Irish Guard 2007

Notre Dame's Irish Guard Tradition before foorball games.

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[tevitarosa]

damn yanks, no sense of tradition, no sense of history

[oldnedofthehill]

It's like the Ministry of Silly Walks found the dressing up cupboard.

[saighdearan]

I cannot believe how innaccurate and innapropriate this video is on so many levels. It actually manages to embarrass 4 different nations and peoples - It is definately NOT Irish despite the saffron coloured feather hackles, nor Scots despite the tartan, Spats, Sporrans and other Highland accotrements nor British despite the Redcoats. The dancing is a cartoon caricature of real Irish stepdance, the music an Americanised bunch of modern, non traditional rubbish and the marching - what a joke!!!

[xetalq]

@SuperSparrow45 Did he now ... ?

Well, either John Fyfe never actually served in the Guards, or he was misunderstood by those at Notre Dame he sought to inform.

Either way, looking at this performance, it's all gone horribly wrong somewhere along the way.

:)

[ConsulHibernia]

@SuperSparrow45 The use by Irish people is quite recent and was largely nationalists in the later 19th/ early 20th century since older images appeared to show Gaelic Irish in kilts which were in fact lein-croich and not kilts. Later late 19th/ early 20th nationalist wore one colour kilts as did some Irish regiments in the British Army. Today Irish Defence Forces pipers wear a one colour kilt following on from this.

What the men in the video above is not Irish at all.

[GaryGib96]

@SuperSparrow45 hahahahahahahaha!!! that John Fyfe guys must have been a legend! he told you americans that they dress like that over in Scotland and you believed him! hahahahahahahah you must be as gullible as my little sister. Do you actualy think that the Scots Guards and the Irish Guards dress like that!!!! You guys must be as thick as pig sh*t!!

[MrJimmyboy1972]

ah canny believe this, ah thought ah had seen everything daft from america, but, this tops the lot.

[SuperSparrow45]

@ScottishShorts I don't know why you're telling me this. But you might want to read this little number.

"John Fyfe, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and former employee of the University of Notre Dame, provided members with background and experience as to the proper way to dress, march, and act in public. Mr. Fyfe taught the Guard to act in a fashion similar to the stoic and silent members of the Irish Guards, British Guards, and Scots Guards from the Britain and Ireland."

[AxelYork68]

Bravo the Irish Guards!

[ScottishShorts]

@SuperSparrow45 Go back andd read what I said. Remember the words of that great American Mark Twain.. Better to remain silent and have the world think you a fool than open your mouth and confirm thier suspicions

[ScottishShorts]

@SuperSparrow45 No the scottish actually, HIGHLAND "war cloth" as is the Gaelic translation for the materials and actual garb is not presented here, the wee "cut off 8 feet of material to bring down the cost to the government.... British Government that is. The Irish kilt is not as pleated as the Highland and it is usually or traditionally made from different material. The pleat comes from the old days when the war garb was held closed by belt or rope.

[155NYLTpiper]

The "Irish Guard" In Scottish Kilts and doublets? That makes a whole bunch of sense.