Wall of Mouths

I didn’t know they were from Nothern Ireland! F…! I can’t choose them for my essay! thank you for telling me!well, i have to choose something else! thank you so much!

No! I don’t want to do a paper on U2! I have to find another subject such as a really well known irish food or ev(but so well known that i jsut can’t think about any except guiness!!!!) or anything that demonstrates the internationalisation of Ireland so if by any chance you have an idea don’t hesitate to tell me!!! Thank you!

Guinness would be really interesting because the largest Guinness brewery isn’t (or wasn’t) in Ireland - its in Nairobi in Kenya. The stuff they brew there tastes foul & nothing like ‘proper’ Guinness but is vrey popular, and after Coca Cola is probably the most common Western logo over there.

All Guinness sold in the UK apparently is now imported from Ireland - until recently it was brewed under license here.

Without getting too political they’re still from Ireland - there’s an entry for them in the Encyclopedia of Ireland (along with stuff like The Mourne Mountains and Samuel Beckett!)

As for songs about their home country… read the lyrics to Potato Junkie. I’ve always thought Wall Of Mouths was about the political talks leading up to the agreement (looking through the news for clues etc). Tango Romeo is about getting pulled over by the RUC. Joey is about Joey Dunlop, an NI biker. “Big Yellow Cranes Hold Up The Clouds” from Loose is about the Harland and Wolff cranes in Belfast. If you read the stories behind the songs for Babyteeth you can find out about a lot of NI stuff too. There’s loads more… Six Mile Water is the name of a river etc

and i believe they are mentioned in lonely planet ireland guides… but that maybe a prev edition.. i saw it 2001.. but dunno which edition that was.
i was very surprised… but dismayed they are place in the same sentence as the corrs and u2.
sorry for the ignorance but wots the diff between nthrn ireland and ireland

did Gary moore come from Ireland? if not i don’t give a shit he’s still the greatest guitar player of all time

Mekhet wrote:

Northen Ireland forms part of Great Britain (i.e. Scotland, Wales, England and N.Ireland). Whereas Ireland (as in the southern part) is a country in its own right.

It’s not part of Great Britain, it’s part of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is only the island of Scotland, Wales, and England, although both islands (including Southern Ireland) are sometimes referred to as the British Isles.

The RUC is what the police used to be called over here. Nowadays they’re called the PSNI.

The “Big Yellow Cranes” are where the titanic was built. You can see them about halfway down this webpage:

http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetmQXk/taxitours/TaxiTours.htm

All Guinness sold in the UK apparently is now imported from Ireland - until recently it was brewed under license here.[/quote]

I love me Guinness, but it is still shit compared to the Guinness in Ireland, even when you get a good pint of it in the UK, it just doesn’t compare.
I went to a pub when I was in Dublin called the Porterhouse, and they brewed a number of of stouts, and one called I think Wrasslers XXX, lovely brew

Direct me to said jar, please.

:D

Mekhet wrote:

Great Britain is that and N.Ireland.

No it’s not! Anyone with a British Passport can look at the front which says “The United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” ie NI is NOT part of Great Britain but IS part of the UK… not that it really matters like :o

So Wales is represented on the Union Jack…?

UK is the island of Great Britain, the UK includes NI. Not too clear on the status of all the odd little bits like the Isle of Man, The Channel Islands, the Falklands, but their all basically British up to the point that they see a tax advantage in saying otherwise. That said, I think we should distance ourselves from any island where the cats have no tails. What other weirdness goes on there, rational men can’t ken.

So I stand corrected…I will have to hunt down my old geography teacher and kill them (or at least torture them) for misinforming me.
What T? tunes to play while doing so…?

bout the killing (or at least torture) of a geography teacher? Or the U.K./G.B. thing…?