An awful shower altogether - vote for the worst member of the Irish diaspora

Seán Mac Stíofáin the first provo chief of staff was a Londoner

He was, but Connolly the Hibee was better.

the true irish spirit in those circs is "i knew him when he had no arse to his trousers"

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:22 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is such a Scottish attitude too tbf.

Was gonna say, I’ve heard my granny use that phrase verbatim

My mum told me one of the Coyle family from the Tayto crisps empire wanted to adopt her when she was a young very badly cared for child, her one chance to escape the dangerous and terrible 50's Irish care system and a bad start in life and it passed her by for some unexplained reason. But thank god she met that loser ..etc..

god i was i was the scion of a crisps empire

when she tells me this classic for umpteenth time, while I'm doing eye-rolls it doesn't occur to her that i don't have the same enthusiasm as her for a timeline where she is happier and I don't exist!

I’m glad you exist but it’s a shame all the same, would have been nice to have had a contact who could sort me out with the Christmas box of real Tayto

t/s: the existence of ilxor dot com poster calzino vs free crisps

wait who would this contact have been

ilxor dot com poster crispzino

a timeline where a 70 odd year old Irish member of the Coyle family became an Ilxer after googling Daniel O'Donnell's hypnagogic phase, and finding the gateway drug ILM.

coylzino

the only good poster

t/s: the existence of ilxor dot com poster calzino vs free crisps

Taytos are the best crisps in the universe THE END as you were LG x

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) March 26, 2019

That is a surprisingly ornate tweet.

King cheese and onion are the best imo but I will always have a special place in my heart for the pub crisps!

Other - Esther McVey.

arguably not as bad as timothy

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1 vote for Piers Morgan though?

Brogues gallery

have to say id question most of this list tbh

Murdoch's "Scottish" surely?

Certainly a lot more than he is Irish.

yeah thats the first one to jump out

morgan, not having, diaspora needs not to be so avowedly of the new nation- nb this isnt a hard and fast rule obv but it fuckin is when the new nation is tory

I maintain that Michael Flatley is the correct answer.

hes a sure qualifier at least

Pretty sure "Tory" is an Irish derivation tbf

key point remains

Well sure

tbh I didn't vote because every time I clicked on someone who wasn't Murdoch (mostly Brendan O'Neill tbh) my brain went "but obviously Murdoch is *worse*" but it felt weird picking Murdoch when I didn't even know he had anything to do with Ireland until this thread

anyway he doesn't come close to most entrants on this list but I just wanted to record somewhere that I get v confused when I see posts from former UKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn on Twitter and think "why does this person with an Irish name have such UKIPpy takes on Brexit"

morgan, not having, diaspora needs not to be so avowedly of the new nation- nb this isnt a hard and fast rule obv but it fuckin is when the new nation is tory

morgan isnt diaspora

but not because he's a cunt

Seems a good moment to remind everyone I’m Irish. pic.twitter.com/Tb8Rl4gUYt

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 17, 2018

not sure murdoch has ever made claims of any connection so i'm not sure why anyone would preemptively claim him

Murdoch's an outstanding choice for a "worst member", but as for "Irish diaspora", not so much.

Definitely the worst member of the Irish-English-Scottish diaspora.

He is diaspora ffs, he is from the UK and has a dad from Ireland

Sorry that’s re Morgan not Murdoch!

"Elisabeth Murdoch was born in Melbourne on 8 February 1909, the third daughter of Marie Grace de Lancey (Forth) and Rupert Greene. Her grandfather, William Henry Greene, was an Irish railway engineer (later one of the three Commissioners of Victorian Railways) who emigrated to Australia and married Fanny, the fourth of the 10 daughters of George Govett.[1] Her mother's ancestors were Scottish and English; one of her maternal great-grandfathers was a lieutenant governor in the West Indies.[2] Elisabeth was educated at St Catherine's School in Toorak, and at Clyde School in Woodend.[3] She married Keith Murdoch, 23 years her senior, in 1928 and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952."

The obvious question is does being an engineer for an Irish railway make you Irish, especially if your surname is Greene?

The next obvious question would be, does having just one maternal great-grandparent make you part of the Irish diaspora?

Only if you've read Ulysses in its entirety.

late write-in for joyce tbrr

The obvious question is does being an engineer for an Irish railway make you Irish, especially if your surname is Greene?

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, May 31, 2019 11:32 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark

greene is an irish surname (can also be an english one, but that's fairly common)

part of my family are harleys, also a name that can be english, but they're irish catholics from donegal. some anglicization going on, as with greene I'm sure

grian (ag spalpadh)

I'm an O'Dowd with a dropped O, which was as far as my dad's anglicisation went, probably because despite him having an impressive skill set/experience in building and as a fitter, he wouldn't have stood a chance in the jobs market against someone without an O in front of their name in 60's/70's England.

#beannaithe i wasn't included in this poll