What's the first image that comes to mind when you see this flag.
some country I dont remember the name
americans that brag about their heritage
Potatoes because they don't have any lol
Redheaded potato faggots
honestly it was a bunch of potatoes
>>56890736
Ivory Coast of course.
tax heaven or something
>>56890736
Who cares about the Ivory Coast desu
>>56890736
Italy?
Oh wait
It's Ireland
Fuck
Lmao
Thank god there are no travelers here
(My thinking)
redheads
>>56890736
guinness
Butthurt over stuff that happened hundreds of years ago.
>>56890736
Greatest country in the world.
I guess since I flew on that airline once before
My proud Irish Heritage from my Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grand Father on my mother's side of the family.
>>56890736
Domestic terrorism and south Boston.
>>56890736
Lush greenery.
Celtic folklore.
The music. (The Corrs, Enya etc)
Interesting writers (William B. Yeats, Eoin Colfer - the latter I love WAY MORE).
>>56891392
BAHAMA MAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>56890736
Italy left their flag in the sun too long
A hope for peace.
west africa
that's what you obtain if you leave hang an italian flag outside for a couple of years
>>56890736
it must be windy in ivory coast
Pizza
>>56890736
We indirectly contributed the Orange.
>>56890736
Muh heritage
Thanks for all the nice responses :)
>>56890736
>britbongs will make fun of potato island
>it's economy is actually growing by 5% annually while theirs shrinks every year
broccoli and carrots
not even memeing
Masked men
gingers drinking beer under gray skies and depressing famine
>>56890736
That PBS documentary on the Irish """"""""""rebellion""""""""""" in the 1910s that I watched a few nights ago. I can't believe the bits actually shelled the fuck out of Dublin. THE AMSOLUTE MADMEN.
>>56891899
>Eoin
>Good
kek
>>56892443
>masked men
Get them on board, I'll call it in!
>>56892351
>its economy is housing all of our white collar criminals
>>56892351
>it's economy is actually growing by 5% annually while theirs shrinks every year
Rainy weather
Redheads
Green landscape
Cliffs
>>56892578
Granted, the two Artemis Fowl books I read were way more enjoyable in the long run than a guy whose presence in our syllabus was only through a mere ode to some dream island he daydreamed.
Which author (plus their work) would you recommend then for ol' 20-something ESL me, o wise one?
>>56890736
Terrorists in balaclavas, killing innocent people and generally uprooting the peaceful, civilised society around them because they'd rather identify with barbaric, shit flinging, shit-talking hill-folk than civilised people.
The struggle of my forebearers for hundreds of years against colonialism and imperialism.
>>56892878
Honestly I actually liked a lot of Eoin Colfer when I was younger. The first five or so Artemis Fowl books are pretty good, and Airman and Half Moon are fun.
>>56890736
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaS3vaNUYgs
the same fucking boat
>>56893060
mmmmuh heritage
>>56890736
Too much rain, and of course beer.
british parliament getting bombed
leprechauns
pots of gold
potato famine
sheep fuckers
literally me
Leprechauns like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plsXtHu9kn8
Does anybody have that webm of the leprechaun losing it because somebody drank his pot of lucky soup.
>>56890736
Thin Lizzy
Glorious 70's/80's trad bands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQvr3iiZOY
>>56893062
>Airman
I might have heard of the title before somewhere in a catalogue...
I read halfway through the synopsis, looks enticing. I'd probably check that out after my finals.
>few years ago
>Henry Rollins is performing in Dublin
>proceeds to tell the crowd what a phony Bono is
>they all raise their fists and cheer in agreement
Oh god, sick burn. Right in your own backyard.
Bombs
>>56890736
>>56890736
Italia with daltonism
>>56894092
What?
Most people hat that cock here.
>>56894179
At some point along the way where he decided he was God's gift to world peace and starving children.
Cuckoldry.
>>56890736
Basically what >>56891899 said. Eoin Colfer definitely included (I liked the Artemis Fowl books a lot as well, even if I didn't read the last ones, yet).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOjce6AVf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjyv0wvna0
>>56894328
Yeah. People hate him here in Ireland more than outside of Ireland seriously.
Total dick
They had like two good songs ever.
>>56893961
Indeed.
>>56890736
Guinness
Conan O'brien.
the greatest thing ever:
me
Good catholics
IRA
>>56890736
The enduring promise of a 32 County Socialist Republic in accordance with the ideals of James Connolly.
Arse
>>56895031
The worst blunder in Ireland's modern history was when EDV turned the country over to the Catholic Church thereby ensuring decades of them being a quasi-medieval shithole with no industries, birth control outlawed, and unchecked rapes of boys by the clergy.
