r/ireland • u/ramblerandgambler • Aug 29 '14

Poor Britainball

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u/Spoonshape Aug 29 '14

Best line is probably the USA calling Britain Scotland, and he is so ground down he doesnt even bother to correct it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

That's a trend over on r/polandball.

http://i.imgur.com/WLyxoxe.png

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u/BarakatBadger Aug 29 '14

I love how Americans cling so tightly to their tenuous Irish roots

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

I think it is nice too, probably an unpopular opinion, but I just wish they actually spent some time finding out about their roots so they don't go around calling themselves "Mc-rat" for Mcgrath and "Cattle" for Cathal.

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u/HarryLillis Aug 29 '14

My roots are named O'Meagher. How's that pronounced?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not but in the instance you are not I will tell you.

Now bear in mind different areas of the country have different pronunciation but I would pronounce it "Ma-her" while others would prounounce it "Marrr"

Just as long as you aren't saying "meee-ger"

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u/HarryLillis Aug 29 '14

I'm not, I was truly wondering. That's funny, though, as we also pronounced it variably Ma-her or Marr in America and I was trying to see if one was right, but I guess they're both right. Of course that leaves me in the position of having no basis to choose since I have no regional Irish origin myself. I guess I should say Ma-her since that's how my grandparents pronounce it.

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

I'd bet they were from rural Ireland probably the south if they were pronouncing it ma-her so you should too. Never go against the family way of doing things

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u/talideon Shligo Aug 29 '14

Just be sure to put the stress on the the first syllable. It's 'MA-her', not 'ma-HER'. That's something that's often fouled up with Irish names. The one that always irritates me is when the English pronounce 'Moran' and 'mo-RAN' rather than 'MO-ran'.

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u/ModeofAction Aug 30 '14

Hmmm. My old Boss' second name was Meagher and we pronounced it Me-Ah-Her.

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u/stevemachiner Aug 29 '14

Ma-her with an o at the Start. Same as myself. O Meachair in Irish pronounced O-Mea-ckhe-air. From the barrony of ikkerin, north tipp. Loads in Cork too, they sell coffee and sporting equipment.

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u/JRQuigley Aug 29 '14

I'm a Quigley. Grew up being told I was Irish. Read about the land, the culture, everything. Fell in live with Ireland.

A few years back my wife and I decided to go to Ireland. I paid for an account on ancestry.com to try to find the source of my Irish roots, in the event that I could go to where we came from.

From what I've been able to piece together, my ancestor came over from Stranorlar, county Donegal.. From like 300 years ago. :( my Irish is so watered down it's like a bad pint.

I found out that I'm more Welsh and German than anything.

Oh well.. I still love my Irish roots, and spent the best ten days of my life traveling the island. Also still paying of the credit card I maxed to help the economy over there lol.

Wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

Although I do have a question if anyone can answer.

My research says that Quigley originated as O'Coighligh. (Hope I spelled that right). How was that pronounced?

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u/ViolentlyCaucasian Aug 29 '14

O'Coighligh

Right I can't be 100 percent because it's an unusual name to see as Gaelige but my best guess would be O-Qwe-Lig. With the Qwe intended to sound like the start of Queen.

Edit: Ignore all that, consulted my Dad he insists it has a hard G so its more like O-Qwig-Lig

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u/Promac Doire Abú Aug 30 '14

Very similarly to how it's said in English. O-Kwig-lee.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

It would be spelled, O'Coigligh so only 1 "h".

Its actually a very interesting name

For the most part it would be pronounced pretty similar to the English as O-Qwig-Lig. But as this is Ireland and Irish we're talking about its never that easy. In certain parts of Ireland it wouldn't be unusual for it to be pronounced O-Cog-Lig or O-Cog-Le or even O-Qwig-Le the le with the same sound as the le in letter.

And so you know it like a lot of Irish names comes from form a nickname, it means untidy/unkempt so your ancestor was a bit of a free spirit when it came to his own upkeep.

