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Originally Posted by Dearg
Sadly, I don't know much. My biological father was born and raised in Belfast and my grandparents on my biological mother's side are from somewhere near Belfast.
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That's the thing, you can't be "Irish" if you don't know what that entails.
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Witty can elaborate a bit more than me I'm sure, but this raucous drunken land of merry anti-Establishists with a tenancy for bombings exists extremely rarely these days.
You know those lads starting fights in the pubs in Boston or New York that invented the "paddy wagon"? Those are the ones who fucked off during the famine who couldn't hack it over in Ireland. Now, the guys you'll find here are people who don't drink too often (if they're under the age of 50) and quite a lot of them have slightly American accents from watching either sitcoms or Anime too often.
There are fuck all people my age in Ireland that can go can for can with me in drinking. Most of the country haven't tried Potin before. Most of them couldn't name the current Celtic team. None of them know what a proper bottle of Buckfast tastes like and all of them are bragging about their wins over Germany or Greece, depending on how southern or northern they are.
It's not the Ireland you know from TV. Hell most people in Ireland think that drinking in your house makes you an alcoholic.