Let's Be Irish Americans!

We're Faith AND Begorrah

I brought over boycotts, world banking, and radio hate preachers.. I'm also probably party responsible for obesity and alcholism.

I'm the one sining my potatoes all the micks to the yard, and they're like , that famine was hard. Damn right, that famine was hard. I could feed you but you'll have to starve.

God's Next Chosen People.

I'm the seeds that were spread far and wide where it's safe to bet that most people have had a little of the irish diaspora in them. Not a reference to the small dick rumours.

There be a partition, OOO-PP?

I’m the cops of yesteryear.

I’m the exit.

I'm all celebrities that hate the Jews and virtually everyone else too. But Ireland has been reformed, we've already thrown some firebomb both in the mother land and Boston because yes, we4're that stereotypcial.

I'm Ryan O'Reilly's unruly red bush!

I'm the scottish sheep that had to be sent to Ireland for protection... only to have to be sent to Wales and finally sent to table because they were just too traumatized.

I'm Ryan O'Reilly's freckled white ass cheeks.

R6, referred to now as a 'border'.

I'm the team behind Presidential hopefuls, frantically looking for the most tenuous link to Ireland.

Do Irish Americans even vote that much?!

I'm Ryan O'Reilly's closeted cop father, Sean.

I'm everything that would get me instantly banned here.

I'm a shepherd's pie!

I'm Barack O'Bama!

We're the members of the drag act Showin' Our Craics: Patti O'Furniture, Angie O'Plasty, Constance Lingus, and Lucki Charmz.

I'm the failed attempt at an Oirish accent by American actors claiming to have a bit of Irish in them.

I'm the positive contributions we make to every community we're part of!

I'm Whitey Bulger

I'm the one obsessed with Waterford Crystal

I'm Dolores O'Riordan wailing about for her Atlantic cousins.

I'm the President of the United States who likes to say malarkey and pretend I'm Irish even though there are no people with the surname Biden in Ireland

I'm the fundraiser for terrorism on the British mainland and running guns from some obscure Canadian port to the remote vestiges of the west coast of Ireland

R23, Dolores was Irish!

I'm corned beef and cabbage.

I'm a European who takes issue with Americans having ancestry from the Old World.

I'm 'top of the morning to ya' which no actual Irish person has ever said

I'm the trust fund kid doing an MPhil at Notre Dame on the evolution of the Gaelic language in the 17th century.

I'm the unwillingness to abandon the Catholic Church even though they've been exposed as ruthless evil charlatans who covered up child sexual abuse en masse

I'm the inability to point out Ireland on a map

Ah shur, that's only a few bad eggs R31.

Where would we be without our religion!

I'm a wanted criminal both past and present

I'm the 5 hour long St.Patricks Day parade

I'm the green tie all male politicians wear on the 17th March

I'm the poverty food like Irish Stew that can last for a week

I'm Innisfree, the best Irish bar in Meridian, Mississippi.

I'm the 14 children since we don't believe in contraception or abortion

I'm the unpronounceable Gaelic names that I've given my kids so people know they're 'Irish'

I'm a bit of this, a bit of that....

"More than 30 million people in the US – about one in ten Americans – identify as “Irish”. The population of Ireland is less than 5 million, meaning there are over six times as many people in the US who claim to be Irish in the US as those living in the Republic of Ireland itself."

I'm an ethereal Irish twink!

I'm the calling it 'St. Patty's Day' even though it drives actual Irish people crazy when you call it that. It's either Paddy's or Patrick's. No Patty allowed.

I'm the Barry's Tea

I'm the women's book group reading Angela's Ashes

R45 lmao. I'm Limerick, Ireland.

I'm the undocumented illegal immigrant who came over to work behind a bar/in construction in New York

I'm the Irish car bombs. Yes any person with relatives who left Ireland less than 150 years ago cringes in horror at the name (and for what I'm doing to Guinness). But they taste sweet bro!

I'm lazy

R47 yes and I'm terrified of getting ill or having an accident as I have no health insurance and would be promptly deported. Also, I can't ever go home for a relatives funeral or I won't ever be allowed back in. And so I seek solace in a bottle of Jameson most weekends. Hopefully one day I'll meet a nice American Colleen who will marry me and I can get a green card.

