Zone1 what comes to your mind if you think of Ireland?

[Zebra]

i was there

and you?

 

[Sunni Man]

Favorite dish Corned Beef and Cabbage

 

[Woodznutz]

Jeremiah.

 

[shockedcanadian]

An economy that at one time was booming with Customer Service and telemarketing jobs. They were actually booming at one point.

That was perhaps 10 years ago, I'm not sure how they fare of late.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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St. Patrick

And claddagh rings

And Irish soda bread.

And Irish "Champ", or doctored up mashed potatoes

And Belleek Porcelain (I used to collect)

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[hjmick]

Favorite dish Corned Beef and Cabbage

That's not even an Irish dish.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That's not even an Irish dish.

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Best corned beef and cabbage I ever had, bar none, was cooked by my Japanese mother-in-law.


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[Woodznutz]

I think of my great aunt Jennie, an Irish war bride that my great uncle married. A lovely little woman who talked constantly from the time she got up until she went to bed. Sent us a box of homemade sugar and peanut butter cookies every summer. Most were all broken up, but we loved them anyway.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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I think of lace. I've seen the most beautiful handmade lace from Ireland.

 

[Woodznutz]

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I think of lace. I've seen the most beautiful handmade lace from Ireland.

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I grew up around old women. There were sugar-starched lace things everywhere.

 

[Sunni Man]

That's not even an Irish dish.

It is and it isn't.

Is Corned Beef Really Irish?

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[bluzman61]

Lush, green landscape and Guinness Beer. Also the rock and roll band U2.

 

[Rocko]

Favorite dish Corned Beef and Cabbage

It’s not better than Shepard’s pie

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

buncha drunks

love to party

 

[Invisibleflash]

Done for.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Traced a many times great Grandfather that was born in Northern Ireland in the late 17th century.

 

[BothWings]

That country about a day away from my 19th century ancestors on the Isle of Man by boat, but only about 3% of my genes by Ancestry.com.

 

[Zebra]

Leprachauns

 

[Captain Caveman]

i was there

and you?

To be sure to be sure

IRA

Paddy & Murphy jokes

Dreadful accent

Pikeys

Ian Paisley

(I'm aware some of those are NI, but they come to mind when Ireland is mentioned)

 

[Zebra]

Northern Ireland is also Ireland