There actually is a chance of a united ireland though (: Under the good friday agreement there is to be a vote on whether the people want to keep the border or not (: I know its a long shot of a united ireland but stranger things have happened.......all the same though if there was to be a united ireland ''The Troubles'' would start all over again....
@whaaaaatification: Think your getting carried away mate. i'm SCOTTISH, do you honestly think we like any association with england???? if you actually had a fuckin clue about history, you would know that we were robbed, aswell as the welsh may i add! we both hate them! but it's only a laugh from jimmy carr, tongue and cheek comment and he is a comedian afterall! lighten up!
@Drewstar1985 Bollocks. Who Unified the two countries? Not the English. King James Stuart of Scotland. Scotland can vote any time they want to end the union, and may well do just that in 2014. You don't know your history very well.
Ah lads, come on, its funny! Its been nearly 100 years, dont tell me that we as Irish cant have a laugh over it a bit, We need a laugh in this recession, lighten up and have the craic.
@DoubleRSWTOR To be honest opinion is, and always has been fairly mixed. I don't think the Union was generally popular in either England or Scotland when it came about, and was more for the gain of the rich and the elites in both countries. Many English and Scots would like to see the Union end, and it is quite right Scotland will get a vote on it. That said I think they'll not vote to leave the union. not yet. But we will see.
Ok I'm going to settle this the Irish and English you see fighting are stupid idiots and are just trying to show that we don't get along. I'm Irish and nay English person I've met i Have gotten on with them very well so get over yourselves ye twats :) :)
Being British? hahaha.. Irish people and culture is respected all around the world.. Britain is hated by most countries in the world.. why would we want to be British..? Ya fucking mugs ha
@Ballysillanone Proud to be a former empire/diminished Union... Scotland are going the right way about it. Britain is gone weak.. Muslims are waiting for the right to exploit it.
Well there we go lads, all we need to do to drop an €80 billion euro debt, is apply ourselves, then we can act like we're from the home counties again.
@Hakiblack wouldnt mind, its europes debt anyway , should never been the people of irelands debt, it was europe, germany pumping money into a casino market and a building boom that was always going to burst, we had everyone turning into builders and property experts and when the gamble backfired, it didnt matter because we are taking the tab.
@LiamTuber It's the consequence of the unfinished revolution,it will never end till Ireland is reunited,thankfully the armed struggle is over,all of us in Irelands 32 counties are Irish and our country should be governed by the Irish themselves,british influence has always been corrosive,divide and rule was always there aim.
and I know all I'll hear now is the stuff about the troica etc,I think thats why the 26 counties have embraced the EU so strongly,we were so glad to be rid of the brits
@1vnman Yeah lets be really glad we got rid of the Brits. Since our independence we have achived so much - we have fuked our national sovereignty away to the EU, fuked away years of high economic growth and prosperity (that we will NEVER have again) and now have arguably the most disastrous economy in Europe.
As a nation we are pathetic. Cannot even provide our young people with jobs so they are forced to fuk off to the UK, USA etc to earn a living.
@Whaaaaatification Out of all the countries in Europe that have fallen to financial problems like us such as Greece we are the most promising. Even America have agreed that things are looking better for us with rising exports and bank stabilization. Yes we are losing some degree of sovereignty but we can only blame ourselves. Personally I don't dislike the British but I for one would prefer a free state rather than a wealthy one. Also we have been in worse times than this economically.
@Whaaaaatification Fuck has a C in it, and no Ireland's Economy is no where near as bad as Greece and unemployment is much higher in Spain...stop being the typical complaining sod
@roryj123ok What country are you living in? We're pathetic and the more we kid our self about the truth the worse our country will become. Our unemployment is the 2nd highest in Europe after Spain and is still rising. As a percentage of GDP we have the highest debt (which is still getting bigger) and our deficit is unsustainable.
We are a laughing stock around the world. Cannot even pay our way in life as a country.
Soon we will have to beg and ask England if we can re-join the UK. Just wait.
@Whaaaaatification if anything destroys are country it will be people who think like you. it is bad enough that we're losing so many people to australia and the like, but whats worse is your self hating attitude. fuck off abroad and deny you were ever irish. there'll be no tears from our end
@Whaaaaatification Of all the countries never to colonise and subjugate others, the Irish have had the most influence over world affairs. We've taught the world how to read and write, and we've mad huge contributions to military history. The UK's major contribution has been complete and utter ignorance of foreign countries as a result of their own education system.
@jeffhegarty Bullcrap. Read "If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730" A study of Irish Imperialism in the Carribean. The English gave alot to the world, modern parliamentary democracy, their legal system is the most respected and copied in the world. Great literature like Shakespeare. The Scottish gave us Television, Penicillin, and whisky! I'm against the Union, but the members, past and present, English, Scots, Welsh, Irish are as good & bad as each other.
@jeffhegarty And what is Scotland if not a perfect example of The Irish colonising and subjugating others? Who created Scotland. Invading Gaels from Ireland who put down the Picts. The fact I know this (educated in London) and you don't, would also suggest your other point about U.K education and ignorance is self evidently bollocks too.
"We've taught the world how to read and write"?? What are you smoking?
Yes, because Gaelige is such a World language isn't it? And what are we all using to communicate the planet over? English, written in Roman script, eejit!
And what exactly was the Irish contribution to "military history", pray tell? Christ, we can't even manufacture our own weapons here!
@DonegalRaymie201 My point is this-the Roman script was saved by Irish monks when the Roman Empire declined. The only writing in that alphabet before 597 AD is in Latin. It was Irish monks who preserved the Latin script through their own language, thus inluencing the history of the world. As for the military aspect of things, read David Murphy's 'The Irish Brigades: 1689-2006'. For someone called DonegalRaymie, you're sounding a lot like a BNP candidate.
NO, YOU claimed that: "We've taught the world how to read and write", which is utter bullshit! The Chinese, Indians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks etc ALL got there MILLENIA before we did. And it was the Romans, that brought both literacy & Christianity here, (roads, sanitation, law & order...What 'ave the Romans ever done for us, eh?)
And FYI, Latin NEVER died out, in continued in Monasteries & the RC Church all over Europe, and it evolved eventually into Italian!
