My Grandmother made the most amazing boiled cake it was like fruit cake but very light !

Martin’s Life is utter genius.

I don’t want to be cheeky, but I had to laugh when I saw this AMA. There was a previous one a few months ago ‘I’m Irish, AMA’, which got zero replies. I told my DH who is from Dublin and we (well me more than him) found it quite funny on account of the tendency for Irish people to find themselves and their countryfolk incredibly fascinating and have such group national pride. I mean this lightheartedly, you are wonderful people and of course fascinating, but maybe that’s a genuine question for ye, do you agree with his theory that collective self-celebration is a defence mechanism built up from years of oppression and derision from the brits?

@OpiesOldLady - ooh. Interesting! There was someone on here years ago who had relatives across from Cadbury’s too. And I would have been at school with girls from Bunratty.

Mere, perhaps your comment says less about Ireland and Irish post-colonial identity than it does about the consistent failure of Englishness to find a way of articulating itself, far less celebrating itself, since WW2 and the end of empire?

Do you know what a tracker mortgage is?

the tendency for Irish people to find themselves and their countryfolk incredibly fascinating
I think most Irish people find everyone fascinating which is why we have a reputation for being the land of a thousand welcomes. Brehon law stated that hospitality should be extended to all who needed it.

The coffin is generally open here. A closed coffin is fairly rare and would generally only be in the case of something like the person was killed in a bad accident/car crash/fire etc.

I don't know that this is true everywhere in Ireland - not in Dublin, at least. I'd been to a rake of funerals before I saw my first open coffin.

Out at a party for the night, but will reply back to all your questions tomorrow.

Keep 'em comin'

To be fair, most people have national pride (I’m welsh). Self loathing is a particularly middle class English trait.