I'm the horror at visiting Dublin and realising it isn't all green fields with people playing an accordion and girls dancing jigs in bars...but actually quite a run down, heroin infested shithole.

Do Irish men have big cocks?

Ireland is the Mexico of the UK.

R53, they love tacos and tequila.

R53 except with better trade deals and clout in Europe because they didn't chop their limbs off like the UK did with Brexit

I'm the ginger hair

I'm the loud trashy cousin with 3 baby daddies, none of whom are of Irish decent. I will never be able to afford stepping foot in actual Ireland. Nevertheless I'm named something ethnic like Siobhan or Kathleen and I go apeshit decorating for St Patty's the way other fraus do for Christmas.

R55, we're Irish Americans, remember, not Irish Irish.

I'm the grating Boston accent. Back 'home' in a pub, my voice would send true Irish scurrying for the exit.

[quote]none of whom are of Irish decent.

Oh, dear!

R56 I'm the ginger pubes

R53, I want an Irish burrito!

R59 lol!!! Fucking autocorrect made me spell indescently (sic).

I'm the inherent racism in spite of the convenient and oft utilised lumping in with other ethnic groups to pretend I'm marginalised even though I'm whiter than white and a lot of urban police forces are predominantly made up of people with my heritage

r41 Irish were shipped all over the world.. they were popular breeding stock for lightening up the population. The chinese served in a similar capacity, too, in addition to work.

I'm the funding the IRA in spite of them slaughtering innocent civilians. Then becoming indignant about 9/11 and sporting a NYPD/FDNY flag/sweatshirt every September.

Well no one bred like the Irish R64, at home or abroad.

I'm all the KISS ME I'M IRISH paraphernalia found in every South Boston gas station.

I'm the Ancient Order of Hibernians and we don't let no fags walk in our parades. Except of course when the Irish Prime Minister, who is gay, wants to walk in them.

I'm the pictures of the Pope, JFK and the Sacred Heart in the living room

R16, I’m shepherd’s pie and all the other "traditional Irish" dishes that are English in origin – or just English, period.

Come to think of it, I'm also alcoholism. I probably got that from the English, too. God knows those WASPS soak up the gin!

I'm the butch Southie girl from [italic]Zoom[/italic] who said "blacks should stick with blacks and Irish should stick with Irish."

I'm the fake family crest tattoo

George, the Irish-American guy who lived on the corner of my block and was my fuckbud for two years. Some of the most incredible sex ever.

I'm the Celtic knot tramp stamp.

Significantly less affection for Irish Americans than there is for Italian Americans, quite a lot of that due to their lacking in the looks and cock department?

I'm also this flag

I'm the fake gold claddagh ring.

I'm the complete ignorance of Irish AND American history.

I'm the badly sung rebel songs and ballads

I'm the drinking at the wake

I'm the myth of the "Irish curse." Plenty of hung Irish guys.

I'm the adoration of this tosser and anyone else who embodies the fighting Irish stereotype overseas.

I'm the copious amount of pot that is smoked.

A gift of gab to impress; a penis to disappoint.

R81 even though most actual Irish people hate his fucking guts

Irish American or Irish, R80?

I'm the green beer.

I'm Sunday dinner at Nana's, after church at St.Brigid's, where her stew us swimming in tasty gravy.

No tomatoes.

I'm the cut dick. Hey, sometimes you gotta break with traditions.

I'm the uncut dick on the Catholic ones.

I’m white trash.

Ahhh yes, when God commanded Abraham to circumcise all the Irish Protestant males.

Big hard racist dicks. Fkin self loathing cops who fuck you senseless.

I’m the trashy ☘️ tattoo on some random frau’s titty.

[quote]I'm the uncut dick on the Catholic ones.

What decade are you posting from? White American guys, regardless of ethnicity or religion, have been cut for generations.

^ as well as American Jews and Muslims

Being cut is as American as apple pie 🥧.

We're the Wahlbergs, who are absolute trash even by Boston Irish standards.

I'm Matt Damon, who is constantly mistaken as Boston Irish even though I have no Irish ancestry.

