Comments on: What does it mean to be Irish?

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:49:44 +0000

It means “where”, roughly — i.e. “Cá ndeachaigh tú?” is “where did you go?”

By: katelyn

katelyn — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:39:57 +0000

what does ndeachaigh mean

By: Jonny hayes

Jonny hayes — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:56:20 +0000

Well as an irish man who has just left free state. I’m wondering what am I outside of Ireland. People have there stereotypical ideas of me and you know what, I fill them. I love a pint, the black stuff is great. I love our language our music our heritage. But being away from home I actually think about it more. Being Irish is being proud to be Irish.

By: Bryony Hussey

Bryony Hussey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:55:32 +0000

I’m actually looking at this issue at the moment myself. I’m a Dub living in London as an art student. I think it isn’t until you leave home or your native land and try to integrate into another society that you truly feel the pride that comes from belonging to a cultural identity. Perhaps I feel this way because of a yearning to find a sense of “home” whether its geographic or otherwise. I’m conducting interviews with Irish people living abroad about what it means for them to be Irish, is it important in terms of their identity?
If anyone is interested in this people comment or e-mail me, I’d love to get feedback from Irish people and even people with just an Irish background (however distant).

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:42:17 +0000

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Nicola — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:04:47 +0000

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By: kate

kate — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:35:02 +0000

house i meant haha!!!hose ha!!

By: kate

kate — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:33:42 +0000

and to be honest they should be a proud country because they got theirself out of poverty!and their nice people love having the craic not like some arrogant places you go to and their so up their hole they wouldnt even talk to ya if you tried their culture is different its not who has the most money the biggest hose car or the nicest clothes to be a person respected there!!

By: kate

kate — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:24:32 +0000

to be proud 2 be irish!!well nearly every1 in america is proud 2 be american people in england are proud to be english everyone is proud of were they came from the irish have more a reason to be proud when england tried to take over ireland they came over and tried to take over their land and killed them youve got to understand the irish were poor in these times and hadnt much but the irish faught back with everything they could and one the war where as the british soilders had way more men and the best of weapons but the irish stil faught and one!!so the british came to agreement an irland got most of there country back !!but they were stil living in poverty so most irish had to go over to america and england were they had jobs they were none for them back home so there would be alot of irish in america and england st.patricks day did start in ireland but because alot of irish were in america for example they celebrate it there to!

By: James W

James W — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:43:42 +0000

Being proud of ourselves for happening to be in a very strategic place in Europe (speaking English, having an educated society) seems a bit silly to me. One the one hand why should we be proud for getting rich? Why should we be proud of indirectly exploiting poor countries to get those frappuchinos on directly exploiting the poor of our own country by following the United States into becoming a plutocracy? But then when you look at what we were (not really) like before you see fake culture invented to make us believe that we weren’t the same as the English. Culture and pride in country can be good if it gives the people a reason to work hard and be decent but when you throw money and nationalism in with it you get the seeds of arrogance and obnoxiousness that eventually lead us to believe that we are better than other countries which is never true for any country. Just take a look at the States and their idea of American exceptionalism, is that a road we really want to follow them down (aswell as selling off our poor to the construction industry -exploiting their dreams of making better of themselves)? We should be less proud of ourselves than we have ever been… and I believe in capitalism :P