@Whaaaaatification yeah, ever think why we fought for hundreds of years for our independence pal, just for the hell of it?? but yeah we got stung like a lot of countries in the crash, lets turn back time and sell out souls for money like the scots and welsh. i pay a shitload in tax and i'd pay a lot more rather than having a union jack, or anything else, as my countries flag. please fuck off to the u.k and leave ireland to the people who are going to try and get us out of this mess
WE. I did none of the sort thank you. I worked hard, studied hard, ignored the credit card companies, spent my own hard earned money, voted, paid my taxes, traveled, learned foriegn languages and customs to prove us Irish are competent. Now i work harder cause a handful of scum fuks ruined are country. Those are the scum you should be hanging not WE. We the people made this country strong, we the people can do it again.
@Whaaaaatification I'm working in the U.S. and there are lots of things I miss about Ireland, but all the bitching and moaning about how fucked the country is is not one of them. And when I get asked the question "Are you under British rule" (people seriously ask me variations of that question from time to time), I am very proud to say we are not. I'm not a nationalist guy, the IRA and Sinn Fein can go suck a fuck, but our independence is something we should be very proud of.
@Whaaaaatification "the most disastrous economy in Europe." Never heard of Greece? Still, welcome back any time you want to be back in the United Kingdom. I love Ireland, but the Republic should never have happened.
Calm down people, no need to get into a political debate or whingeing about Graham Norton etc. It was a joke.. anyone who's watched Jimmy Carr will know how far he'll go for a laugh or to cause a bit of nervous laughter.
It's crap like this that hurts the peace process, too bad a lot of Irish have been brainwashed into thinking England is the end-all of everything. Graham Norton is an idiot as well.
@kjs1968 yeah norton is a faggot who ireland doesnt want,i can take a joke and i find this funny,although it's peculiar because british rule has caused so much hurt and anguish in ireland,it's in our dna now, check out sinead o'connor singing 'famine' an old recording,it's on youtube,alot of truth in her song,i've no problem with english people,though they have their percentage of twats same as we do ourselves
@kjs1968 Never been to a football match then and hear opposing fans riducule each other about history - wether it's correct or not (any teams by the way - I know you're thinking of that crap in Glasgow at present), anyway jokes about all races hurt - bloody hell I'm a thieving lowlife unemployable scouse scumbag living in a slum - aren't I?
@Cheesus89x there was loyalist terrorism as well, dublin double deeker bus bomb killed many and 3 protestants killed in a power plant at the start of the troubles was uncalled for as well...so lets not pick extremist sides
@Apemanwithcalculator The loyalist terrorism was just a response to the constant fenian-catholic terrorism. The "terrorism" by the loyalists was mostly just a bunch of Protestant hoods who would get drunk at a bar then decide to abduct some random catholic in retaliation for IRA bombings. The IRA are the real bad guys, they are the ones who brought and desired the disorder and destroyed the faith in the police force by gunning down random officers.
@DonegalRaymie201 what the brits did was intentional,they shipped out the food while the country starved,they have tried to wipe out the native Irish for centuries,hasn't worked though
Christ man, grow up and face the Truth! The Brit Gov' was guilty of negligence, but OUR fellow Irish stood by while their FELLOW Irish starved!
There were fuck all RICH Irish who starved during the Famine eejit, & there' were fuck all middle class Dubs who missed a fuckin' meal while their fellow Irishman starved!!
@DonegalRaymie201 at that time Ireland was under british governance,therefore they were responsible for all the policy decisions of the time,they shipped the food out under guard by the british army,what britain has done was just as bad as the nazi's in ww2,it was genocide,there was plenty of food
There was plenty of food for those that could afford it! There ALWAYS is, that's why no rich Irish starved nor did middle-class Dubs miss a fuckin' meal!
Irish farmers & landowners continued to SELL their produce to whoever would pay for it, and if their fellow Irishman couldn't afford it, they didn't get it!
THAT was the reality moron, which is an uncomfortable Truth, as OUR forefathers did precious little to help their fellow man! Much easier to blame the Brits tho' isn't it?
P.S. Your comparison to the Nazis & the Holocaust, tells me you really are an Historical moron! Where were the Extermination Camps, the Nazi Death squads, the 1 way cattle trains, the ENTIRE Industry of murder & Genocide that the Nazi's used??? Point me to the evidence!!
Point me a single credible Irish historian, who will confirm your utter pish! You're a clueless, bigoted eejit!
@DonegalRaymie201 there is plenty of historical evidence,lack of 'famine' relief,mass graves,a policy decision to let the people die to clear the land for the landlords.
read 'Famine' by Cecil Woodham smith,it mght enlighten you.
Where did you get the name donegalramie from?are you a plastic by any chance
I don't think you even know the meaning of the word "genocide"! It's Industrialized murder, like the Nazi's "Final Solution", or Rwanda's genocide!
So where did THAT happen in Ireland then?? Where were the Death camps etc?
I realize you prefer the old "blame the Brits for everything" tactic, because it stops you having to face the Truth, that our forebears did next to fuck all to help their poorer countrymen during An Gorta Mor! Sad but true, but folk like you prefer denial!
no I accept that the church and some of the wealthy native irish did little,although some bankrupted themselves to save their tenants
The issue in ireland was never religious,it was the brits who planted the protestants here on land which belonged to the native people,though some of the greatest irish nationalists were non catholic.
I am not in denial,facts are facts however,british policy at the time was not to help the people less they become dependant on aid.
Failure to help, is NOT Genocide though! Aid did come, but it was too little too late by the time the Westminster Gov woke up to the scale of the Famine, which had spread to Britain too, (well Highland Scotland anyway!). Absentee Landlords were also at the heart of the problem here.
"it was the brits who planted the protestants here on land which belonged to the native people", eh? Are you talking about the Plantation of Ulster??
I love him now haha! honestly the Irish gov couldn't organise sex in a brothel so he's actually probably right...and I'm allowed to say it cos I am Irish before anyone tries to fight me on this :P
@Helden6621 well they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery then...the Irish gov doesn't have much reagrd for the law anyway!They're shite!I hate this place!