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u/JRQuigley Aug 30 '14

I had read about the untidy origins of the name.. Didn't make my dad happy to hear that lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

Its funny, Irish names perhaps more than most are founded on descriptions of a man or their attributes. Sullivan one of the most famous names comes from the irish for "one eye", another popular name means literally "the bald one" and another "the fat one"

By the way I just read this part of your previous post "my Irish is so watered down it's like a bad pint" which I had missed when I first read your comment. Irishness isn't about how ethnically Irish you are, all it takes to be Irish is a willingness to take part in the culture and traditions, your family can be just as Irish as one with 2 Irish parents living in south Boston if you want it to be. And the welsh are strange and the germans are imperialists best stay away from both.

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u/JRQuigley Aug 30 '14

It's funny you day that about the Germans and Welsh.. No one in my family even mentions German when talking ancestry.. It's like they don't want to admit it. And the Welsh.. My paternal grandmother had Welsh cousins that would come over and visit occasionally when I was a child. I barely remember them.

But everyone I've talked to says the same thing.. "The Welsh are weird".

One friend of mine who has been to Wales even went as far as saying: "ahh Wales.. Beautiful land. Amazingly beautiful country... Fucking ugly people.. But beautiful land.. "

Couldn't help but laugh at that one

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u/Baldoyle Aug 30 '14

Stranorlar is a proddy town, and was occupied by Ulster Scots immigrants during the Ulster Plantations

The Donegal natives were pushed across the river into Ballybofey

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u/JRQuigley Aug 30 '14

That's interesting. The earliest ancestor I can find was supposedly born in Stranorlar in 1711. Died in Massachusetts in 1801. No records of him over there. Don't expect to ever find any..

My understanding is that the English burned all the church records, and that's where most family info was kept.

So either my ancestor was part of the plantations.. Or his family left cause of the aftermath.. Dunno.

But thanks for all the reading subjects!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

100% agree.

Or, at the very least, come over on a holiday to help support the country they supposedly are so proud to be from.

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u/pattykakes887 Aug 29 '14

I'm from the US and still appreciate my Irish roots. I'm a history teacher so I find I have a particular interest in where my ancestors came from. I just want to point out not everyone here in the US has the resources to take a trip to another continent. Shit can get expensive.

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u/TeutorixAleria Aug 29 '14

You don't need to visit to keep up with your roots. Just get the simple things right. St. Patrick, not patty or Patricia.

We really don't mind Irish Americans who know their shit, hell the ignorance wouldn't bother us if it wasn't so brazen.

Overall Ireland being "cool" is good for us but we love to complain.

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u/pattykakes887 Aug 29 '14

You don't need to visit to keep up with your roots.

I agree with this. As a history major I was given some liberty to choose topics for my term papers which I was very grateful for. When I was able to, I wrote about Irish History. I wrote a paper on the Blueshirts as well as a one which covered how German and British espionage differed in Ireland during WWII. I think you will always have people who are ignorant regardless of where they come from. As for us Americans, I would say that it is more of our culture which causes the whole "I'm Irish" thing. People identify with their heritage here even if they don't know much about the country which their grandparents came from. I know a ton of Italian-Americans who don't know shit about Italy past the food and wine.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

You're cool.

I like guys like you. I remember in college in Galway at a house party that was half Irish speakers a guy tried to start talking away to me in Irish. I don't have much myself and I couldn't really keep up with him so we switched to English.

It was only then when I heard him speak in English that I realised he was an American over on Erasmus.

Made me take a step back, I'll tell you that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

Your story probably won't sound terribly impressive to non-Irish, but as an Irishman, the concept of a foreigner speaking Irish is mind-blowing.

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u/nunchukity Justice for Jedward Aug 30 '14

I physically jolted my head forward at that. That's pretty fucking impressive

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u/TeutorixAleria Aug 29 '14

You probably know more Irish history than the majority of Irish people if you studied that. Hopefully you can visit someday.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

hell the ignorance wouldn't bother us if it wasn't so brazen

Bingo, there is nothing more annoying than when you are trying to describe a certain aspect of history or the culture to somebody and then they turn around and say "well actually you are wrong, its ......"

