So many Irish here

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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.

Get hold of a good ole bouron and let him practice on the balcony, she’s an entitled CF. Irish people are brilliant I’m Irish and I’m great craic she needs to catch her self on

I hate going places where there are lots of English (I am English) but always happy to go on holiday where there’s Irish. I’d happily be your holiday neighbour!

I'm comforted by the slamming of her door when she heard my sons accent. The piano accordion lessons at 7.00 tomorrow might piss her off though.
I just hope that there's no Spanish people beside me with their constant castanet clicking and heavy foot stomping and all.
I was tempted to start speaking to my son as gaelige tomorrow but foghorn Fred would just go. WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT MAMMY. IM NOT IN SCHOOL NOW.

I was tempted to start speaking to my son as gaelige tomorrow but foghorn Fred would just go. WHY ARE YOU SAYING THAT MAMMY. IM NOT IN SCHOOL NOW.

I don't really get it –I've never heard anyone speak disparagingly of the Irish. Is that a thing?

she’s an entitled CF

those words do not mean what you think they mean

“By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
Michael they are taking you away”

both of you, loud as you can, 7am

What do you mean, she sounded to me like she felt entitled to not be surrounded by Irish as she clearly dislikes them, and in that case what she said was horrible so I would rpley that she’s a cheeky fucker, what’s wrong with that?

Or , in your vest Daniel impression
“Oh Danny boy, the pipes the pipes are calling.....”

Admittedly I am super petty but - every time you see her on her balcony greet her with a big YEEEEOOOOOOO. Try to befriend her every evening. Tap o tha marnin neighbour! every morning. Crank the Irishness up to 90. She will hate it.

Where abouts are you? I'll be over on the next flight with my bodhran and the brother on the spoons. A bit of the auld triangle will learn them.

see the 'old Danny boy thing,? I gauge the severity of a chest cold on how that song sounds on someone with a cold. The trick is to wait for the ' from glen to glen and down the mountain side part' if the voice is hoarse at that line- you have a bad cold. No one in my family will prove their sickness anymore to me. truth be told they just won't sing for me
I clearly need adult conversation.

God could you imagine it, I’ve this picture now in me head of hundreds of ones, marching in playing tunes it’d be so funny 🤣

I'm so mad I didn't pack my county GAA shirt to YEOWWWW in her face.

Anyone interested in a flash mob olė olė tribute?

I've dealt with low-level racism my whole life and I'd like to say it doesn't get to me anymore, but it does. It feels horrible being surrounded by people who obviously dislike you without even knowing you. There's also things like "but where are you really from?" which make you feel alone in your own country.

Cheeky witch.

I’m Scottish and I love the Irish. Whenever I’m on holiday in Canada I always get asked if I’m Irish not because I sound it but because I apparently look like it (dark hair, pale skin), I take it as a compliment.

I don't really get it –I've never heard anyone speak disparagingly of the Irish. Is that a thing?

Yes it is a thing - among some British not all and I think it is dwindling - at least I hope it is.

We live in the US and dh - phd level and in a very senior professional role was in a lift with a visiting colleague from the UK who made an entirely racist remark about my dh's education in front of US colleagues (who were aghast). For the first and only time in his life he made a complaint to his HR dept.

friend had a colleague in a top london management consultancy say "oh you stupid paddy" when she accidentally spilled her coffee

I've been in a meeting with UK lawyers who visited dublin for the first time and thought it was charming to say "except for the green post boxes we thought it is just like London except maybe London 50 years ago"

I'm from a large city in England and we have a lot of Irish ..... I love the accent and the sense if humour and in my opinion they know how to make people feel welcome and at home.

We aren't all anti Irish ....

Please sing Danny Boy the next time you see her OP

Girlwith ??

When my DS was in infants a new DS from Ireland joined the class.

After about 8 months, DS came home and sadly told me that Johnny Larkin was losing his Irish accent.

We are on the other side of the world. Don't know if that makes any difference.

When I was working in banking we had a tradie customer who had massive government contracts for public works. In he walked one day and asked Ängel can you do this for me"

My response "Michael, keep talking like that and I'll do anything for you". Jost popped out of my mouth. I was mortified but he thought it was pretty funny.

Most Irish go away to mainland Europe at the beginning of July as they're off school and English aren't so it's substantially cheaper. Surprised that they're so many there. I have been guilty of noting races at my holiday resorts, not negatively but just factually. We're actually holidaying at predominantly gay resort. My mil keeps mentioning that. We've seen a few sights that have kept her wide eyed.

You are pretty horrible to the English behind their backs, though. They inherited their history.

How the hell would you know what irish people say about the English "behind their backs". I can honestly say I never say anything about English people behind their backs because they never occur to me. Pretty horrible - what does that mean?

And if you are English you really need to understand your colonial history and the very immediate history of your country before you say something as really really assinine as "they (presumably english people in their 30s) inherited their history"