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What would Ireland be like with just Irish People in it?

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    #62
    Widdershins
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    No reason. Bear in mind, I did say a lot harder, not impossible.



    Such as...?

    I'm not going to start eulogising about the natural landscape , wildlife or history , as I said you have to want to see.


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    #63
    [Deleted User]
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    Widdershins wrote: »
    I don't know anyone who does that . I'm sure there are nostalgic , maudlin old timers in most countries though.
    A bit of a stereotype ...

    Yup. Irish people have moved on. But I can remember it from my childhood and teens in West Galway.


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    #64
    Mr. teddywinkles
    Registered Users Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    Think of the Tourism element though. Look at how quaint / quirky and laid back Ireland was in the 80's and early 90's though - be great to get back to that. Too much 'European' now, morphed into what a lot of other european cities and towns look like rather than what Ireland used to look and feel like

    Id say Americanization.
    chasing that bull****e dream n all that.


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    #65
    Andy From Sligo
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    catbear wrote: »
    I grew up here in the 80s. It was dull.

    thats cause no internet/google/facebook/twitter .... and PokemonGo around :D


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    #66
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Mr. teddywinkles wrote: »
    Id say Americanization.
    chasing that bull****e dream n all that.

    yep that an all I'm sure ....


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    #67
    catbear
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    thats cause no internet/google/facebook/twitter .... and PokemonGo around :D
    There was f all. For me the low point was the moving statues fiasco, it was so boring that people made themselves believe that statues moved.

    But things did start to pick up though with U2 going big with the Joshua Tree, Stuttgart 88 and then Italy 90 just blew the roof off. After Eamon Casey there was no going back.


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    #68
    Junkyard Tom
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    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    We'd all be like the O'Donovan brothers.

    Proud Irishmen and olympic medal winners?

    If only.


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    #69
    Joe prim
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    Yester wrote: »
    No. There was a black guy here in 1985. I saw him.

    Yeah, he was the bass player with St.Pats


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    #70
    Andy From Sligo
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    catbear wrote: »
    There was f all. For me the low point was the moving statues fiasco, it was so boring that people made themselves believe that statues moved.......

    :D



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    #71
    Grandeeod
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    I was born in the early 70s in Ireland. The only "foreigners" I ever met back then were Doctors. I met a black kid for the first time in the late 70s in a shopping centre. I asked him if he knew Tarzan. This is not a joke.

    Since then, things have changed and I accept it.


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    #72
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    I was born in the early 70s in Ireland. The only "foreigners" I ever met back then were Doctors. I met a black kid for the first time in the late 70s in a shopping centre. I asked him if he knew Tarzan. This is not a joke.

    Since then, things have changed and I accept it.

    we (mostly all) have accepted it - I wonder if a lot of Irish accepted foreign people to their country because they knew what a hostile reception they got from the English (no Irish/No Dogs/ No Blacks) and thought, we know exactly what that was like and we aint going down that road - there a still instances I am hearing of where people are being spat at though and called names, I suppose some people will never accept foreigners into the country. The other week I heard about some black woman went to cross the road and pressed the button on the traffic light and some random women come up to her and smacked her hand off the button and started hurling abuse at her!


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    #73
    KingBrian2
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    we (mostly all) have accepted it - I wonder if a lot of Irish accepted foreign people to their country because they knew what a hostile reception they got from the English (no Irish/No Dogs/ No Blacks) and thought, we know exactly what that was like and we aint going down that road - there a still instances I am hearing of where people are being spat at though and called names, I suppose some people will never accept foreigners into the country. The other week I heard about some black woman went to cross the road and pressed the button on the traffic light and some random women come up to her and smacked her hand off the button and started hurling abuse at her!

    Well that is an offense and that women would be prosecuted if a Gardaí was anywhere in the vicinity.


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    #74
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    KingBrian2 wrote: »
    Well that is an offense and that women would be prosecuted if a Gardaí was anywhere in the vicinity.

    yep shame it goes on, but it still does ....


