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

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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

late write-in for joyce tbrr

― mark s, Friday, May 31, 2019 3:50 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fp btw

me too

If I did this again I’d leave out Murdoch and put in Ed Sheeran

all these ruses to protect brendan

he must be ok really cos he's loosely connected with ilm darlings stereolab.

ilm is spiked i will never delet

Claire Fox dodged a bullet here.

Yeah there’s loads of people I could have included here - she still wouldn’t have won though

I've only just found out that Paul "Guido Fawkes" Staines belongs on this list!

Indeed, worthy omission. He lives there I think.

his mum from a w/c Dublin background his dad an Indian immigrant and a sometime member of the Fabian Society. It was obv all the father's fault imo!

Interesting how many hideous right wing wankers in the UK have Irish (Catholic) ancestry, the Living Marxism/Spiked crew is riddled with them.

xp is his dad actually Indian cos he’s described as “anglo-Indian” and his name sounds British

(Just to be on the safe side I checked Dominic McKenzie Cummings - belongs in the Scottish wanker camp).

xp

aye possibly a lot more of the British Raj in him than Indian

Just read this thread back and it was some pretty funny work all round

Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13 October 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire.[5] Her parents were Alfred Roberts (1892–1970), from Northamptonshire, and Beatrice Ethel Stephenson (1888–1960), from Lincolnshire.[5][6] Her father's maternal grandmother, Catherine Sullivan, was born in County Kerry, Ireland.[7]

Sorry that’s too far back for her to count

Yeah not hanging this one on us

Anyway- kerry