Very Irish Things

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A thread of appreciation of things that only seem to happen in Ireland.

I was away for two weeks and a couple of days after I returned the postman knocked on my door with a big bag of packages ( they were sent from work, only two were very delayed orders). He realised I was away so instead of leaving them and risking theft or damage he stored them for me.

Anyone else any good stories?

Tayto crisps. Every Irish person I know in England demands that anyone visiting Ireland brings them back Tayto crisps!

Irish funeral ladies and their teas should be a UN protected heritage monument, frankly!

The respect we show to the dead. The way the whole community plays a part and everyone goes to the wake.

When my cousin died in her 20s, one of my aunt's friends turned up with a ham. A whole ham, Christmas style. The others brought the bread and other fillings. On the day of the funeral all of the neighbours directed mourners to park on their driveways. The community did all they could to wrap my aunt and uncle up and look after them.

Read the room 😬😬😬

I’ve lived in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland.

No, it doesn’t happen everywhere.

Happens in Glasgow!

“Thanks driver” they all say 😂

Shush lads, the deaths are on.

Anyway I just want to point out that funeral and mourning etiquette is just perfectly done in Ireland and I love the way children are involved and not shushed away.

also the month/years mind - don’t really do that in the UK but it’s so important for healing ❤️‍🩹

Having a picnic out of the boot of your car - usually when you're on your holiday or similarly if you've driven up to Dublin for an All Ireland Match & you're parked up.

Red lead

Posted too soon - Red lead on a blaa.
Also luncheon meat sandwiches and TK red lemonade.
Bacon and cabbage

MIL was from a tiny village in Cavan called Corlough. Maybe Biscakes were just a MIL thing!

I'm English was shocked that the wake is the night before the funeral with the body whereas in England we call the do after the service the wake. I'm not sure if it was something that was done here in the past but I do remember my grandad being brought back to the house (early 80's). Maybe it does off here.
Yes to months and years mind. Again first I'd head when MIL died.

FIL lived outside a small village in Tyrone and my DH remembered walks into to the village to buy sweets (a good old walk) and the family knowing before he'd returned back that he went into the Prodestant shop not the Catholic one! Again in the 80''s

Just love this thread, sorry I can't add anything to it

And meanies!

My FIL says biscakes !!

I am so adopting biscakes...

@AssertiveGertrude where is he from?!

My youngest used to say it (which was random as MIL died while I was pregnant) but sadly stopped once he could talk properly 😭 sad times

If you're rural, binoculars on the windowsill.

I'm in a city and have binoculars to hand ;)

Due to some regulation or something like that red lead is no longer the fluorescent pink it used to be, it's a bit paler nowadays.

The expression 'that's gas' (hilarious).

This thread is gas.

Any craic?
Divil a bit

Go way outta that.

He was yeah = he wasn’t

C’mere to me, I’ll go away.

Perfectly normal way to end a conversation.