How to date an Irish woman - A guide for American lads

Seanmor - The Red Mill! Now THAT brings back some memories! Thanks!

At least one of these posts suggests that all women who came here from Ireland are hopeless drunks. Many years ago I knew a young woman who emigrated from my parish in Ireland to N.Y.C., became active in the P..A.A. (Pioneers. Total. Abstinence Association)and married a medical doctor. She was never a helpless alcoholic and neither was anyone in her circle of friends.

Great comments, which should be turned into a book. Especially like paul22b's comment "that picture is hilarious! Sniffing her forehead usually works for me on a first date with a women of any ethnicity." Sounds very primal and "neanderthal". I think that I got too "evolved" and that is why I don't get as many women as other guys say they have had. In fact, I tend to speak and write in full sentences while my audience especially women walk or go away. At 70, I'm working at "de-evolving" myself with a therapist to get a woman.

Ply 'em with booze, offer to take them to the Canaries for a 2-week holiday and tell 'em your a member of the Americans for a Socialist government movement. They'll be rippin your clothes off.

Much of what Mack states about the Southern Irish state is true, but Ireland as a whole is my homeland and I'll always be proud of my cultural heritage, including teanga na nGael, a language that is being continually relegated by the powers that be in the Dáil. I am of the distinct impression that I am NOT the type of tourist that is wanted by the Southern tourist authorities, and neither is my wife, a Methodist Yankee a bhfuil cúpla focal Gaeilge aici.

Absolute rubbish all this about being Irish. I never tell anyone I am from this dump unless pressed to do so. I have never been so disillusioned about this country as now. We are being run by Germany at the moment and will be for the foreseeable future. All that means is that we are being dictated by a puppet government that will do anything that Angela askes of them. Tax this tax that, time was when we treated our citizens to a fair shake but not now with Dame Enda at the wheel they only have time for the big players like Apple, Microsoft and the likes with their nil tax concessions while the ordinary Joe pays for it all. As for “The Gathering” Gab Byrne is right it is a shakedown as I have seen American tourists being ripped off in several places so far this year. My advice stay away and let Enda and his cronies find their money somewhere else.

In the late '50s and thru most of the '60s there seemed to be no shortage of Irish girls in the N.Y.C area and they could be met at several dance halls, including the Gaeger House, City Center, Yorkville Casino, The Tuxedo, Gaelic Park, and later the Elegante, Red Mill and Paprin's. By the late '60s people of other nationalities were also attending some of these dance halls and were not accepted by some of the girls from Ireland. One night in Feb. of '68 I asked an Irish girl to dance at the City Center, but she looked at her companion, as if asking her to make the decision. Her friend whispered: "You can dance with him, he's Irish". Had I been of another nationality, she would have refused to dance with me. Is it wrong for any nationality or cultural group to prefer socializing only with others of their own kind?

Kind of a silly article...nothing new and nothing you can say is specific to Irish women. The only thing I can fully agree with is if the guy, or anyone for that matter, wants to talk Ireland or "being Irish", please know a little something about the place before you ramble on about your St. Patrick's day party's with green beer and food. If that's all ya got..go to the back of the line.

During my many years of bachelorhood I had dates with Irish girls on both sides of the Atlantic. A few months after I arrived in the Big Apple as a teenager, I had a dance at the City Center Ballroom with a teenaged girl of Scottish and Irish parentage, and when the dance was over she as good as asked me to be her escort to a benefit dance the following Sat. - which started a 3 months romance. At that time she was one of 5 or 6 U.S.-born girls who had boyfriends from Ireland -all of us pioneers (teetotalers). In those days new arrivals from Ireland did NOT have the reputation of being drunken rowdies, and the parents of our girlfriends admired us for tat.

Anglo Norman--Reality Based gets respect.

This is hysterical... r we irish all sheep that run with the flock, excuse me we all have different personalities likes & dislikes, surprise, surprise..Is this Molly Muldoon of the 'we irish' mentality, Irish? Obviously not with a name like Molly which most "IRISH" Americans think is soo Irish.I (not we) personally would be happy to go to the movies on a first date NOT a walk in the park.That would be nice providing i was still with the person & the dinner date would probably follow the movie night. I'v never had freckles & i'm blonde, redhaired people do & i know about 2 of those in about a couple of thousand people in my town with brown, black & blonde more dominant.U can't define a race of people by the few this person met or 'made up' Some Americans (can't lump them together either) are of the impression that the Ireland of 80 yrs ago still exists. Wasn't America & other countries similar 80 yrs ago. I'm sure we have all moved with the times at much the same rate.Fashion wise Americans are way behind only catching up about 6 months later.Oh & it's seldom u hear the Irish language called Gaelic, maybe some areas. My kids have went to 'The Gaeltacht' Summer School to learn Irish, that's what we call it "Irish".Lose the rose coloured specs people, of the grandparents who emigrated in the early 20th century. :)

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Nicopernicus-RESPECT.

Molly, you overlooked one very important thing. Don't suggest drinks until you have found out whether she has "taken the pledge." I made that mistake as a young blood. Never worked up the nerve to ask her out again. Oh yeah, when you are telling her about your Irish lineage, make sure you know whether you have an "Orange" name, and what that means. From what I saw over there, they are a whole nother breed than our women. They are capable of physical things that our women would never attempt. Heck, I wouldn't attempt to ride a bicycle over there. and theu do it into their nineties.

Stevenstar - I have told you before I am Irish born and bred and I am married happily to an American woman many years and I know many like me. You do not know what you are talking about. As far as cultural differences, very little.