Leather weathered Irish skin. Beard orange as the sunset over the flag. In the night sky we fly it, in pride for the life we fight to live. History, I write with it. Spit it with the dialect. And this is a celebration of course; the green, white, orange. And when they pulled up on that shore, first generation born, toast to those that made it on a boat to New York. And when the English came, the colonizer came, they filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame and hurled 'em to protect what's ours. Don't touch these lucky charms! Whole bunch of Irish screaming "Fuck the London Guard!" I'm kidding, not dissin' London, this bloody war, but go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw. Preaching nonviolence but reminds of the scars and the bias, put a pint up everybody sing a song!
From New England to New Brunswick, Galway to Dublin, a rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers! Heart, blue collared workers and family. My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty! Now with whiskey in our veins, claiming we're the bravest men, I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson. Dad sipped Guinness, I sipped Old English, 'til he sat me down at 16 and said "boy, this is what a beer is." I put down the drink, couldn't drink like a gentleman. That doesn't mean I can't make a drinking song for the rest of 'em. Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose, but don't put us next to a bar stool. We take the history, script it in song, light the torch then you pass it on. That's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm! And we give 'til Ireland is on; Bottoms Up!
>>56890736
Ivory coast
Pic.
ivory coast
>>56892699
Yours isnt shrinking and ours is actually growing by considerably more than 5% a year. Celtic tiger is back or it might be called the celtic bounce or celtic rebound this time.
This creation of god
>>56896230
Kek and whats worse is the party that fucked up the first celtic tiger is going to get in government and will probably be the majority next time.
We never learn, it is gonna get fucked up again.
>>56896343
In fairness to them the US economy dying would have thrown a spanner into the works or any economic policy we had.
They are still shits.
>>56896416
>They are still shits.
Agreed but there was a lot of shady shit going on and they could have prepared instead of burying their head in the sand pretending it did not happen.
I know a few people who are fucked for life buying big houses and cars and then losing their jobs.
What really sickens me in bertie fucking off and leaving Brian to clean up the mess.
>>56896499
They could have put money aside for the eventuality that there would be a recession and then they could have spent that money during the global economic crash but I dont think democracies can actually do that. People will vote for whoever promises them the most and Irish people are no better.
They are corrupt assholes. That is the reason I wouldnt vote for them again rather than how they managed the economy.
>>56896649
Ill never vote FF for as long as I live and I don't know why other follow suit either. My Uncle is a huge FF supporter yet he spent the last few years out of a job or doing shit mini jobs because of them.
Shame FG fucked up with the bloody water bill, they got away with eh house charge but the water was what fucked up everything up for them.
They were dicks too but they were doing an Ok job.
>>56896809
Yeah its pretty shit. The water charges were a clear reform. It shifted some tax burden away from income and onto property.
Made ownership a little more expensive and working a little more rewarding. Hit people who didnt pay PAYE or who could avoid it. Also created a few jobs and a fund for fixing an old water distribution network.
>>56890736
Pizza
Then I realized it's Ireland and not Italy.
Potatoes
>>56890736
O but we talked at large before
The sixteen men were shot,
But who can talk of give and take,
What should be and what not
While those dead men are loitering there
To stir the boiling pot?
>>56897020
>National food of Israel.
Palestinian babies?
>>56890736
guinness
>>56897075
We don't really have national food in Israel. We have Jewish food which is mainly Palestinian children's blood and meat (used to be Christian but we got sick of it).
>>56897313
Israeli food = stolen polish food
no wonder - Poles created Israel but Jews are too selfish to show any gratitude
>>56897313
I have a nice recipe for blood sausage.
>>56891395
heh
Potato Famine
>>56897363
More accurately Yiddish food. Actual Middle Eastern food is dates/flatbread/humus/kebab etc.
>>56896230
would this be because there has been a MASS exodus of 20-30 y/o's from your country, thus affecting the unemployment numbers significantly?
>>56897443
Gourmet kebab is actually pretty good.
>>56897523
Yes people leaving a country makes GDP grow. Basic economics right there.
>>56892584
THE FLIGHT PLAN I JUST FILED WITH THE UN LISTS ME, WALES, SCOTLAND OVER HERE, BUT ONLY ONE OF YOU! FIRST ONE TO TALK GETS TO STAY IN MY KINGDOM
>>56897363
No. We eat Arab food a lot more than polish food. I only eat polish food in Pesach because it's so bland and tasteless. The only popular European food in Israel is pasta.