@PartyGirlDNM i know its gickna lol see on the news there edna kenny saying the irish people went mad borrowing money, when not more than a month ago he said on national tv that this is not the peoples fault haha there hopeless WHERE hopeless lol
@Helden6621 its actually ridiculous isn't it. Its the people at the top who blew the money like not the rest of the country! Useless bunch of wankers! drives me mad so it does :(
@PartyGirlDNM our government is just the lapdog of the top world bankers or wankers, see the way there targeting the old and ones who cant help themselfs as much, thats because they know there would be total anarchy if they set the bigist cut backs on us :P truely fustrateing isnt it =/
@IsMiseAdhamh how does referring to "US" as paddys mean im not a proud irishman?? your just the kind of person who would start an argument about being called a paddy because your not mature enough to just move on ha
@MrStig691 British Isle, singular. Britannia was name by the Romans from the old Britons that lived their from their language. Ireland wasnt known in existence at the time of its name. Ireland is its own island, called the Emerald Isle. two seperate islands, one is British one is Irish. they are not the same
@PhilliesPhanDM5 This is not true 'The British Isles' refered to both Islands. The Romans in this respect perhaps confered a cultural if not political unity on the isles that didn't exist in reality, though Ptolomy's map of 150 shows at least one of the Celtic tribes the Brigantes was present on both isles. James Stuart of Scotland revived the term in 1603, to legitimise his takeover of England, and the plantation of Ireland, it was unwanted 7 unwelcome in both places.
The term "British Isles" refers to the Geographical archipeligo of islands that lie off the coast of Western Europe! It has NOTHING to do with political governance whatsoever.
There were Gaels living in Caledonia, as well as Picts, (or "Cruithin" in Gaelic), living in the North of Hibernia, even in Roman times!
And let's not forget, St. Padraig was a Welshman too, (or a Romano-Briton if you prefer!).
@DonegalRaymie201 It was a political move to reintroduce a 'British' identity by the Scottish monarchy in the 17th century, and a highly unpopular one at that, especially in England. It harked back to the idea of a distant cultural unity, which doubtful ever existed, though of course you're right, there has never been a seperation between the two isles, the Brigantes and Picts as you say were present on both during Greco-Roman times, then the Dal Riada united the two lands etc,
Mmm maybe, but I'm not sure how deliberate it was. Remember, in 1603, when James VI of Scotland, gained the Crown of England, (& Ireland) on Elizabeth's death, he became the de facto Monarch of the whole of Britain.
It was the "Union of the Crowns", so Scots, English & Irish folk now shared a King for the 1st time in history, so it was almost unavoidable that there would have been some coming together and a new focus on what was common to us all!
@DonegalRaymie201 True but from the very start that have been people, both in Scotland and England, who viewed the union as a loss of independance in both states. James bought many Scots down with him and it was seen as a Scots take over. He was told to get back to Scotland and take his word 'Britian' with him. It was a case of what other alternative? Ultimately a King of Scotland was better than a minor sparcely supported English noble, who the Spaniards would likely defeat.
Again, remember this was ONLY the "Union of the Crowns"! James Ist & 6th, was monarch of two separate, independent kingdoms! The Scots still had their own Parliament in Edinburgh until 1707, until they were:
"bought and sold, for English gold, by such a parcel of rogues in a Nation!", according to Burns, (Happy Birthday Rab!).
I'm sure there was resentment in England about adopting a Scots king, but didn't oul' Lizzy confirm his ascent before she died though?
@DonegalRaymie201 Go find a map of the Roman Empire and tell me if Ireland was conquered. It wasnt. All of england and wales and southern scotland was. northern scotland and ireland was never conquered by Rome
@PhilliesPhanDM5 He's not saying that. He's pointing out your confusing the Roman term 'Brittania' which did refer to just their conquered territory, with the term 'British Isles' by which the Romans refered to the whole land, conquered or not, Hibernia/Ireland included. It originally came from the Greek voyager Pytheas in 330 B.C, he mapped the islands, and used the tribal name of the dominant people Pritani name them (later known as the Cruithin in Ireland & Picts in Scotland)
@jacksbacksucker ahhh sorry about that, i misinterpreted it. But names of places do change after time. Instanbul is no longer called Constantinople, even though thats the old name i refer the city too.
@PhilliesPhanDM5 Geographically Ireland is a part of the British Isles. There is no such thing as the British Isle 'singular'. The politics of self determination, nationality or independance is irrelevant to that fact. The Irish could rightly be termed more British than the English, as their Celtic people coined the term, and the English were not even present in the isles until post Roman times, They had the term British 'forced on them' by the Scots in the 17th century.
No, you claimed that:"Ireland wasnt known in existence at the time..."??
I point out that not only did the Romans KNOW of Ireland, but they named it "Hibernia", (the Land of Winter!). Christ you can SEE Ireland from West Wales & the English Lake District. And from Western Scotland, you could swim here!
@duncandar I know. And it's like Americans and every other country in the world. We can't move on because there's history, something alien to Yanks of course.
@JimothyMcgee if you hung yourself, i would be happy that you are not present on this planet anymore... so what if i say your instead of you're?? YOUR still a loser on taking me up on it and i wish you get cancer.
@duncandar Paddys? Fuck you, you're obviously not a very proud Irishman if your calling us "paddys". Go die you cunt, you're only sayin stuff like that to get likes you sad basterd
When Scotland very possibly breaks the Union in 2014, NI might just be floating about wondering what to do with itself.
johnnycarrotheid 20 hours ago
There actually is a chance of a united ireland though (: Under the good friday agreement there is to be a vote on whether the people want to keep the border or not (: I know its a long shot of a united ireland but stranger things have happened.......all the same though if there was to be a united ireland ''The Troubles'' would start all over again....
ShufflesASLFL 1 day ago
That should've read "your", as in "your own material", not "you're" as in "you're a plagiarist carr"
naivesuperman 2 days ago
Jerry Sadowitz did the same joke years ago. Get you're own material carr!
naivesuperman 2 days ago
sorry, wrong person. apolgies. meant for decmoyles.
