@muchoburrito Well, there's a girl from Dublin who is a native speaker who teaches at NYU and has a Phd. in Irish studies. She calls it Irish. Almost everyone I know who speaks it calls it Irish. Even courses in it are labeled as Irish. Yes, indeed, it is Gaelic, but it is in vogue now to call it Irish.
@fanadfilms so just because she has a PhD and teaches at NYU makes her opinion more valid than anyone else's? Yes, I suppose you can call it Irish but it's not like it is the correct term now is it? Point is it doesn't matter. You and I are just wasting time going back and fourth on this.
@muchoburrito I am Irish so my opinion on this matter is more valid than anyone outside the island of Ireland. Irish is the official language of Ireland but English is more widely spoken. Irish can be found to be spoken in every school (every child has to learn Irish) and in Gaeltachts (Irish speaking areas)
The correct name is IRISH even though a lot of people think it is Gaelic...Gaelic can be used to describe some things like our national sports (Gaelic football).
@maxtudor fuck all of you people. One of my friends was on my account and wrote this shit. You people never fuck off even though this was written 4 months ago. Trolls.
@muchoburrito Some memory you have, you remember 4 months ago who was using your account and wrote things using your login, you should go on jeopardy.
@muchoburrito LOL you are calling me a dumbfuck, yet you have this comment that you allege your friend wrote but you are too DUMB to figure out how to remove it!!
@maxtudor Hmm, I'm pretty damn sure it's easy to remove. Just because I haven't removed it doesn't mean I don't know how to, but whatever. Just keep trolling, I don't give a fuck.
@muchoburrito The fact you say grandpa would suggest you are Amercian, as a 100% Irish person I think I know our language is called Irish and in Irish it is called Gaeilge. Maybe you had some Lucky Charms while wearing an Aran Sweater and speaking "Gaelic". Fupping plastic paddys!!
@maxtudor Well said! I generally don't mind "Irish Americans", but i hate when they try to tell Irish people what our own language is! Not just that but when they try and correct us they always call it "Gaelic"! :@
@muchoburrito gaelic is the scottish version i think but in ireland its irish (or gaeilge in irish) and also thats not fluent. you learn that when you're four in ireland.
Dublin has to be the most boring and morbid town in the world and people who live there just dont know life or there own self worth its like a prison because almost every bar and food store has arrogant polish security gaurds on them and everyone judges you for simple things like the way you dress act behave walk and talk its SICK get the fuck out and live your life . You cannot express your true self in Dublin because the culture is so extremely different to everywhere.
To all you Irish-Americans out there... We Irish love you really, to the edjits who try to tell you you're not Irish just give them a good ol' Irish kiss. =)
The Irish have proven themselves to be utterly unworthy of any admiration once again. This time over a 5 second video. You people are fuckin' amazingly shitty trash. Glad to see the Celtic Tiger shrink to the whining pussy it was just a couple decades ago. You don't deserve to prosper.
@mentalillnesstalking And I'm glad to see the US owes billions to the Chinese, both our countries are messed up. For example, you have more homeless per capita so please hush up - and that's not including Mexicans, just US nationals.
Every country has a right to prosper and we Irish deserved the prosperity that we had during the Celtic Tiger, after a long haul of British oppression we broke free and in a couple of decades became the richest country per capita in Europe, almost the world.
@Skyifictionable You became rich do to the aid of many countries that invested in you.Ireland was poor for decades after gaining independence(w/financial help of Americans/others of Irish heritage btw).You couldn't save yourselves.As for poverty rates,Ireland's is impossible to determine because your poor are still leaving the country in high numbers to go to the USA, Canada,UK.But the Irish can't even be civil to those who have helped them in any way.You take the side of trash who never aid you
You shit all over any nation and people that has ever helped you especially recently. You also fail to commiserate with any people like the Poles who are now in the situation you once where in.Americans complain about illegals-illegals make up 30% of the violent prisoners we have to pay for, create dangerous gangs, & use our welfare system/take advantage of free medical help etc.The Irish hate LEGAL immigrants who do nothing wrong/pay extra tax all the while complaining about anti-Irish racism.
@mentalillnesstalking Hahahahaha!!!!! You are an idiot! Ireland has one of the highest immigration in Europe, 13% of the total population in Ireland are foreign nationals! That's frinkin huge and larger than the Us's! You can't blame if some of us get annoyed at the poles especially when its hard to get a job and the vast majority don't mind. No nation is perfect, take the KKK for example
You should refrain from commenting here you clearly hate the Irish which makes you biased.
@mentalillnesstalking Anyway, where are you getting these comments from? How can you say the entire Irish nation hates polish people? I have a polish friend and I never think that she's polish I see her as a person only.
@mentalillnesstalking Yes we were invested in by large companies like Microsoft , not countries, how else does any country prosper? That's the reason China is doing so well. Countries like the UAE have oil and so are only wealthy because of it.
Haha, poor leave from all countries, your poor are just too stupid to leave and end up on the street and its a fact that there are more poor per capita in the US than Ireland. And your stereotyping, most Irish love Americans because you love us so much.
Anyone threatened by Irish-Americans' pride in their ancestry and self-identification as Irish needs to get over themselves. A simple "thank you" would do nicely. I'm a third-generation American citizen, and I did graduate work in Irish history at TCD; do you have an M.Litt. in Irish history? It's just parochial (no offense to the Church) to fear that somehow, Irish-Americans are going to dilute your brand.
How do you say "our unemployment rate is in the mid-teens and Portugal's is 10%?"
@km5018a It's not threatened, it more mortified. They say they are Irish, you ask them where are they from and they say Chicago(or wherever). They think we leap around in leprechaun outfits and all Irish accents in American Films aren't Irish accents. Maybe if someone asks me where I am from I will say French Scandinavian. As for your M. Litt in Irish History I recently spoke with an American with an Irish History major and she never heard of Mo Mowlam or David Trimble/ John Hume(nobel winners)
im 100 percent irish-american and it really pisses me off when i hear irish people looking down on us for being proud of our roots...my grandfather did 5 years in an american jail for supposrintg the republican cause...you make fun of us but have no problem taking our money for many generations....no offense to any irishman/woman who doesnt feel this way
You know, I'm not Irish or even Irish-American, but with all the ethnocentric individuals posting on this video, I'm glad I'm not; I'd be ashamed to share my heritage with xenophobic, elitist people who are rude to well-intentioned people. I'm sure not all Irish people are like that, but replies to this video I've seen have certainly left me with a negative impression of this country's people.