I'm the Afflecks, giving those Wahlbergs a run for their trashy drunk money.

We're the Real Housewives of South Boston, celebrating St. Patrick's Day

[quote][R81] even though most actual Irish people hate his fucking guts

McGregor did himself no favors recently by attacking actual Irish hero Paul McGrath.

I'm the Irish Mafia. I'm not much of a mafia more of a white supremacy group that still trafficks in heroin and young girls.

The Wahlbergs are uncut. Jenny McCarthy used to be vehemently pro circ and has since changed her tune.

I'm the scottish traditions, attire and foods because you know, the trouble of Americans... too much crossbreeding with Canada

I'm the I.A. twink pixie that will blossom into a hunched back, stocky, big nosed, overbite, thinned haired, curmudgeon either at 30, 40 or 50. But it's hapenning eventually.

I'm INS and I am after you illegal you bartenders

r105 Catch me, if you can. I'm the beer dwarf. I'm an actual little person and IRISH. I'll forever have a gig. Muwahahaha. Oh no, the coppers are trying to steal me lucky charms. Help me out, chillen

I'm the O.G. of ebonics.

Just kill yourself r102

I'm the ginger carpet, which does indeed match the drapes.

I'm fish-belly-white skin that is impervious to sunscreen.

I'm the lack of souls which allowed so many to enter politics

I'm the Republicans, still violent, ignorant and sending migrants to clutter up the good streets.

I'm the raging alcoholism

I'm 35, looking 75.

I’m the Italian side. It’s not readily revealed.

I’m the 72 first cousins.

I'm Erin O'Shaughnessy. I live in Boston and my Oirish roots can be traced back 7 generations, although none of us have returned to the homeland in the most recent 4 of those generations. I am vehemently proud of my Oirish heritage- everyone at work knows when St Patty's day is approaching!

I did a wee bit of Irish dancing, for like three lessons when I was five, it brought a tear to granny's eye. I know a handful of words 'as gaelige'- mostly the basics; 'slainte', 'failte' and 'tiocfaidh ár lá'.

I haven't ever visited Oireland, it's too far and I hear there's little left of the old country now. There's actually more Irish culture going on in South Boston these days. My favourite film is Brooklyn, and as soon as I have a baby girl I'm calling her Saoirse.

I'm the brain damaged result of the malnutrition during the famine

"The Psychological Legacy of the Great Hunger" (even generations on)

I'm a drunk!

I'm Lucky Charms!

I'm a story about when I met Bono

I’m the blithe ignorance of Irish history.

Yep R123 "what there was a civil war? In Ireland? Really? How about that!"

I'm a Shamrock shake!

I'm a Derry Girl. I'm craic. Are they playing Rock the Boat?

I’m the Ancestry.com DNA heritage results that show a greater percentage English, but that’s kept on the down low.

My Irish link dates back to 1866 when a ten year old Molly O'Hegarty came to America from Mayo with her parents. The fact she would later marry a Dutchman and none of their descendants would ever again cross paths with a paddy doesn't matter to me. I'm like 1/16th Irish or something! I make more fuss over this than I do my Dutch connections.

This pig he is the chief,

Got a brother pig, Captain O'Malley.

He's got a son that'a a pig too,

He's collectin' pay-offs from a dark alley.

I’m the potato famine that brought them to America

I'm Grace Kelly, aka Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. Although my dad is prominent in the Irish American community, I have my mother's Teutonic genes to thank for my stunning good looks and poise.

And I'm Grace's studly, hunky brother. I laugh when people ask if I'm typical of all Irish American men.

I'm Scarlett O'Hara

I'm Bill O'Reilly

I'm Bill Maher, some think I'm worse than B O'R

I'm Emmy Rossum. I'm actually of English, Dutch and Russian Jewish ancestry but I'm frequently cast as being of Irish descent.

I'm the Vikings that took over Ireland and you are my bastard spawn

I'm the craic. Mostly found in high density urban housing projects.

I'm Dolly's tits and Rhiannon Giddens smile... irish, scottish, gael, gaul, manx, breton, meh, whatever.

I'm the contributions to the Democratic Party

I'm Pierce Brosnan, where did I get that accent from?