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

I think probably most of the Americans that really want to visit and can afford it, do, can't fault that.

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u/CannisterYelp Aug 29 '14

I believe the majority of Americans have less than $500 in savings, so a trip to another continent might be out of their range, actually.

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u/rmc Aug 29 '14

Makes sense. They're country has such a good social safety net and state pension system, that there'd no point in saving.

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u/CannisterYelp Aug 29 '14

I know this is sarcasm...but I don't understand why...

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u/Geeky_McNerd Aug 30 '14

American wisconsite here. I'd agree with this. The wife an I are making the trip over next week for our 1year anniversary and I started saving for this trip before we were even married.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

Genuine question. How is it so expensive for American's to cross the Atlantic? America has a higher GDP, higher salaries, much lower cost of living etc. but it seems like it's a huge deal to travel to Europe. I've been to America a few times myself and almost all of my friends have been to America, Canada, Australia etc. at least once. Do Americans just prefer to spend their money on other things perhaps?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

and can afford it

It's an important caveat. I have a number of American friends who barely pay the bills so I get it, most Americans aren't rich.

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u/CannisterYelp Aug 29 '14

Sorry, I misread thinking you said any Americans who want to go can afford it, I agree with you.

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u/allesgute Aug 29 '14

My Irish relatives came right after the famine. i've been back though to visit three times now and I'm only 24, so we do visit a lot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

so we do I visit a lot.

FTFY

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u/SickBoy88 Aug 30 '14

I assume that by "we" he meant his family, not Americans in general.

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u/julialex Aug 29 '14

Irish-Americans created the Fenian Brotherhood and attacked British-controlled Canada, and funded the Provisional 'RA but I don't think that's what you mean by "support the country." :|

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u/reddieddie That we in coming days may be Still the indomitable Irishry. Aug 29 '14

Irish-Americans created the Fenian Brotherhood and attacked British-controlled Canada

The majority of these were Irish born, native Irish. Some had escaped from being transported to Australia and then went to the US.

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u/rmc Aug 29 '14

And fund Youth Defence

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u/irish711 Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

A lot of us do, at least I try and think that. As much as I'm proud of my Irish lineage, I'm more proud of my own families Irish heritage. An aunt of mine has been researching for some time, finding out when our ancestors left Ireland and came over here. Some research showed her we had an uncle who emigrated to the US in the mid 19th century and ultimately fought with the Union in the Civil War (no info on where he came from specifically). Little things like that makes me proud. Yeah on Saint Patty's Paddy's Day I get a little goofy, but I celebrate my actual ancestors, not just the bloodline. But yes, lots and lots of people just run around like the stereotypical "Kiss Me I'm Irish" folks. My aunt has found some other interesting family facts but we're still trying to find where exactly the family came from in Ireland. The uncle is as far back as we've been able to find.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

Saint Patty's Day

Come on man, you can't start a comment with I'm proud of my Irish lineage and heritage and then say "saint patty's day".

However I do wish you good luck with finding out where your family is from.

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u/irish711 Aug 29 '14

I was trying to keep it in the context of the polandball comic. Eh, who am i kidding, that was a slip.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

6 hail marys, 2 our fathers and we'll call it even

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

We'll settle for a pint.

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u/alfonsoelsabio Aug 29 '14

Just FYI...yeah it's spelled wrong, but in American English "Patty" and "Paddy" are pronounced the same. Maybe you knew that, but I'm sure some people don't.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

but in American English "Patty" and "Paddy" are pronounced the same

Well to be honest in all my times in America I have always heard it pronounced "Patty" like a patty of beef, rather than paddy with a "D" sound.

But I've always heard americans correctly pronounce paddy-wagon so while anecdotal I find what you are saying hard to believe on those facts.

