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⌈ Secret Post #709 ⌋

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Err, I suppose it's not even the latter so much, as much as it is people (particularly teenage people) who squee and obsess about Ireland and how Irish they are when they know next to nothing about the country. At least when people come over and do the touristy thing I get that they're trying to see the country (and frankly, most of them leave complaining about how expensive everything is. Which is true and makes me feel strangely vindicated.) and if they don't get to see the 'true' Ireland, that's because that's not the foot that the tourist board and the government want to put forward.

On the other hand, I think it's wonderful that people want to get involved in our culture in other countries. Anyone who wants to play a GAA sport or learn Irish abroad is fine by me, I think it's fantastic. So your sister kind of rocks. I guess it's like the weeaboo thing with people who insist they know so much about Japanese culture when they know nothing outside of anime and manga. People insisting they're Irish and know so much about Ireland and love it so much when they have the most tenuous connection possible to the country and know nothing about the country as it is today.

Mostly, I think it just stems from the great Irish tradition of not being happy unless we have something to whinge about. We're the best in Europe. (I suspect from circumstantial evidence and hear-say however that the Chinese out-complain us on a global standard.)

When I was there visiting family in Cork I was surprised by how much DID look like I had been led to expect from calendars and posters and Ballykissangel. I went in January and the whole time I was like OMFG ITS ACTUALLY GREEN. HOLY SHIT. And the different colored doors! And the little tiny walls around the little tiny front gardens! And it rained every day-- splendid! The palm trees, though, I was NOT expecting.

Granted, it's actually pretty picturesque down there. I've only been down Cork/Kerry direction... Twice? I think, something like that. I live much further North though and from Dublin straight up to Belfast (Where I live is in between.) it's mostly just housing estates and urban sprawl. There's like, fields, yeah, but there's always houses in the middle of the view, everywhere because of poor planning permission. The greenest most unspoiled areas also tend to have been poorer historically and the reason they're so green is because no one could be arsed building anything there. And uh, yeah. I'll quit being all srsbzns now.

Obviously, that's why we hate them so much. :P And yeah, people planted some pretty insane shit in the 60s and 70s. You should see my granda's monkey puzzlers...

Ah, sure now I understand it. You're from Louth, aren't you, you poor fecker?

Go on and admit it so we can all take the piss ;p

I mock and deride you in your north-easterness, being entirely unlike you in every way. (Though my Granda also had monkey puzzles)

holy fuck no! lmao, I'm not that unfortunate. ...Monaghan? It's really not quite as bad.

I last went to Ireland in 2006. I went by myself, started in Lisdoonvarna, made a ring around the whole country. I figure traveling on my own (and NOT in a freaking tourist group) is the only way to see Ireland...hanging out in the same pubs and bus stations, standing in lines at banks, reading and watching the same news, buying sandwiches and stuff in the same groceries. Thank God for all the local minivan/taxi companies; without them, gosh knows how I would have gotten out to all the prehistoric sites I visited and photographed. I also brought my fiddle with me, and joined (and taped) a bunch of trad sessions. I do that in Seattle too (though most of our session crowds have pretty much died in the last few years).

I enjoyed visiting the North again too, except for the pound/dollar exchange rate...*cringes* Antrim coast FTW!!

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