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    #75
    catbear
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    Actually the vilest anti foreigner comments I've seen on my facebook feed have been by English people settled in Ireland, irony much.


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    #76
    dd972
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    1991?


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    #77
    Andy From Sligo
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    dd972 wrote: »
    1991?

    great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was :)


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    #78
    catbear
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was :)

    Wages were ****e, £15 pound was a lot of money. I remember basic wage somewhere under £2!

    The boat was the budget option to the uk. However hitching rides around the country was the done thing until jojo dollard went missing.


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    #79
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    catbear wrote: »
    Wages were ****e, £15 pound was a lot of money. I remember basic wage somewhere under £2!

    The boat was the budget option to the uk. However hitching rides around the country was the done thing until jojo dollard went missing.

    yeah what has happened with the ferry? - used to be dirt cheap to go over to UK (on Sealink was it?) - but looked at price a few months back and it cost an arm and leg now!!


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    #80
    catbear
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    yeah what has happened with the ferry? - used to be dirt cheap to go over to UK (on Sealink was it?) - but looked at price a few months back and it cost an arm and leg now!!
    The boat seemed cheap to us then because flying to the UK could cost over £200. Its probably still about the as cheaper but easyjet and the others were a revolution.


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    #81
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    great year - great communities, everyone knew each other, decent houses for sale for around 50,000 irish punts, the Irish punts, the Roads were sh!te granted full of potholes and no bypasses and there were border control between the north and south, knock airport was a cowshed, summers were better, towns had non pretentious cafe's which sold cheap tea and coffee (not a Costa in sight!) only 2 TV stations RTE1 & Network 2 , people going round in horse and traps, nobody had a mobile phone , Leave keys in front doors and cars, actually could leave your doors open , nice comfortable train carriages to Dublin and a fare of 15 Irish Punts return from Sligo to Dublin (whats it something like €45 now?) of course most of this resonates with rural Ireland, maybe it was different up Dublin and other cities. - great it was :)

    Surely you weren't alive in 91...?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #82
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote:
    Surely you weren't alive in 91...?


    Why, cause I come across as being so childish? :D


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    #83
    JupiterKid
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    It would be a lot more boring. Immigration has enriched Ireland and added a touch of spice to the dish.


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    #84
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    Why, cause I come across as being so childish? :D

    I had early 20s in my head for some reaon...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #85
    fryup
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    having grown up in insular backward 80's ireland

    i think its great that there's people from other countries living here

    its about time irish people discovered that there's more than just white & catholic people in the world


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    #86
    sonofenoch
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    I find it shocking the lack of Irish accents you hear when out and about........we're being killed off.......I'm staring to build a bunker in the back garden soon


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    #87
    cbyrd
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    It'd be pretty Damn full with the amount of children being born. It's not that long ago a family of seven or nine or twelve was the norm....


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    #88
    endacl
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    Yester wrote: »
    No. There was a black guy here in 1985. I saw him.

    There were two. Paul McGrath and the other fella. There used to be three, but Phil Lynott moved out.


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    #89
    catbear
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    sonofenoch wrote: »
    I find it shocking the lack of Irish accents you hear when out and about........we're being killed off.......I'm staring to build a bunker in the back garden soon
    On the other hand I laugh when I hear polish people picking up local accents, that just cracks me up!
    I hear one lad on a train and it was really hard to tell he was polish because he'd picked up his english in thurles.


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    #90
    Hoop66
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    Well I wouldn't be here, so it'd be shite.


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    #91
    SeantoBarry
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nope. For example. Listen to our more traditional music. It's all mostly related to trouble with the English. Irish music changed due to foreign influences and it developed a new direction.

    Without that influence, Irish people would still be sitting in their pubs, singing out their bitterness of lands stolen, and such. Think "four green fields". ;)

    A country that experienced famine, colonisation and its people put through terrible hardship in their native homeland is reflected in its music.

    What a shocker!


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