Irish Passport Qualification (lighthearted)

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So my Ancestry DNA report says I'm 60% Irish and only 40% Scottish. AIBU to appeal to the Irish Government that this great grounds to qualify for a passport?
Anyone else got special grounds of appeal for another country?

Fig rolls, brown bread and ulster fry 😋 (not all together obviously!)

@MadameMiggeldy

Apparently.... (ie I heard on Ray Darcy or somewhere)

The name Sudocrem came from the Dublin way of pronouncing ‘soothing cream’

Could be an urban legend

All I can hear in my head now is Ronnie Drew saying soothing cream and it does sort of work...

@BillywigSting

I raise you Flahavans oats, Barry's tea and olde time marmalade with the orange label

I raise you, wheaten bread, soda bread and buttermilk. If there are googies and rashers, we'll have a grand feed for our breakfast there.

@BillywigSting exactly that accent. Apparently the accents of the men at the factory where it was made. ‘Soothing cream‘ became ‘Sudocrem’

Sorry I meant soda bread when I said brown bread! (I have this argument with English dp fair often, complaining I can't get brown, meaning soda, bread here and he insists that you can. He means a loaf of hovis not the lovely crumbly nutty stuff I crave!)

You're bang on with the rashers there though, throw in a farl and we'll be set for some great craic

@BillywigSting

Fig rolls, brown bread and ulster fry 😋 (not all together obviously!)

Fig rolls were my dads favourite biscuit. Except they werent quite biscuits. And arent particularly nice. Sorry, dad. But i didnt like boiled bacon, cabbage and spuds either. Except the spuds. But the boiled bacon and cabbage can go feck itself.

@Katiepoes

Roll it there Roisin/Colette is from The Late Late Show when Gay Byrne hosted it.

Dublin here...messages here too.

I think they need to ask for a clear explanation of yer man/ yer wan. Anyone that can correctly use 'yizzer' and 'yis' gets bonus points. As does knowing about the magical powers of Triple A Golden Maverick against white scour. In fact if you know that last one you either are really Irish or are a very well trained spy.

OMG the Triple A. It just came flooding back.

After is an interesting one and comes from translating Irish Irish literally to English. To say someone has just left you say Tá siad tar éis imeacht, literally 'they are after leaving'.

Never had tackies or gutties but I did have rubber dollies.

@Sakura7 et al thank you! I propose that those questions are stricken from the list (possibly replaced by questions about Sudocrem or similar) since they require you to have watched Irish telly more than us poor foreign born would’ve had a chance to. I have, however, been so desperate for Sudocrem that I actually bought a massive tub online from an Irish pharmacy.

Is sudocreme Irish?! I never knew that, thought it was international.

@Runssometimes Absolutely brilliant. I'm stealing that for Facebook.

Boiled bacon and cabbage is overrated and basically inedible when it's drowned in that awful white sauce.

Red lemonade and fig rolls on a Sunday as a treat. Even though as spidey says, they weren't actually that nice.

Ha! That’s where my faith in Sudocreme comes from! I thought it was normal and widely known that there is nothing that can’t be fixed with a bit of Sudocreme but DH was always a bit baffled by this approach but clearly it comes from the Irish side of my family!

I’m half Irish and half Yorkshire and sometimes it’s hard to know what bits come from where. Usually I wait for DH to look confused and assume that is from the Irish side!

I have a book about tea and biscuits that suggests that the true test of Irishness is the Kimberly. Only Irish people actually like them according to the book, whether born there or by heritage. So - to solve the 80s TV reference problem - upon receipt of the passport application a Kimberly is despatched, the applicant must eat it and then their reaction decides their fate. Only Irish genes can tell that no, it is not stale, it is in fact one of the greatest biscuits ever. Or used to be at least, my last care package* suggests Kimberly are not what they once were.

*Barrys Tea, Tayto and various biscuits. Not fig rolls though, yack.

He’s a quer geg so he is.

Put it in the hot press.

I’m going back home. (Meaning where you were brought up).

I’ve never heard these outside of Ireland.

I like potatoes a lot - and I mean a lot.

This should enable me to get an Irish Passport, surely?

Being Scottish gives me a head start on these as we also say that we're going for the messages, gutties and don't need subtitles for Derry Girls.

My Ancestry DNA is still in the post but I have Keenan, McLaughlan, Walsh and McCarthy in my tree so i'm practically 50% irish.

I've known Scottish people talk about going for the messages, but I guess there's a fair amount of overlap, thanks to Oliver Cromwell.

I must start applying for my Irish/EU citizenship, two of my grandparents (one on each side) were born in Ireland. They were born in the 19th century though, so I've no idea how easy it will be to get the evidence.

Lighthearted response: I could play football for six countries due to my diverse ancestry. However, I can only get documents to prove two of them and mercifully one of them is Irish. I have two passports.

BillywigSting You can get a bake-yer-own McCambridges brown bread from Ocado. It's lovely and it comes with a foil tin and the mix is in a plastic bag that you just add milk to. A bargain at £1.99 (well for England it's a bargain)

www.ocado.com/products/john-mccambridge-irish-soda-bread-kit-413872011

Messages 100% ROI thing. West of Ireland and midlands.

Nixer is another one I believe? A friend who taught economics got v blank faces from students when she tried to explain the black market with this in England...

Me and a friend went to visit the Child of Prague in Prague when we were students (lit a fair few candles for grannies in there) and were blown away to find he has a different outfit for every feast day that the nuns dress him up in. Not sure why in Ireland we only have the red outfit... would a statue in his yellow get up not work as well for wedding weather

@LakieLady , you can obtain birth certificates of the Irish born grandparents fairly easily from Irish authorities. You then need either a death certificate for one or proofs of ID.then you need to prove with documents the link to you - including marriage certificates if relevant. Then your own proofs of ID.
It's a a laborious process and a bit expensive but the Irish authorities are pretty good. Lots can be done online.

My mother would not only pray to St Anthony but she would also stick a pin in any handy soft furnishing. Stuff occasionally got found. My mother was the least superstitious woman ever and these two steps did not count as superstition.

The comment on potatoes would make me think you're not Irish as it's something that non Irish people have said to me over the years 'Oh do you have three different types of potatoes with every meal?' I do yeah. And to be honest if said by an English person it can be offensive but I might be alone on that one!

In our house it was the child of PRAY-g Never understood why

Messages, press, gutties and snib are all used in Scotland too. Probably more by people over 50 like me 🙂