Is there anything wrong with people tracing their heritage or exploring their roots? I'm not a "plastic Irish" but I do take pride in my ancestry. The Irish have a long history and lasting impact in America and many Americans identify with Irish culture more than the "parent culture" of colonial Britain.
haha, lol, nice try. but only irish people can speak irish fluently!! i know quite a bit of irish, and im only like nearly 12!! lol, is aoibheann liom gaeilge!!! ugh! shame they dont have nay fadas here!!
I'm not anywhere near Irish. I have... eh... perhaps...0.08% Irish in me. Some Irish? No! I'm not Irish. I'm not French. And neither is she. SHE IS AMERICAN! I've actually ripped an American a new one cos they thought they were my nationality, and spoke my language badly... well, okay... but offensively and arrogantly? No. SHE IS AMERICAN! Get over it! You aren't Italian, Spanish, Arab, Irish. YOU ARE AMERICAN! Also, I'm a bit of a novice.... but her Irish made me weep.
@NefariousNectarine And I'm sorry, but you aren't PROPER Italian or Irish, & Irish-Americans are NOT the same as the Irish. The predominate thing is that you are American-born. I see more nuture versus nature, baby. If I went by my roots, or my father, or my mother, or my father's parents, we'd be rather different. As it is, I'm an London-raised atheist Asian-European mongrel in love with a Catholic Irish-Brit London sweetie. Bet that, nature. YOU ARE NOT IRISH. And your language makes me cry.
@NefariousNectarine You ripped someone a new one for sharing a common point of connection with you ? They attempted to speak your language, and you took it upon yourself to rip them a new one for DARING to claim ancestry to which you have exclusive patent ? Good for you, standing up for your pure ethnic heritage against the offensive and arrogant.
you know what at least you tried.......im in secondary school and tbh after i do the leaving cert i will mever have to speak it again! And for that im thrilled.Its a dead language
@DanMarik just words in Gaeilge are pronounced differently to similar words in Scots Gaelic. true you have william wallace, but we have michael collins, who actually freed us from the english so suck on that XD
I found out that I have a lot of Irish in my family and my husband is 1/4 Irish so we're trying to learn how to speak it and I also want to visit there!
@magdalena2113 I don't have a lot of Irish in my family; I am mostly of Polish and Russian extraction. You can tell this because my last name is Klukowski, and my great-grandmother's, on my mother's side, last name is Sokolov. Although I'm proud of my heritage, I still am proud to be an American. I wouldn't want to be anything else.
@hazel10987 It's not that I'm not proud to be American, I would just like to get in touch with the Irish culture that's a prominent part of my family.
@magdalena2113 I don't have a lot of Irish in my family; I am mostly of Polish and Russian extraction. You can tell this because my last name is Klukowski, and my great-grandmother's, on my mother's side, last name is Sokolov. Although I'm proud of my heritage, I still am proud to be an American. I wouldn't want to be anything else.
jus cuz some1s of irish decent doesnt make thier ancestors less of thier nationality . and people can learn WHATEVER tha fuck they want spanish french or russian . YOU CHOOOOOOSE what you wnna speak.
these people who are giving out about americans or watever trying to relate themselves to ireland are pure arseholes..
we should be proud that people want to associate themselves wit our small country. im irish and its just a bit of craic so get of yer feckin high horse
@IrishRebel1879 You better get used to it. There are over 20 million Irish, Scots-Irish and Anglo-Irish Americans who are discovering their bloodline and trying to get exclusive. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em I say.
@IrishRebel1879 why? Because someone wants to know who their ancestors were? How is that bad? What is it with the Irish not liking Americans wanting to know more about their history?
@Thrawn6211 Ye seem to have misunderstood me. Allow me to rephrase. I don't like it when we, "The Irish", become angry toward Americans who like to express Irish heritage. Some of the Irish believe you can't be Irish unless you're born in Ireland.(which is a load o' horse shit) I'm saying I hate the people who think blood is exclusive. I'm sorry for the mix-up.
@flatmatty Man I'm stuck over here in America. I wish I and my family stayed in Cork ugh! hhaha. I don't know why some Irish people get pissed at Americans haha I adore it!
@mogbasterd do irish people make you feel as impotent as your comments make you appear??? the overt aggressiveness of your post exhibits the brain activity of a common spastic...
Yes and no. It would make sense for a nation of immigrants to identify with their ethnic ancestry. I believe we were still experiencing a heavy wave of Irish immigration up until the 1960's. Odds are that this girls parents or certainly grandparents may have come from Ireland. Now is it gay to have an American running around wearing an "I Luv the IRA" t-shirt? Yes, I would have to agree with you. Be an American first, be proud of your roots second. I don't believe the 2 mus be mutually exclusive
@TheDoLeMike1977 american roots are native american tribes.....oops they have gone the same way the irish got raped by invaders LOL....dont forget the irish invaded the welsh coasts pillaging and arthur guiness got inspiration from a welsh tavern...but we forgive you cheeky rascals
A US girl visiting our country makes an effort to speak our traditional language - and you judge bitch and ridicule.
Classy. :)
The Irish guy asking her to speak Irish didnt seem as offended by the "plastic" as you... strange
Also - there are over half a million decendants of British emigrants living in the north of Ireland - who hold to British rather than Irish identity ("moved on"? - no way). but they are more than welcome to do this long as it doesnt cause violence. :)
Dear Born Again Pagans on Halloween lets give homage to our Druid ancestors who have died on a million burning crosses for our religious freedoms! Help Save The Hill of Tara from the M3, long live the Celtic Pagan Kings and Druid's Brehon Laws at the Hill of Tara's Royal Grove.
Who get's to say who's Irish? I thought the Irish Government had a policy on Irishness that states anyone who has an Irish ancestor in the last two generations can claim citizenship, even if they're not from Boston? ;o)
Of course being culturally Irish is different to being of Irish descent...but why rubbish people who want to learn about their ancestors culture by calling them plastic paddies...?