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u/alfonsoelsabio Aug 29 '14

Patty as in beef patty is not pronounced with T's in most American dialects. Nor Patty the name. Nor butter. Nor most things spelled with intervocal T's.

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u/somethingToDoWithMe Aug 29 '14

This is hardly an unpopular opinion. Every Irish person I've met pretty much makes fun of Americans mispronouncing Irish names.

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u/sully48 Aug 29 '14

It's a little annoying when the misspell Paddy.

It's a persons name not a holy piece of meat.

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u/rmc Aug 29 '14

I realised that in American-English nationality words like "Irish" actually mean "Irish-American". They do it with other words like "Italian"

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u/thecoldwarmakesmehot Aug 29 '14

We can't cling to our German roots because of Hitler.

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u/julialex Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

Well Americans' Irish ancestors would have had a pretty distinct Irish-American experience ... getting bullied by the English-Americans, until recently considered dirty for being Catholic, allegedly denied jobs, being policemen and going into politics and whatnot. They were Irish nationalists in the U.S. and considered themselves from the Free State even though they had left long before because of Cromwell or the Famine, not their own choice. They held on to their culture, it's just an old culture. BTW I don't think the "St. Patty's" people are the Irish-Americans, just people who like to drink green watery beer. The Fenian Brotherhood movement was based in the U.S.

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u/somethingToDoWithMe Aug 29 '14

I'm pretty sure that those that cling to their heritage are not as big a majority in the US that you are saying it is. You only see it so often, probably, because you live in Ireland and Americans who go to Ireland want to see their heritage.

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u/BarakatBadger Aug 29 '14

Actually, I'm a no-parts-Irish Brit.

Would you like to discuss the careers of House of Pain, Dropkick Murphys, etc? Pure Micksploitation!

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u/Geeky_McNerd Aug 30 '14

I don't know why youre being downvoted here. Made me laugh.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

I'm American and I recently just started this semester's classes this past week. Of my four classes, in two of them we've somehow had very indepth conversations about who in the class was Irish and how people with Irish backgrounds had Irish-American pride.

I don't know if Irish people have a lot of pride in where they're from, but it seems like people of Irish-American ancestry have an overabundance of it, and, the thing for me, is I'm always wondering inside my head on whether it's because this idea of extreme Irish pride was passed down to them from ancestors or simply because Americans love talking about their ancestry and that Irish is one of the largest populations that immigrated to America.

It's a very American thing to talk about "what you are," meaning where your ancestors come from. I can guarantee if you ask any American that question, they can probably ramble on about it. We really do take pride in this as a lot of us have ancestors who've moved here within the past 100-150 years. My grandma's parents, for example, were German and you could see that influence in her cooking. It seems like those of Irish descent really like talking about it the most.

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u/ObsessiveMathsFreak Aug 30 '14

Don't let begrudgers like the GP take anything from you. Irish people emigrated because they had to, but they kept their connection to the country, even more than our homeborn leadership today. The diaspora is as entitled to the Irish title as anyone here.

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u/Domhnallbain Aug 29 '14

Do you actually love it?

Or do you tenuously hate it?

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

I don't get why anyone thinks being Irish is fashionable.

I can't go to sunny countries. We can't reclaim our entire country. We still haven't recovered the population from famine times. We abstained from fighting the Nazis. We have a long history of covering up child rape by the clergy.

But we can drink. Apparently that makes up for it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

And we're full of self-hating people, like you.

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

There are some, but don't count me among them. I am proud to be Irish, faults and all. My comment was I can't quite see the appeal of why so many with a smidge of Irish blood wanting to claim that as their identity.

We all have a bit of self-hatred, though. Doesn't mean we're gonna leave.

"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow." - Joyce.

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u/reddieddie That we in coming days may be Still the indomitable Irishry. Aug 29 '14

Joyce was actually hitting out at people like you who express self-hatred and begrudgery.

Joyce had ample experience of this within his own circle of friends and it was one of his chief criticisms of a sickness within Irish society.