Drewstar1985 2 days ago
@whaaaaatification: Think your getting carried away mate. i'm SCOTTISH, do you honestly think we like any association with england???? if you actually had a fuckin clue about history, you would know that we were robbed, aswell as the welsh may i add! we both hate them! but it's only a laugh from jimmy carr, tongue and cheek comment and he is a comedian afterall! lighten up!
Drewstar1985 2 days ago
@Drewstar1985 Bollocks. Who Unified the two countries? Not the English. King James Stuart of Scotland. Scotland can vote any time they want to end the union, and may well do just that in 2014. You don't know your history very well.
jacksbacksucker 2 days ago
I love how my comments get deleted by the usual orange order scum
roryj123ok 2 days ago
Jimmy Carr is a class act. And I'm Irish. Feck them if they can't take a joke.
bazmail 2 days ago
Oh no he diddnt! : )
DannyKing3000 3 days ago
we will all be happy once britain stop illegally occupying northern Ireland
ronan32 4 days ago
Hilarious!
Ciaradexy 4 days ago
come on lads im a paddy and i thought it was hilarious hes only takin the piss
wolftonelad1 4 days ago
Ah lads, come on, its funny! Its been nearly 100 years, dont tell me that we as Irish cant have a laugh over it a bit, We need a laugh in this recession, lighten up and have the craic.
xXMiniMoeXx 4 days ago
What up with all the brits thinking uk is great? if it is, why are Scotland stating a referendum in 2014 to leave the uk?
DoubleRSWTOR 5 days ago
@DoubleRSWTOR To be honest opinion is, and always has been fairly mixed. I don't think the Union was generally popular in either England or Scotland when it came about, and was more for the gain of the rich and the elites in both countries. Many English and Scots would like to see the Union end, and it is quite right Scotland will get a vote on it. That said I think they'll not vote to leave the union. not yet. But we will see.
jacksbacksucker 5 days ago
i thought it was hilarious and i'm a dub! its comedy, dont be hatin lads!
MrSkeff 6 days ago 13
Ok I'm going to settle this the Irish and English you see fighting are stupid idiots and are just trying to show that we don't get along. I'm Irish and nay English person I've met i Have gotten on with them very well so get over yourselves ye twats :) :)
95galwaygirl 6 days ago
ireland is to uncivilised to be united you would be nothing without the ENGLISH and you know it
ballintotty 1 week ago
@ballintotty Dude....Bit harsh? Considering we have one of the highest 3rd level attendances by population in the world?
Fosisticated 6 days ago
@ballintotty haha!! why don't you watch the Jeremy kyle show and we will see who is so Uncivilised
roryj123ok 6 days ago
id be pist off if he didnt hav an epic laugh
wehttam2011 1 week ago
Being British? hahaha.. Irish people and culture is respected all around the world.. Britain is hated by most countries in the world.. why would we want to be British..? Ya fucking mugs ha
MrADUB1987 1 week ago
@MrADUB1987 Proud to be Northern Irish and British. They can hate all they want!
Ballysillanone 6 days ago
@Ballysillanone Proud to be a former empire/diminished Union... Scotland are going the right way about it. Britain is gone weak.. Muslims are waiting for the right to exploit it.
MrADUB1987 6 days ago
I usually dont like this guy but that was a pretty funny joke.
WorshipInTruth 1 week ago
first time seeing this, briliant, it drove my dad crazy!!!
shanehorgan53 1 week ago
I'm surprised he's still alive
beamerball666 1 week ago
hahaha I'm as Irish as they come, and this is funny as fuck!!
RoseanneB13 1 week ago
long boring comments, get to the point, this joke is funny
4080316 1 week ago
Well there we go lads, all we need to do to drop an €80 billion euro debt, is apply ourselves, then we can act like we're from the home counties again.
Hakiblack 1 week ago
@Hakiblack Precisely
ChivalryFitz 1 week ago
@Hakiblack wouldnt mind, its europes debt anyway , should never been the people of irelands debt, it was europe, germany pumping money into a casino market and a building boom that was always going to burst, we had everyone turning into builders and property experts and when the gamble backfired, it didnt matter because we are taking the tab.
TheIrishCartman 1 week ago
How did I know apart from the most liked all the other comments would be an argument about either Politics or History....
LiamTuber 2 weeks ago
@LiamTuber It's the consequence of the unfinished revolution,it will never end till Ireland is reunited,thankfully the armed struggle is over,all of us in Irelands 32 counties are Irish and our country should be governed by the Irish themselves,british influence has always been corrosive,divide and rule was always there aim.
and I know all I'll hear now is the stuff about the troica etc,I think thats why the 26 counties have embraced the EU so strongly,we were so glad to be rid of the brits
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman Oh..Your one of those people....
LiamTuber 2 weeks ago
@LiamTuber I don'tknow what you mean
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman Yeah lets be really glad we got rid of the Brits. Since our independence we have achived so much - we have fuked our national sovereignty away to the EU, fuked away years of high economic growth and prosperity (that we will NEVER have again) and now have arguably the most disastrous economy in Europe.
As a nation we are pathetic. Cannot even provide our young people with jobs so they are forced to fuk off to the UK, USA etc to earn a living.
But at-least the Brits are gone eh. pft.
Whaaaaatification 2 weeks ago 22
@Whaaaaatification Out of all the countries in Europe that have fallen to financial problems like us such as Greece we are the most promising. Even America have agreed that things are looking better for us with rising exports and bank stabilization. Yes we are losing some degree of sovereignty but we can only blame ourselves. Personally I don't dislike the British but I for one would prefer a free state rather than a wealthy one. Also we have been in worse times than this economically.
MrAdamocovic 1 week ago
@MrAdamocovic "Personally I don't dislike the British but I for one would prefer a free state rather than a wealthy one." Amen to that.
jacksbacksucker 1 week ago
@Whaaaaatification Fuck has a C in it, and no Ireland's Economy is no where near as bad as Greece and unemployment is much higher in Spain...stop being the typical complaining sod
roryj123ok 1 week ago
@roryj123ok What country are you living in? We're pathetic and the more we kid our self about the truth the worse our country will become. Our unemployment is the 2nd highest in Europe after Spain and is still rising. As a percentage of GDP we have the highest debt (which is still getting bigger) and our deficit is unsustainable.
