I had a boy named Godisgood under my (shared) supervision one weekend for Community Games – lovely kid, but the name was a bit awkward!
I sometimes wonder if many of the immigrants that arrive here still have the old-fashioned image if Ireland as a stronghold of the Catholic Church, and if they knew the truth, would they be so keen to get here?
I know I met one asylum seeker who came to Ireland because we “are a God-fearing people”.
Ultach
It is funny, I suppose, to us (ha ha, look at the funnier immigrants with their funny foreign ways) to see how other cultures have developed under Anglophone colonisation and taken what we might regard as misunderstandings and made them their own, resulting in children from West African backgrounds with names like Godisgood, Goodluck, Precious etc. We need to remember before taking the pee, though, that this is universal, and not restricted to Anglicisation. It’s not that long ago that Attracta, Assumpta and Paschal were popular here. I wonder what the Biblical Hebrews would have made of us pasty north Atlanteans borrowing their names, Gaelicising and Anglicising Micheál/Michael, Eoin/Seán/John, Séamus/James/Jacob etc. Gaelibores like meself can sometimes be scathing of non-Irish speaking parents creatively contorting Irish names to come up with Seersha, Tiarnánóg/Tír na nÓg, Concubar etc, but I’ll leave the sniding to snidier sniders than me.
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What he/she said
wearnicehats
If he didn’t put the three dots at the end he would have had time to write the word “before” properly.
I applaud anyone setting up shop if they are so inclined, but is there any planning law on the restriction of garish signage, the NCR and Dorset st among others look like sh1te because of the crappy looking signage everywhere, it’s like vertical litter
Mr. T.
I think it’s very much a local issue. One village can have nice tidy signage and planting and one mile over, it’s messy and all over the place. The councillors in the area should get off their asses and work harder at it.
wearnicehats
– freestanding advertisements cannot be more than 2.5m high or more than 3m2 in total area, and no more than 1.5m2 of the overall total may be internally lit;
– advertisements attached to buildings cannot be more than 4m high. The area of these advertisements can be up to 0.3m2 per metre of frontage, less the area of freestanding advertisements, and subject to a maximum of 5m2;
– advertisements on “side” frontages cannot exceed 1.2m2 or 0.3m2 if internally lit;
– no letter or logo can exceed 0.3m in height;
– other projecting signs cannot exceed 0.4m2 individually and their total area cannot exceed 1.2m2;
– no advertisements can cover any part of a window;
– all advertisements out over the road or footpath must be at least 2m above ground level and cannot project out more than 1m over the road or footpath.
• Internally lit window displays and ‘in shop’ displays, but the window displays must be no larger than 1/4 of the window area.
• Advertisements within a structure not visible from outside the structures
• Not more than one advertisement (up to 0.3m2) at an entrance to a premises relating to a business, trade, profession or public service carried on there. The size limit increases to 0.6m2 for public houses, blocks of flats, clubs, boarding houses and hostels so long as the advertisement is not illuminated or 2.5m above ground level. One advertisement per entrance is allowed if there are entrances on different roads.
St. John Smythe
African immigrants (and to a certain extent South American and West Indian immigrants) here to Western Europe are viewed as tending to have a relationship to Christianity that we find a bit anitquated, unrefelctive and naive. I am a member of the BBC World Have Your Say page on Facebook, most of the commentators are African and lots of ‘Praise be God’ type expressions, ‘God will Provide’ type attitudes, and old Testament type opinions, all mixed in with insightful discussion on topics of a very modern nature. There are many different versions of contemporary modernity. And we have to keep in mind that we are only one generation away in Ireland from very similar attitudes and ways of negotiating the personal and the social.
Thats Emmet St Inchicore I think
It’s on the SCR just up from the Cork street crossroads.
be4. ‘God is a plonker’ was taken I believe
Imagine if we opened up a “God never existed” shop next door!
…or “no, she’s not”
Imagine how bemused they’d be.
