WHAT?
Donal Quinn writes:
Article in one of Spain’s main news papers Ireland repeatedly described as an anglo–saxon country. Gggrrrrrr…
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Well we were occupied for 700 years
Depending on your definition,
Ignoring pre and protohistory,
Christians first arrived around 431
Vikings first settled Dublin around 837
Strongbow landed in 1170
O’Neill surrendered in 1603
We didn’t achieve independence until 1937 (or even 1949)
So, no, not 700 years, Round it off and it’s 1500 years, 1000 years, 800 years or 300 years.
As were the Anglo-Saxons.
Some would say that the Normans still have the whip hand over yonder – with Cameron being an example.
Though Blair is a Socts Gaelic name.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/universities-and-colleges/10413798/Same-names-have-attended-Oxbridge-since-the-Norman-Conquest.html
To be fair Dublin is an Anglo Saxon town albeit with a heavy hint of Celtic Mysticism attached to its history by the Gaelic revisionists. Nobody wants to admit it but Dublin is British city trapped in Ireland :-)
Away and poo! Dublin’s a Viking city that the Brits lived in for a while.
And sure aren’t King Sigtryggr Ívarrsson’s Georgian terraces looking great after such a long time! You’d nearly see a longboat behind those sash windehs! ;o)
Muhahaha.
:)
Sure check out the Government buildings, final stone laid by the famously Norse ViKing Edward VII.
The scary thing, Punches Pilot, is that there are many who still believe what you’ve written there.
Who genuinely believe that Ireland emerged only in 1922 & before that only ‘the British’ did anything. That the only ‘real’ Irish come from rural areas and spent 800 years eating meagre rations of potatoes.
Crafstmen, architects & engineers from Ireland have had a huge impact on the architecture of our neighbourting island – just as they had on ours.
And that the Danes, Norse, Welsh, Cornish, Normans, Anglo-Saxons, French Hugenots etc. who came to this island at different times were all part of one monolithic ‘Anglo-Saxon’ or British group.
Day ruined!
We are. We watch English soaps, read their newspapers, follow their soccer teams, speak their tongue and sneer at anyone one who dares admit they have the cupla foicil. If the caps fits boys and girls…
I know plenty of people who do none of these things, including myself. And anyway, doing these things would not make us all Anglo-Saxons, that’s a ridiculous assertion.
We do have an Anglo-Saxon history. And a Celtic one. To deny it is silly. We have had less than 100 years of governance without British interference. We are Irish, but it is a lie to say we don’t have Anglo-Saxon roots.
Of course we should not deny our history. I never said that we should, but saying that we are Anglo-Saxon because some of us follow Man U is a ridiculous jump.
Fair point, can’t argue with that :)
um, neither angles nor saxons spoke english.
just saying.
*sharpens spear*
Dos cervezas por favor!
€1.20? Verdad? Tengo no problems con tu misconception-ays con Irlanda in that case.
They probably mean ‘anglophone’.
To a fordenner do you really think they’ll detect massive cultural differences between say Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh with like, Birmingham or Manchester?
Gerrroverrreh – near a millenia of having English culture smushed all over us leaves it’s mark, we’re culturally anglo-saxon to at least some degree.
A large degree, guv’nah!
Yeah I was going for the lowest common denominator admission of anglosaxonishness!
I lived in Basque Country for a year – it was all Spanish to me though, apart from the odd few basque words/phrases and awful cuisine. It’s probably the same when Spaniards come here.
Wow! You’ve loved abroad? Why have you never mentioned that before on this site? (I’ve a friend like you…do you still, 10 years later, start every fifth sentence with “Well, like, the thing is, when I lived in Bilbao…”?)
I loved a broad once.
She had more than a figure too.
Not a beautiful face, but a good face. She had a face like a Sunday School picnic. You have any idea what kind of face that is, Nulty?
AWFUL CUSINE!
Half of the Michelin-starred restaurants in Iberia are clustered into one Basque city.
You clearly didn’t do a pintxo crawl.
I’m fairly sure they mean it in the way the French do. they refer to us the UK and the US as “Anglo” as in not speaking a Latin derived language and with anglo-derived legal systems, books and movies etc
What about an Anglo-derived bank?
Jackeens maybe so (Dublin was a Gaelic town before the vikings ruined the show)
Dublin was a Gaelic town before the vikings ruined the show and the price of a pint just started spiraling!!!