We are a laughing stock around the world. Cannot even pay our way in life as a country.
Soon we will have to beg and ask England if we can re-join the UK. Just wait.
Whaaaaatification 1 week ago
@Whaaaaatification Your an idiot firstly Spain=23.5, Greece=20.9,Croatia=16.8,Latvia=16.2,Lithuania=14.8 IRELAND=14.5
Unemployment figures are DOWN on last years numbers...
Laughing stock?? no thats you I'm afriad
if we were to ask anyone its Britian as a whole not one country...which will NEVER EVER happen everything you said was wrong your clearly NOT Irish
roryj123ok 6 days ago 2
@Whaaaaatification if anything destroys are country it will be people who think like you. it is bad enough that we're losing so many people to australia and the like, but whats worse is your self hating attitude. fuck off abroad and deny you were ever irish. there'll be no tears from our end
decmoyles 3 days ago
@Whaaaaatification Of all the countries never to colonise and subjugate others, the Irish have had the most influence over world affairs. We've taught the world how to read and write, and we've mad huge contributions to military history. The UK's major contribution has been complete and utter ignorance of foreign countries as a result of their own education system.
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@jeffhegarty Bullcrap. Read "If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730" A study of Irish Imperialism in the Carribean. The English gave alot to the world, modern parliamentary democracy, their legal system is the most respected and copied in the world. Great literature like Shakespeare. The Scottish gave us Television, Penicillin, and whisky! I'm against the Union, but the members, past and present, English, Scots, Welsh, Irish are as good & bad as each other.
jacksbacksucker 1 week ago
@jeffhegarty And what is Scotland if not a perfect example of The Irish colonising and subjugating others? Who created Scotland. Invading Gaels from Ireland who put down the Picts. The fact I know this (educated in London) and you don't, would also suggest your other point about U.K education and ignorance is self evidently bollocks too.
jacksbacksucker 1 week ago
@jeffhegarty
"We've taught the world how to read and write"?? What are you smoking?
Yes, because Gaelige is such a World language isn't it? And what are we all using to communicate the planet over? English, written in Roman script, eejit!
And what exactly was the Irish contribution to "military history", pray tell? Christ, we can't even manufacture our own weapons here!
DonegalRaymie201 1 week ago
@DonegalRaymie201 My point is this-the Roman script was saved by Irish monks when the Roman Empire declined. The only writing in that alphabet before 597 AD is in Latin. It was Irish monks who preserved the Latin script through their own language, thus inluencing the history of the world. As for the military aspect of things, read David Murphy's 'The Irish Brigades: 1689-2006'. For someone called DonegalRaymie, you're sounding a lot like a BNP candidate.
jeffhegarty 1 week ago
@jeffhegarty
NO, YOU claimed that: "We've taught the world how to read and write", which is utter bullshit! The Chinese, Indians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks etc ALL got there MILLENIA before we did. And it was the Romans, that brought both literacy & Christianity here, (roads, sanitation, law & order...What 'ave the Romans ever done for us, eh?)
And FYI, Latin NEVER died out, in continued in Monasteries & the RC Church all over Europe, and it evolved eventually into Italian!
DonegalRaymie201 1 week ago
@Whaaaaatification move north mate....you'll be more than welcome. And you can be Irish and British. It rocks! :)
Ballysillanone 6 days ago
@Whaaaaatification
And at least you are not a subject to Queen Elizabeth II but rather an Irish citizen.
93rardo 5 days ago
@93rardo 30 years out of date. The term British 'subject' was abolished in Jan 1983, and all Brits became 'citizens' from that date too.
jacksbacksucker 5 days ago
@jacksbacksucker
Is that so? I didn't know.
93rardo 4 days ago
@Whaaaaatification yeah, ever think why we fought for hundreds of years for our independence pal, just for the hell of it?? but yeah we got stung like a lot of countries in the crash, lets turn back time and sell out souls for money like the scots and welsh. i pay a shitload in tax and i'd pay a lot more rather than having a union jack, or anything else, as my countries flag. please fuck off to the u.k and leave ireland to the people who are going to try and get us out of this mess
decmoyles 3 days ago
WE. I did none of the sort thank you. I worked hard, studied hard, ignored the credit card companies, spent my own hard earned money, voted, paid my taxes, traveled, learned foriegn languages and customs to prove us Irish are competent. Now i work harder cause a handful of scum fuks ruined are country. Those are the scum you should be hanging not WE. We the people made this country strong, we the people can do it again.
wraithpyriv 1 day ago
@Whaaaaatification shag off ya prod
IrishRu5T 1 day ago
@Whaaaaatification I'm working in the U.S. and there are lots of things I miss about Ireland, but all the bitching and moaning about how fucked the country is is not one of them. And when I get asked the question "Are you under British rule" (people seriously ask me variations of that question from time to time), I am very proud to say we are not. I'm not a nationalist guy, the IRA and Sinn Fein can go suck a fuck, but our independence is something we should be very proud of.
fookfocketyfookfook 1 day ago
@Whaaaaatification "the most disastrous economy in Europe." Never heard of Greece? Still, welcome back any time you want to be back in the United Kingdom. I love Ireland, but the Republic should never have happened.
newinsouthwark 16 hours ago
Calm down people, no need to get into a political debate or whingeing about Graham Norton etc. It was a joke.. anyone who's watched Jimmy Carr will know how far he'll go for a laugh or to cause a bit of nervous laughter.
booglespud 2 weeks ago
@booglespud I agree, everyone takes things to seriously, its Graham Norton and Jimmy Carr, its not meant to be serious.
xXMiniMoeXx 4 days ago
But that joke isn't funny anymore,
its too close to home and its too near the bone
more than you'll ever know...
It's crap like this that hurts the peace process, too bad a lot of Irish have been brainwashed into thinking England is the end-all of everything. Graham Norton is an idiot as well.
kjs1968 2 weeks ago
@kjs1968 yeah norton is a faggot who ireland doesnt want,i can take a joke and i find this funny,although it's peculiar because british rule has caused so much hurt and anguish in ireland,it's in our dna now, check out sinead o'connor singing 'famine' an old recording,it's on youtube,alot of truth in her song,i've no problem with english people,though they have their percentage of twats same as we do ourselves
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman I'm English but have lived in Waterford for 3 years, couldn't agree more mate.