So true some people in ireland turned into complete assholes during the "boom" but thats over now and those same people are now very quiet but if your American or irish american i apologise for this horrible shit where it came from i dont know.
Exactly, if a person has an Irish passport, then they are Irish and that is the end of the matter, no matter where they were born or what part of the world they come from!
To identify as being culturally Irish or ethnically Irish is the exact same as Asians Americans identifying with their countries of origin. It is completely logical!
@duinedubh - well Irish by nationality at least. One would hope Irish by cultural and naturalisation also...but if we look at the UK and other European countries we can see many people with passports who have little in common with the natives lol.
Listen, most Americans that claim Irish heritage or ancestory don't give shit about Ireland NOW, they are proud of their ancestors who came to the US from Ireland way back in the day. The Irish immigrants were excluded from the rest of society, and so they had to band together to survive. My grandmother still has a sign hanging in her house that reads "Help Wanted, No Irish need apply"...she keeps it to remind all of us that our ancestors went through hell so we could have a better life!
Plastic paddy?.........a good old ENGLISH expression for irish americans that some asshole irish adopted for themselves hope your not in that category.......are you?
That's right, I despise that term "Plastic Paddy".
It's a form of self-loathing. You have to understand that although 26 counties recieved independence 80 odd years ago, the scars of eight centuries of occupation still exist. I'm sorry to say, but we Irish are still very much mentally colonised. One of the results is this kind of self-loathing. It really needs to be stamped out.
As I have stated before I have an irish father and a scotish mother. I was born and brought up i scotland. my ethnicity is scottish and nothing else.
Glasgow and liverpoll has seen irish migration longer than america has, yet you will never hear someone identify themselves as an irish scot or an english irishman.
europe is just as mulit cultural as america. I have an irish father born and bred and a scottish mother but I am not ethnically irish, I am ethnically scottish.
Let me make sure I understand you correctly. Let's say, for example, a Greek couple migrate to Scotland and have children there. Are you saying that, ethnically, those children (though having no Scottish ancestry) are Scottish, not Greek, but that I, though my ancestors have been in Alba since prehistoric times and were with Wallace, Bonnie Prince Charlie, etc, am NOT of Scottish ethnicity since I was born and live in America?
Ethnicity is determined by culture, community, behavioural traits, dialect, ancestry etc. you share none of these values because you are an american. Anthropologically speaking being a white american is an ethnicity.
Interesting how you can make such assertions about me without even knowing me. Yet you dodged the other part of my question, the hypothetical scenario about the Greek immigrants' son. Is that person with no Scottish ancestors ethnically Scottish?
groupings like "white" "black" and "asian" are dumb and is just a bunch of hypocrisy. What if someone is Portuguese? does that make that person white even though their skin is much darker than most other parts of europe? but everyone in europe is white though right? see, its just stupid and is full of hypocrisy.
I completely agree. The liberty our ancestors won for us would not have been achieved only for Irish America. The Peace Process was also aided by the Americans. Despite the deplorable things Athe US govt. gets up, they have only but helped us in the past and we should appreciate that atleast.
@duinedubh Where did you get that from? Unless you are talking about Dev, but Collins and the other leaders are all Irish. Sure Clinton was a huge help to the peace process but the amount of Plastic Paddys that have told me they are still donating to the IRA would blow your mind, hardly very helpful
By definition being a white american is an ethnicity in itself.
It matter not how old america is or how long your people have inhabitated it.
scotland has seen cross migration from europe for over one thousand years. That does not make us ethnically mixed, because our ethnicity is our culture and community etc.
an american in scotland sticks out like a sore thumb vice versa for a scot in america.
so how can you be ethnically scottish or , when you are nothing like the scots
I did not say I was ethnically Scottish; I said ethnically Scottish-American. There's a difference. If a Scot sticks out in America, it is for cultural reasons and nothing more.
Yes but the scottish identity is a cultursal one only. The scots are not a race of people. There is no racial differance between a scot, englishman, irishman, scandanavian etc.
The scots are seperated solely by culture and community.
I disagree with you on the notion of white american not being an ethnicity. By the very definition of ethnicity it is a valid one.
The wealthiest economy is the EU, is just what I meant to say. It goes to show how ridiculous American spending on military is, the EU's economy is much larger, yet it spends so much less on 'defence' than America, and it has a lot more people too!
good lord this prompted way more pointless argument than I noticed at first...
A) Our shared humanity is more important than silly nationalist pride.
B) the girl is obviously joking and has no ill intent.
C) Imperialism is nothing to be proud of. no one (US *or* UK) should be bragging about a history of slavery and genocide.
D) "Irish-Americans" are proud about it now because 100 years ago people in the US treated them with as little respect as people on this thread are showing each other.
You know that really cracks me up here in america.I have conversations in several languages;but when people ask me how many languages I speak I say I speak English, but then the people here say they are fluent in what ever language, then I start to speak to them in it and all they know how to say is one word and its usually a curse,sometimes not even say "Hello".
uhh.. I didn't know there was a language called Irish.... I always spoke Gaelic to my grandpa
muchoburrito 8 months ago 9
@muchoburrito It seems to me that, to distinguish between Irish and Scottish Gaelic, most have begun calling our language Irish or Irish Gaelic.
fanadfilms 8 months ago
@fanadfilms still no such language called Irish. it's either Irish Gaelic or just Gaelic.
muchoburrito 8 months ago
@muchoburrito Well, there's a girl from Dublin who is a native speaker who teaches at NYU and has a Phd. in Irish studies. She calls it Irish. Almost everyone I know who speaks it calls it Irish. Even courses in it are labeled as Irish. Yes, indeed, it is Gaelic, but it is in vogue now to call it Irish.
fanadfilms 8 months ago
@fanadfilms so just because she has a PhD and teaches at NYU makes her opinion more valid than anyone else's? Yes, I suppose you can call it Irish but it's not like it is the correct term now is it? Point is it doesn't matter. You and I are just wasting time going back and fourth on this.
muchoburrito 8 months ago
@muchoburrito I am Irish so my opinion on this matter is more valid than anyone outside the island of Ireland. Irish is the official language of Ireland but English is more widely spoken. Irish can be found to be spoken in every school (every child has to learn Irish) and in Gaeltachts (Irish speaking areas)
The correct name is IRISH even though a lot of people think it is Gaelic...Gaelic can be used to describe some things like our national sports (Gaelic football).
