Irish people what is your opinion on this?

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Podge and Rodge Tribute Band

Come on now! Hold your horses! Sher didn't thousands and thousands of Irish people take the boat to England for decades when there was nothing here for them? They couldn't live on fresh air and the Irish language and many of them made good lives for themselves in the UK.

What's so wrong with English people anyway? If you prick them do they not bleed? If you tickle them do they not laugh? And they laugh mostly at Irish comedians because they're all over there making the few bob and sher didn't Zig and Zag forge a career for themselves as well in England?

Whatever happened to Zig and Zag.............?

Misty Blue

Would you ever behave yourself woman.What on earth have we to fear from the English now.Aren't we a great deal bigger than that?Haven't the Irish gone out into the world and settled and done well and had to face the same pathetic bigotry as you are displaying now.What do you suggest,No dogs,No English.No Blacks type signs on doors as per the sort of thing that was displayed over there once?I think we're a lot better than that, stop shaming us.

Consider this:I have three sons who don't just have a cĆŗpla focal they actually think in Irish.What if they were of the opinion that anyone that didn't think in the Irish language should be included in your list of outsiders?You'd be an outsider.Pack your bags!LOL

when the sun goes down

would you ever get over yourself!
english people have as much right to live her as we do there.
it's people like you that are exactly what this country doesn't need.
you're xenaphobia is actually quite sad.

Christine

I think you'll find the largest immigrant community in Ireland are the English. And most of them, like the Normans, have become more Irish than the Irish themselves. Take a trip to West Cork and you'll see what I mean.

Speaking English does not make you anglicised, thats just ridiculous and offensive to the majority of Irish people. Ireland will never become a little America or England, no more than we'll become a little Canada or Australia, it takes more than a language to make a national identity.

Orla C

If you follow your argument, this would mean that no Muslims, Jews, Polish (despite being Catholic, as there is such a thing as a Catholic English person also), Germans, Dutch, French, Spanish, or any other nationality should be allowed to settle here.

Honey, with all the Asians, Africans and other nationalities working in the HSE, the health care system would topple over and die completely. The hotel and catering industry would, quite simply, implode. And as for all of the foreigners who work in the universities as professors, well ....

Then you'd have to go back and weed out all Irish with Spanish, Portuguese, French or Moroccan ancestry, thus halving the population overnight; then you'd have to find all the Jews and get rid of them - and there was this guy named Schickelgruber in Austria who moved to Germany and changed his name who tried to do that in Germany, messed things up a bit for everyone when he did that - and then all those who can claim Norman-French ancestry .... And you'd have to weed out all the Scottish, Welsh, etc. that moved here any time over the past 150 years. There'd be nobody left!

New people coming into a country bring their own culture with them, and this eventually becomes assimilated - it happened with music, visual art, literature, dance in Ireland. No culture can exist in a vacuum, its very nature is that of constant change.
The only place in Ireland that's even close to being either little England or little America is Dublin.

Like it or not, the English are our nearest neighbours and we've been the best of enemies, worst of friends for centuries now, but it's better the devil you know.

Priscilla Duck

My next door neighbour is from London, I work with three English women and my best friend is from Norwich. No, I have no problem with it. I DO have a problem with racists like yourself however. You say:

"we were only declared a republic sixty years ago and we are still very anglicanized"

So what? We were a colony for centuries, that will always be part of our history and our culture. There is no such thing as 'pure Irishness'. We have had independence for almost a century, surely you should be secure enough in your national identity to be able to move on from defining yourself in terms of 'not being English'? Would you ever go off and learn a bit about the world and come back to us when you've matured?

Sarah

A couple more questions while you're at it:

Why are immigrants taught Irish at school? it's our language not theirs!

Since we all know we are the real Catholic country, should we call the Italians plastic paddies for being ROMAN Catholic?

Should Irish people who are not of Scottish descent be "allowed" to support Celtic (or [shudder at the thought] Rangers)? - or people who are not of English descent be allowed to support Man United?

Should the Irish Diaspora, all 70 million of them (according to a thing on the radio the other day) be 'recalled' to Ireland, we could all then stand on each others shoulders for want of room unless we can swim.

Ironically, 1 in 10 Brits is entitled to an Irish passport (based on a parent or grandparent) - that means there are more "Irish" there than there are here.

Personally, I love to "hate" the English in jest, I love to see them get beat in places like Croke Park, Lansdowne Road, Webley, Basra :-) etc but that is all in fun. If I went to the pub and saw a few people in England shirts singing for their football team, if I was rich that week, I would offer to get them a drink.

Do you also feel we should abandon everything that is not native to Ireland, football (soccer), oranges, bananas, potatoes (which were brought from America to England to Ireland), kebabs, Chinese and Indian takeaways - and of course cancer drugs, insulin, computers, television, cars and phones, which were all developed/discovered abroad?

slipstreamer

So, what's the Irish for bigot again? I myself am not Irish, but then I don't really have to be to spot xenophobia.

Might I remind you of the great numbers of Irish who have emigrated to England, Canada, Australia and the US for years - and who blended in just fine while keeping a bit of their own culture?

Or perhaps you could send all the jobs and investments in Ireland that come from the English and multinational firms back where they came from as well - wouldn't want all that foreign money and employment now would we? Too English by far. Better start giving the EU some funding back while you are at it.

So, you'll take the money and assistance, but demand that people from abroad cannot become Irish, while reserving the right of Irish to travel and live elsewhere...yeah, that makes sense...

Bigotry is bigotry no matter how you dress it up as a cultural difference.

deburca98

So if your irish and catholic it is fine, what about english catholics ?
Wolfe tone was a protestant and he was one of our greatest heroes, I suggest you spend less time concentrating in irish class and more time concentrating in history classes.

alan m

People like you cause the wars in this world. Fortunately as can be seen by the great answers so far you are in the .01% minority. I feel sorry for you that your hate for humans is so strong.

fashonion

Where have you been living for the past 20 odd years? Shopping centres in Ireland have always been known as Little Britain, because the vast majority of stores are English.

ivastupidname

I'll tell my mum she's not welcome then... Don't worry CailĆn, I'll have her shipped off back to Manchester in no time.

JUst out of interest, if she did want to stay, how proficient would you require she be in the Irish language? She can already say "CupĆ�n tae", DinnĆ©ar" and "An Post", which is slightly more than my Irish brother.

"It's obvious the only claim any of you's have to being Irish is blood and accent"

Wtf does that mean? I have a passport too that says I'm Irish if you need any further proof. What else do I need to do?

I should be doing something else

This is the most laughably idiotic question I have ever seen.

It's due to people like yourselves that there are these types of problems in this country.

You are so stupid, ignorant and insular that it actually beggars belief.

Silly little racist girl!

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