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Who exactly is Irish?

logical2019 · 2018-07-16 12:29:46

I recently had an interesting discussion with some people about this topic, they were of different opinions, I will love to get a larger perspective on this topic. Are Irish people strictly only descendants of the Vikings and the Celtic nation? People with an Irish accent, who have an Irish passport? Anybody with an Irish…

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#102 17-07-2018 8:32pm

Jim Bob Scratcher

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pleas advice wrote: »

more Irish than the Irish themselves

Even more than our primitive minds can comprehend

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#103 17-07-2018 9:41pm

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Anyone who was born in Ireland or has Irish parents is Irish. Simple really

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#104 17-07-2018 9:43pm

Sal Butamol

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BalcombeSt4 wrote: »

Anyone who was born in Ireland or has Irish parents is Irish. Simple really

Nope

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#105 17-07-2018 9:50pm

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Sal Butamol wrote: »

Nope

No further explanation required, thanks.

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#106 17-07-2018 9:53pm

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Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Ibrahim halawa is surely a great representation of what it means to be Irish today.
<Runs away and hides>

Not according to many in my poll.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057675185

Just 58% consider someone like him Irish, or ANYONE born and raised in Ireland without Irish parents, which to me is really surprising.

I'm pretty sure a poll asking British people the same question would be much higher than 58%, e.g. for Anthony Joshua (Nigerian parents), Raheem Sterling (who wasn't even born in the UK).

But of course people are entitled to whatever opinions they like.

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#107 17-07-2018 10:11pm

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dunno if I have any Irishness in my blood. may go to dna.ancestry.co.uk and order a kit

But I liked this description by Eugene O'Neill "“A typical pure Irish family. The same loyalty occurs, of course, in all kinds of families, but there is, I think, among Irish still close to, or born in Ireland, a strange mixture of fight and hate and forgive, a clannish pride before the world, that is particularly our own.”"

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