UK, Ireland / Will the Poles be out on St. Patricks day [66]

Mag - are you reading what i am typing

NEW YEARS IS FOR POLES TAK WIEM! :)

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY WAS WRITTEN FOR THE HORRORS IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Either way - U2 rock


I wouldn't be correcting you if i was not a lifelong fan myself :)

The albums, the Irish gigs, the website, the lot :)

have the t-shirt :)

UK, Ireland / Will the Poles be out on St. Patricks day [66]

*sigh* mag, ok, wiem

ale ALL i was saying is SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY was NOT based on a POLISH event.

New years day was not even based on it at first BUT a love song to his wife that became RESHAPED and INSPIRED by the POLISH SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT.

we both agree we love them to bits :)

youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs

UK, Ireland / Will the Poles be out on St. Patricks day [66]

ah ok,

im like you Mag, - i hate when ppl quote things wrong and when its U2 - dont get me started :)
They are Irish and they are legends!

But I thnk Bono is the BEST example of Irish/Polish Relations :) My gf loves them Too :)

UK, Ireland / Will the Poles be out on St. Patricks day [66]

youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs
And my GF LOVES paddys day! (her bday is the day after too :) :) :) )

UK, Ireland / Will the Poles be out on St. Patricks day [66]


thats always good to know another hardcore fan ***


oh, this could be controversial :)

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

I was raised in the Uk & Ire. I was raised Catholic and consider myself an Irishman.

THere is, for me and many of my friends and people i know, a rivalry between the Uk and IRE ONLY on the sporting fields these days.

95% of the Repbulic of Ireland and 85% of the north of Ireland in the Good Friday Agreement voted for peace. this shows the overwhelming amount of people who them and us atitude does not exist anymore.

The english schools are only recently being educated to the horrors of what the Bristish empire did abroad in South Africa, India and Ireland to name aview and they are like the germans after WW2, very apologetic if it comes up at all!

In the groups I hang out with - there is not division anymore between us (bar the oild sporting rivallry - like any other nation (the scots and welsh have it too against england)

The atitiude in ireland is growing that we are europeans now. It is much slower in taking shape in the UK as its not long since the fall of the empire. BUT one more generation will see a big change there..

But there is no animosity between us now for the most part!

I mean, we will never forget the horrerendous past (on BOTH sides) and it is better for that
THere is MORE effort now in getting along :)

As to the Irish Language - It was a casualty - But lets be honest and real Ireland has 2.5million 'irish' and we do speak it very basic. But it is the fact we are 'native' english speakers that has allowed Ireland to be the economic success it has become

I love Irish Tradition and music - but the politician FORCED the language on the youth of this country and nearly killed it for good! You prop love it more than most irish!!! seriously!!!

It will survive as a heritige language but it has a MINOR role in this country and for the most part - we are fine with that. Bono cant speak a word of it either :)

History / Concentration camps: where did all the birds go? [10]

very cool jimbo!

I agree with you completly that the people need to know this.

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

well try 700 years of occupation first - that'll chaange that for you :)

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

:) best of luck to ya

i think it gives us an advantage we are english speakers. We are still Irish, Like the Scots are scots and the Welsh, Welsh.

We have our pride, history, culture and languages still. But we have also have english
You can say ( and we do :) ) we have more culture than the UK ever had hehe

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

Greegorz your being a little naive.

Yes we were always 'Geographically' european which is where your coming from.

the 'european' i refer to is the political and social body known as the european union.

idealistic/socialistic utopia? check your specturms. its democratic and the centre right and centre left are the MASSIVE majority.

As to idealistic - the ideal is working! France and Germany aren't exacty going to break into WW3. Britain and Ireland are not going to descend into another black and tans/IRA scenario so diss it all you want - the evidence is there bud.


that is the most flipant and unfounded comment i have heard said in earnest ever.

what a load of beeswax

The irish governments over the years were on the RECIEVING end of HEAVY EU subsidies for since 1973. It is only recently they are starting to pay that bach into the EU and the eastern/central bloc

Portugal has been a contributing member longer than Ireland (as in subsidies recived Versus subsidies paid back %)

Love / still looking for another polish girl - i wont give up :) [48]


they have that effect :) *says me in love*

Love / still looking for another polish girl - i wont give up :) [48]


wahey! well done you! I found her on msn's match.com when i lived in Dublin - it was the way to meet ppl of similar interests etc etc

well i broadened the search engine and she came top!

and there she stayed! :)

It was, amazing!!!