ALBIONTYKE 2 weeks ago
@1vnman Speak for your self their cave man...
roryj123ok 6 days ago
@kjs1968 Never been to a football match then and hear opposing fans riducule each other about history - wether it's correct or not (any teams by the way - I know you're thinking of that crap in Glasgow at present), anyway jokes about all races hurt - bloody hell I'm a thieving lowlife unemployable scouse scumbag living in a slum - aren't I?
I dont take it seriously - nor should you.
eldonian123 2 weeks ago
@kjs1968 Republican terrorism hurts the peace process more than any joke ever could.
Cheesus89x 1 week ago
@Cheesus89x there was loyalist terrorism as well, dublin double deeker bus bomb killed many and 3 protestants killed in a power plant at the start of the troubles was uncalled for as well...so lets not pick extremist sides
Apemanwithcalculator 1 week ago
@Apemanwithcalculator The loyalist terrorism was just a response to the constant fenian-catholic terrorism. The "terrorism" by the loyalists was mostly just a bunch of Protestant hoods who would get drunk at a bar then decide to abduct some random catholic in retaliation for IRA bombings. The IRA are the real bad guys, they are the ones who brought and desired the disorder and destroyed the faith in the police force by gunning down random officers.
WorshipInTruth 1 week ago
@Cheesus89x news just in-terrorism bad for peace
paulyoldmac 1 week ago
if you keep pressing 5 yer one has an orgasm
lilgreenman185 2 weeks ago
Funny - anyone who takes this serious is boring twat with a chip the size of a bus on their shoulder.
eldonian123 2 weeks ago
@eldonian123
Too true! But wearing a chip on our shoulders is the Irish national past-time; well that and English-bashing of course!
Someday soon, with regard to our attitudes, we may be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th Century!
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago
@DonegalRaymie201 We're in the 21st century now. :P
Cheesus89x 1 week ago
@Cheesus89x
I know, that was the joke!
DonegalRaymie201 1 week ago
*9 times hahaa
eilieo 2 weeks ago
next thing the brits will shoot 50cent because they want to steal him and change his name to "50p" ..oh wait hes been shoot 8 times....BRITS
eilieo 2 weeks ago
@eilieo 9 times
gumshiel 2 weeks ago
not funny
ruud40 2 weeks ago
It's true though, you would be econimcally better off under British Union ;D see I didn't say control, I said union! :D
XxGREATxBRITAINxX 2 weeks ago
I'm an Irish person, found this funny XDDDDD people need to lighten up a little bit, he was joking.
ribbitrobot 2 weeks ago 2
2 words - Bloody Sunday
LiamMIRL 2 weeks ago
@LiamMIRL 2 words, famine/genocide
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman
Famines, by definition aren't Genocides! Genocide requires intentional, deliberate mass murder.
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago
@DonegalRaymie201 what the brits did was intentional,they shipped out the food while the country starved,they have tried to wipe out the native Irish for centuries,hasn't worked though
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman
Christ man, grow up and face the Truth! The Brit Gov' was guilty of negligence, but OUR fellow Irish stood by while their FELLOW Irish starved!
There were fuck all RICH Irish who starved during the Famine eejit, & there' were fuck all middle class Dubs who missed a fuckin' meal while their fellow Irishman starved!!
Yous are hypcrits to a man, ya cunts!
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago
@DonegalRaymie201 at that time Ireland was under british governance,therefore they were responsible for all the policy decisions of the time,they shipped the food out under guard by the british army,what britain has done was just as bad as the nazi's in ww2,it was genocide,there was plenty of food
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman
There was plenty of food for those that could afford it! There ALWAYS is, that's why no rich Irish starved nor did middle-class Dubs miss a fuckin' meal!
Irish farmers & landowners continued to SELL their produce to whoever would pay for it, and if their fellow Irishman couldn't afford it, they didn't get it!
THAT was the reality moron, which is an uncomfortable Truth, as OUR forefathers did precious little to help their fellow man! Much easier to blame the Brits tho' isn't it?
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago 2
@1vnman
P.S. Your comparison to the Nazis & the Holocaust, tells me you really are an Historical moron! Where were the Extermination Camps, the Nazi Death squads, the 1 way cattle trains, the ENTIRE Industry of murder & Genocide that the Nazi's used??? Point me to the evidence!!
Point me a single credible Irish historian, who will confirm your utter pish! You're a clueless, bigoted eejit!
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago 2
@DonegalRaymie201 there is plenty of historical evidence,lack of 'famine' relief,mass graves,a policy decision to let the people die to clear the land for the landlords.
read 'Famine' by Cecil Woodham smith,it mght enlighten you.
Where did you get the name donegalramie from?are you a plastic by any chance
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman
I don't think you even know the meaning of the word "genocide"! It's Industrialized murder, like the Nazi's "Final Solution", or Rwanda's genocide!
So where did THAT happen in Ireland then?? Where were the Death camps etc?
I realize you prefer the old "blame the Brits for everything" tactic, because it stops you having to face the Truth, that our forebears did next to fuck all to help their poorer countrymen during An Gorta Mor! Sad but true, but folk like you prefer denial!
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago 2
no I accept that the church and some of the wealthy native irish did little,although some bankrupted themselves to save their tenants
The issue in ireland was never religious,it was the brits who planted the protestants here on land which belonged to the native people,though some of the greatest irish nationalists were non catholic.
I am not in denial,facts are facts however,british policy at the time was not to help the people less they become dependant on aid.
1vnman 2 weeks ago
@1vnman
Failure to help, is NOT Genocide though! Aid did come, but it was too little too late by the time the Westminster Gov woke up to the scale of the Famine, which had spread to Britain too, (well Highland Scotland anyway!). Absentee Landlords were also at the heart of the problem here.
"it was the brits who planted the protestants here on land which belonged to the native people", eh? Are you talking about the Plantation of Ulster??
