Whats your opinion on irish people?

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Amanda 88

My guess is the people you encountered were idiots ... get em everywhere, every race and creed.

I am English and find other accents fascinating to listen to, so I certainly wouldn't let your accent cause me to make any judgements about you.

I'd just chalk it up to the fact that you came across some ill manner folk and not give them a second thought :-)

miss k

I LOVE the irish accent! I used to work with with a girl who was irish and found her to be the most loveliest person i had met in a very very long time.

You must have been staying in a backward area.

Why When How

Hello Joanne,
I'm disappointed at the wording of your question. As an Irishman I'd ask you to think about your question and your inflammatory language.

"Oh, and prove me wrong in disliking the english!" oh for crying out laoud. So Joanne tell me honestly how can you dislike an entire naiton if you have not met them all.

Also ask yourself this. Can you honestly say English are treated well in Ireland?They only have to open their mouths and it's not long before we taunt them with Cromwell, Occupation, Empire etc. So would it be fair of an English person to say they dislike all the Irish?

SlГЎn Leat

Eradicat

Where abouts in england did you go? Because it's sounds awful, and I'd like to apologise on behalf of the sorry few that you met!
I personally love Irish people, I've yet to meet one who wasn't warm, kind and friendly.
Sorry you had such a crap experience hon!
xxxx

rockinjrzgirl

im irish we r amazing funny happy people!!! we love to laugh and drink thats a fact but it's all good. and our food is awesome to...

Polo

I really like them, some of my best friends are from Ireland. (btw, I'm English)

Angel

I have meet some very rude Irish People, there are Rude people in ever country, it not just in England.

You should see how the English get treated in Scotland.
The Scots dislike the English, so we know how you feel,
The Welsh don't care much for the English also.

The UK, ( the United Kingdom ) is not very United is it?
The Scots want Independence,
The Welsh want Independence,

ukok

You have a sense of humour failure, this is the way brits do things, if you were scottish, a scouser, a geordie etc, you would have got the same treatment.

scotland_rockers

i love irish people (i alomost fell in love with an irish dude). but i supose it dosen't mater as i am scottish.

door.uk

Over the years i have worked on building sites with plenty of Irishman and have never seen anyone put them down, have a joke yes, paddy, taff , jock its not an insult and i wish i had a ВЈ1 for every time i have been called an English Basta*d. sorry you had bad experience but i cant think where

the only Paddy i have little or no respect for and is getting the Irish race a bad name is the Travelers who set up site, mess up the area and abuse and frighten people and me Grandfather a Waterford man.

TidyBoy

to be fair the irish people can certainly drink and they know how to party! i like the irish and im english. the people u met were probably just dickheads in general!

annie6

My daughter in law is Irish and we are welsh she always takes the mick out of my hubby and he does the same to her, she and her mum are brilliant and we couldn't ask for a better daughter in law, my sister in law is English and is always joking about the welsh and has lived in wales for 20 years we are all close regardless about which part of the UK we all from. PS if they are rude and hurt full comments ignore them they are not worth your time, and thankfully it is a minority.

Monkey Hanger

You Leprechauns are Nutters from what i gattered when i went over to Ireland (County Clair Lisdoovarna, Galway, Limerick & Ennis) early this month. Not all of us English are rude most of us are freindly. (No Offenice)

steve f

I would like to apologise on behalf of these morons who treated you this way and wish that you wouldn't generalise and feel that we Brits are all the same.
I would be interested in knowing which part of England you refer to.....
I am from Liverpool where there are a lot of Irish people and I have had lots of Irish friends over the years and find them really warm, friendly, fun loving people.
Maybe I'm a little biased because my mother was Irish. She was from Ballinrobe in County Mayo.
If you ever come across to England again, come to Liverpool and I bet you'll change your opinion of the English....I guarantee.

Sara

I absolutely luv the Irish

skunk

Hey sis i guess you just met a bunch of dumb asses.
My Mom was a red headed Irish Lady.
If i ever heard anyone making fun of her,i would knock hell out of them.

slipstreamer

They were fine last I was there. I only met one or two rude Irish people, but I'd say that was par for the course with most countries.

Some people have very small brains - happens in every country. They dislike anyone different from themselves. Don't let it get to you. Not all Brits are mean.

Overall, I think it's pretty pathetic and rude to be mean or disrespectful to a tourist because of their nationality. I should know, I am American, everyone loves to bash us. The fact that I voted against Bush twice doesn't protect me from rudeness by the self righteous who believe in pre-judgement. Apparently they "know" all about me based entirely on my accent. I grew up round various accents myself, I would never judge people based on how they talk or where they are from.

Oddly enough, I have met quite a few rude Irish people here on YA though. (let the thumbs down-ing commence - just because I am a Yank)

I like the Irish that I've met so far both n the US and abroad. (I'm an American with Irish heritage)

Janet W

i love the irish! and im english! we went to Dublin last october and the irish people were all so kind,courteous and helpful.
im sorry youve had bad experience of english people, were not all like that honest!
i live in the east midlands and i get mocked for my accent too,(especially from the people down south for some reason!???)
anyway greetings to you from me hun xxx

JOHN F

Not all English are Bad. i am English, and i do love the Irish, suppose it helps that my parents are Irish.
I have Mates, some of them have been to Ireland with me, they love Ireland, the Irish, the way of life, as its a lot slower.
they have have been to other parts ofIreland on Hoilday, and they alwaycs come back saying, how nice the people where etc.

the way you was treated, when you visited England, was wrong, we are not all like that, beleive me. where i live is a strong Irish Communitry, and we all mix well.
as for Paddy, its a nickname, like the British get called Limeys by the Americans.
My Cousins from Northen Ireland call me a "Brits". one of my cousin from the Republic of Ireland- who is very anti- British, calls me a Brit as well. Paddy is just a nickname. you should have said my name is....., dont call me paddy, especially, if they where family or friends

you didn't say where in England you Visited- there are a few problems in some areas, as people from outside the UK, are taking the Jobs, perhaps they didn't relise that you was visiting- bit this is no excuse, to how you was treated. i could go on, but i won't!

scratchy

T'be sure there grand

Paul H

It sounds like some people were being typical English. Depending where you were in the country - I'd guess London - then to gently mock people who are in any way different is part of the national culture. Hence use of the nick name "Paddy" (as Irish stereotype men are ALWAYS called Paddy/Patrick or Mick) and the mocking of the accent. Equally, Welsh people or people from the West of England are mocked as "sheep sh*ggers" and Scots are portrayed as being careful with their money.