>>56890736
muh heritage
>>56897574
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/13/ireland-easter-rising-novelists-kevin-curran-sara-baume-lisa-mcinerney-rob-doyle-caitriona-lally
THOUGHTS?
>>56897574
"Ireland today has 27% fewer twentysomethings living here than six years ago. That’s 205,000 people."
>>56897728
That's is a lot of reading but skimming over it I see they are unemployed writers complaining about money. I don't think their situation would be different anywhere else. They went to college and didnt study something that could earn them a living.
Unless you want to point to me a particular part of it.
>>56890736
pure shame
>one chance at life
>born in this fuckhole
>>56897590
WHO PAID YOU TO GRAB NORTHERN IRELAND
>>56890736
>>56897728
take six arts graduates from your country and see what they come up with.
We had a shit awful recession but the worst is definitely over.
>>56897765
Could you explain that relates to your claim that emigration makes GDP grow?
Keep in mind that Ireland is a country of 4 million people. That is a single mid sized city in most countries. Its not unusual for people to leave their city in search of work.
>>56897871
LOTTA LOYALTY FOR A HIRED LONDONER
>>56897942
hello this is dublin calling
>>56890736
shit
>>56897840
it's about this basically m8 >>56897765
n how some there's still not good jobs for millennials so a huge swath are bouncing to outher countries for employment. just sayin you might be on the good end of some recovery in your cunt but overall shit's not really getting better for your generation
>>56898011
I live around Limerick. Loads of 06 cars and things are noticeably busier in general...
>>56898071
>10 year old cars are signs of progress in limerick
stop posting and kill yourself in that order
>>56898066
Not sure what your point is. The US and the entire world had the same recession we had. Now we are recovering nicely.
Does this bother you?
>>56897871
TELL ME ABOUT THE IRA, WHY DO THEY WEAR THE MASKS?
>>56898147
>>10 year old cars are signs of progress in limerick
fuuuck i mean 161 fuck
we talk joke irish
35
The put the jokes to the Irish that it is stupid in the column of " your paper is ,
I want to quit because it is slander against the entire Irish .
If in spite of this warning , if you put the Irish jokes
We Irish , cease to get let read the subsequent your paper . "
Supplemental
Irish is stupid
haha
Tbh the original flag is 10x better
>>56898185
>1
wish they'd fuck off with this embarrasng shite
>>56898066
We have a well educated mobile English speaking workforce who have great opportunities to move.
Why wouldn't they?
>>56898191
Go easy on the saki, Tojo
The Ireland that isnt cool.
>>56897970
i didn't specifically make any claims as to gdp and emigration. what i said was emigration has led to a significant decrease in unemployment numbers. however, to come full circle, unemployment does have a relationship w gdp/gnp as far as Okun's Law is concerned, which postulates that when unemployment falls by 1%, GNP rises by 3%. therefore, emigration affecting unemployment affects gdp
>>56898237
I wont buy a car made after 2012 due to this embarrasing yuppie shite
>>56898247
sure but let's not be disingenuous- they wouldn't be moving in the significant numbers that they are if there were good, available jobs at home in ireland
>>56898317
>>56897523
Here is where you made the claim. No I don't think emigration is the driving force. I think its our corporate tax rate and our position within the EU as young, educated and English speakers.
As for emigration I know lots of people from other countries that also have to get on a plane to go home even if they are within their own borders.
Ireland is a great place.
>>56898391
only westbrits abandon this shit, real men knuckle down and endure it
>>56898391
You had tent cities of unemployed people only recently from the same recession and its normal for americans to need to fly on planes to get home even when the times are good. Dont be mad at us for our economy having a nice recovery.
>>56898391
Of course.
But a lot of Irish who move abroad have very good jobs now.
I don't spite them for that.
Things were real shit for a few a while here but we are once again one of Europe's top dogs.
Can't keep a god man down :)
>>56898391
nu-uh
=P
>>56898543
Everybody who moved abroad is a westbrit cunt who never deserved the determination of being called IRISH
>>56898636
Absolute terms like 'everybody' are a bit extreme.
Some were certainly anti-Irish and i would love if their passports were revoked(fantasy).
>>56898415
>>56898458
my dudes, i got nothing but love for ireland. i was bringing the point up about the young leaving in large numbers, thus probably affecting unemployment figures, which in turn may affect gdp. im well aware of the shite happening in my country and i think we suck so no need to press me there. im rooting for yall like i rooted for all other euro countries that took it on the chin for the mistakes of the rich in '08 and subsequently. ultimately i think we're all gonna see a lot of troubling shit this yr, so take care of you and yours
>>56890736
A bunch of drunk, awesome people.
Also Dropkick Murphys.
