So many Irish here

[amazingtracy]

I never thought I'd be doing this!
Anyway my Irish self and child are in Spain for my holidays. I'd like to think I'm fairly typical in that I'm currently chugging sipping wine on the balcony while my sons asleep.
lol and behold I just heard my balcony neighbor on the phone to....... god knows who but , the place is lovely it seems...... and I quote "but there's more Irish here now".
I'm so tempted to ask my son to ensure he brushes his teeth when he's done with his bottle of whisky.

I would peak my head over and introduce myself and say you were thrilled to hear her recommend the hotel BECAUSE there are so many Irish there! We do add to the craic - actually mostly we Are 'THE CRAIC' and people love us :D Give her a big ol cheers from Ireland ;)

They said "theres more Irish here now"? How is that negative in anyway? Are there more?

Koolaid - the neighbour said "the place is lovely ... but there are more Irish here now."

kool the phrase was most definitely negative. I heard the entire conversation. I also know that the recipient needs to empty the kitchen bin because she forgot to.
I love love people, apart from dickheads. I have no time for them.
I'd love to know what she looked like.
All I know is that her husband/ partner asked her if he could wear a t shirt tomorrow? Do people ask permission these days?

I don't see how thats automatically a negative. Even if it is, most Irish people I know (and I am one) would say the same and worse about English people!

Start a sing song on the balcony of "come out ye black and tans" Or use this time to pass on an important skill to the next generation -murdering Spancil Hill on the tin whistle.

I'm arriving in Spain on Saturday. I'll bring enough tin whistles for us all.

kool easily about 40% of one half of my family live in England. My husband was also born there. It's not a comment I hear at all.

I went to Spain last year and loads of people asked me things like "are you going to nice spain or like, Blackpool in the sun Spain? Too many English football shirts etc!"

miggle do you know the song- the lid of my granny's dustbin?

Where are you from kool

No, but I may learn it for the next family singalong!

Do you think it’s because she associates the Irish with a certain culture? I know an Irish lad who people mistake for a traveller all the time. It annoys the shit out of him although he plays on it when it suits!

All my Irish mates are heavily involved with horses, either farriers or trainers/importers of horses. They get very pissed off with being associated with the culture by ignorant people.

The saying that there’s an Irishman wherever you go is so true. I was in America in a bourbon production place and some lad was telling me he was 11th generation. I was like ‘Yeah, my mother’s from Kerry....’

Is it that offensive though?

We (Irish) would say it about the English.

My English brother in law has said it about the Welsh.

I wouldn’t get annoyed about it, I’d just become dramatically and patriotically more Irish in her earshot!

Ah she’s just worried your pale blue skin will absorb all the sun and leave none for her to be fair though we’ve had a right blast of sun this summer to make us look vaguely warmed up.

Cork

I'm arriving in Spain on Saturday. I'll bring enough tin whistles for us all.

Omg, please do! We can have some dancing, I’ll bring my cousin, she’s the regional champion in her area. Her top tip: ‘Smile at the judges’.

Shall we start singing the Fields of Athenry? Many a night was spent singing along to this and others when I was a child.

There's no more than 10miles in the difference of my passport being Irish or British. Believe me there are no drunk people lairing about from any nationality. The place is family friendly/boringly quiet.
My wee neighbour was very clear that the place is great but there are more Irish here.

I'm so glad I packed www.google.ie/search?q=irish+dancing+dress&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-ie&client=safari#imgrc=4lLnNvcVlABncM: this to wear tomorrow.

If someone next door to me on my holidays started playing the tin whistle I would shove it up their arse.

amazingtracy - that's a shame, she's just a moron and you sound good fun.

It's made me think though that I always observe and probably aloud to myself "there's lots of Irish/English/Scots/Germans here" - in my head I'm just idly doing a demographic survey.

And possibly offending people.

My son plays the tin whistle. What a beautiful instrument. I thank god every day for sending us the inventor of the tin whistle. And for my son’s persistence in the face of his struggle to play well

Amen Sister

I was about to say maybe she was commenting as in there’s lots of Irish the same as someone might say there’s lots of Germans etc not meant in a nasty way just stating facts. But the BUT makes it a different context completely. Very proud of my Irish heritage btw 😊

doormatof : I'm Irish and look like that too. I have a hard time convincing people I'm Irish because I don't look Scandinavian.

Would I be unreasonable to teach my child the piano accordion, tin whistle and the melodica during our summer holidays? On separate note - how did the melodica not become hipster cool?