I'm Jackie Gleason and my catchphrase is me chiding my wife that I'll bust her face in with my fist. But it's only for comedic effect.

To the moon Alice!

We're Clann Zú. We're Australian, briefly American, and one of us is now Irish.

I'm the Boston Celtics, Notre Dame fighting Irish and and Tom Brady. We all play the Irish card

I'm Chilean/Argentine Irish men, so if you find an attractive Irish man in the states, it's probably one of us.

[quote]my forefathers came to the US pre-Famine era,

Virtually all Irish emigration to the USA was as a response to the Great Hunger, or the economic deprivation in the following decades.

I’m the side trip to County Wexford to visit the town of origin of great-great grandparents. I saw their common surname on a few things, I felt no visceral connection, and the place was boring AF. I saw why they left. Studying genealogy can be really anticlimactic. Like R128, my family really played up the minor Irish line because my 1/2 grandmother was really into into her Irishness. I’m only 1/8, so I don’t really care as much and have found more fascinating stories (to me) in my other lines.

I'm late night chat show hosts - Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Johnny Carson.

R145 like Ernesto Che Guevara Lynch?

R147 - the Kennedys came from Wexford. If it hadn't been so boring maybe they'd have stayed and we wouldn't have the 2000 DL threads about the various aspects of their lives and legacies.

I'm the concealed bedsit in the basement that we used to use to harbour IRA terrorists on the run from Britain/Ireland.

I’m the whisper you can hear across the room.

R147, I’m 100% Irish ancestry going back on both sides to the old country. I too found ireland a bit of a bore.

The Brits and Irish are constantly running down American Irish for being “plastic paddies” as if being Irish is so amazing people would fake it. I’m American thanks despite my 23 and me results.

I’m the unwalkable streets of Boston on St Patrick’s Day

I'm your average Irish American family:

r154 Nova Scotia. Most the perks, half the trip.

Whatever that means

R154, I lived in Kilburn in London for many years. It has a large Irish community going back decades. Every Saint Patrick’s Day the Irish pubs are invaded by obnoxious drunk arseholes claiming to be of Irish descent, and disturbing the elderly Irishmen who habitually have a quiet pint there with their friends. The following day the streets are full of plastic shamrocks and giant leprechaun hats for the council to clear up.. My mother was Irish, but it’s not a big deal to me.

R146 proves previous posters correct by demonstrating a total lack of Irish and American history with their statement; "Virtually all Irish emigration to the USA was as a response to the Great Hunger"

Virtually all you say?

Though both my father's parents were born in Ireland, I've never had a moment's interest in Ireland or anything related to it. I've never known a more negative human being than his mother. She would have fit in so well at Datalounge—well, except for the gay thing. She never had a nice word to say about anyone.

Fortunately my father learned to cook and to garden from his next door neighbor, who was from Naples. As a result, I've always felt more connected to people and things that are Italian.

I need not apply.

r159 and generations of lads didn't piss on the blarney stone before tourists came to kiss it.

While not Irish, I found this book a great read.

I'm Stephen Joshua Poltz and your mother sucks cocks in hell

I'm the two snickers and a coke.

I'm the freckles

I'm the lack of punctuality

I'm the ridiculous claim that the Irish were once enslaved just like African Americans' ancestors.

I'm the sharp wit and wicked sense of humour.

I'm the Martin Scorsese movie

I'm Ulysses by James Joyce... Americans are the only ones that get through the verbose faggy shit. REAL Irish are all about dat ass. yo.

I'm the Americans over twenty years ago:

I'm Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. No one in Ireland knows who we are.

^^ I'm Irish birth control / PreP.

I'm the faces of meth in America and public office in Ireland.

I'm the rivalry with the Italians over who can donate the biggest stained glass window to the parish church

I'm the disowning of Sinéad O'Connor after her appearance on SNL even though in hindsight....she had a point

I'm every confused dyke when she meets one of their women; Gay or just Irish American?

I'm the astonishment that a massive country of 330 million people have so much of its population descended from people who come from an island the size of West Virginia.

I'm my partner's ex-wife. I am the sick tourist fantasy of sentiment and stupidity.