Some of what you have encountered is, however, racism.

Some people, especially those who grew up during the Troubles tend to associate all Irish people with the Provisional IRA/terrorists/bombers, even though that is thankfully now largely behind us.

Some even older people think back to the formation of the Irish Free State and the terrorist activities that preceded it in England.

These same people probably think all Germans are Nazis and all Muslims are members of Al Qaeda. In short, they are bigots and not representative of the rest of us.

Please do not judge the whole country this way though.
I am English, on the whole when in The Republic of Ireland I have been treated very well, but some people have been negative towards me. Equally in parts of North London or the North of England my Southern London accent has been mocked or I have been called names because of the colour of my skin ("Whitey").

The Wicked Witch of the West

Never met an Irishman(or woman!) that I couldn`t get on with yet! Love Ireland and the Irish. Music,customs humour all of it.(And I only drink Guinness!) I could be a little biased though,my partner and all his family are Irish and I have a good old fashioned Irish name myself! Also the Brits don`t understand the difference between a Paddy and Mick;nor the difference between someone who says they come from Londonderry and someone who says they come from Derry(same place for info)
The people you came across probably didn`t like anyone!

Ritchela

All of the ones I met were pretty nice, funny, and had great personalities... Then again, that's only 3 people!

billy mac

i love the irish but there again i,m scottish.

Grey Mare

Sadly, the world is full of tossers, and they like to take a peck at anyone who's different to themselves.

I'm English, with Scottish/English lineage. I was born in Yorkshire, and am proud to be Yorkshire born and (half) bred!

I always find that, the further South you go in England, the worse the people become. I'd guess you didn't visit Yorkshire?

I happen to know several Irish people, and I get on with them extremely well - I'm going to be visiting Val tomorrow. She's from Dublin, and came to my aid when I needed it, and now it's my turn to reciprocate.

I know of a couple of farm machinery traders from Dublin, and Wexford. I always look forward to their visits to England, and usually meet up with at least two of them each month - next week at York, as it happens this time.

It's nice to get to talk to someone who's not in your own back yard, and I personally look upon it as a kind of cultural exchange.

I was at University with a couple of girls from Ireland, Maeve from Waterford, and Mary from Belfast. As different as York and Bristol!, but both perfectly good friends to me.

Don't worry about the killjoys, it's their loss, not yours! I had a hostile reception from some Canadians, just for asking about moving to Canada! and from my own experience, about the worst people I've had the misfortune to encounter came from Kent, but once again, it doesn't mean that all people from Kent are the same, I just happened to come across the 'wrong-uns'!

Facile Princeps

Well there you go, such is life. You are no doubt pleased you did not stay in England for long with all those people being "rude" to you. but to answer your question, I have no opinion of Irish people

citeog

I've had a something said to me a couple of times.Once in England and once in Ibiza.They did'nt get a smack in the mouth because one was while working and the other was when my girlfriend was nearby.Although tossers are in every country.We have plenty of them in Ireland.The English are cool.We have lots in common with each other.Im happy things have panned out the way they have.

Harv S

I wouldn't worry too much about the English being rude to you because you are irish (me too). I think you just came accross a bunch of tossers. People over here don't have a lot of time for anyone, it's not like home but mostly they don't mean to be rude it's a sign of the times I'm afraid. Come and stay at ours next time bit more friendly ;-)

tinow

lucky you, the irish have a stigma attached because of the IRA and terrorism. Its not you personally, its the generations before whov fu@ked it up for the rest of us. Ive moved to cornwall and get the same thing.

Im from northern ireland, and to be honest with my upbringing im weary of irish accents (purely because i was an RUC child) and have lost track of the number of funerals my parents went to for my dads colleagues. I can count on 1 hand the number of people who werent effected by the troubles in NI, Ive had a gun pulled on me at 18, my dad has narrowly escaped outside work attacks, IRA tails and we've had to move through intimidation. Hes since retired and moved abroad, but at the same time hes still sus with accents, as am I.

Paddy is the irish general nickname so dont take that personally like Jock is the general nickname for scots.

For older people who are rude to you it will have stemmed back to the terrorism campaign by the IRA in mainland britain which would have been televised

mathew j

come to wales we will give you a warm welcome and dont wory about the english nobody likes them anyway. i worked in dudlin and waterford and the hospitality was outstanding i love the irish and am glad thier just over the water so i can continue to visit a couple of times a year and i always like to see ireland beet the english at rugby. i also worked in bristol and had a similar expirance nobody could understand me, bloody english.

josephrob2003

I'm sorry you feel that way,maybe you've been mixing with a lower class,I have many Irish friends,and ok the odd name call happens,but this is usually two sided and in good fun.
Irish are well known the world over for their humour,but people being rude is the norm nowadays,good manners went out of the window generations back,I like to treat people with respect,but don't always get it back,you are at fault for letting the shop people get away with it,I often complain,something we don't do enough of. we should be like the Germans, they always complain.

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