It’s SCR @ Dolphin’s Barn – https://goo.gl/maps/H1oAD
Satan is sexy
Mary is scary
Archangel Gabriel is Archangel amiable
I had a boy named Godisgood under my (shared) supervision one weekend for Community Games – lovely kid, but the name was a bit awkward!
I sometimes wonder if many of the immigrants that arrive here still have the old-fashioned image if Ireland as a stronghold of the Catholic Church, and if they knew the truth, would they be so keen to get here?
I know I met one asylum seeker who came to Ireland because we “are a God-fearing people”.
It is funny, I suppose, to us (ha ha, look at the funnier immigrants with their funny foreign ways) to see how other cultures have developed under Anglophone colonisation and taken what we might regard as misunderstandings and made them their own, resulting in children from West African backgrounds with names like Godisgood, Goodluck, Precious etc. We need to remember before taking the pee, though, that this is universal, and not restricted to Anglicisation. It’s not that long ago that Attracta, Assumpta and Paschal were popular here. I wonder what the Biblical Hebrews would have made of us pasty north Atlanteans borrowing their names, Gaelicising and Anglicising Micheál/Michael, Eoin/Seán/John, Séamus/James/Jacob etc. Gaelibores like meself can sometimes be scathing of non-Irish speaking parents creatively contorting Irish names to come up with Seersha, Tiarnánóg/Tír na nÓg, Concubar etc, but I’ll leave the sniding to snidier sniders than me.
What he/she said
If he didn’t put the three dots at the end he would have had time to write the word “before” properly.
Extra dots courtesy of Broadsheet! https://twitter.com/breevil/status/643390837473329152
The address is on the sign…
I applaud anyone setting up shop if they are so inclined, but is there any planning law on the restriction of garish signage, the NCR and Dorset st among others look like sh1te because of the crappy looking signage everywhere, it’s like vertical litter
I think it’s very much a local issue. One village can have nice tidy signage and planting and one mile over, it’s messy and all over the place. The councillors in the area should get off their asses and work harder at it.
– freestanding advertisements cannot be more than 2.5m high or more than 3m2 in total area, and no more than 1.5m2 of the overall total may be internally lit;
– advertisements attached to buildings cannot be more than 4m high. The area of these advertisements can be up to 0.3m2 per metre of frontage, less the area of freestanding advertisements, and subject to a maximum of 5m2;
– advertisements on “side” frontages cannot exceed 1.2m2 or 0.3m2 if internally lit;
– no letter or logo can exceed 0.3m in height;
– other projecting signs cannot exceed 0.4m2 individually and their total area cannot exceed 1.2m2;
– no advertisements can cover any part of a window;
– all advertisements out over the road or footpath must be at least 2m above ground level and cannot project out more than 1m over the road or footpath.
• Internally lit window displays and ‘in shop’ displays, but the window displays must be no larger than 1/4 of the window area.
• Advertisements within a structure not visible from outside the structures
• Not more than one advertisement (up to 0.3m2) at an entrance to a premises relating to a business, trade, profession or public service carried on there. The size limit increases to 0.6m2 for public houses, blocks of flats, clubs, boarding houses and hostels so long as the advertisement is not illuminated or 2.5m above ground level. One advertisement per entrance is allowed if there are entrances on different roads.
African immigrants (and to a certain extent South American and West Indian immigrants) here to Western Europe are viewed as tending to have a relationship to Christianity that we find a bit anitquated, unrefelctive and naive. I am a member of the BBC World Have Your Say page on Facebook, most of the commentators are African and lots of ‘Praise be God’ type expressions, ‘God will Provide’ type attitudes, and old Testament type opinions, all mixed in with insightful discussion on topics of a very modern nature. There are many different versions of contemporary modernity. And we have to keep in mind that we are only one generation away in Ireland from very similar attitudes and ways of negotiating the personal and the social.
Is it open all the time?
I’ll get my coat…