Yes, but not as many as Welsh. People like me? Fathers and husbands that work for insurance brokers and have never even set foot on Irish soil? Go to bed you pisshead.
More food was exported out of Ireland by Britain than was needed to feed the starving. It meant my family moved from south Derry to Belfast. Every cloud...
Native speakers approx 133,000 native within Ireland, smaller numbers living abroad (2011)[1] L2: 1.77 million (native + L2) in the Republic 64,916 in Northern Ireland[2] 30,000 in the United States 7,500 in Canada 1,895 in Australia[3] Native speakers 721,700 total speakers (2011) — Wales: 562,000 speakers, 19.0% of the population of Wales,[1] with 12% of the population (317,000) considering themselves fluent in Welsh[2] — England: 150,000[3] — Chubut Province, Argentina: 5,000[4] — United States: 2,500[5] — Canada: 2,200[6] — New Zealand: 1,077[7]
Farewell to Bellaghy Yeah, and why Derry city ended up having loads of Donegal names around the place. To this day there are still loads of folk here who profess a greater affinity wit Donegal/Inishowen than County Derry.
Yes. Unintentional as it is you still have no idea of the Irish mindset in regards the Anglos I will stay up as I please, I worked the 12th for a guy and got today and tomorrow off Im here for a while and on the sauce tomorrow beforow watching Cville hump the Hoops
An you'll stay hungry if you can't get it. Famine means there is none for you to have. That was never the case here.
So there's a lot of hatred in Ireland for normal English blokes who earn a living for their family (same as many Irishmen I imagine)?
I don't think that represents an attitude towards a people, rather that you don't appear to understand Ciaran's vision of the national psyche. I have an English accent, I've never gotten any grief here ever. I had a friend staying from England on the day the Saville Inquiry was released. I asked him not to wear his "help for heroes" lance Armstrong wristband thing, just in case anything would happen. The British Army wouldn't be so popular that day. He was happy to agree. My mate doesn't particularly give a **** about politics so I left him in the pub. Ten minutes later he wanted to come and see it all as everyone seemed to be buzzing. We stayed out all day and got hammered. His comment was that he couldn't believe that nobody said a cross word to him and that people were so positive to him. In my opinion that reflects the psyche of the nation. In every single family there is someone with an English accent, maybe someone who roots for England ahead of Ireland. But people are smart enough not to blame the sins of a government on the people.
I said a lot of Irish resent the English, Rebel said he didn't know any who did. I used your quote as an example.
Not really a hatred for people, just the general attitude of indifference to the almost perpetual ****storm left behind from British colonial involvement in the island. A "why should we care" attitude while the island still struggles to deal with the legacy as mostly England still reaps the resonant economic benefits of their previous colonial activities.
Yeah, because things are really booming over here at the moment What do you want/expect from us? An apology or sympathy from normal people who have next to no control over British foreign policy today, let alone our colonial exploits long before our time?
