# Favorite Irish-themed Stuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751 "2010-03-17T13:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/41 "2010-03-18T11:21:35Z")
> [@ruadh](#): > > Not actually that many redheads here BTW. The real classic Irish look is dark brown hair with blue eyes. I really must visit Ireland one of these days. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/42 "2010-03-18T11:46:36Z")
Phenargen! I mean, how else do you listen to the radio for two hours before you realize it isn’t on? Oh, wait, I meant Finnegan. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/43 "2010-03-18T17:09:49Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > FWIW I’ve heard both of the sayings “the Quare in the Square” and "The Fag on the Crag. > > There’s also [The hags with the bags](http://www.reedconsulting.com/ctdc/200011ie/large/hags-bags.jpg), [The floozy in the jacuzzi](http://yinyangbob.com/Photos/Ireland98/dublin-floozy.jpg), [The tart with the cart](https://www.msu.edu/~solomonc/Dublin10.jpg), [The prick with the stick](http://ibanda.blogs.com/panchromatica/images/prick_with_the_stick500.jpg) and [The ace with the bass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Lynott_Dublin_Statue.jpg) Does someone you work with spend all their time making them up or wha? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/44 "2010-03-18T18:34:01Z")
Already so much great Irish music mentioned. I love, “Only A Woman Heart” and “Sunnyshine Day” By Eleanor McEvoy and “Teddy O’Neil” by Mary Black. She also does “The Water Is Wide”. This is a nice combination of artists playing, “Blue Train”… Awesome [Blue Train](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMUqhofLGw) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/45 "2010-03-18T19:31:07Z")
If I were straight and wanted a fling with a much older actress, I think [Fionnula Flanagan](http://www.nancymonaghan.com/flanagan.jpg) is who I would shoot for; I think she’s as striking now as when she was [young](http://lostfan.today.com/files/2009/02/young-fionnula-flanagan.jpg). (Of course Gaelic pronunciation being what it is _Fionnula_ could well be pronounced Bling-a-rang, which is another interesting thing about the Irish.) Few religious icons are more beautiful than Celtic crosses. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/46 "2010-03-18T22:26:47Z")
[Flowers](http://ww10.1800flowers.com/product.do?baseCode=16341&conversionTag=true). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/47 "2010-03-19T01:06:27Z")
Father Ted! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/48 "2010-03-19T02:29:25Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > If I were straight and wanted a fling with a much older actress, I think [Fionnula Flanagan](http://www.nancymonaghan.com/flanagan.jpg) is who I would shoot for; I think she’s as striking now as when she was [young](http://lostfan.today.com/files/2009/02/young-fionnula-flanagan.jpg). (Of course Gaelic pronunciation being what it is _Fionnula_ could well be pronounced Bling-a-rang, which is another interesting thing about the Irish.) Just ignore the “o” and change the sound of “f” and you’re basically there. It’s kind of inbetween Fwin-u-la and Fin-u-la and said in an Irish accent 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/49 "2010-03-19T03:59:03Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > Just ignore the “o” and change the sound of “f” and you’re basically there. It’s kind of inbetween Fwin-u-la and Fin-u-la and said in an Irish accent 😛 Why do the Celtic languages have such weird orthography, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/50 "2010-03-19T08:35:49Z")
I like the stuff that isn’t even Irish; stuff like: -corned beef and cabbage -green beer -crooked Boston politicians -potatoes ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/51 "2010-03-19T09:00:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why do the Celtic languages have such weird orthography, anyway? They’re only weird by certain standards. Except Manx, which is weird by anyone’s. **yojimbo** you left out the hoor in the sewer, the stiletto in the ghetto, the time in the slime… ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/52 "2010-03-19T12:47:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I really must visit Ireland one of these days. That is true. I come from a big Irish family, both sides and we have brown hair and blue or hazel eyes, light skin with freckles. I always wished I was a red head. Ireland is a beautiful country to visit. I have not been but my family has. Someone mentioned the accent. I think it comes from translating Gaelic to English. It is as if certain parts of a word are left out. True would sound like ‘drew’. The old Celtic traditions are slowly fading away and I miss the family time my Grandparents always made for us. Family was very important to them and we had big get togethers with all the cousins, We would push all the furniture back and pull up the rug and then my Uncle would grab his fiddle and just start playing reels. My Great Aunts loved to dance and play cards. They knew how to have fun and the funerals were unreal. Huge and tons of food and drinks. They said that life was sweet and to live it because tomorrow is never certain. ---