iluvwaffles 7 months ago
@muchoburrito I think the fact that she is a "native speaker" gives her much more creedence than someone who may have heard it in a film
maxtudor 4 months ago
@maxtudor fuck all of you people. One of my friends was on my account and wrote this shit. You people never fuck off even though this was written 4 months ago. Trolls.
muchoburrito 4 months ago
@muchoburrito Some memory you have, you remember 4 months ago who was using your account and wrote things using your login, you should go on jeopardy.
maxtudor 4 months ago
@maxtudor yeah. Well it's pretty easy considering I know it wasn't me. Dumbfuck.
muchoburrito 4 months ago
@muchoburrito LOL you are calling me a dumbfuck, yet you have this comment that you allege your friend wrote but you are too DUMB to figure out how to remove it!!
maxtudor 4 months ago
@maxtudor Hmm, I'm pretty damn sure it's easy to remove. Just because I haven't removed it doesn't mean I don't know how to, but whatever. Just keep trolling, I don't give a fuck.
muchoburrito 4 months ago
@muchoburrito actually there it is called irish or gaeilge i am a native speaker
XXxvampiregirlx 1 month ago
@muchoburrito I wouldnt go to France, come back and go look how quick i learned Francais would you?
gkSRFC 6 months ago
@muchoburrito
Article 8 of Bunreacht na hEireann (The Constitution of Ireland):
"The Irish language as the national language is the first official language."
Everybody, including the framers of the constitution, refers to it as "Irish" when speaking English. The language's own name for itself is "gaeilge."
Calling it "Gaelic" is likely to cause confusion, because that word also refers to Scot's Gaelic.
FirstHundred100 5 months ago
@muchoburrito The fact you say grandpa would suggest you are Amercian, as a 100% Irish person I think I know our language is called Irish and in Irish it is called Gaeilge. Maybe you had some Lucky Charms while wearing an Aran Sweater and speaking "Gaelic". Fupping plastic paddys!!
maxtudor 4 months ago
@maxtudor Well said! I generally don't mind "Irish Americans", but i hate when they try to tell Irish people what our own language is! Not just that but when they try and correct us they always call it "Gaelic"! :@
xCraiig 4 months ago
@muchoburrito gaelic is the scottish version i think but in ireland its irish (or gaeilge in irish) and also thats not fluent. you learn that when you're four in ireland.
LuigiRules2k11 4 months ago
@LuigiRules2k11 No gaelic is the Irish version and it is sometimes called gaeilge(mostly in the east)
MegaBlueZOMBIE 2 months ago
@MegaBlueZOMBIE nope its just gaeilge gaelic is an irish game the irish version of soccer
LuigiRules2k11 2 months ago
@muchoburrito The language is never correctly referred to as Gaelic. It's either referred to as Gaeilge or Irish!
DavidL999 5 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Dublin has to be the most boring and morbid town in the world and people who live there just dont know life or there own self worth its like a prison because almost every bar and food store has arrogant polish security gaurds on them and everyone judges you for simple things like the way you dress act behave walk and talk its SICK get the fuck out and live your life . You cannot express your true self in Dublin because the culture is so extremely different to everywhere.
OBAMAisHalfCaste 9 months ago
Lol Ireland is cool. I know two really attractive Polish girls however, but I love bagpipes and Gaelic! Idk ...hot girls or bagpipes?
Numbdolphin 10 months ago
@Numbdolphin bagpipes are scottish.................wow
Shemesis 10 months ago 6
@Numbdolphin
choose girls.. don't be GAY
NoNeedToThink 10 months ago
@NoNeedToThink ..What's wrong with gays? Don't tell me you're an anti-homo. :|
MidoLovesYou 9 months ago
@MidoLovesYou
I certainly am... shame on me.
NoNeedToThink 9 months ago
@NoNeedToThink = - =
MidoLovesYou 9 months ago
@Numbdolphin bagpipes are scottish... lol
ailish086 9 months ago
To all you Irish-Americans out there... We Irish love you really, to the edjits who try to tell you you're not Irish just give them a good ol' Irish kiss. =)
Skyifictionable 11 months ago 2
The Irish have proven themselves to be utterly unworthy of any admiration once again. This time over a 5 second video. You people are fuckin' amazingly shitty trash. Glad to see the Celtic Tiger shrink to the whining pussy it was just a couple decades ago. You don't deserve to prosper.
mentalillnesstalking 11 months ago
@mentalillnesstalking And I'm glad to see the US owes billions to the Chinese, both our countries are messed up. For example, you have more homeless per capita so please hush up - and that's not including Mexicans, just US nationals.
Every country has a right to prosper and we Irish deserved the prosperity that we had during the Celtic Tiger, after a long haul of British oppression we broke free and in a couple of decades became the richest country per capita in Europe, almost the world.
Skyifictionable 11 months ago
@Skyifictionable You became rich do to the aid of many countries that invested in you.Ireland was poor for decades after gaining independence(w/financial help of Americans/others of Irish heritage btw).You couldn't save yourselves.As for poverty rates,Ireland's is impossible to determine because your poor are still leaving the country in high numbers to go to the USA, Canada,UK.But the Irish can't even be civil to those who have helped them in any way.You take the side of trash who never aid you
mentalillnesstalking 11 months ago
You shit all over any nation and people that has ever helped you especially recently. You also fail to commiserate with any people like the Poles who are now in the situation you once where in.Americans complain about illegals-illegals make up 30% of the violent prisoners we have to pay for, create dangerous gangs, & use our welfare system/take advantage of free medical help etc.The Irish hate LEGAL immigrants who do nothing wrong/pay extra tax all the while complaining about anti-Irish racism.
mentalillnesstalking 11 months ago
@mentalillnesstalking Hahahahaha!!!!! You are an idiot! Ireland has one of the highest immigration in Europe, 13% of the total population in Ireland are foreign nationals! That's frinkin huge and larger than the Us's! You can't blame if some of us get annoyed at the poles especially when its hard to get a job and the vast majority don't mind. No nation is perfect, take the KKK for example
You should refrain from commenting here you clearly hate the Irish which makes you biased.
Skyifictionable 11 months ago
@mentalillnesstalking Anyway, where are you getting these comments from? How can you say the entire Irish nation hates polish people? I have a polish friend and I never think that she's polish I see her as a person only.
