Irish Soc

Because I don't regard myself as being Irish and none of my family does either. I have always been told that I'm British and so I identify as that rather than as 'half British half Irish'. I don't speak any Irish, I have no interest in doing so and I just don't feel any real connection with anything Irish, so I say I'm British.

Yo!

Raised in England, however I am full-blooded and can fake the accent reasonably well.

They almost named me Patrick O'Malley but they saw ****ing sense.

I'm from Offaly, slap bang in the middle of Ireland, so I guess I am pretty Irish!

Great Grandmother was an illegal Irish immigrant

biffo himself!p

I'm just at a point with the people at uni where, when they say 'oh, so you're Irish?' That I just go, '...yes.'

Now now, play nice
Ah sure look, as my friends would say, "you get that in small towns and rural areas". But actually I'm not a total culchie, I'm regarded as a "blow in" around home

My nationality changes depending on what part of Belfast I walk through

hahah is belfast really that rough:?

I mean I go to uni in an unionist stronghold with a blatant southern accent but I never get any hassle

and I often chat to the locals..usually have good things to say about the south and us "chilled" southerners

Aaaah! Seriously? Even recently there has been attacks on people in the 'wrong place'

What part of Northern Ireland are you from?

A little place just outside Belfast. It's about 30 minutes away when the traffic's light. I tried to drive home in the rush hour traffic yesterday and it took over an hour

does it have a castle:?

Nope. It's a small little place that I doubt anyone's heard of unless you live there or in one of the bigger towns on either side of it.

fair enough I can imagine the small typical irish village alright p

does it have a castle:?

Nope. It's a small little place that I doubt anyone's heard of unless you live there or in one of the bigger towns on either side of it.

I mean, it's not like absolutely tiny. There's like 6 churches (which is hilarious) and maybe 20 shops? like a few hairdressing places/fruit and veg place.newsagent and a couple of pubs and clothing places and stuff. But it's reasonably small. Apparently it's classed as an 'intermediate settlement' by some statistics company or whatever

yeh thats one thing I noticed in ni...so many churches!!!
sounds like a small town to moi..then again my parts damm rural
yeh so do yeh plan in staying in ni:?

Not everyone lives in the same place albeit I immediately thought she did! awkward. Hmmm! 30 minutes. Co. Antrim or co. Down?

The clock is ticking!!!! (Apparently) you guys won't get this joke

anyways say hello if there are any