**Author:** ![Seamack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Seamack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seamack)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/53 "2010-03-19T12:56:54Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > FWIW I’ve heard both of the sayings “the Quare in the Square” and "The Fag on the Crag. > > There’s also [The hags with the bags](http://www.reedconsulting.com/ctdc/200011ie/large/hags-bags.jpg), [The floozy in the jacuzzi](http://yinyangbob.com/Photos/Ireland98/dublin-floozy.jpg), [The tart with the cart](https://www.msu.edu/~solomonc/Dublin10.jpg), [The prick with the stick](http://ibanda.blogs.com/panchromatica/images/prick_with_the_stick500.jpg) and [The ace with the bass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Lynott_Dublin_Statue.jpg) The floozy in the Jacuzzi was also known as ‘The Whore (Who-err) in the Sewer’ and once upon a time we had a millenium countdown clock in the Liffey - known as ‘The Time in the Slime’ Ok I should have read the entire thread before passing comment. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/54 "2010-03-19T16:37:44Z")
> [@Seamack](#): > > and once upon a time we had a millenium countdown clock in the Liffey - known as ‘The Time in the Slime’ Ahh yes the time in the slime. what a feck up that was. Lasted about a week before the the thing broke. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/55 "2010-03-19T18:49:19Z")
What about the Scud in the Mud, it’s still there. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/56 "2010-03-19T21:36:06Z")
Speaking of the orthography, “ruadh” would be something like “Ruth”, right? > [@](#): > > Family was very important to them and we had big get togethers with all the cousins, We would push all the furniture back and pull up the rug and then my Uncle would grab his fiddle and just start playing reels. My Great Aunts loved to dance and play cards. They knew how to have fun and the funerals were unreal. Ah, yes, Irish wakes. We certainly had a grand old time when my grandfather died. Sad, of course, but we didn’t let that stop us. Unfortunately I don’t think we have any fiddlers in the family. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/57 "2010-03-19T22:01:35Z")
Pardon a hijack, but something I’ve been wondering about Oscar Wilde: He was a Dubliner, born and educated there, one of the most famous Irish writers/wits of his time. He was ancestrally Anglo-Irish (his family’s roots in Ireland on all sides were a century or more, several centuries on some, but the Wildes themselves came over in the 18th century) and his upbringing was Anglican (though for most of his life he was agnostic, though at his request he was, on his deathbed, baptized a Roman Catholic by an Irish priest in Paris). He also spent most of his ‘days in the sun’ in London. So born in Dublin but not of ‘pure emerald ancestry’ and not Catholic, do the Irish consider him “one of us” or “one of us [but with an asterisk]” or “not one of us”? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/58 "2010-03-19T22:05:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Pardon a hijack, but something I’ve been wondering about Oscar Wilde: > > He was a Dubliner, born and educated there, one of the most famous Irish writers/wits of his time. He was ancestrally Anglo-Irish (his family’s roots in Ireland on all sides were a century or more, several centuries on some, but the Wildes themselves came over in the 18th century) and his upbringing was Anglican (though for most of his life he was agnostic, though at his request he was, on his deathbed, baptized a Roman Catholic by an Irish priest in Paris). He also spent most of his ‘days in the sun’ in London. > > So born in Dublin but not of ‘pure emerald ancestry’ and not Catholic, do the Irish consider him “one of us” or “one of us [but with an asterisk]” or “not one of us”? If we exclude all the Anglo-Irish stock writers we haven’t got much literature left, so yeah he’s one of us. Anyway none of us are of ‘pure emerald ancestry’. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/59 "2010-03-19T22:09:01Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Anyway none of us are of ‘pure emerald ancestry’. All due to those horny washed up Spanish Armada sailors.😃 (I can’t estimate how many times I’ve heard the Black Irish are descendants of the Spanish Armada.) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751/60 "2010-03-19T22:10:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Speaking of the orthography, “ruadh” would be something like “Ruth”, right? “Roo-ah” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-irish-themed-stuff/532751.md?page=4)