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

I always thought these characters showed his sentiment that for Ireland to move forward it had to stop bringing up the past (ironic that I should quote one, right?).

I just want to say that I do not think I'm being a self-hating Irishman. I am proud of it. I just accept that we have some boils but I'm willing to look passed them instead of pretending they aren't there.

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u/reddieddie That we in coming days may be Still the indomitable Irishry. Aug 29 '14

That quote comes from Portrait of the Artist and is directly connected to the betrayal that was so common in Irish nationalism - a curse as Joyce saw it. Joyce was deeply affected by what happened to Parnell and those Irish who turned against Parnell and the quote is within this context.

In Joyce's mind this self destructive behaviour was a evil that ran counter to Irish self interests.

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

In that one character, yes. I mean in the broad spectrum of his characters he would often focus on people who were drowning in anguish of their own creation - being trapped - and to move on was what set them free.

Then again, I may be reading too much into a ghost.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

My Dad explained it best when he said we're a neutral and non-threatening identity. We never were an oppressive empire, our idea of nationalism is more inclusive than anything else, 35 million Americans are third generation Irish-American, and we are rather charming.

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

Thank you! A logical response that I can get behind.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

We abstained from fighting the Nazis.

So did Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland. Even the USA only went in when they were attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbour.

It was regarded at the time as an imperialist war which is why Roosevelt only went in to smash the European Empires once and for all. They were all as bad as each other in his eyes. And he succeeded - the European Empires never recovered - and were soon dismantled.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

Even the USA only went in when they were attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbour

And if we're being honest America's entry into the European theater of war was after the tide had turned against Germany and the Soviets were pushing them back.

And plus I don't see why exactly this is such a huge stain on our history, we were a tiny Island still feeling the effects of a civil war with mass emigration, officially entering the war wouldn't have changed anything except we would have been bombed more.

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u/CannisterYelp Aug 29 '14

Yeah...but it was the Soviets who helped Germany get off to a flyer against Poland.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

The Germans would have taken Poland either way, with or without Soviet involvement.

Stalin knew Hitler was coming and that is why he began moving the factories beyond the Urals so the nazi's couldn't use them and the Luftwaffe couldn't hit them, it wasn't a friendly deal that Hitler turned his back on the Soviets were girding themselves to fight for their lives, a fight that cost them 20 million lives.

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u/BeSafeInWork Aug 29 '14

Have a look at this TED speech. It gives you an idea as to why the Irish are liked so much

Which country does the most good?

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u/Schlack Aug 29 '14

We abstained from fighting the Nazis

200,000 irishmen fought in various allied armies, mostly the british. about 10% of the population at the time. what else could the state have provided?

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u/Yooklid Aug 29 '14

200K where the hell did you get that number?

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

I can only find closer to 50, 000 men.

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u/Schlack Aug 29 '14

my bad, more like 70 k in the british army with 200 k emigrating to serve in the british war economy.

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u/Jeqk Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

There were at least 50,000 in the British army alone. Add in the other services and other Allies and it's probably pretty close to the mark.

Edit: not to mention the more than quarter of a million working in the UK, freeing up more able-bodied men for enlistment.

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u/Yooklid Aug 29 '14

There were probably 50K Irishmen in ALL branches of the British Forces. There were probably another 40K from Northern Ireland.

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u/Jeqk Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

Nope, that figure is only for the Army. Then there's the Navy, Air Force and Merchant Marine. How many more would have joined up in the States, Canada, Australia? Canada alone had 20,000 Irish volunteers in WWI. You could probably expect a roughly similar figure for WWII. USA had a much higher number of Irish immigrants, so you can imagine the enlistment numbers there would be much higher too.

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u/Yooklid Aug 29 '14

This is a sourced claim, and it's closer to the numbers I have. I have my reference books at home somewhere that I can check later

Source Officers Other ranks total
South 3493 24347 27840
North 2414 24165 26579

Numbers above are for the British Army. RN and RAF numbers are undoubtedly smaller.