If so, you couldn't be more wrong!
DonegalRaymie201 2 weeks ago
seems kind of random that 50 cent was there lol
sillyjontag321 2 weeks ago
I'm Irish, I laughed :)
Falveyxx 2 weeks ago 9
im irish and i tot it was gas haah
AversiveWheel8 2 weeks ago
hahaha im irish and i find this hilarious :D
SamKingCole 3 weeks ago 2
were*
Helden6621 3 weeks ago
Is that 50 cent? O_O
The505Guys 3 weeks ago
@The505Guys i was like. wtf is 50 cent doing there? XD
Crudemcc 3 weeks ago
It's pretty funny when you think about the crowds reaction lol
Mr85paul 3 weeks ago
It's only the plastic Paddys who have got their knickers in a twist over this. The real true Irish have a sense of humour.
ticketyboooo 3 weeks ago
Ha ha brilliant! I could see them all on their feet and then going WTF! and sitting down again.
irishmusico 3 weeks ago
I love him now haha! honestly the Irish gov couldn't organise sex in a brothel so he's actually probably right...and I'm allowed to say it cos I am Irish before anyone tries to fight me on this :P
PartyGirlDNM 3 weeks ago
@PartyGirlDNM they couldn because, thats illegal haa im proud to be an earthian!!!
Helden6621 3 weeks ago
@Helden6621 well they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery then...the Irish gov doesn't have much reagrd for the law anyway!They're shite!I hate this place!
PartyGirlDNM 3 weeks ago
@PartyGirlDNM i know its gickna lol see on the news there edna kenny saying the irish people went mad borrowing money, when not more than a month ago he said on national tv that this is not the peoples fault haha there hopeless WHERE hopeless lol
Helden6621 3 weeks ago
@Helden6621 its actually ridiculous isn't it. Its the people at the top who blew the money like not the rest of the country! Useless bunch of wankers! drives me mad so it does :(
PartyGirlDNM 3 weeks ago
@PartyGirlDNM our government is just the lapdog of the top world bankers or wankers, see the way there targeting the old and ones who cant help themselfs as much, thats because they know there would be total anarchy if they set the bigist cut backs on us :P truely fustrateing isnt it =/
Helden6621 3 weeks ago
@Helden6621 sickening like :( Can't watch the news of listen to the radio without getting so angry! I'm out of here as soon as possible!!
PartyGirlDNM 3 weeks ago
@IsMiseAdhamh how does referring to "US" as paddys mean im not a proud irishman?? your just the kind of person who would start an argument about being called a paddy because your not mature enough to just move on ha
duncandar 3 weeks ago
I'm Irish and I approve this joke. Jim your a funny man.
damslainte 3 weeks ago 40
@thedavidburke actually im not im Irish you prick
duncandar 3 weeks ago
It doesn't matter if you have irish or english rule they are both crap. look at cameron, brown and brian cowen!!
pspete1000 3 weeks ago
Nice one Jimmy! Bet those little nationalists had wee red bakes fit to burst!
cozener1 4 weeks ago
50 Cent's just there going 'wtf is he talking about'
itsmeevry1 4 weeks ago 36
@itsmeevry1 Ha exactly what I was going to say. 50 cent is like WTF are these crazy Brits talking about
ojideagu 3 weeks ago
I'm Irish and I find this very funny :D
Irishtrampoline 1 month ago
50 Cent doesn't have a clue what the fuck he's on about - just smile and nod 50
10tonnedubstep 1 month ago 4
its only a bita craic
jfitzy 1 month ago
jimmy carr i m a fan,but that was a bad move man,bad move
bi6076 1 month ago 2
funny lol
scruffylittledog 1 month ago
IM fully irish to the bone and this is bloody hilarious
RugbyPredictions 1 month ago
i dont yhink 50 cent got dat one!!!!!!!!!
cuimhin81 1 month ago
@cuimhin81 yeah lol hes like HAHHAHAH wut.
scruffylittledog 1 month ago
This is a brilliant joke to make in the presence of an Irish person, just to see how their levels of humour lie or not.
trancehi 1 month ago in playlist GOOD/FUNNY
Ouch!!
luvhart 1 month ago
Hehe...i'm Irish and i found this funny not offensive...take a joke why don't you
loveudannybabes 1 month ago
Im irish and i was at that gig and when he said dat punch line EVERYONE laughed because were irish and we can take a joke
MrOhhhyeah69 1 month ago
Its funny because its a joke.. not being serious.
EmeraldFireNinja273 1 month ago
i was at that gig i almost pissed myself laughing .....great punch line hes brings orignal to a whole new place it was a super show :)
ultanbeare 1 month ago
Y the fuck is it that every video watched by paddys and brits ends up with an argument about who's beter? Jesus people move on
duncandar 1 month ago 44
@duncandar Thats never going to stop, its hardwired into us too much :P
darrin42 1 month ago
@duncandar "paddys and brits"
"paddys" ARE brits, they do live on the British Isles after all!
MrStig691 1 month ago
@MrStig691 thats awful annoying at least we have the irish sea
derryearly 1 month ago
@MrStig691 There is a difference between Britons and the modern British. That is why the modern term Brits and usage of "British isles" is wrong.
SethMcFartlane 1 month ago
@MrStig691 are u fucking special? IRISH people are not english
Shaunnporejemplo 1 month ago
@MrStig691 British Isle, singular. Britannia was name by the Romans from the old Britons that lived their from their language. Ireland wasnt known in existence at the time of its name. Ireland is its own island, called the Emerald Isle. two seperate islands, one is British one is Irish. they are not the same
PhilliesPhanDM5 1 month ago
@PhilliesPhanDM5 This is not true 'The British Isles' refered to both Islands. The Romans in this respect perhaps confered a cultural if not political unity on the isles that didn't exist in reality, though Ptolomy's map of 150 shows at least one of the Celtic tribes the Brigantes was present on both isles. James Stuart of Scotland revived the term in 1603, to legitimise his takeover of England, and the plantation of Ireland, it was unwanted 7 unwelcome in both places.
jacksbacksucker 1 month ago
@jacksbacksucker
The term "British Isles" refers to the Geographical archipeligo of islands that lie off the coast of Western Europe! It has NOTHING to do with political governance whatsoever.
