The most outlandish Irish Facebook groups

If you’re looking to join an Irish Facebook group, you’ll have no shortage of options: when you type “Irish” in the Facebook group search, over 500 results pop up. There’s everything from the “Irish Jews” to the “Irish Mafia” (sure you are), from the “Feelin Irish” group to the “Irish Bowling” community.

If you’re Irish and interested in pretty much anything, there’s sure to be a bunch of Facebookers who have gone ahead and created a group for you.

But the Irish Facebook group scene being so populous and all, of course there’s going to be a few dark horses.

We here at IrishCentral took it upon ourselves to scope out the most bizarre, least ordinary Irish-themed Facebook groups out there. And trust me – there were no lack of contestants. Facebook goes to show: we Irish are an eccentric bunch.

if your Irish and you know it, eat some TAYTOS!!!

I’ll ignore the blatant misuse of “your” (though it irks me incredibly…) – that is not what makes this group outlandish. The outlandishness comes from the love of Taytos! As an Irish American, I had no idea. Taytos is a reoccurring theme in Irish Facebook gruops – from the Taytos-loving groups to the “im gonna kneecap the next English person who mocks my Northern Irish accent” group that uses a Taytos bag as their default pic. (This group was outlandish enough to receive its own write up - see below.)

Irish people are immune to psychoanalysis

What does this even mean?

I looked it up and discovered a) it’s based on something Freud said (something like “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever") , and b) Matt Damon said something to that effect in “The Departed.”

The twenty or so members of this group do little to further explain. There are only three wall posts, two of which, funny enough, are from a woman trying to convince the members to visit her psychotherapy Web site for support. 

♣F*CK YOU I'M IRISH♣

Hey, now, do we have to get nasty? This group is crazy because the Irish are known as such fun-loving people! I mean, c’mon, “Lonely Planet” travel guide named Ireland the “Most Friendly Country” in 2008. Clearly no one from Lonely Planet ran into the members of this group… though there’s a whopping 9,635 of them!

For more mean-spirited Irish pride, visit the groups “I'm Irish, You're Not, So You Suck ”and “Kiss My Irish A**.” 

im gonna kneecap the next English person who mocks my Northern Irish accent

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