You know you're really Irish when...

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...you tell the barman to put the change in the poor box.

Going to Devotions

Good Friday. Every pub closed. Everyone hammered.....in a pub.

Ah he's a good aul skin AncientBallerina

Poor Lottie. This was a warm-hearted thread and lots of non-Irish people were enjoying it too.

My uncle owns a pub. Quite a useful guy to have around, in our family.

Pure daycent Bai

Aka Nice one!

My dad and uncle went to some house the last time they were back. It was the house of an old friend/relative and Had long since been abandoned. It was totally delapidated and there was a tree growing in the middle of the living room BUT it must have still had an electrical supply because the little red light underneath the sacred heart picture on the wall was still on!

Maybe it isn't just Irish onedev, is your Mum's version the one about going to the pictures?

Haha, Yoni, that encapsulates the entire experience of growing up with an Irish mammy

Yoni maybe it's just God-powered?

I just remembered what Skinny Malink did in the pictures and snorted so loud I woke up Dh

My grandparents also had a picture on their wall, it was one of those pictures that changes depending on the angle you look at it from. One angle was a picture of Jesus's face, thorns on head etc. and the other angle was his face from the Turin shroud - it was horrible!

Oh god the Lourdes memorabilia. Some of that stuff was really creepy!

We also had a large picture of the Sacred Heart with the light on underneath growing up at home. We also had a big picture with Pope John the 23rd on one side, another Pope the other side and in the middle a grinning JFK!!! My mum loved that picture.

Picture of JFk and Jackie next to the pope in your Granny's house. Oh and Dev or Michael Collins depending on which side they were on.

Cross post!

I'm trying to remember it Slainte - I'll get her to sing it tomorrow but I think he goes to the dr with his big banana feet - God only knows what I'm remembering! I didn't realise just how Irish I am until this thread though - still loving it!

We had the cheap skate sacred heart, the one without the light. It is still up at my parents along with the holy water font at the front door and of course the popes marriage blessing.

The hole in the wall cash machine being known as the Drink Link!

You drink southern comfort and take pills and attempt to drive off cliff

My Nana had a ceramic tile with a picture of the pope standing in front of the Irish flag in her shower! It was always a bit disconcerting, being naked in front of the pope .

"she wouldn't give you the daylight if she could keep it from you"

You drink southern comfort and take pills and attempt to drive off cliff

Okkkkkaaay

Indeed, another...

Skinny Malinki big banana feet went to the pictures and couldn't get a seat is from ym childhood and i'm 1/2 scottish, not irish :D