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"Anyone who has ever traveled knows interacting with Israelis is actually the worst, versus like 90% of Irish just rock."
"a girl here in ireland posting about visiting her relatives in russia. she saw a girl there had her boyfriend saved as "daddy" on her phone and she was so confused."what do you mean, she doesnt even speak english!!!""
"As I was leaving, I overheard him shift his focus to the next guy, all I caught was 'yeah but mate the thing about those studies is they were all done on black people in America' (we're in semi-rural Ireland)."
"was recently in Ireland and saw people eating literal mounds of sausages/black pudding and pints of beer at 9 a.m."
"About halfway through the trip we have a fight over the phone about Ireland. She says that it's so shite that we don't have much culture compared to Spain and our food is shit and the only semblance of cultural heritage we have is around drinking alcohol."
"Not only are they white but they can also legitimately claim to be an indigenous colonized people, who have simultaneously fought and gotten independence, and are also still colonized."
"Been back on the island a few months now from England, and genuinely the biggest culture shock is just how much it's engrained in our culture to just talk nonsense to see if the other person you're talking to will buy it."
"Maybe some opposition in Australia and the UK and Ireland say something... and they either end up getting pushed out or do shady deals down the line with them regardless."
"I was just thinking about how Ireland in's pite of having a smaller population that New Jersey is arguably one of the most influential countries in the anglosphere in terms of literature and poetry and all that."
"In Ireland we have a rich history of locking people up for even the mildest symptoms of mental illness. Heck forty years ago you could still get locked up for being a single mother. Take the asylum pill."
"I'm from Ireland, where Brazilians are one of the largest immigrant groups in recent years. They enjoy a great reputation and fit in well, despite coming from what most would consider a "low trust" society."
"Is this just a recent American thing? I see it all the time online, now supported with 'studies', but it just seems like more gender war bullshit. As an Irish person I don't understand it at all."
"Just because theirs a fair few Catholics they pretend they weren't invaded like Ireland was. American scots are the worse for this stuff aswell thinking being Scottish admonishes them from guilt like Irishness does."
"in maybe 2006 i was in a forum for the sims 2 (i was a young teen at the time) and watched two people get into a really intense debate that eventually revealed these two random internet users lived in the same town in Ireland."
"people aren't capable of a single complex thought nowadays so lad got crucified for acknowledging that you can indeed be against this landlord government AND mass immigration without harbouring racist views. you can point out that the major Irish cities are getting borderline unliveable for your ave"
"Unambiguous victory for the united left here. Every left-wing party united to back her instead of running their own candidates and (in spite of a smear campaign from every major media publication) it resulted in her getting a) the most first-preference votes in history and b) twice as many votes as "
"I often think about my country, Ireland, and how if our population had grown like the rest of Europe after 1800 we'd have something like 20-30 million people today instead of a paltry 5 million. Hurts to think about what could have been"
"We get chatting enthusiastically about a lot of things, how he has recently moved to Ireland (he's from Brazil with Italian heritage), about life in his country, his faith and the world in general."
"Go to Ireland, then Greece, then Poland, then Germany, then Croatia. The people have jarringly different customs, traditions and they don't exactly look identical to one another. You want diversity, just travel across Europe."
"My mom is Irish. Like, from Ireland Irish. So I don't have any cops or priests in my family as they all came here in the 20th century. My mom is a practicing Catholic but tends to be on the more progressive side, as the Irish are."
"I haven't been to America and I know the names of most of these places literally *only* because of this genre of post. Is it because these locations have certain stereotypes associated with them? In Ireland you'd just say at the restaurant or 'getting a burger' or something and there wouldn't be som"
"Leaving aside the typical caveats about the housing crisis / cost of living / shit weather, I would argue that Ireland has the most active and best-funded literary ecosystem in the world. There are dozens and dozens of beautifully produced journals that pay writers for their contributions (usually l"
"Me and my boyfriend of 4 years are from Ireland. We met through work in NYC- I'd already lived here for four years, he had literally moved here that week. My friends back home in Ireland are all married and the very last of my high school friends with no kids yet told me this week that she's pregnan"
"No observations about our real lives, just 'gambling', 'one million beers', 'big booty Latinas' (we are Irish he has never seen a Latina). Hate it here"
"like I get cities like Boston and stuff but why are like girls from utha dreaming about Ireland?"
"I lived across Italy and Ireland since moving abroad from my hometown of Chicago."
"Some old photos from Ireland in January 2019. I'm not a photographer obviously but I hope you enjoy them anyway."
"Fast forward to 11:30 after 5 and half hours of work and 1000mg of caffeine I was ready to make the video. I donned my sports coat and shirt and went downstairs to my kitchen in our old house in the West of Ireland."
"I'm asking this having just listened to a beautiful cover of Dreams by The Cranberries by 40 Irish female artists and reading some Yeats. Seriously, for a place with a population of about 6 million, they've produced a huge amount of bands, poets, writers, artists, and musicians."
"It will be academic consensus that Scythians were the origin of much of European history and language, and that foundation myths of countries like Scotland and Ireland were based in real events and migrations"
"We are looking forward to the Sergio Mattarella capri pants in 2029."
"its hard to fight the urge to run away. to take that money ive saved and get out of the states. maybe do workaways in ireland or sweden."
"As per exit polls, Gerry "the monk" Hutch is in for a chance of winning a seat in the Dublin Central constituency."
"The threat was of particular concern as it was made directly to the family member on Instagram. The family member does not have a public-facing account, indicating the suspect had specific knowledge which allowed them to locate the victim."
"Grew up Catholic in Ireland but not in a very devout home. I think it was a child's way of coming to grips with there being random, unnecessary evil in the world."
""At least it's not a surprise." (I usually say this when it's raining. I live in Ireland.)"
"I've never seen my country like this, my heart is breaking. what has become of us :( such vile blind hatred. these poor children didn't ask for this, and they will grow up to hear of these acts of destruction done in their name."
"Not to mention up until a month ago The Prime minister of Ireland was also South Asian."
"I lived across Italy and Ireland since moving abroad from my hometown of Chicago."
"for a place with a population of about 6 million, they've produced a huge amount of bands, poets, writers, artists, and musicians"
"Threats against the family of Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs have been traced to "a Middle Eastern country""
"With FF having won the election I just can't wait for them to throw money at a problem that can only be tackled by setting proper restrictions for landlords. 600 plus utilities for a room in fucking Ballinasloe is ridiculous."