Didn’t realise it was per 100k and was confused by how low it looked at first. I live near Grand Canal Dock and there’s a lot of French people around here working in tech.
Edit: why do people downvote comments like this… what is controversial? Lol
There are quite a few French people and other francophones around. I went to a bilingual comedy gig in Cork and there was a full house with several hundred people at it, the vast majority of whom were either French, some Belgians and some bilingual / fluent French speaking Irish people.
Most of the French speakers don’t know each other. There isn’t much of a community per se. It’s more that they are just all doing their thing in the tech sector in West Cork or generally just living here.
There are quite a lot of French people who are just very well blended into Irish life rather than it being a distinct community or anything like that. Loads of Irish-French couples out there too.
You get the odd French language event or film festival etc, but it’s as often organised by Irish people as French people.
France is our closest EU neighbour, there’s a lot of history between the two places and it wouldn’t be unusual really to expect that kind of cross over.
Sure wasn’t it Joan of Arc who first brought her baps to Waterford (they call them Blaa’s now?)
Frenchmen hiding among us?!
Great bunch of lads & ladies.
We need to be more like the French in this regard.
I’m not sure how I fit into this, I’ve dual citizenship, so on the census I always put down Franco-Irish (I suppose the other option is Hiberno-French).
#childoftheEuropeanProject
2 French guys where I work, one has an irish wife and has been here for 30+ years
Seems really hard to believe there are this few French people in Ireland given how many I personally know that are living here.
There’s a significant French community in Clifden, Connemara funnily enough!
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is there a link to this database or infographic?
I don’t care so long as I can have a go at the Greeks!
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Didn’t realise it was per 100k and was confused by how low it looked at first. I live near Grand Canal Dock and there’s a lot of French people around here working in tech.
Edit: why do people downvote comments like this… what is controversial? Lol
There are quite a few French people and other francophones around. I went to a bilingual comedy gig in Cork and there was a full house with several hundred people at it, the vast majority of whom were either French, some Belgians and some bilingual / fluent French speaking Irish people.
Most of the French speakers don’t know each other. There isn’t much of a community per se. It’s more that they are just all doing their thing in the tech sector in West Cork or generally just living here.
There are quite a lot of French people who are just very well blended into Irish life rather than it being a distinct community or anything like that. Loads of Irish-French couples out there too.
You get the odd French language event or film festival etc, but it’s as often organised by Irish people as French people.
France is our closest EU neighbour, there’s a lot of history between the two places and it wouldn’t be unusual really to expect that kind of cross over.
Sure wasn’t it Joan of Arc who first brought her baps to Waterford (they call them Blaa’s now?)
Frenchmen hiding among us?!
Great bunch of lads & ladies.
We need to be more like the French in this regard.
I’m not sure how I fit into this, I’ve dual citizenship, so on the census I always put down Franco-Irish (I suppose the other option is Hiberno-French).
#childoftheEuropeanProject
2 French guys where I work, one has an irish wife and has been here for 30+ years
Seems really hard to believe there are this few French people in Ireland given how many I personally know that are living here.
There’s a significant French community in Clifden, Connemara funnily enough!