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A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes
- mobilene 3y agoI married into a large Irish family and goodbyes take bloody forever as everyone has to have a ten-minute conversation with everybody else on their way out the door. Irish ghosting goodbye my eye.
- subpixel 3y agoColombians are Irish who can’t hold their alcohol and who take even longer to say goodbye.
- bilekas 3y agoGiggled at this one. Kinda true in Fairness.
- deaddodo 3y agoThe Irish goodbye exists because the alternative is a long ass poetic farewell. So, if you want to avoid it, you give a couple people key goodbyes and check out.
- raffraffraff 3y ago...or just a sneaky nod to someone who understands what you mean. They're left to tell people that you went home, if anyone asks. Just don't do that when your round is next.
- lelima 3y agoThat's with family, with the lads/co-workers the Irish goodbye it's not saying anything and leave.
- Arubis 3y agoAmerican of mostly Irish extraction & raised spending a lot of time in the Boston metro area; I get a bit more than a tenth of these. (It’ll inspire reading next time I’m hungry for roots.)
- anotherhue 3y agoSome of these hit hard but I cannot possibly imagine anyone not soaked in Irish culture getting many of them. > Yerra, they’ll never shoot me in my own county
- dmbche 3y agoFamous last words of this Irish-American Astronaut https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)
- croisillon 3y agoTIL! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)...
- Amineh 3y agoI think you linked the wrong Michael Collins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leade...
- rbanffy 3y agoThat was the joke part.
- anotherhue 3y agoThose Spás Féiners had no honour.
- dmbche 3y agoI don'y speak Gaelic per se - but if I'm getting the joke it's pretty grand
- vonzepp 3y agoLovely idea of a list. But not definitive. My village song also talks of leaving in the morning. Leaving Ireland was the natural state for 150 years.
- mtalantikite 3y ago> 4 Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire I really enjoyed Doireann Ní Ghríofa's book that revolves around this keen, for anyone interested: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51498568 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51498568
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- nathell 3y agoContext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghai... I got interested in Irish having listened to Clannad in high school; at the uni library, I got hold of an Irish textbook, along with a bilingual anthology of Irish poetry ('An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed', edited by Seán Ó Tuama) where the Caoineadh featured prominently.
- mjfl 3y agoAny chance that Irish writing could be re-phoneticized? I tried learning Irish for fun but it was tough because all the letters sounded in a really unexpected way. (I also think that English should be re-phoneticized for what it's worth)
- brendoelfrendo 3y agoMy understanding is that Irish orthography is different, but highly consistent. So once you overcome the initial hurdle of understanding how different phonemes are pronounced, you're mostly good to go. I tend to think of the Irish alphabet as similar to but subtly distinct from the English alphabet: the two languages use the same Latin characters, but have different sounds associated with them.
- dghughes 3y agoI tried to learn it and basically it helps if you at least know the sounds of H letters/consonants which throw off English speakers. mh or bh = V, ch = sloppy och "loch" (means lake) rhymes with Bach, dh and gh = guttural G, fh = silent.
- jwmcq 3y agoI am disappointed that the "Irish goodbye" didn't happen at around number 82 with no items following it.
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- osullish 3y agoI love that Roy Keane has 5% of these entries. Saipan was nearly the beginning of a civil war in this country!
- youngNed 3y agoIt was a huge cultural moment. If you look at the impact of the 88 euros and subsequent world cups, we had songs, books, movies. And then, it all just died because someone never put the cones out for training, on a field in japan I don't think we've ever processed that as a nation. Sure we struggled to process a civil war, we have no chance with saipan.