Gerry Adams calls on Irish Americans to support referendum on a United Ireland

I wonder if Italian-Americans ect ... get abused by their cousins this way. I've never heard these terms before.

I wonder if Italian-Americans ect ... get abused by their cousins this way. I've never heard these terms before.

"Oirish" is an term used to describe an insufferable class of Irish anglophilic snobs (synthetic Sasanachs) in Dublin 4 and environs, from whose overprivileged socioeconomic group arose the banksters who broke the state. "Plastic Paddy" was a term coined to describe first generation working-class Irish-English born to Irish emigrant parents in 1950s England - by themselves! (Blame Shane McGowan of The Pogues). It is NOT translate to America! Real Plastic Paddies/Pádraigíní Plaisteach (or Karaoke Kiara's!) are those Oirish-Irish from [o]Ireland who can't/don't/or won't speak their own language in their own country.

curtisjohnson:the side of Essex to which you refer certainly does exist, but that's not the whole story. ;)

My apologies - the steretyping of Essex is probably unwarranted as you state.

Mind you curtis, it's not all fish and chips on the beach at Southend-on-sea and country drives round Colchester (the former Roman capital of Britain). For a good old yarn about the darker side of Essex, watch the film "Essex Boys", which is on YouTube now.

curtisjohnson: nothing wrong with Essex, curtis. Lots of ethnic Irish have moved out there from London to take advantage of the cheaper housing and the good rail links to London. There's some quite nice towns out there, nice countryside and some fine beaches in the summer such as Clacton and Walton on the Naze. I expect it's a bit like Irish Americans who have moved away from the Bronx where their ancestors first settled to, well, New Jersey. Essex is probably the wealthiest rural county in England.

Ireland should withdraw from the influence of anglo materialism and trans-nationalism - this would mean dismantling the Dublin establishment (the media in particular).

Now theres an idea, make Ireland the fifty firststate. lol

Criticize them all you want, but without Irish Americans there is no independent Ireland (even assuming otherwise, the indigenous population would have been ethnically cleansed from the occupied six at this point). ciaradexy posts convey a level of depth and sophistication typcial of an American teenager from New Jersey or a limey chav from Essex.

Ciara stay in Ireland you miserable jo.

I agree with anckaver the use of "Oirish" is as demeaning as using the 'N' word and just as racist. I suppose Ciara you not posting for three weeks allowed us to a point of view how magnanimous of you. BTW who needs your imprimatur to post on any site.

Personally I`ve no problem with anyones culture until they impose it on me against my will. But we should also remember that Irish decendants are not always in reciept of the truth in real time.

seamus 60: Yes it is, and so many Irish use it. Yet they see no irony in so many of them being enthralled with English and American popular culture.

Plastic paddies is such a degrading discription.