Official: An englishman is Irelands greatest export

**joeSoap** · 13/12/2004, 10:24 AM

Shane McGowan is Irelands greatest export:
http://www.p45.net/general/index.php

**Macy** · 13/12/2004, 10:45 AM

Wasn't he born in Tipp anyway?

**joeSoap** · 13/12/2004, 10:47 AM

No...born in London, Tipperary parents and spends a lot of time there, but he's from Laaandannn

**joeSoap** · 13/12/2004, 10:49 AM

Sorry, he was born in Kent:
http://forums.tcm.ie/archive/index.php/t-21181.html

**sylvo** · 13/12/2004, 2:59 PM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Sorry, he was born in Kent:
http://forums.tcm.ie/archive/index.php/t-21181.html

So that makes him English then, also in the top five people were James Connelly, born in Edinburgh, Jim Larkin born in Liverpool and Constance Markievicz born in London. I guess they were all British too then.

What the f**k do they teach you in schools over there about emigration, or is it just a case of to be Irish you have to born there or have the accent.

**dortie** · 13/12/2004, 3:01 PM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Shane McGowan is Irelands greatest export:
http://www.p45.net/general/index.php

How Donegal is at 2nd is beyond me. Boring ****hole.

Finn Harps fans voting numerous times, has to be.

**joey B** · 13/12/2004, 3:24 PM

Originally Posted by dortie

How Donegal is at 2nd is beyond me. Boring ****hole.

Finn Harps fans voting numerous times, has to be.

**liam88** · 13/12/2004, 4:27 PM

Originally Posted by sylvo

So that makes him English then, also in the top five people were James Connelly, born in Edinburgh, Jim Larkin born in Liverpool and Constance Markievicz born in London. I guess they were all British too then.

What the f**k do they teach you in schools over there about emigration, or is it just a case of to be Irish you have to born there or have the accent.

Couldn't agree more!
Just 'coz I was born in a toilet doesn't make me a.......

**crc** · 13/12/2004, 4:54 PM

Originally Posted by sylvo

So that makes him English then, also in the top five people were James Connelly, born in Edinburgh, Jim Larkin born in Liverpool and Constance Markievicz born in London. I guess they were all British too then.

What the f**k do they teach you in schools over there about emigration, or is it just a case of to be Irish you have to born there or have the accent.

Hear, hear.

Some people have short memories. Irish people were forced to leave these shores because we were an economic basket-case. Only those who were lucky got to stay. Its only recently that people have been the possibility to return home.

I myself spent a few of my early years in England. My parents came back so that I was born in Dublin, and eventually came back full time in the mid-eighties as soon as they could find a job in Ireland.

The people who would call us English are the same gobsh1tes that called Mick McCarthy English just because he had a Yorkshire accent. They need to get a life and take their heads out of the f**king sand!

**Metrostars** · 13/12/2004, 8:50 PM

Not to mention that yankee, Dev.

**Plastic Paddy** · 13/12/2004, 9:12 PM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

No...born in London, Tipperary parents and spends a lot of time there, but he's from Laaandannn

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Sorry, he was born in Kent:
http://forums.tcm.ie/archive/index.php/t-21181.html

I think you're secretly jealous in referring to McGowan as an "Englishman". Why else should it bother you that he is English-born? Do you wanna be a "plastic" too, Joe?

Mind, if I was from Limerick, maybe I'd be thinking the same...

PP

**carrickharp** · 14/12/2004, 7:08 AM

Originally Posted by dortie

How Donegal is at 2nd is beyond me. Boring ****hole.

Finn Harps fans voting numerous times, has to be.

Your actually wrong on that one, anyone I have been talking to never heard of this poll and I hadn�t even seen it until this weeks Sunday World, anyway wouldn�t we not have tried to vote for Harps instead

.

I see they have Co. Derry marked as Co. Londonderry on the map of Ireland

Boring? Full of your crowd on a weekend... Oh yeah your right alright wish they would close the pubs on time

**dortie** · 14/12/2004, 8:27 AM

Originally Posted by dublinharp

Boring? Full of your crowd on a weekend... Oh yeah your right alright wish they would close the pubs on time

Yep, Derry men down for Late drinks and Easy women at the weekends.

You lot can talk, slagging Derry and your never fecking out of it shopping, spot the 'DL driver' a mile off too. Unbelievable ! Driving lessons at the local fair in bumper cars if you ask me.

**joeSoap** · 14/12/2004, 8:30 AM

now, now girls....

**lopez** · 14/12/2004, 5:00 PM

Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy

I think you're secretly jealous in referring to McGowan as an "Englishman". Why else should it bother you that he is English-born? Do you wanna be a "plastic" too, Joe?

It's because we're so coooooooooooooooll!!

**Pat O' Banton** · 14/12/2004, 5:11 PM

Yeah I think your being really unfair here Joe afterall 4 of the top 7 are these bloody foreigners coming over here steeling our socialist retroic, steeling our music, feeding our fecking poor I say block up the ports and stop them all coming in.

**Babysis** · 15/12/2004, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by sylvo

So that makes him English then, also in the top five people were James Connelly, born in Edinburgh, Jim Larkin born in Liverpool and Constance Markievicz born in London. I guess they were all British too then.

What the f**k do they teach you in schools over there about emigration, or is it just a case of to be Irish you have to born there or have the accent.

Fair play. Im also a "plastic" although I realise to many that just means english. I think it is pathetic that a small number of irish have developed some sort of superiority complex over thier fellow country men, simply because of what accent they have. As far as im concerned that attitude is a disgrace, and as already mentioned in this thread, it shows you have no idea nor understanding of irish history. As far as Im concerned, being Irish is about taking a pride in your history, and comes from the heart, not from an accent!

**joey B** · 15/12/2004, 1:57 PM

Originally Posted by dortie

Yep, Derry men down for Late drinks and Easy women at the weekends.

You lot can talk, slagging Derry and your never fecking out of it shopping, spot the 'DL driver' a mile off too. Unbelievable ! Driving lessons at the local fair in bumper cars if you ask me.

What a load of crap northern ireland drivers are the worst i have ever seen impaitent crowd of b***erds