Skyifictionable 11 months ago
@mentalillnesstalking Yes we were invested in by large companies like Microsoft , not countries, how else does any country prosper? That's the reason China is doing so well. Countries like the UAE have oil and so are only wealthy because of it.
Haha, poor leave from all countries, your poor are just too stupid to leave and end up on the street and its a fact that there are more poor per capita in the US than Ireland. And your stereotyping, most Irish love Americans because you love us so much.
Skyifictionable 11 months ago
I'm 70% Irish, 20% Scottish, 5% native American, and 5% French
FutureVisioneer 1 year ago 2
is brea liom an gaeilge fresan
sam22ish 1 year ago
Anyone threatened by Irish-Americans' pride in their ancestry and self-identification as Irish needs to get over themselves. A simple "thank you" would do nicely. I'm a third-generation American citizen, and I did graduate work in Irish history at TCD; do you have an M.Litt. in Irish history? It's just parochial (no offense to the Church) to fear that somehow, Irish-Americans are going to dilute your brand.
How do you say "our unemployment rate is in the mid-teens and Portugal's is 10%?"
km5018a 1 year ago
@km5018a It's not threatened, it more mortified. They say they are Irish, you ask them where are they from and they say Chicago(or wherever). They think we leap around in leprechaun outfits and all Irish accents in American Films aren't Irish accents. Maybe if someone asks me where I am from I will say French Scandinavian. As for your M. Litt in Irish History I recently spoke with an American with an Irish History major and she never heard of Mo Mowlam or David Trimble/ John Hume(nobel winners)
maxtudor 4 months ago
im 100 percent irish-american and it really pisses me off when i hear irish people looking down on us for being proud of our roots...my grandfather did 5 years in an american jail for supposrintg the republican cause...you make fun of us but have no problem taking our money for many generations....no offense to any irishman/woman who doesnt feel this way
sbaker12 1 year ago
I hate it when an American has like a great great great great great grandmother who was Irish and they think that they are full Irish...
xxlomxx 1 year ago
@xxlomxx Well how do you know they aren't full Irish? ooooh that's right, you don't. :)
SkelanimalKitteh 1 year ago
give it another 200-600 years and we will all be one race!! amarica is not just a melting pot, the world will be one!!!!!
wildstyle666brooke 1 year ago
@wildstyle666brooke can you tell i'm canadian? i just spelt america wrong hahaha
wildstyle666brooke 1 year ago
You know, I'm not Irish or even Irish-American, but with all the ethnocentric individuals posting on this video, I'm glad I'm not; I'd be ashamed to share my heritage with xenophobic, elitist people who are rude to well-intentioned people. I'm sure not all Irish people are like that, but replies to this video I've seen have certainly left me with a negative impression of this country's people.
sugarycactus 1 year ago 2
@sugarycactus You'd be a prick too if your country is fucked! :D
weedybix 1 year ago
@weedybix Haha! I'm American, I understand the feeling!
sugarycactus 1 year ago
@weedybix Which country are you talking about? both are completely fucked prick.
mentalillnesstalking 11 months ago
@mentalillnesstalking Im talking about ireland...........prick!
weedybix 11 months ago
I don't blame her for being ashamed of being American. If I was American, I would kill myself. You guys are that disgusting, really.
YouStoleMyTube 1 year ago
@YouStoleMyTube so you've met every American on planet earth?
brunnhild23 1 year ago
maith thu :D
gymnasticsblastomg 1 year ago
Is there anything wrong with people tracing their heritage or exploring their roots? I'm not a "plastic Irish" but I do take pride in my ancestry. The Irish have a long history and lasting impact in America and many Americans identify with Irish culture more than the "parent culture" of colonial Britain.
TheGreaterGood80 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@TheGreaterGood80 Wishing you were irish because your ancestors were will never make you irish.
Pawnbroker00 1 year ago
haha, lol, nice try. but only irish people can speak irish fluently!! i know quite a bit of irish, and im only like nearly 12!! lol, is aoibheann liom gaeilge!!! ugh! shame they dont have nay fadas here!!
gleetwilight123 1 year ago
@gleetwilight123 Just press Alt Gr and hold down the vowel! ÁÉIÓÚ. Slán leat :P
AoibheClaire 1 year ago
@AoibheClaire go raibh maith agat!!!!! :P
gleetwilight123 1 year ago
@AoibheClaire - yes hold Alt Gr (to right of of Space) and áéíóú
sainglain 1 year ago
I'm not anywhere near Irish. I have... eh... perhaps...0.08% Irish in me. Some Irish? No! I'm not Irish. I'm not French. And neither is she. SHE IS AMERICAN! I've actually ripped an American a new one cos they thought they were my nationality, and spoke my language badly... well, okay... but offensively and arrogantly? No. SHE IS AMERICAN! Get over it! You aren't Italian, Spanish, Arab, Irish. YOU ARE AMERICAN! Also, I'm a bit of a novice.... but her Irish made me weep.
NefariousNectarine 1 year ago
@NefariousNectarine And I'm sorry, but you aren't PROPER Italian or Irish, & Irish-Americans are NOT the same as the Irish. The predominate thing is that you are American-born. I see more nuture versus nature, baby. If I went by my roots, or my father, or my mother, or my father's parents, we'd be rather different. As it is, I'm an London-raised atheist Asian-European mongrel in love with a Catholic Irish-Brit London sweetie. Bet that, nature. YOU ARE NOT IRISH. And your language makes me cry.
NefariousNectarine 1 year ago
@NefariousNectarine You're a spaz.
YouStoleMyTube 1 year ago
@NefariousNectarine You ripped someone a new one for sharing a common point of connection with you ? They attempted to speak your language, and you took it upon yourself to rip them a new one for DARING to claim ancestry to which you have exclusive patent ? Good for you, standing up for your pure ethnic heritage against the offensive and arrogant.
boomaga 1 year ago
this video isnt serious is it? a sentence isnt fluent irish
joemoin 1 year ago
you know what at least you tried.......im in secondary school and tbh after i do the leaving cert i will mever have to speak it again! And for that im thrilled.Its a dead language
Irirshness 1 year ago
she said ... i suck cock after a pint ...mmmm
mushroom2you 1 year ago
@mushroom2you yeah not quite
JenB692 1 year ago
@JenB692
aaa
is that you then ...so sorry
mushroom2you 1 year ago
@mushroom2you what the hell is wrong with you?
