We're part Galway gypsies, Irish speakers when they arrived. They were glassblowers, sailors, dressmakers, and teachers. My Uncle was a MIT educated polymath who flew jets in Korea and went on to work for NASA, none of which would have happened without the genes of his amazing Galwegian gran.
If you guys know Mount Auburn Hospital, that is where they passed. All that traveling, to end up there, where my kid got a fishing hook removed.
Additionally, Irish is taught in all schools and it is required for any teacher to have studied the language (fluent is preferred). There are concerted efforts to revitalize this language. Jmellor13 has no idea what they’re talking about.
It's not for certain which plant is the true shamrock, but you can grab a piece of any clover and stick it in your lapel or hair on St. Patrick's Day and not be far wrong.
what do you mean the ''true shamrock'' ? The shamrock is like a four leaf clover but with three instead often found in ireland - i have lots in my garden! it was used by St. Patrick to represent the holy trinity.
We're not "pretending" to be Irish. I'm sick and tired of native Irish intentionally misunderstanding how Americans refer to our heritage. Almost every family in the US came from somewhere else, which is unusual. When we say "I'm Irish," we're not claiming equal Irishness to you. We're saying "My ancestors came here from Ireland." And everyone knows this is what we're saying, but Europeans absolutely refuse to pass on an opportunity to complain about American culture.
Homo: your perceptiveness, brilliant capacity to understand the point being made, and totally-not-pathetic-years-long-not-stalking-of-me-in-the-comments-section shines through once again.
I'm from the midlands of Ireland County laois to be exact and i'm sat here at 2am moderately drunk on a wednesday night drinking a can of guinness after playing poker in the local pub and winning a cool 200 quid and this quiz has brought a great smile to my face me and my mum took it i got 20/20 and mum 19/20 thanks to the quizzer who made this made my drunk little night. FYI i don't drink every night just coincidental
Only ones I could think of were glenfiddich and glen talloch... but those were both whisky's not whiskey's (from scotland not ireland). I am not a whisk(e)y drinker so I was very proud I even knew those ! And spelled them right ! Haha. I have heard of jameson, but I was nowhere near remembering it.
My South Uist Papa was more Irish culturally than my Irish American maternal Grandparents. Although they blended racially and religiously which is the best.
Whistled like a Peruvian, taught me Gaelic, and all the names are pronounced as Spanish. Any other Highlanders and Islanders run into this?
Mary Kennedy is a Isle of Canna name.
Pure Gaelic speaker whose family fought against the US for Mexico.
The protestant Sullivans next door chanted 'Ruaridh get your dory, the herrings in the bay.' to be mean.
I love Belleek porcelain, too. My son brought me a nice piece years ago from his study-abroad semester in Ireland - I guess it's made in Northern Ireland, actually, but it's still Irish.
Patrick's birthplace is not known, but the consensus is that he was born somewhere in Britain. He did his ministry in Ireland though, and that's where he was loved. Kind of like how Obama was born in Kenya, but he made his mark in the US.
Everyone would have to learn English anyway, just like on the continent or in Asia or Latin America. It's the de facto business language. At least this way, it's native and has a very pleasant lilt to those not native to the island.
Languages have been displaced by the languages of incoming elites and conquerors everywhere and since forever, there's nothing unique about Ireland's experience (the people who brought the Celtic languages to our islands also displaced existing languages!).
There are visitors we waited on from Donegal and Kerry who spoke Irish. And our family in rural Cork (Clonakilty).
If you guys know Mount Auburn Hospital, that is where they passed. All that traveling, to end up there, where my kid got a fishing hook removed.
Whistled like a Peruvian, taught me Gaelic, and all the names are pronounced as Spanish. Any other Highlanders and Islanders run into this?
Mary Kennedy is a Isle of Canna name.
Pure Gaelic speaker whose family fought against the US for Mexico.
The protestant Sullivans next door chanted 'Ruaridh get your dory, the herrings in the bay.' to be mean.
Everybody, and now my s.o., sent money home.
Who went for a swim in a lake /
Then a man in a punt /
Stuck a pole in her ear /
And said 'you can't swim here, it's dangerous'
"There was a young lady from Bude..."
Whose Limericks stopped at line 2."
(I think that was by Tim Vine)
Just wondering - do they get featured in different languages?
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