Are the Irish getting remembered?

[Steven]

I think that we should have a party to celebrate how long this thread has lasted.

You know us. Any excuse for a celebration.

Get the ALE in Kid

[lindylou]

Gerry you took the words out of my mouth !

I went to put that in my last post but decided to write a different comment


Yeah ! let's have a 'kick ass party' !

[Gerry]

Will some bottles of Cain's double bock do for starters?

[SteH]

• Baileys
  
• Caffreys
  
• Guinness
  
• Jameson
  
• Magners
  
• Murphys etc., etc.

Name six Welsh beverages!

Brains is about it I think

[lindylou]

I think that we should have a party to celebrate how long this thread has lasted.

You know us. Any excuse for a celebration.

We have had some very long threads in the past.
It did cross my mind wondering which ones have been the longest.

Sometimes they have to be locked so we are forced to 'button it' (as my dad would say)

[lindylou]

• Baileys
  
• Caffreys
  
• Guinness
  
• Jameson
  
• Magners
  
• Murphys etc., etc.

Name six Welsh beverages!

aahh ... but you don't always need alcohol to have a good time

[Gerry]

So as soon as we heard there was going to be no drink at the celebration the thread dies.

[scousejoan]

That's where I remember you from. You are the lady from Bootle ?

Thats me, suppose I should just ignore my parent's my grandparents, my aunties and cousins, most of who still live in Dumore East county Waterford.

Sláinte.

[Steven]

Thats me, suppose I should just ignore my parent's my grandparents, my aunties and cousins, most of who still live in Dumore East county Waterford.

Sláinte.

There are quite a few Irish on here Joan and they really are a friendly bunch. Molly and Gerry have already been over to Liverpool to visit me a few times. In fact they stayed with me only a few weeks ago. They live in the countryside of Donegal and myself and another member from here went to stay with them in October (Halloween) for a week. We had a great time.

[verdi]

I used to work with an Irishman, great fellow, Ritchie Long, he tought me Gaelic, I could speak quite a bit of it. I spoke it to an Irish girl in Spain, and she was amazed, she only knew a bit, (the swear words)! God bless Arthur Guinness He used to have a saying when it was foggy, I think it was, and excuse my spelling, Ciohrah drullacgh, which meant, 'The Fairy Mists' . If this is wrong, or any of our Irish Cousins know the correct saying and spelling, I would appreciate being corrected. I have never been to Ireland, though I would love to go, and went out with a girl from Dublin many moons ago.
Cheers Verdi..........................

[Howie]

IT seems difficult to define how long the Irish have been crossing the Irish Sea to settle in Liverpool. Muir (1907, p.304) notes that there were already Irish names among the Liverpudlian citizens as early as 1378. However large waves of immigration started only in the late 18th century. A writer in 1795 already noticed the great influx of Irish in the city.

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[Waterways]

IT seems difficult to define how long the Irish have been crossing the Irish Sea to settle in Liverpool. Muir (1907, p.304) notes that there were already Irish names among the Liverpudlian citizens as early as 1378. However large waves of immigration started only in the late 18th century. A writer in 1795 already noticed the great influx of Irish in the city.

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There has always been a trickle at any time, as there was from everywhere else. There were two large influxes. The famine and after WW1 when the rebellion took hold. Many fled from the violence. That was when the Orange and Green took hold in the city in areas where the Irish settled for the next 40 years - they brought their bigotries with them. It has subsided to the point it is not an issue any more.

[Waterways]

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It states..
"THE 'Scouse' accent is well known to be very specific of Liverpool's city and different from the surrounding part of Lancashire and Cheshire.

Some language experts have been able to identify a hybrid of Lancashire and Irish. The dialect is a relict of the great influx of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century and shows that the new settlers were so numerous that they changed the very accent of the local people."

The accent is heavily Welsh influenced. How can anyone writing about it leave out the Welsh.

I find the Liverpool very different to any Irish accents.

[lindylou]

I've deleted todays posts up to date. This leaves us where we came in at the previous post.

[Gnomie]

You deleted my " Kiss me im Irish "