JenB692 1 year ago
GAY-LICK
crazyjorge2111 1 year ago
wow that WAS pretty fluent, i bet you could also speak another 6 languages fluently too like every other fuckin american
initformusic16 1 year ago
SCOTTISH GAELIC IS BETTER THAN IRISH GAELIC!!!!!!
(You ask) What the difference?
(I say) I have no fucking clue.
(You ask) Then why say that?
(I say) Cause Scotland is better.
DanMarik 1 year ago
@DanMarik ...no Ireland's better haha :)
michaelkv 1 year ago
@michaelkv
NO SCOTLAND IS BETTER.
THERE IS NO WILLIAM WALLACE IN IRELAND.
CHECKMATE
DanMarik 1 year ago
@DanMarik just words in Gaeilge are pronounced differently to similar words in Scots Gaelic. true you have william wallace, but we have michael collins, who actually freed us from the english so suck on that XD
HerrAirburst 1 year ago
@DanMarik Thats a bad thing???? Only BuzzinXD
Jessiebaby131 1 year ago
haha all she said is i like irish
peppermintphonesxx 1 year ago
wtf is this shite?
GeRoThEoRy 1 year ago
She said "I love you" and then...something else. xD I only caught the "I love you" part.
FeatherHailfrost 1 year ago
@FeatherHailfrost "I like in irish"...."Is maith liom as gaeilge" lol - "is brea liom gaeilge" is "I love Irish"
michaelkv 1 year ago
OH..MY...GOD..SHE..SAID..IN...TRANSLATION...I...LIKE...IRISH
toyotaprius79 1 year ago
not exactly fluent but good try!!!
mossie2644 1 year ago
Wow! "how you picked up irish so quicky" is stupid! Its frikin sentence! not "fluent" irish! wow, your such assholes! bull sugar or what?
MeggyBecky 1 year ago
that was not fluent at all you probably dont no what that means
hurlingrockstheworld 1 year ago
thats not even right:L
good effort though
RobynOrlaBrowne95 1 year ago
I found out that I have a lot of Irish in my family and my husband is 1/4 Irish so we're trying to learn how to speak it and I also want to visit there!
magdalena2113 1 year ago
@magdalena2113 I don't have a lot of Irish in my family; I am mostly of Polish and Russian extraction. You can tell this because my last name is Klukowski, and my great-grandmother's, on my mother's side, last name is Sokolov. Although I'm proud of my heritage, I still am proud to be an American. I wouldn't want to be anything else.
hazel10987 1 year ago
@hazel10987 It's not that I'm not proud to be American, I would just like to get in touch with the Irish culture that's a prominent part of my family.
magdalena2113 1 year ago
@magdalena2113 I don't have a lot of Irish in my family; I am mostly of Polish and Russian extraction. You can tell this because my last name is Klukowski, and my great-grandmother's, on my mother's side, last name is Sokolov. Although I'm proud of my heritage, I still am proud to be an American. I wouldn't want to be anything else.
hazel10987 1 year ago
I wish more foreigners visiting Ireland would make the effort to speak a few words of Irish like this girl did. Good work
Glgebhrste 1 year ago
''is brea liom an gaeilge'' haha- nice try
R32SKYLINEBWD 1 year ago
fuck uppppp damm yall bitches hatinnnn'
jus cuz some1s of irish decent doesnt make thier ancestors less of thier nationality . and people can learn WHATEVER tha fuck they want spanish french or russian . YOU CHOOOOOOSE what you wnna speak.
jpre1020 1 year ago
haha its "is brea liom geailge"
good effort
these people who are giving out about americans or watever trying to relate themselves to ireland are pure arseholes..
we should be proud that people want to associate themselves wit our small country. im irish and its just a bit of craic so get of yer feckin high horse
flatmatty 2 years ago 33
Damn right. I hate seein' people on here who get exclusive with their damn blood.
IrishRebel1879 1 year ago
@IrishRebel1879 You better get used to it. There are over 20 million Irish, Scots-Irish and Anglo-Irish Americans who are discovering their bloodline and trying to get exclusive. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em I say.
hazel10987 1 year ago
@IrishRebel1879 why? Because someone wants to know who their ancestors were? How is that bad? What is it with the Irish not liking Americans wanting to know more about their history?
Bail ó Dhia ort
Thrawn6211 1 year ago
@Thrawn6211 Ye seem to have misunderstood me. Allow me to rephrase. I don't like it when we, "The Irish", become angry toward Americans who like to express Irish heritage. Some of the Irish believe you can't be Irish unless you're born in Ireland.(which is a load o' horse shit) I'm saying I hate the people who think blood is exclusive. I'm sorry for the mix-up.
IrishRebel1879 1 year ago
@IrishRebel1879 aight, yeah, just a mix-up. sorry for the trouble.
Semper Fi
Thrawn6211 1 year ago
@Thrawn6211 All is well.
Hooah!
IrishRebel1879 1 year ago
@IrishRebel1879 now your just trying to mess with me.
A ren't
R eally
M arines
Y et
OORAH!
Thrawn6211 1 year ago
@Thrawn6211 Haha! That's really good but, see, that's just a little off.
M arines
A re
R eally
I gnorant
N arcissists
E at
S hit
Hooah? Haha. Are you in the service? I'm US Army E-2 11X Infantryman.
IrishRebel1879 1 year ago
@IrishRebel1879 Im joining the marines JUNE1 And im pretty sure i dont eat shit
oisinwillis 1 year ago
@IrishRebel1879 sure u fucking are cumquat
WhiteyRose 1 year ago
@flatmatty well said lad
MrChrish95 1 year ago
@flatmatty Man I'm stuck over here in America. I wish I and my family stayed in Cork ugh! hhaha. I don't know why some Irish people get pissed at Americans haha I adore it!
sirchristian12 1 year ago
@flatmatty fuck you,fuck your mother
mogbasterd 1 year ago
@mogbasterd You must the person he's talkin about! haha
weedybix 1 year ago
@weedybix you must be a hhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaandicap
mogbasterd 1 year ago
@mogbasterd you must be a spaaaaaaastic! :D
weedybix 1 year ago
@mogbasterd do irish people make you feel as impotent as your comments make you appear??? the overt aggressiveness of your post exhibits the brain activity of a common spastic...