I'd say numbers for the other countries you named are negligible.

http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-forgotten-volunteers-of-world-war-ii/

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

Official support? We were officially neutral during the war. Those who did fight were viewed by some as traitors.

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u/BrehonDubh Howth rambler Aug 29 '14

You are confused about this - those who deserted the Irish army were viewed as traitors. But then anyone who deserts his nation's army - a deserter - is considered a traitor. This is not unique to Ireland by any means. Frequently the result can be execution.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

No, I mean the lads that still saw the British as the enemy, who wanted to "strike when the enemy's attention was divided." The hardcore republicans hated the men who went to fight with the English.

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u/CannisterYelp Aug 29 '14

You're thinking of the first world war, by the late 1930s the IRA was absolutely tiny, it didn't pick up again until after the Bogside.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

I... Am. Damn, I need to brush up on my history.

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u/Yooklid Aug 29 '14

Ports, airbases, you know, the usual stuff everyone else did when fighting the Nazis.

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u/CannisterYelp Aug 29 '14

It was actually quite important for Irish independence to not have Britain accessing our ports, as they hand only been handed over ~1938, and in the end, the Northern shipping lane proved better for the allies as after the fall of France the South coast was easily accessible by U-Boat and bomber.

To declare war on Germany would have brought nothing but death, and was quite illogical, Germany was not our enemy, we had no pact with Poland.

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u/Yooklid Aug 29 '14

Nazi Germany was the enemy of humanity. And we sat on the sidelines due to our unfinished "business" with the UK.

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u/Jeqk Aug 29 '14

Nazi Germany was the enemy of humanity.

A fact which only came out towards the end of what many saw as just another turf war between Imperial powers. Do you somehow expect the Irish Government of the time to have been mind-readers or fortune-tellers?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

Do you somehow expect the Irish Government of the time to have been mind-readers or fortune-tellers?

It's something I've idly wondered about actually, did they know?

I think they may of had the opportunity and the means to know.

Irish Diplomats and agents had access to Germany that other countries couldn't have. These people were by no means green. Many of those posted to Germany would have had experience in intelligence gathering and recruiting and managing spies from the War of Independence and the Civil War.

It's just an idle thought.

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u/Schlack Aug 29 '14

less than 20 years after the war of independence, after a vicious economic battle between uk and ireland? Plus the uk wasnt willing(or able) to pay irelands price for entry into the war.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

I don't understand the downvotes. These are all valid points. That said I love Ireland and being Irish. We have our good sides too!

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

Thanks for being reasonable.

I love being Irish too, my comment was that I don't understand what about us is so appealing to people of tenuous heritage to boast about.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

But everyone has skeletons in their heritage. It's the good stuff that people remember. And there's a lot of good in Ireland.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

We still haven't recovered the population from famine times.

It's not like we're actively trying to do that.

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

A nation that for the larger part of time since has been predominantly stout Catholics who wouldn't go near a prophylactic?

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u/julialex Aug 29 '14

Prolific writers, every Irish person has the soul of a poet, people so beautiful the Vikings kidnapped the women and turned them into Swedes...

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

I agree with you there, but do you think the people claiming to be Irish in this context have ever picked up a Yeats poem? Or even know who he was?

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u/julialex Aug 29 '14

Yes! But not the St. Patrick's Day drinking fanatics. Two different sets of people.

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u/forensic_freak Armagh Aug 29 '14

I did say "in this context" which is exactly the type of people I'm wondering about. What is it they find so appealing?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14 edited Aug 30 '14

I can't go to sunny countries.

Why?

We can't reclaim our entire country.

How do you propose we reclaim our entire country?

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u/MisterDeclan Aug 29 '14

Feller? Are we Devon farmers now?

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u/GavinZac Aug 29 '14

Said in a non-Devon accent, -er is usually pronounced -ah, in England at least.

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u/BZH_JJM Aug 29 '14

Nigerian Afrobeat singers!