There were Gaels living in Caledonia, as well as Picts, (or "Cruithin" in Gaelic), living in the North of Hibernia, even in Roman times!
And let's not forget, St. Padraig was a Welshman too, (or a Romano-Briton if you prefer!).
DonegalRaymie201 1 month ago
@DonegalRaymie201 It was a political move to reintroduce a 'British' identity by the Scottish monarchy in the 17th century, and a highly unpopular one at that, especially in England. It harked back to the idea of a distant cultural unity, which doubtful ever existed, though of course you're right, there has never been a seperation between the two isles, the Brigantes and Picts as you say were present on both during Greco-Roman times, then the Dal Riada united the two lands etc,
jacksbacksucker 1 month ago
@jacksbacksucker
Mmm maybe, but I'm not sure how deliberate it was. Remember, in 1603, when James VI of Scotland, gained the Crown of England, (& Ireland) on Elizabeth's death, he became the de facto Monarch of the whole of Britain.
It was the "Union of the Crowns", so Scots, English & Irish folk now shared a King for the 1st time in history, so it was almost unavoidable that there would have been some coming together and a new focus on what was common to us all!
DonegalRaymie201 1 month ago
@DonegalRaymie201 True but from the very start that have been people, both in Scotland and England, who viewed the union as a loss of independance in both states. James bought many Scots down with him and it was seen as a Scots take over. He was told to get back to Scotland and take his word 'Britian' with him. It was a case of what other alternative? Ultimately a King of Scotland was better than a minor sparcely supported English noble, who the Spaniards would likely defeat.
jacksbacksucker 1 month ago
@jacksbacksucker
Again, remember this was ONLY the "Union of the Crowns"! James Ist & 6th, was monarch of two separate, independent kingdoms! The Scots still had their own Parliament in Edinburgh until 1707, until they were:
"bought and sold, for English gold, by such a parcel of rogues in a Nation!", according to Burns, (Happy Birthday Rab!).
I'm sure there was resentment in England about adopting a Scots king, but didn't oul' Lizzy confirm his ascent before she died though?
DonegalRaymie201 4 weeks ago
@PhilliesPhanDM5
Eh, that's pure bull! "Ireland wasnt known in existence at the time of its name."??
If Ireland wasn't known to the Romans, then why did they bother to name it "HIBERNIA" eejit? And they called the raiders from Ireland the "Scotti"!
"Britannia" was only as much of the isle of Britain, that fell under Roman rule, which was everything South of Hadrian's Wall!
North of that was the Barbaric, (to the Romans) land of Caledonia and the Picti people!
DonegalRaymie201 1 month ago
@DonegalRaymie201 Go find a map of the Roman Empire and tell me if Ireland was conquered. It wasnt. All of england and wales and southern scotland was. northern scotland and ireland was never conquered by Rome
PhilliesPhanDM5 1 month ago
@PhilliesPhanDM5 He's not saying that. He's pointing out your confusing the Roman term 'Brittania' which did refer to just their conquered territory, with the term 'British Isles' by which the Romans refered to the whole land, conquered or not, Hibernia/Ireland included. It originally came from the Greek voyager Pytheas in 330 B.C, he mapped the islands, and used the tribal name of the dominant people Pritani name them (later known as the Cruithin in Ireland & Picts in Scotland)
jacksbacksucker 1 month ago
@jacksbacksucker ahhh sorry about that, i misinterpreted it. But names of places do change after time. Instanbul is no longer called Constantinople, even though thats the old name i refer the city too.
PhilliesPhanDM5 1 month ago
@PhilliesPhanDM5 Geographically Ireland is a part of the British Isles. There is no such thing as the British Isle 'singular'. The politics of self determination, nationality or independance is irrelevant to that fact. The Irish could rightly be termed more British than the English, as their Celtic people coined the term, and the English were not even present in the isles until post Roman times, They had the term British 'forced on them' by the Scots in the 17th century.
jacksbacksucker 1 month ago
@PhilliesPhanDM5
No, you claimed that:"Ireland wasnt known in existence at the time..."??
I point out that not only did the Romans KNOW of Ireland, but they named it "Hibernia", (the Land of Winter!). Christ you can SEE Ireland from West Wales & the English Lake District. And from Western Scotland, you could swim here!
DonegalRaymie201 1 month ago
@duncandar I know. And it's like Americans and every other country in the world. We can't move on because there's history, something alien to Yanks of course.
hillman39 1 month ago
@duncandar Paddys are better.
Lynnch1 4 weeks ago
@duncandar your english
thedavidburke 4 weeks ago
@thedavidburke You're Irish, and you can't spell :)
JimothyMcgee 3 weeks ago
@JimothyMcgee if you hung yourself, i would be happy that you are not present on this planet anymore... so what if i say your instead of you're?? YOUR still a loser on taking me up on it and i wish you get cancer.
thedavidburke 3 weeks ago
@thedavidburke You mispelled it again, don't worry you will get the hang of it - if you get stuck you can just ask one of the other kids.
JimothyMcgee 3 weeks ago
@duncandar Paddys? Fuck you, you're obviously not a very proud Irishman if your calling us "paddys". Go die you cunt, you're only sayin stuff like that to get likes you sad basterd
IsMiseAdhamh 3 weeks ago
@duncandar Welcome to the internet.
Sincerely--an American.
allamericandude15 3 weeks ago
@duncandar beter? better*. that doesnt deserve likes
thegovernerful 2 weeks ago
I wonder if 50 cent really appreciates Jimmy Carr's comedy haha
yurismir1 1 month ago
@yurismir1 he probably didnt have a clue wht he was on about
heaphcakes1988 1 month ago
My parents went to see him and thought he wasn't that funny rather offensive
Ograws 1 month ago
its a joke full stop now move on
num1ubernacht 1 month ago 22
if he knew the history he would have some respect
MrStephenm505 1 month ago
@MrStephenm505 dude, it's a joke, don't take it seriously.
TheAaronRoles 1 month ago 2
@TheAaronRoles men died and that's not something to laugh about...
MrStephenm505 1 month ago