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As some of you less-ignorant people will know, the island of Ireland has been divided into two seperate countries for about 80 years.

Now, the Republic of Ireland is generally stereotyped as swarming with drunkards and gingers. This is, for the most part, true. However, you'll generally find that, instead of the afformentioned, Northern Ireland is swarming with terrorists and Aryans.

Here's some fun facts:

1. The majority of the population are descendants of English and Scottish immigrants, and most of these people don't have a drop of Irish blood in their veins.
2. Our government is a joke.
3. The majority of people are Protestant Unionists.
4. There is a small minority of Catholic Nationalists.
5. There is an even smaller minority of Protestant Nationalists. (This is where I would stand)
6. Instead of learning Irish (which is a national language. One of only three.), we learn French. Apparently because teaching Irish in schools would 'encourage violence'.
7. Even most Catholics barely know any Irish.
8. Northern Ireland only exists because the afformentioned descendants of English and Scottish immigrants are the majority, and they couldn't bear to be assosciated with the 'Irish Scum'.
9. People encourage violence towards Nationalists and Catholics. This extends from a simple slagging off by a passer-by for wearing a T-shirt with a shamrock on it (not one of my better ideas), to naming a child 'Kill All Irish'. I shit you not, I know a person who named their child this. But it's abbreviated as Kai.
10. If you express any sense of being Irish, or speak Irish in public, or even have a Leinster, Connaught or Munster accent, you are very, very, very likely to be killed. Again, not shitting. The place is full of cowardly Unionist murderers.

So, I hope this little insight was, well, insightful.

TL;DR
Northern Ireland is a cess pit that shouldn't exist.

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At 9/18/08 04:04 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: 2. Our government is a joke.

Don't feel bad about this, every government on the planet fails in one way or the other.

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Irish=Gailic?


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fascinating

A little bit about Northern Ireland

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Don't mess with the IRA boy.

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At 9/18/08 04:05 PM, Gortag wrote: Irish=Gailic?

It's only called 'Gaeilge' when you're talking in Irish.

Just saying 'Irish' creates less confusion. As 'Gaelic' is actually Scottish.

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northern ireland isnt as bad as it used to be in my opinion. try coming down to mullingar and go to dalton park :P start insultin a traveller and you will get alot worse lol

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We're doing a play about Ireland in English. I dont know why I felt compelled to say this, but its all that came to mind when reading this topic.

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That and the fact that you like to blow up cars, drill peoples Knee Caps, ect. Because, that really happens.

Right?

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At 9/18/08 04:24 PM, Celestian wrote: northern ireland isnt as bad as it used to be in my opinion. try coming down to mullingar and go to dalton park :P start insultin a traveller and you will get alot worse lol

tá sé ceart go leor anois dar liom

I was in Mulllingar a few times over the last couple of months. Danny Byrne's is a kick ass pub.


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northern ireland kicks ass

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Yeah, when I went to ireland one half of it wouldn't accept euros because their protesting and shit.


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At 9/18/08 04:04 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Now, the Republic of Ireland is generally stereotyped as swarming with drunkards and gingers. This is, for the most part, true.

Sounds like Scotland.

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At 9/18/08 04:31 PM, LOLZILLA wrote:
At 9/18/08 04:04 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Now, the Republic of Ireland is generally stereotyped as swarming with drunkards and gingers. This is, for the most part, true.
Sounds like Scotland.

Y'know, all these stereotypes used to get on my tits, now I just lol at how true it is.


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At 9/18/08 04:29 PM, Raguel wrote:
At 9/18/08 04:24 PM, Celestian wrote: northern ireland isnt as bad as it used to be in my opinion. try coming down to mullingar and go to dalton park :P start insultin a traveller and you will get alot worse lol

tá sé ceart go leor anois dar liom
I was in Mulllingar a few times over the last couple of months. Danny Byrne's is a kick ass pub.

gotta love danny byrnes! its got no windows, its lit by candlelight, the walls are red. theyre are curtains and walls evrywhere! da best place in town i think

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I'd rather hang with the drunkards and gingers.

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At 9/18/08 04:33 PM, Celestian wrote: gotta love danny byrnes! its got no windows, its lit by candlelight, the walls are red. theyre are curtains and walls evrywhere! da best place in town i think

With a kick ass smoking area in which I took piss poor pictures...............I was a bit drunk :P

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In my opinion I feel very sorry for the people of Ireland and in some respect support the IRA, even though I am English.

Fuck it all, you bastards.

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At 9/18/08 04:33 PM, xXMajuniorXx wrote: Y'know, all these stereotypes used to get on my tits, now I just lol at how true it is.

Quite you. It's time for us to take some smack, go racially abuse some immigrants and get a deep fried mars bar.

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I'm Irish. 25%. Pretty proud, yet I never realized how bad Ireland really is these days.

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At 9/18/08 04:46 PM, TJoyal wrote: I'm Irish. 25%. Pretty proud, yet I never realized how bad Ireland really is these days.

I always find it funny that Americans say 'I'm Irish' and then follow it up with a percentage or a fraction.

You have Irish descendants.

Do be proud, but it sounds silly to Irish people when someone says 'I'm Irish' in a thick American twang.

It's kind of the equivalent of me going up to a bunch of Kenyans and telling them I'm African because my descendants came from there.


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Tap ah da mornin' to ya. Adidididi, I'm feeling as fresh as an Irish spring in spring.

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At 9/18/08 04:53 PM, Rohedin wrote: Adidididi,

Isn't that the Jihad war cry?


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At 9/18/08 04:53 PM, Rohedin wrote: Tap ah da mornin' to ya. Adidididi, I'm feeling as fresh as an Irish spring in spring.

That accent you've gone for there is more of Cork accent I think, which is in the Republic, but I'm not too sure.

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At 9/18/08 04:56 PM, LOLZILLA wrote: That accent you've gone for there is more of Cork accent I think, which is in the Republic, but I'm not too sure.

I think it was more of the generic American actor playing the part of an Irishman (cop or priest) in a TV show.

I don't know where they got that accent because I've never heard it outside of American TV shows. Nobody says 'top o' the mornin' to ya and we'd hardly say an Irish spring any more than people in China would say Chinese food.

Cork is in the Republic, as south as you can go and it's probably Ireland's worst accent. The northerners do have the nicest accent


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At 9/18/08 05:04 PM, Raguel wrote: Cork is in the Republic, as south as you can go and it's probably Ireland's worst accent. The northerners do have the nicest accent

YEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YUR STROKD!

^typical Northern Irish response.

But as far as accents go, we do have the best when it comes to being unconventional.

Ever noticed how there are no Nothern Irish counties that are part of the Gaeltacht and the only one up north that is part of it is Donegal?

Annoying.

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At 9/18/08 05:10 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: Ever noticed how there are no Nothern Irish counties that are part of the Gaeltacht and the only one up north that is part of it is Donegal?

Naturally, considering that the Gaeltacht means Irish is the predominant language and, as you said yourself, you don't get taught to speak it in the North and Donegal is part of the Republic.

This actually got me thinking about the whole dispute over the Republican national anthem in the rugby due to the fact that North and South are joined for it.

If it is changed I want it to be 'Horse it into ya Cynthia' for no reason at all.


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