Irish Drunk History

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Headed to Ireland next week for the football game. Looking forward to spending a week drinking my way through the country and seeing the sights, but realizing I am headed there with little knowledge of Ireland’s culture and history, despite having Irish roots.

I need a Drunk History crash course. Whaddaya drunks got for me?
 
Headed to Ireland next week for the football game. Looking forward to spending a week drinking my way through the country and seeing the sights, but realizing I am headed there with little knowledge of Ireland’s culture and history, despite having Irish roots.

I need a Drunk History crash course. Whaddaya drunks got for me?
The stereotype of an Irishman is certainly one of a drunken brawler. I wonder how much of it is true and how much of it is just a way to discriminate against a nationality of people.
 
Remind them notre dame is making fun of them öööö Notre dame
 
If you identify as Scotch-Irish, you technically may not have any true Irish ancestry. The Scotch-Irish were originally North English or South Scottish settlers forced from their land to colonize Ulster (Northern Ireland) for the Crown. A large number of them immigrated to America due to hardships in Ulster (including from the Church of England trying to convert them from Presbyterianism.) They are generally known to be a "difficult" people. It may surprise the board to know that I, gtleviathan, claim Scotch-Irish ancestry.

Highly recommended reading for those who wish to learn more...

https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-cultural/dp/0195069056
 
If you identify as Scotch-Irish, you technically may not have any true Irish ancestry. The Scotch-Irish were originally North English or South Scottish settlers forced from their land to colonize Ulster (Northern Ireland) for the Crown. A large number of them immigrated to America due to hardships in Ulster (including from the Church of England trying to convert them from Presbyterianism.) They are generally known to be a "difficult" people. It may surprise the board to know that I, gtleviathan, claim Scotch-Irish ancestry.

Highly recommended reading for those who wish to learn more...

https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-cultural/dp/0195069056
Scotch is the name of a whiskey.
It's Scots-Irish or Scottish Irish nowadays.
You wouldn't want to say that in Scotland or Ulster.
 
Scotch is the name of a whiskey.
It's Scots-Irish or Scottish Irish nowadays.
You wouldn't want to say that in Scotland or Ulster.
The term "Scotch-Irish" is definitely an American phrase at this point. But it did originate in England.
 
The term "Scotch-Irish" is definitely an American phrase at this point. But it did originate in England.
Did you know the term soccer originated in England too? It comes from association football which was the original name but a group of Oxford alumni liked adding -er at the end of abbreviated words around the beginning of 20th century so they started calling it “assoc-er”. The term soccer was used in England until around 1950 when they decided all of a sudden they don’t want to call it soccer anymore but they never sent the memo to the US, not that we would care I guess. So today they make fun of Americans for calling it soccer when they’re the ones who invented the word.
 
Headed to Ireland next week for the football game. Looking forward to spending a week drinking my way through the country and seeing the sights, but realizing I am headed there with little knowledge of Ireland’s culture and history, despite having Irish roots.

I need a Drunk History crash course. Whaddaya drunks got for me?
If you're going all Irish Whisky drunk for the week, most pub's well brand is Powers, which is very good and cheaper than the brands they export to the U.S.

If you want a bit of history, go to St. Stephen's Green. It was the site of the 1916 Uprising. They have numbered plaques and statues that will take through the timeline. It's also a beautiful park.

Just to the north of the park is The Dawson Lounge, which bills itself as the smallest bar in the world. The Brazen Head is a relatively short walk from the Guinness brewery and it is the oldest bar in Dublin. These are two of my favorites.
 
Did you know the term soccer originated in England too? It comes from association football which was the original name but a group of Oxford alumni liked adding -er at the end of abbreviated words around the beginning of 20th century so they started calling it “assoc-er”. The term soccer was used in England until around 1950 when they decided all of a sudden they don’t want to call it soccer anymore but they never sent the memo to the US, not that we would care I guess. So today they make fun of Americans for calling it soccer when they’re the ones who invented the word.
yeah, i had heard that before somewhere
 
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Did you know the term soccer originated in England too? It comes from association football which was the original name but a group of Oxford alumni liked adding -er at the end of abbreviated words around the beginning of 20th century so they started calling it “assoc-er”. The term soccer was used in England until around 1950 when they decided all of a sudden they don’t want to call it soccer anymore but they never sent the memo to the US, not that we would care I guess. So today they make fun of Americans for calling it soccer when they’re the ones who invented the word.
It’s kind of like the British word queue for a line. I never heard the word until about 20 years ago and now it’s become popular to use queue for line.
 
The term "Scotch-Irish" is definitely an American phrase at this point. But it did originate in England.
"Scots-Irish" mostly migrated to US early to mid 1700's.
"Irish-irish" mostly migrated to US in 1800's.
media here used "Scotch-Irish" for more than 100 years,fading away in the 1990's
the "Scotch-Irish" term was used because the "Scots-Irish" didn't want to be confused with "Irish-irish"
nah man,who said we a difficult people?
 
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