One strand of her family background that was Irish. Not recently. As in, not in the last century.

She tells people that her family once "owned" Dublin Castle (I've done the genealogy and they were from Cork.) and when she and her grifting daughter borrowed the money to go to Ireland, she was weepy on the steps of that terrible place (She is ignorant of Irish history, 20th century or otherwise.) because she finally was "home," the ghosts of McKee, McClune and Clancy scorning her.

I am the SNL Seth Meyers' parody "Boston Accent."

We're the descendants of the Protestant Irish from Belfast, nobody thinks of us when they think of Irish Americans.

[quote]I'm the disowning of Sinéad O'Connor after her appearance on SNL even though in hindsight....she had a point

She was 100% correct

[quote]I'm the astonishment that a massive country of 330 million people have so much of its population descended from people who come from an island the size of West Virginia.

Irish is the second largest American ethnic group, German is the largest.

Affleck is Irish? He and Matt both came from upper middle class backgrounds. The Wahlbergs were on the brink of poverty and epitome of ghetto white people. The first white guy I hooked up with was like this. He was so fkin hot.

[quote]Affleck is Irish? He and Matt both came from upper middle class backgrounds.

Irish Americans can't be upper middle class? Are you you for real?

R189, no that's not what I was saying. Oh God no. My apologies. It does read that way, I just never thought of Ben as Irish. But come to think of it Affleck sounds Irish or maybe Scottish.

Some poster claimed that Ben was the epitome of trashy drunk Irish.

I'm the dishonest city police sergeant in a New England coastal city who has a 7 bedroom well built 100 year old house, with an apartment over the separate garage, a great pool and barbecue, a cottage at a nice (but traditionally working class) beach, a 40 foot boat and yacht club membership, who puts his 6 kids through private catholic schools and expensive catholic universities. I know everyone everywhere I go within a radius of 40 miles.

I'm the family with four sons, all brick shithouse football star players, three of them devastatingly handsome, two of them gay, one of the gays out in his early teens, the other gay one goes to Yale then Harvard Law, where he finally comes out.

R193, I want to read that Nifty story. Presumably it'll be in the "incest" category. 😉

I have that nifty version but its two French Canadian brothers, brick shithouse hockey stars at Dartmouth,

R191 according to them, the Affleck brothers are 1/4 Irish from their dad's side - their in and out of rehab dad. The other 1/4 from that side is British/Scottish and their mother is some other (Eastern?) European variety I can't recall at the moment. Both of them have had substance abuse issues/rumors.

I'm the compulsive pointing out of any Irish or Irish American actor when watching movies or TV shows.

[quote]What decade are you posting from? White American guys, regardless of ethnicity or religion, have been cut for generations.

Canada and I was born in the 80s and the uncut white guys I've been with always come from "catholic countries"

I'm the worn-out [italic]Best of Enya[/italic] CD.

I'm Mayhem from those insurance commercial.

I'm inexplicably sexy. I also used to play a cop on SVU.

r198 you're not American. STFU.

We're Southies reacting to Whitey Bulger's arrest

R48, there was a story here or on reddit or something that these Americans went to an Irish bar in Spain and ordered Irish Car Bombs and the bartender told them they were called Twin Towers

My Irish ancestors who came over during the 30s were protestants and loved the queen. It’s not very cool.

Why not r204?

We're south-coastal Massachusetts beginning from just below Boston, a.k.a. the state's "Irish Riviera"!

r186 she wasn't because she made a stunt out of it and didn't clarify as to what she meant or why. . . it was lunatic refused to follow programming then rips up the pope's picture on national television. It led to predictable outrage and confusion, we can only say in hindsight after the scandals. Oh, that's what she may have meant.

I'm Candance Cameron, my ancestors were massive sluts, I'm a bit of everything but to pay for their sins and get right with gawd and to make up for the hallmark income deficit, I've decided to offer reparative therapy sessions here to all of you! Rejoice!

“I’m mommy’s little dancer all dressed up pretty with big hair. We live on the Northwest side of Chicago. My mom is a nurse and my dad is a cop.”