TheDavebag 1 year ago
@TheDavebag your just sour over your impotent penis
mogbasterd 1 year ago
@flatmatty were all up for the craic boyo wahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Irishfianna 11 months ago
Haha so pathetic.
Americans think they are so devoid of history and culture they have to identify with some ancestor centuries past.
Get a grip. You're AMERICAN.
Not Swedish-American Basque-American or whatever silly tag you give yourself.
Be proud of what your nation has accomplished or move the fuck out.
It sounds so obnoxious and plastic to the rest of the world. Those who immigrated within the UK, Irish, Scottish whatever. Moved on.
Suggest you do the same.
balor66666 2 years ago
Yes and no. It would make sense for a nation of immigrants to identify with their ethnic ancestry. I believe we were still experiencing a heavy wave of Irish immigration up until the 1960's. Odds are that this girls parents or certainly grandparents may have come from Ireland. Now is it gay to have an American running around wearing an "I Luv the IRA" t-shirt? Yes, I would have to agree with you. Be an American first, be proud of your roots second. I don't believe the 2 mus be mutually exclusive
TheDoLeMike1977 1 year ago 10
@TheDoLeMike1977 Dude... You're a retard who doesn't understand the meaning of the word gay. Go drown yourself in a river. Idiot.
YouStoleMyTube 1 year ago
@TheDoLeMike1977 Well put.
zachmarkham84 11 months ago
@TheDoLeMike1977 that's a healthy way to look at it.
illinois1776 11 months ago
@TheDoLeMike1977 american roots are native american tribes.....oops they have gone the same way the irish got raped by invaders LOL....dont forget the irish invaded the welsh coasts pillaging and arthur guiness got inspiration from a welsh tavern...but we forgive you cheeky rascals
3tangle3 8 months ago
@balor66666
Well Said Mate.
IAMMARR 1 year ago
@balor66666
A US girl visiting our country makes an effort to speak our traditional language - and you judge bitch and ridicule.
Classy. :)
The Irish guy asking her to speak Irish didnt seem as offended by the "plastic" as you... strange
Also - there are over half a million decendants of British emigrants living in the north of Ireland - who hold to British rather than Irish identity ("moved on"? - no way). but they are more than welcome to do this long as it doesnt cause violence. :)
Glgebhrste 1 year ago
hot girl...want to bang her
flohjackson 2 years ago
Everyone read "the green flag" and then come back and comment
alientechsk8r 2 years ago
haha love its 'is brea liom gaeilge'! no 'en' !!
Inkybeau10 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Dear Born Again Pagans on Halloween lets give homage to our Druid ancestors who have died on a million burning crosses for our religious freedoms! Help Save The Hill of Tara from the M3, long live the Celtic Pagan Kings and Druid's Brehon Laws at the Hill of Tara's Royal Grove.
MagicTellaVision 2 years ago
@MagicTellaVision Glory be to God in the Highest.
Thrawn6211 1 year ago
Comment removed
maxtudor 2 years ago 2
wow.. your an eejit..
neilhosey 2 years ago
Comment removed
maxtudor 1 year ago
Comment removed
maxtudor 1 year ago
oh wow! that's so cool! now, imagine speaking irish for 3 WEEKS. no english. at all.
xtremlyrandomgirl 2 years ago
Exactly what we need, another plastic paddy
joetheanglo 2 years ago
Who get's to say who's Irish? I thought the Irish Government had a policy on Irishness that states anyone who has an Irish ancestor in the last two generations can claim citizenship, even if they're not from Boston? ;o)
Of course being culturally Irish is different to being of Irish descent...but why rubbish people who want to learn about their ancestors culture by calling them plastic paddies...?
Optimusnorm 2 years ago
So true some people in ireland turned into complete assholes during the "boom" but thats over now and those same people are now very quiet but if your American or irish american i apologise for this horrible shit where it came from i dont know.
jimmy27paul 2 years ago
@Optimusnorm
Exactly, if a person has an Irish passport, then they are Irish and that is the end of the matter, no matter where they were born or what part of the world they come from!
To identify as being culturally Irish or ethnically Irish is the exact same as Asians Americans identifying with their countries of origin. It is completely logical!
duinedubh 2 years ago
@duinedubh - well Irish by nationality at least. One would hope Irish by cultural and naturalisation also...but if we look at the UK and other European countries we can see many people with passports who have little in common with the natives lol.
Optimusnorm 2 years ago
Listen, most Americans that claim Irish heritage or ancestory don't give shit about Ireland NOW, they are proud of their ancestors who came to the US from Ireland way back in the day. The Irish immigrants were excluded from the rest of society, and so they had to band together to survive. My grandmother still has a sign hanging in her house that reads "Help Wanted, No Irish need apply"...she keeps it to remind all of us that our ancestors went through hell so we could have a better life!
Yajbardian 2 years ago 4
plastic paddy.
rohsilv 2 years ago
Plastic paddy?.........a good old ENGLISH expression for irish americans that some asshole irish adopted for themselves hope your not in that category.......are you?
jimmy27paul 2 years ago
u sir, are a tool. wat the hell are u on about like
rohsilv 2 years ago
Why do you hate irish americans?Why all of a sudden do some irish people like yourself hate these people who are our people its blood..........like
jimmy27paul 2 years ago
seriously stop commentin bak to me with shit.
rohsilv 2 years ago
That's right, I despise that term "Plastic Paddy".
It's a form of self-loathing. You have to understand that although 26 counties recieved independence 80 odd years ago, the scars of eight centuries of occupation still exist. I'm sorry to say, but we Irish are still very much mentally colonised. One of the results is this kind of self-loathing. It really needs to be stamped out.
Cathain78 2 years ago
As I have stated before I have an irish father and a scotish mother. I was born and brought up i scotland. my ethnicity is scottish and nothing else.
