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  1. 15th January 2012, 03:15 AM #1
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    Saint Patrick's Day T Shirts

    Setting aside - please - the nationalist/unionist argument and the Irish vs Irish-American differences -
    How do we feel about these T Shirts ?

    Bit of fun or offensive ?

    What do we think ?

    Do these St Patrick's Day t-shirts depict Irish as drunk and dumb?



    Here are just a selection of some of the Irish t-shirts available on the Internet.

    1. Full of beer and blarney.
    2. Irish today, hung-over tomorrow.
    3. Irish to the last drop.
    4. Irish I was drunk.
    5. Every day is St. Patrick’s Day.
    6. Let’s get ready to stumble.
    7. Fight me I’m Irish.
    8. Dublin up, two hands-two drinks.
    9. Irish girl, best damn drinking buddy a guy can have.
    10. So this Irishman walks out of a bar, no really it can happen.
    I think they are an embarrassment and offensive.
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  3. 15th January 2012, 03:26 AM #2
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    It's the people who wear them that are the embarrassment ... but really it's only a T-shirt. I've a T-shirt which reads:
    mine's a large one. Does it mean anything?
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  4. 15th January 2012, 03:35 AM #3
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    As far as the Americans are concernd we're all Irish on this island where ever we come from on this island. Be it Antrim or Arklow or Derry or Dublin. It is abit of fun.
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  5. 15th January 2012, 03:35 AM #4
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    I think I might be mellowing as I get older as a few years ago I would have been offended by those shirts and the image of Ireland and Irish people that they portray but now I have to say that I'm indifferent towards them. I think we give things like this more power if we let them offend us and react to them.
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  6. 15th January 2012, 03:40 AM #5
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    It is a matter of pride with Irish-Americans that they do not get all PC and whiny about jokes regarding Irish being drunk or fighting (or both).
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    Quote Originally Posted by ManOfReason View Post
    It is a matter of pride with Irish-Americans that they do not get all PC and whiny about jokes regarding Irish being drunk or fighting (or both).
    And yet they go mad when portrayed thus - as with the huge row about the German cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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  8. 15th January 2012, 03:51 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cruimh View Post
    And yet they go mad when portrayed thus - as with the huge row about the German cartoonist Thomas Nast.
    Well if you have to go back over a hundred years to make some sort of vague point unrelated to your OP......
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  9. 15th January 2012, 03:54 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by ManOfReason View Post
    Well if you have to go back over a hundred years to make some sort of vague point unrelated to your OP......
    Erm - the row is happening in 2012 - and is because they object to being portrayed as being drunk and fighting ....
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  10. 15th January 2012, 04:09 AM #9
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    Well, we're probably our own worst enemy. I asked the Irish embassy in Seoul if they could send me down some stuff to showcase Ireland to my kindergarten students in Korea. I got leaflets and pamphlets about the EURO and three posters of Ireland. In one, there were 20 small images of our country and in 12 of them people were drinking beer and/or in a pub. This is the image we share with the world yet when other people attempt to cash in on it, there is uproar on our island.

    Howard Kendall once applied for the Irish football job stating his qualifications as being a lover of Guinness. Cue outrage in the media. But it was only a few years previously that an RTE reporter hijacked the Special Olympics opening ceremony by telling Heather Locklear that Irish people love to party when she should have been asking a question.
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  11. 15th January 2012, 04:22 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by kankokko View Post
    Well, we're probably our own worst enemy. I asked the Irish embassy in Seoul if they could send me down some stuff to showcase Ireland to my kindergarten students in Korea. I got leaflets and pamphlets about the EURO and three posters of Ireland. In one, there were 20 small images of our country and in 12 of them people were drinking beer and/or in a pub. This is the image we share with the world yet when other people attempt to cash in on it, there is uproar on our island.

    Howard Kendall once applied for the Irish football job stating his qualifications as being a lover of Guinness. Cue outrage in the media. But it was only a few years previously that an RTE reporter hijacked the Special Olympics opening ceremony by telling Heather Locklear that Irish people love to party when she should have been asking a question.
    I agree. We seem to be happy to go along with and even encourage this stereotype. It's embarrassing and we need to put an end to it.

    What would be the reaction to 4th of july t-shirts that read, "I'm an American and yes ... I'm a fat Bastard!"
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