I'm every jailbait looking, no ass twink that plays up the Irish bit and gets into porn because you have to admit it sells.

r207 watch Nothing Compares, the doc on Sinead on Showtime. She was 100% correct.

r33 what else would you have for comedy, though?

R200, you are Dean Winters. You were also on Oz.

I'm the love of all the old country media and music about a decade or two behind

R212 thing is most Irish people can't fucking stand that shit. But Fr Ted is an amazing comedy, even nearly 30 years later.

r215 Pity. Yes, the fam is quite annoying but you likely would have won some points. . . now you lot all obsess on friends, if ireland's tiktoks are to be believed.

I’m the collection of Belleek, Waterford and Connemara marble.

I'm forgotten, cute, Irish American Actor Creighton Hale

I'm gorgeous and spooky Sean O'Pry

This year’s Mrs Brown Christmas special was shit. I switched off. I agree about Father Ted. Every episode was hilarious, and it’s impossible to choose a favourite.

I posted much on the Italian-American thread, but I'm back because me Da's side is from County Donegal, so....

"'Elvis'? 'The Whale'? Any movie with Colin and Brendan and Barry and set in the Emerald Isle is by definition the Best Picture with the Best Actors!"

"My black hair is so thick I can barely get a comb through it!"

"My grandfather died of the drink before I was born."

"My father worked the mines in the Coal Regions, the same mines as in the movie 'The Molly Maguires.' Gotta love the Mollies!"

I’m the “Irish Curse”. I am not necessarily true 93% of the time, yet the angry 7% of power bottoms are unrelenting in their criticism.

I don't follow the logic. "the angry 7% of power bottoms" are who, exactly? And who would they be criticizing? I must be dense. I can't follow this at all.

7% of power bottoms are angry?

Because they have small irish cocks?

7% of IRISH power bottoms have small cocks?

And they are very critical of?

I can't parse it for the life of me.

I'm the Protestant American whose ancestors were from Ireland (not Appalachian Scots-Irish), but subjected to RC stereotypes.

I’m the lace curtains and two toilets.

I’m in me cups.

I'm the bad Irish accent, which I'll don whenever I get too excited about talking about my roots.

I'm Father O'Reilly, two fingers deep in little Seamus O'Connor.

We know you're a feckin' Orangeman, r224, there bein' no Cross or framed photo of JFK hangin' anywhere in your godforsaken hice, and your car parked Sund'y mornins outside the feckin' Lut'rin buildin'.

And, r224, Trinity is as Trinity does, and non-believers begone!

I think r229 just read someone for filth in Irish brogue. I’ve been here for years and never seen that.

R229 R230 (same?)

It gets better, as my great-grandfather son of the Trinity guy died relatively young, the parish priest once came to my widowed great-grandmother's house with her Irish surname, asking politely why he had not seen her or her daughters at church. She replied it was because they were Protestants, he was very gracious in replying "Different roads to the same place." Said great grandmother being half Jewish, I now think of myself as an Irish Jew, so to speak.

I do too.

R225, what are the two toilets?

R234, I believe he means two bathrooms - as in a two-bathroom house, as in a nice middle-class house appropriate for lace-curtain Irish, not an overcrowded tenement with squalling brats, 16-year-old mothers, and people screaming "what the fuck are you doing in there? Stop jerking off and get out! I need to take a dump!", as one might expect in a shanty Irish home.

Oh, those Catholics who remained in poverty because they worship their priests!

R235, thank you for that colorful visual!

He does paint a beautiful picture with words, doesn’t he?

R239, he did James Joyce justice for sure.

Same, r232! Also am r221.

"I'm the Irish-American literature student feeling inordinately proud of the great Irish dramatists I'm studying: O'Casey; Shaw; Behan; Beckett; Synge."

I'm the half 'n' half

I'm every celebrity that left that dumpster fire of Island

I’m the rosacea.

I'm the green beer. Where's YOUR colored beer, like?

I'm Irish foreplay initiated by my husband by saying "Brace yourself, Bridget!!"

I'm the drunken fistfights.

I'm the handsome, dark-haired Irish stud with a perfect combination of chest hair and treasure trail. JFK Jr., Alec Baldwin, DL fave William Dead Eyes O'Connor, etc.

r247 Alec Baldwin???

