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What is Ireland's greatest contribution to world culture?

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  • #52
    Jimbo
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    stovelid wrote: »
    The heroic, sentimental conviction that the world really cares about the petty minutiae of your politics and culture, and that your opinion really matters, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

    Ahhh. That clears things up. Thanks


  • #53
    dSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    The fightin' Irish spirit.

    Check your arrogance at the door kinda thing and if you mess with me you will be taken outside and spanked hard while my friends smile and sip their drinks witnessing such a graceful beating.


  • #54
    asdasd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭asdasd


    The heroic, sentimental conviction that the world really cares about the petty minutiae of your politics and culture, and that your opinion really matters, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

    you care!! Here you are having a discussion on a thread about ireland in an Irish forum.

    Therefore all foreigners do. QED.


  • #55
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Bosco.


  • #56
    dSTAR
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    Is Bosco a mod?


  • #57
    stovelid
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    asdasd wrote: »
    you care!! Here you are having a discussion on a thread about ireland in an Irish forum.
    Therefore all foreigners do. QED.


    I'm not really that foreign. Irish parents and moved back here from England when I was a kid, 27 years ago. Shouldn't really have said your in my post. :D


  • #58
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    dSTAR wrote: »
    Is Bosco a mod?
    He bloody well should be. We should make him a mod of after hours.


  • #59
    dSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Even if you change your avatar to a pic of Bosco. Your current pic scares me Mr Cushion. You don't look like a very nice man.


  • #60
    AlmightyCushion
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    dSTAR wrote: »
    Even if you change your avatar to a pic of Bosco. Your current pic scares me Mr Cushion. You don't look like a very nice man.
    How's it now?


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  • #61
    dSTAR
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    Much better!

    Thank you :)


  • #62
    Freewheeling Ed
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Was about to post this...even if you've never heard of Ireland or couldn't pick it out on a map chances are high to very high that you know who Dracula is...


    yup.. appearently book sales are second only to the bible .. Fact : according to the lad who does the Bram Stoker museum experience thing.


  • #63
    newballsplease
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭newballsplease


    irish trad/dancing
    the black stuff
    craic
    paddys day


  • #64
    BraziliaNZ
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    I really can't think of anything... I mean the weather is bad beyond belief, everything is overpriced, there are maniac scumbags everywhere, the cities are disgustingly littered, the whole landscape seems to be just covered in farms with little natural scenery, people are drunk and aggressive when they go out... Maybe our greatest contribution was that our ancestors left and helped create more civilized countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.


  • #65
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭rednik


    Daniel O' Donnell


  • #66
    KingLoser
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    Aran Jumpers.


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  • #67
    Xavi6
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    markos79 wrote: »
    only buzzin id say U2 and sir bob.

    Fail.

    Best contribution would have to be 'de craic'. It's what we're most renowned for having even if no one can quite put a proper definition on what it is.


  • #68
    Black Swan
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    Read the book, How the Irish Saved Civilization.


  • #69
    mcauley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭mcauley


    rednik wrote: »
    Daniel O' Donnell

    +1 :)


  • #70
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    BTW the correct answer to the OP's question was "Riverdance"...

    Okay you can close the thread now.


  • #71
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Stout.

    The useful expressions "gee-bag" "eejit" and "gobshi/te"

    Phil Lynott. Brendan Behan.

    The Batter Burger.


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  • #72
    getz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    the rev PATRICK BRONTE why ?he was the father of--charlott. anne.and emily--still no wiser ;;check out howarth or the bronte museum


  • #73
    Nodin
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Maybe our greatest contribution was that our ancestors left and helped create more civilized countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

    ...where, in the better weather, they became maniac scumbags, littered, started farms all over the shop and got notoriously aggressive when drunk.


  • #74
    IvySlayer
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    Me.


  • #75
    camel toe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭camel toe


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I really can't think of anything... I mean the weather is bad beyond belief, everything is overpriced, there are maniac scumbags everywhere, the cities are disgustingly littered, the whole landscape seems to be just covered in farms with little natural scenery, people are drunk and aggressive when they go out... Maybe our greatest contribution was that our ancestors left and helped create more civilized countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

    ****, the question was culture you ****ing retard!!!!

    australia????? u really are a ****ing idiot. the same country that had a white only policy???? ye much more civilised alltogether.

    clown


  • #76
    Wertz
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    Bye now.


  • #77
    JP Liz
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    Riverdance


  • #78
    Agamemnon
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    Siún Nic Gearailt wriggling and pouting while reading the news.


  • #79
    JJJJNR
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    Kold wrote: »
    Most actual music lovers will have heard of My Bloody Valentine and it's inevitable that whether you like them or not, you will regard them as a better band.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bloody_Valentine

    Vs

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/u2


  • #80
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    JJJJNR wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bloody_Valentine

    Vs

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/u2

    I'd go for MBV to be fair.


    Just cos Bono is a right f*cking idiot.


  • #81
    AlmightyCushion
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    camel toe wrote: »
    ****, the question was culture you ****ing retard!!!!

    australia????? u really are a ****ing idiot. the same country that had a white only policy???? ye much more civilised alltogether.

    clown

    It's clear I have been far too patient with you.


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  • #82
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,345 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Much as it disgusts me, Ryanair, for bringing Europe together in a better way than all our wars and EU pronouncements ever could.


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