Love / Advice for meeting her Polish parents! [44]

finlandia or maximus vodka :)

Jameson Irish Whiskey :)

USA, Canada / POLISH PEOPLE IN CT.... [21]

welll at least this time we can take it that CT means Conneticut :)

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]


would you call that great then :) its nothing to be proud of. (and neither is waht the ira did in the north and all other horrid acts)

Annia - i would love if you registered, it would be great :)

do i really believe that - no! i said we in the national sense with a wink and a smile!

We each have our own unique culture

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

look at the EU parliment. the EPP is the LARGEST party they are (as far as i can see, centre, centre right parties across the EU!

its much wider than you give it vredit for - i work in a multinational and am in contact with people from all over the world - the EU is not as 'wea' idealistic as your making it out to be.

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]


omg, ireland needed BASIC infrastructure first! e didnt even have that! the 70's were spent making these! then we moved the rest. for goodness its an a-z process. it has to start from small beginings.

even the universe


then you;d be wrong, it WAS meant in a nice way

as in to say something with a wink and a smile? as in, all in a bit of fun, a lighter note....

pro irish? what is anti irish? ive never heard that kind of phrase but ok, its nice to know :)

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

I dont know where your getting that from my post. that is not what i said, it is not what i believe. I cannot speak for other countries. I only tell you what i know from Ireland's involvement in the EU.

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NNOOOOOOOO those legs cannot be natural!!!! :)

(love the irish dancing though - but he scary)

Love / Advice for meeting her Polish parents! [44]


Being people, they'd appreciate a gift :) And finlandia IS good


Blasphemer (Jameson is sweet)

:) Powers is also a nice whiskey tez

Language / is an education necessary to learn Polish? [10]

polish-translator.net/polish_phrases.html

UK, Ireland / More and more UK nationals have had enough [22]

i cant understand his objections! he wants a pint - why does it matter that the person who serves him is from another place? anyplace!

UK, Ireland / More and more UK nationals have had enough [22]


wiem, i was subtly highlighting what you said outright :)

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

true

Travel / Anyone been to Zakopane? [36]

miedzygorze

there is NOTHING to do but walk the mountains! its so peaceful and i tell you - if your not in love - you'll know after a visit here.

there is little to distract you but nature

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

its long enough that we have moved on for the most part. the scars are healed and we are moving onward together not against each other - and this is truly better.

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]


TONY BLAIR has made great inroads to 'devolving wales, scotland & N. Ireland' from the old established great britain.

This is advantageous to all areas concerned. as in a growing EU community, this allows big decisions to made in respect to local government levels in the above mentioned.

UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]


We have independance so i will also presume you are talking baout the north.

the north would have had troubles no matter what way it went because the north has a large loyalist and nationalist population. so there would have been trouble in the 70's regardless.

If the north was not under Brittish rule in WW2 - the allies would not have been able to maintain suppies from the west. Churchill is on record as saying, if it was not for the north - the brits would hav had to go back into ireland.

it would have been nice to be aunified island as infrastructrully it would have made things easier to plan also greater tax generation to fund schools, health - BUT there would have been

troubles with terrorism regardless jus the brits starting it instead of the irish.

look at rugby - we have an all Ireland team. GAA (irish native sports) is an all island sport too. The people of the north and south call themselves Irish.

It is a dead issue these days compared to 5 yrs, 30 yrs ago, We are not looking back at the past. we are moving forward and upward.

History / Secret Society/Secret Police in Poland [47]


so where the templars!

though the emblems of the templars are now in the order of malta (ambulance service) and the teutonic are now seen in st. johns ambulance....

UK, Ireland / Second wave of Polish Immigration to the UK [8]

it will be a case of both situations happening. It think.

There are over 250,000,000 Irish over the centuries all over the world and MOST of them settled into the locality. But back then uprooting was much harder and travell not as accessible.

I believe that the Polish will intergrate on many levels and some will return also. Which is good for Poland.