>>56890736
pic related... and also the feeling that they surely are pretty cool dudes especially while drinking
>>56898738
Fair enough. I dont think anything bad will happen in Ireland this year. Not one thing.
>>56898738
Many of the young people who left were actually employed.
The had big ambitions(American dream type feelings - lost on a modern american i guess since that ideal is dead)
>>56890736
Lots of leprechauns fighting drunk as hell inside a bar while they sing
>>56890736
IRELAND IS A MESS
My ancestor fled during the war for independence lmao. I'm figuratively the descendant of a fucking coward lol
>>56890736
my heritage and these
>>56898867
What a bitch
>>56898828
>Not one thing.
ya well now were fucked and im blaming you when the udf bomb dublin again im blaming you
>>56898718
The worse are the fucking Ameriboos, I like America and fair enough if you want live and work there but fuck you if you are an Ameriboo.
All my life
>Hurr durr this counry is shit, hurr durr I hate Ireland, hurr durr I spent two weeks in Boston and talk like a new yorker.
Fuck those faggots, most of them can't even get a visa in the US for being so shit.
>>56898913
What bad thing of note happened last year?
>>56898866
IRELAND IS A WASTE
>>56898951
>>56898866
Is this the backlash from all my "White minority in the US" shit posting?
>>56898951
*hits microphone*
EXCUSE ME, IRELAND
>>56898951
IRELAND IS A BIG FAT MISTAKE
>>56899041
>BIG
>FAT
>MISTAKE
Sums you up about right
>>56890736
Same colors as Indian flag, literally a vertical poo chimney
>>56899130
Ireland...
is A MESS
>>56898913
>former loyalist terrorists have shot .22 bullets through my windscreen in my parked car just for me being a southern taig and working in a place where I'm not wanted
step up nigga
DESIGNATED POTATO STREETS
>>56899165
Feels good being white.
>tfw 30+ white cousins.
>>56899165
Ireland said he was gonna take his pajta off and moon us, nasty guy.
Drunk people stumbling around
>>56898836
haha yeah, it's real dead. only surefire shot you have is if your family is already rich, damn near impossible to get ahead in the rat race over here. shit's a scam
>>56899268
Excuse me Ireland
IRELAND IS A BIG FAT MESS
>>56890881
Seriously, I don't understand this. I'm 50% Irish and I see no reason to be proud of it. Ireland is easily one of the shittier parts of the UK, and has had an embarrassing history. During the industrial revolution, Irishmen in America were seen and treated like subhumans, due to the fact that they were a bunch of drunken wife abusers.
>>56899311
Depends what your dream is. I dream of having a nice home, a tight little wife, a nice car and 3 kids in a good area and still having enough money to holiday multiple times a year with some savings. I am on course to achieve this.
I have a buddy who is also on course to achieve this but who is depressed because his dream is to be a millionaire.
>>56898828
i aint talking terror-related buttfuckery man, im talking global economy.
>>56890736
A reversed indian flag
>>56899347
Could you point me in the direction of the origin of this meme?
>>56899391
>Ireland
>Part of the UK
kek
>>56899447
Fuck, I just realized now that I wrote part of the UK. Was thinking of Scotland, my bad. At least Ireland has independence. Good for you guys in that aspect
>>56899447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-McIdVuY88
>>56899444
thats som e areshit
>>56899439
Oh what do you think will happen? Looks like a stuttering start to global recovery but that it is happening. Almost every Euro nation is showing growth.
China might slow but it wont implode. All we sell them is food anyway. Food tends to be a priority. Germany might sell them less luxury cars.
>>56899401
>holiday multiple times a year
lol not in murica
>>56899500
BIG
FAT
MESS
bunch of good lads despite the bad blood between us
>>56890736
Pizza, spaghetti, and lasagna.
>>56899500
Poor Jeb. They all suck. Trump is definitely the best of a bad bunch though.
Is it edited to sound like a bad talk show?
>>56899401
good on ya man. for monetary reasons, all of those dreams are in question in usa for a significant portion of the millennial pop., and it sounds like the uk is in that shit too from what ive read lately. the money kids are making arent taking them as far as it did their parents comparably at their age. home ownership alone is out of the question for most. and i hear ya about ur friend, tempering expectations is an increasing reality for millennials
>>56899817
Well I have told my parents they are cashing in one of their properties so that I can put a deposit down for myself.
Otherwise my Irish Dream would take a while longer.
>>56899895
even having ur rents do a gesture like that is an advantage a lotta knuckleheads dont have. hope it works out for ya lad
>>56896809
And that NAMA shit that they kept dodging?
Surely that was on the up-and-up.
