What do these turf cutters really want? (3 Viewers)

[rettucs]

yeah

great photos- I posted this before but worth another look. I'm in there too
http://www.rachelbrownphoto.com/html/Donegal.html

Hai johnnystress

 

[therealjohnny]

hai!

 

[therealjohnny]

I got a call from TG4 about a possible 'where are they now' documentary about the kids in this photo

The woman was incredulous that I couldn't speak Irish well


the shame

 

[rettucs]

UAFASACH ar fad

 

[chris d]

this is near our bog( taken some years ago)...mostly bare stones now

ah jays, i have to climb that fella tomorrow. small world.

i'll keep a keen eye for bog cutting.

 

[chris d]

i mean the mountain, not that bloke as nice as that would be.

 

[therealjohnny]

''Michael The Post'' died some years back

Wouldn't fancy climbing Errigal in this terrible weather

I still haven't climbed it

the shame

 

[Psycho Punk]

I got a call from TG4 about a possible 'where are they now' documentary about the kids in this photo

The woman was incredulous that I couldn't speak Irish well


the shame

Fucking galegores (deliberate misspelling it annoys them) with their leprechaun lingo. SOME of the galegores use their leprechaun lingo to keep travellers and immigrants from getting housing in "gaeltacht areas".

 

[therealjohnny]

Thing is everyone else in that picture is a fluent Irish speaker..some of these kids couldn't speak English when they went to school. The language is a real thing to them, not some affectation or crutch or misty eyed throwback to a bygone era.

I don't think there's any rush form travellers or immigrants to move to the biggest unemployment black hole in the north west

also

Keep off our bogs!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Fucking galegores (deliberate misspelling it annoys them) with their leprechaun lingo. SOME of the galegores use their leprechaun lingo to keep travellers and immigrants from getting housing in "gaeltacht areas".

There's a law in place that only Irish speakers can buy in certain gaeltacht areas, but its largely resented by locals as it drives down demand/price of houses. A lot of people out in Connemara were raging they couldn't sell sites/houses on otherwise unproductive land. I don't think it was brought in with xenophobia in mind, just that if you're going to have a gaeltacht you kinda need to have people speaking Irish in it.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://www.independent.ie/national-...is-destroyed-during-bog-standoff-3146378.html

The comments are great,culchies ranting on about the big bad EU walking all over the little man.I'd love to see how they'd get on without the EU's CAP throwing money at them every year.

 

[Deadmanposting]

There's a law in place that only Irish speakers can buy in certain gaeltacht areas, but its largely resented by locals as it drives down demand/price of houses. A lot of people out in Connemara were raging they couldn't sell sites/houses on otherwise unproductive land. I don't think it was brought in with xenophobia in mind, just that if you're going to have a gaeltacht you kinda need to have people speaking Irish in it.

the bonus being is that you don't have to live with travellers and immigrants.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

the bonus being is that you don't have to live with travellers and immigrants.

Meh, I've heard tell of Irish-speaking Poles out in the Gaeltacht. They just get on with it.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Meh, I've heard tell of Irish-speaking Poles out in the Gaeltacht. They just get on with it.

If you could have your pick of the immigrants, you'd have to go with the Poles.

Hard-working, hard-drinking and with gorgeous women.



If Des Bishop can do it, how hard can it really be?

 

[shitepipe]

this is near our bog( taken some years ago)...mostly bare stones now

Is that the falcarragh side or the gweedore side? have spent manys a day in the bog up round there...

 

[therealjohnny]

not far from Falcarragh

 

[Deadmanposting]

I have spent a lot of gaeltacht time in Rann Na Feirste as a younger lad.

There was a bunch of punks that used to sing "Ra Ra Ra Ra Rann Na Feirste" to the tune of Barbed Wire Love when we were there.

That kind of thing impressed me then.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Bogger types tend to be very set in their ways.

Change is not for them...even if their getting €1500 a year.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

If you could have your pick of the immigrants, you'd have to go with the Poles.

Hard-working, hard-drinking and with gorgeous women.

I don't give a shite to be honest, most people from everywhere aren't pricks most of the time. I just don't like seeing a law that was implemented for a good enough intention used to denigrate the people who live in those areas, considering many in those areas were/are opposed to it. Would that there had been more restrictions on house building and selling outside the Gaeltacht throughout the past few decades.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Thing is everyone else in that picture is a fluent Irish speaker..some of these kids couldn't speak English when they went to school. The language is a real thing to them, not some affectation or crutch or misty eyed throwback to a bygone era.

I don't think there's any rush form travellers or immigrants to move to the biggest unemployment black hole in the north west

also

Keep off our bogs!

Some of the Gaeltacht areas are on the outskirts of Galway "City". About as Irish speaking as Sherrif Street. They still get to keep Poles, African and Czechs (apart from the grant checks) out.