R247, when he was younger, definitely yes to Alec Baldwin.

I guess Alec is only partly Irish American, some of him being Mayflower stock. But I always considered that brood quite Irish. They certainly look it. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Jr.'s famous pelt.

hehe someone uploaded this pic labelled "that Black Irish look". Pretty much what I have in mind

I’m Irish Alzheimer’s. I forget everything but the grudges.

I’m leprechaun in the hood

r249 Ick. Too hairy. And not nearly as good-looking as John-John or Will O'Connor.

R245,

“Get up them stairs, NOW”.

In the auld sod: “out to the field, NOW!”

R204 (and others)....

I am Irish on my father's side, sort of did stuff on St. Paddy's day, wore a "kiss me I'm Irish" button, studied Irish poetry with a feeling of some pride... then realized I am Orange, the wrong king of Irish. Oops.

Huge % of "Irish Americans", especially in Appalachia and the South, are Scots-Irish. Originally Scottish, shipped over to Northern Ireland to work on the plantations for the English, and then left Ireland for America after that.

R247 and R255, who the hell is William Dead Eyes O'Connell? There are a lot of William O'Connells on Google.

I’m about half Irish on both sides and I’ve always been proud and wondered about the lives of my ancestors and what they went through but it’s not too much of my identity. I’m interested in history and folklore and Irish folklore is really great. The only Irish things we held onto were soda bread and superstition. And my family is catholic on one side.

[quote]then realized I am Orange, the wrong king of Irish.

King Orange?

Isn’t that what dump’s cult calls him?

R259, it's William O'Conn[bold]or[/bold]. Are your eyes dead?

I'm the Irish immigrant who rioted against freed slaves for fear of them taking my job away. I'm the same Irish immigrant who fought for the Union in the civil war that followed.

I'm the Irish immigrant and the sons of those immigrants who built the Democrat Party machine up in cities on the eastern seaboard...for better or worse.

I'm the Irish immigrant who faced discrimination because of my faith and ethnicity. I'm the same immigrant or children of that immigrant who discriminated against others of different ethnicities and creeds.

I'm the scores of Irish priests and nuns who educated the mass of Irish immigrants and prepared them for life in the US. There are many among us who abused our positions of authority.

I'm the Irish Americans who contributed greatly to all aspects of American public life.

I'm the Irish American who does not know that Ireland today is a more urbanized, educated, and secular country.

[quote]I'm the American who does not know that Ireland today is a more urbanized, educated, and secular country.

... and the richest country, per capita, in Europe. Only behind Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland. You have some distant relatives in Ireland? Ask them to send you some $.

R263 sure is a lot of fucking people.

R263, You're also the Irish-American who needs his knuckles rapped by Sister Koitleen of Our Sacred Heart of Jayzus, for bein' feckin' ignorant of the word "Democratic."

R266, Sr. Mary Euthanasia already did so!

I’m the pool of green vomit in the Houlihan’s parking lot on March 17.

JFK Jr's hotness also comes from the French and hidden African genes on the Bouvier side.

R264, if you're in the US, you should be sending them dollars.

Irish per capita GDP (PPP) = US$61,375.

US GDP (PPP) = US$70,480.

Meanwhile, Norway is about $100K and Luxembourg $110K.

Those numbers should suggest to you that per capita GDP is perhaps not the best way to figure out how rich the citizens of a country are. US median household income = $71K, Ireland median household income = $73K. So maybe you should just send each other token gifts of sentiment ...?

R270 The methodology which puts USA per capita GDP at $70k puts Ireland's at $99k. See chart here.

I’m the late Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron, a lovely and accomplished out gay man who left us some great songs.

r211 It doesn't remove that at the time... it was poorly communicated., She didn't explain herself at all. She pulled a threatrical stunt without explanation and could be interrupted in multiple ways. Unhelped was her wearing the star of david and her antics to follow at the time. You can review articles from the day and weeks, months after. In context of history. "she" wasn't right about anything concerning that one act. The scandals had yet to pierce the inter/national mainstream psyche. It's still possible she wasn't referencing it all and only later attributed it to it. So, then as now, everyone saw what they wanted to see.