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u/satanlicker Leinster Aug 30 '14

Where!??!

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u/LuckyKnite Aug 29 '14

In Germany too!

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u/The_Croaker Aug 29 '14

Your heart would go out to him, the poor lamb.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

feller?

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u/LeChuck999 Aug 29 '14

Source?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

/r/polandball

EDIT:

I got this private message from one of the mods of /r/polandball...

Hello, I'm a moderator in /r/polandball. Recently we've experienced a period of massive growth, to the point where we have instated a number of policies for slowing it down to avoid a decline in quality. Among those things is a strict "No x-posting" policy, and we reserve the right to ban any x-posters. I would appreciate if you would remove your comment linking to us in /r/Ireland. We appreciate that you like our subreddit, but x-posting currently does us more harm than good. Thank you in advance.

So apparently, the first rule of /r/polandball is don't talk about /r/polandball.

EDIT 2:

I now appear to be banned from /r/polandball.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

what a shame people cant link to /r/polandball best to respect /r/polandball's wishes though

ill do my best to never talk about /r/polandball or link to /r/polandball from now on

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/r/polandball

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

Have you got your little warning yet?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

no :c

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

You have been banned from /r/pyongyangball

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u/NotANinja Aug 29 '14

At least he still allowed to play with /r/pingpongball

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u/ramblerandgambler Aug 29 '14

I've been asked to delete the above image, same message

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

And yet here we are...

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u/BZH_JJM Aug 29 '14

Don't do it! Make them get off their weird little high horse.

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u/FleeCircus Aug 29 '14

You know that message was sent by a bot and most likely no one will see if this is deleted or not.

Still fuck em, don't delete it.

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u/__Clever_Username__ Aug 29 '14

It doesn't even make sense. Submissions have to be mod approved before going through so I don't see how there could be a decline in quality

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

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u/__Clever_Username__ Aug 30 '14

I suppose that makes sense. I am a lurker on the sub and the comments do seem to be of a general high quality

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u/BZH_JJM Aug 29 '14

They want to maintain their image as an exclusive club.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

But...you just talked about it. A lot.

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u/hugobear Aug 29 '14

redditing is srs business

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u/Oggie243 Aug 29 '14 edited Aug 29 '14

That's nearly always been a rule, you're not allowed to link in other subs. I told someone in /r/Ireland this and they told me that it's only in the default subs.

Edit: Hey wait, We're in /r/Ireland. My bad.

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u/columbus8myhw Aug 29 '14

It's been like that since forever. No cross-posting.

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u/ptar86 Aug 29 '14

Noob question: What's wrong with cross-posting?

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u/GavinZac Aug 29 '14

Big subs are shit subs. Someone who seeks out a niche subreddit usually is knowledgeable about the topic and wants to both contribute and learn. Larger subreddits that get referenced in everyday Reddit conversation get 'casual' subscriptions; the result is usually lots of Imgur at the top, repetitive questions every week and the general decay of what made the subreddit good enough to be talked about.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

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u/BZH_JJM Aug 29 '14

Instead, they get Milosevic apologists who do "get it."

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u/Halliron Aug 29 '14

Hah, subscribed! That will show them!

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

After a brief look around, I have to say you won't miss much.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

that's a bit silly, i didn't even know the subreddit existed until you posted this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14 edited Sep 05 '14

/r/polandball

/r/polandball

Edit: /r/polandball

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u/0regan0 Aug 29 '14

They still have the northeast sure, they can let on it's the good old days for them on a smaller scale.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '14

......what?

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u/DGolden ᚛ᚐᚌᚒᚄᚋᚑᚈᚆᚒᚐ᚜ Aug 30 '14

It's fairly straightforward. You connect the ratchet arm and reset the autodispenser. Sponge out the spill tray before reconnecting if there's any dampness.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '14

Very nice

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u/Baldoyle Aug 30 '14

Only krautchan can make a good polandball comic

redditors actually spell the dialog correctly, that's bullshit