Martin O'Neill on Irishness (Final part)

Here is the Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill addressing Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the President of Ireland, speaking on the theme 'What it means to be Irish'. This was a lecture conducted in December '08 on the Irish identity to an audience made up largely of young college students as well as President Mary McAleese.

The Villa manager discusses amongst other things growing up in a nationalist family, his experiences playing for Northern Ireland and his overall thoughts on his Irish identity.

In this fifth and final part, Martin O'Neill talks about improved relations between the Irish and English, whether or not he thinks Irishness will become diluted by increased globalisation and his thoughts on the future of Irishness.

Hope you enjoy it along with the other parts.

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[misscosmo]

thanks for posting this! i was there with a bunch of DIT lads and it's cool hearing it again :D

[GerryDisthename]

Were you? Cool. Wish I'd known about it. :)

[Rattlesnakesuitcase1]

Thank you for posting all the parts:),I really enjoyed this.

[GerryDisthename]

Glad you enjoyed it mate. :)

[Ballysillanone]

@ojohn87 Why would anyone ask him about that....it's been done to death. An unfortunate episode but I don't think there's much to add to it.

[1973Emmet]

I'm Irish born and rared, everytime I come across this man I want to listen to him.

[ABigOneLikeDaddys]

Would his hair be dyed?

Much like Ronald Reagan, mmm.

cheers.

from,

del-boy

[ojohn87]

Thanks for the upload. Very enjoyable to hear the thoughts of Martin; a well educated and well spoken man. However, I do wonder why nobody asked him what he thought about Neil Lennon getting death threats from loyalists and having to retire from playing for N.Ireland at the time he played for Celtic?

[rejondo]

ty for posting gerry,great insight into a very intelligent man he wasn`t bigoted in any way which i feel thats the way to go and the difference he made to glasgow celtic will go down in history ty martin

[john220980]

Great work gerry as always

[FootyFanEire]

Thank you for posting this . enjoyed listening to it all. love martin hes a very interesting man a nice man and a great manager .

[JohnAdams198805]

brilliant manger and a true gentleman he showed what is irish playing gaa gealic football and he is a legend at celtic love him he is prond to be irish well said martin brilliant manager any club would take him on