No, she knew the clergy were molesting kids, it just wasn't known to the general public yet. She did talk about the abuse at the time. She was a hero, imho.

r273 did you see the doc? It's all explained. Sinead was talking about the abuse, although she didn't do it on the SNL broadcast. People just didn't want to believe it, and it took many, many examples until the public was finally forced to accept it.

r275 it was biased and tried to force a narrative vs what actually happened. I twasn't just that people didn't want to believe. Not everyone was a pope lover.

r276 you're wrong. Sinead O'Connor talked about the abuse at the time, many people just didn't want to believe it. It wasn't until the late 90s/early 2000s when there was one story after another that the abuse could no longer be thought of as false accusations.

"I was just sayin' ta Rosemary, 'I can't believe that Rolling Rock didn't include Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers on their fancy list! Once again it's No Irish Need Apply'!"

"Ye know what I didn't care for in 'The Banshees of Oim Not Sharin'?' The donkey's name. Must have been that Siobhan, for sure and Padraic would've named her Brigid!"

I'm guilt. Sure, you find in English Catholics and especially English Catholic converts (Evelyn Waugh), but for Irish Catholics it's a lifestyle and and art.

They think all (non-Irish) Catholics are guilty and miserable all the time. They are not.

The Irish are boring and indecipherable from other generic white people. It's no wonder this thread petered out.😢

There's only so much humor that can be wrung outta soda bread, whiskey, and Catholic guilt, r281!

The Irish chop off their own fingers. The Sicilians chop off yours.

R280 An Anglo-American thread, on the other hand, would last at least 45 or 50 posts.

Not exactly an ethnic minority in the US, r282, with humorous pronunciations, stereotypes, etc.

In fact, in the United States we call them, and you,....Americans.

R283 ... stuck in the gears of history.

Anglo-Americans exist but they more or less just identify as White American. Some will say Scotch Irish, Irish, German, Dutch, Italian, French etc because that's their most recent ancestry they can track. Then there's the Native American great great grandmother. Most white Appalachians and Southerners and many white New England, Western and Mountain State residents are primarily English descent and attend Protestant churches. I guess you could argue WASPs and hillbillies are Anglo American subcultures. Most Presidents and many celebrated writers, musicians and Hollywood celebrities have English ancestry. They are the default group.

R284, Meaning? Yes, White males are, or soon will be, a minority, but Anglo-Americans aren't viewed by most as a minority group.

As for humor, I'm not talking "Fawlty Towers" or other actual British sit-coms.

r285 white New Englanders are a big mix of various European ancestries. French, Polish, Italian, Czech etc. in addition to English, Irish and Scottish. The Northeast is a very diverse place in regards to European heritage. CT, RI and MA especially.

Rhode Island and Western Massachusetts have a large Portuguese-American community. They've been there since the 1700s.

Sorry, Eastern Massachusetts, not Western.

R287 Good point. I figure New Englanders may overreport their English ancestry too. I think it's mainly white Southerners, Appalachians, Californians and Utahns have the most English ancestry. Plus most Native Americans and African Americans are part English too. The South did have Germans, Irish Catholics, French and Italians but mainly in segments of Louisiana and Mississippi and the Carolinas where there were ports. Texas had a lot of Germans and Czechs too as well as Spanish and French.

You’ve been fcked senseless by a racist cop R92?

i'm the contempt for higher education until recently

I am the VERY strong sense of identity that was born out of extreme prejudice

I'm Joe Biden!

I'm r293, mistaking privilege for identity.

I've known and worked with Irish and didn't even know they were Irish, even when fresh off the boat, they had very light to almost imperceptible accents, they seem to be far more like American than the British do, they fit in better and don't look down their noses like fucking cunts.

[Quote] my forefathers came to the US pre-Famine era,

Virtually all Americans of Irish ancestry had their Irish ancestors come here during or after the “famine.”

Which wasn’t a famine, it was a purposeful starvation of the Irish Catholics by the British government, which had political control over the entire island.

Despite all that, and being of 100% Irish ancestry going all the way back to the 1840s on both sides, I don’t hate the British.

Sorry!

i'm R295, being a dumb cunt