Glasgow and liverpoll has seen irish migration longer than america has, yet you will never hear someone identify themselves as an irish scot or an english irishman.
kingdomofdalriada 2 years ago
europe is just as mulit cultural as america. I have an irish father born and bred and a scottish mother but I am not ethnically irish, I am ethnically scottish.
kingdomofdalriada 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Let me make sure I understand you correctly. Let's say, for example, a Greek couple migrate to Scotland and have children there. Are you saying that, ethnically, those children (though having no Scottish ancestry) are Scottish, not Greek, but that I, though my ancestors have been in Alba since prehistoric times and were with Wallace, Bonnie Prince Charlie, etc, am NOT of Scottish ethnicity since I was born and live in America?
Froach9 2 years ago
Ethnicity is determined by culture, community, behavioural traits, dialect, ancestry etc. you share none of these values because you are an american. Anthropologically speaking being a white american is an ethnicity.
kingdomofdalriada 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Interesting how you can make such assertions about me without even knowing me. Yet you dodged the other part of my question, the hypothetical scenario about the Greek immigrants' son. Is that person with no Scottish ancestors ethnically Scottish?
Froach9 2 years ago
groupings like "white" "black" and "asian" are dumb and is just a bunch of hypocrisy. What if someone is Portuguese? does that make that person white even though their skin is much darker than most other parts of europe? but everyone in europe is white though right? see, its just stupid and is full of hypocrisy.
CoolWhipDude 2 years ago
read my statement properly coolwhip.
I stated that the scots are NOT a race of people.
gaelicscots 2 years ago
it makes them "BLACKALACKA" :D
eoinr94 2 years ago
@eoinr94
I completely agree. The liberty our ancestors won for us would not have been achieved only for Irish America. The Peace Process was also aided by the Americans. Despite the deplorable things Athe US govt. gets up, they have only but helped us in the past and we should appreciate that atleast.
duinedubh 2 years ago
@duinedubh Where did you get that from? Unless you are talking about Dev, but Collins and the other leaders are all Irish. Sure Clinton was a huge help to the peace process but the amount of Plastic Paddys that have told me they are still donating to the IRA would blow your mind, hardly very helpful
maxtudor 4 months ago
By definition being a white american is an ethnicity in itself.
It matter not how old america is or how long your people have inhabitated it.
scotland has seen cross migration from europe for over one thousand years. That does not make us ethnically mixed, because our ethnicity is our culture and community etc.
an american in scotland sticks out like a sore thumb vice versa for a scot in america.
so how can you be ethnically scottish or , when you are nothing like the scots
kingdomofdalriada 2 years ago
I did not say I was ethnically Scottish; I said ethnically Scottish-American. There's a difference. If a Scot sticks out in America, it is for cultural reasons and nothing more.
Froach9 2 years ago
Yes but the scottish identity is a cultursal one only. The scots are not a race of people. There is no racial differance between a scot, englishman, irishman, scandanavian etc.
The scots are seperated solely by culture and community.
I disagree with you on the notion of white american not being an ethnicity. By the very definition of ethnicity it is a valid one.
kingdomofdalriada 2 years ago
OK, let's all just calm down with the UK and America stuff.
The most powerful is actually the European Union, not America. However, the most wealthy country is America.
The UK formed the modern world making the only true international language, ground breaking discoveries in science, economics and the arts.
America developed on that, alongside the rest of Europe and the UK itself.
It's all very simple, and nothing to get worked up about it - we are all only human!
NorthLimitation 2 years ago
I worded that first bit wrong haha:
The wealthiest economy is the EU, and it is also the most powerful in terms of military.
However, America is the most wealthy and powerful COUNTRY,
But then what difference does that actually make to all of us? Not much really : /
Ob la di, ob la da, life goes on :)
NorthLimitation 2 years ago
"The wealthiest economy is the EU, and it is also the most powerful in terms of military."
Thats not true. The EU defence budget is half of that of the united states.
kingdomofdalriada 2 years ago
I got myself confused in those two posts! ha,
The wealthiest economy is the EU, is just what I meant to say. It goes to show how ridiculous American spending on military is, the EU's economy is much larger, yet it spends so much less on 'defence' than America, and it has a lot more people too!
Sad, sad world that we live in.
NorthLimitation 2 years ago
Fluent?!
menglinhai 2 years ago
good lord this prompted way more pointless argument than I noticed at first...
A) Our shared humanity is more important than silly nationalist pride.
B) the girl is obviously joking and has no ill intent.
C) Imperialism is nothing to be proud of. no one (US *or* UK) should be bragging about a history of slavery and genocide.
D) "Irish-Americans" are proud about it now because 100 years ago people in the US treated them with as little respect as people on this thread are showing each other.
irgy709 2 years ago 4
well said.
where is human tolerance?
if Irish Americans want to learn the language of their ancestors, why the fuck not?
if people dont want to, its a free world.
Seamus616 2 years ago
Can people just stop making generalizations?
CerealSpaz 2 years ago
pog mo hon
yep even do i go to a ghaelteacht scool i know only dat much cuz i mooved frum dublin
smudgesmurphy 2 years ago
Well thats pretty shit...
ParawhoreChloee 2 years ago
You know that really cracks me up here in america.I have conversations in several languages;but when people ask me how many languages I speak I say I speak English, but then the people here say they are fluent in what ever language, then I start to speak to them in it and all they know how to say is one word and its usually a curse,sometimes not even say "Hello".
WingManPilot 2 years ago
wow, well done, here's a cookie
MoseyBurns 2 years ago
lol i didn't know there was a country named Ireland
tikanis100 2 years ago
im flunt in irish i go to colaiste feirste in belfast
ninicfc 2 years ago
she said ''I love the Irish''
clomcgrane 2 years ago
no she didnt she said "i love irish" (as in the language).. where did you go to school :P
neilhosey 2 years ago
Wow. People need to calm the fuck down. 200 comments. shit. I'm out.
VegetarianTreeHugger 3 years ago
What she said is Irish for "Blow it on my face, Daddy"
So that's what I did.
afterapplepicking 3 years ago
in the words of christy moore -
He's just a Plastic Paddy, singin' Plastic Paddy songs
in a Plastic Paddy pub that they call The Blarny Stone
There's plastic shamrocks everywhere, there's Guinness and green beer
And a sign in gaelic above the bar which says "God Bless All Here"
He's done awful things to "Molly Malone" and "The Farrows of Tralee"
and if he starts singing "Danny Boy", I'm gonna punch him in the nose!
gaelicscots 3 years ago