He should know there’s no bars on Grafton Street then
And yet he made that Galway girl abomination….
It’s easy to be cynical about Brits or Yanks who say things like this but at the same time, millions of Irish people went to these places and had families. In a lot of cases those cultural ties run very deep. I’ve never gotten the impression that Sheeran considers himself Irish in a Plastic Paddy kind of way and he’s certainly put the time in on the island, and can speak to its culture in a way that demonstrates a lot of familiarity and personal experience.
I’m an emigrant raising kids as dual citizens, both of whom fucking love Ireland so perhaps I’m biased here.
I’ll never understand the hate Ed gets
His music isn’t for me but he seems like a very hard chap to dislike
Hang on. I hate his music, am ambivalent about him, but he’s a son of ireland and has a right to identify as such as much as anyone.
Might be against the grain here but why not, he’s not pretending to be Irish. He has a strong connection to the country in the family and spend a lot of time here as a kid.
Ah lads, calm down. He spent a lot of his childhood in Wexford, went to Damian Rice gigs in Whelans and even sang one of his song as gaeilge. He seems like a sound lad too.
I think people are on a hair trigger with words like “identity” these days
His da is Irish, he spent a lot of time here and obviously has genuine love for the country
He’s Irish, it’s just people’s brains are so fucking cooked they think him acknowledging that with “woke” language is some kind of political statement
Swap for McGregor
Lovely guy, happy to have him 🙂
Beware, yer da’s everywhere about to get outraged at someone *checks notes*…loving our country.
We hate people saying that they are Irish but we are desperate to claim anyone who doesn’t outright identify as Irish
Why are the comments so weirdly hateful? I have so many cousins in England who would have/ do regularly come home to Ireland, particularly in their childhood and I would be offended / confused on their behalf if anybody tried to take away their heritage, WEIRD! comments here. He has Irish family and spent enough of his childhood here that it rings true in his memory as precious and something he identifies with, why is that an issue?
Why is it when somebody not Irish born identifies with Ireland it’s a big big nono!
but Irish people are then so quick in turn to claim the likes of The Beatles, the Smiths, Oasis etc as being Irish?
How can you say Shane McGowan is 100% Irish and yet throw a hissy fit when Ed Sheeran does the same?
I mean look at the head on him.
I had the pleasure of knowing his fathers parents. If he wants to identify as Irish, so be it! He’s been ‘Irish’ to me forever.
Great, another ginger.
Seriously though, a friend of mine worked with him briefly and said he’s dead sound.
Last week there was a post here which got lots of upvotes making fun of how an American didn’t know Irish because he used a pronunciation from the Donegal dialect. Perhaps Ed isn’t culturally Irish after all because he doesn’t know you that irishness is about being hostile to people who admire our culture.
What in the freshest of hells is identifying culturally as Irish?!
You either are or you’re not, fella.
We don’t have a special toilet for those of you that woke up one day and decided to identify as Irish
He’s not going to be as articulate as Peter O Toole about being Irish as a British lad but it’s obvious he is influenced by the culture and he’s being fairly sound. Plastic paddy slaggings is pretty overdone at this stage. His music is total bollocks but it’s not for me anyhow good luck to him. Least he’s not doing that “I’m from the mean streets” like Bono and Colin Farrell (and most other famous twits)
Looks like a fish finger…
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Similar to me i suppose, except the ginger hair and musical “talent”. I grew up in London to Irish parents, most of my time was spent in either the Irish community, or in Ireland itself. I wasn’t automatically qualified for a British passport because of the year I was born, ( the rules have changed over the last decade, so that’s not the case anymore). Between my upbringing and having a load of English neighbours telling us to go back to Ireland, and we weren’t welcome in England, it just makes sense to me to be from where I was treated like one of their own.
Not a massive fan but maybe we could trade Conor McGregor for him
If he apologises for Galway Girl, he can say, think or identify as whatever.
I worked in a bowling Alley when Shape of You was on the radio. Literally no one alive has as much right to despise Ed as much as I do, he’s the sound of the summer of cleaning shitty toilets for me.
But I saw he had musical chops from his loop-based performance on Jules Hootenanny one new year’s eve. The guy is actually a seriously talented musician and performer and I’d see him life if it were ever convenient.
I always look with suspicion at the people who culturally we’ve all decided it’s ok to shit on. They usually get that way because lots of teenage girls like them; but sometimes lots of teenage girls are right and like a class act.
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He should know there’s no bars on Grafton Street then
And yet he made that Galway girl abomination….
It’s easy to be cynical about Brits or Yanks who say things like this but at the same time, millions of Irish people went to these places and had families. In a lot of cases those cultural ties run very deep. I’ve never gotten the impression that Sheeran considers himself Irish in a Plastic Paddy kind of way and he’s certainly put the time in on the island, and can speak to its culture in a way that demonstrates a lot of familiarity and personal experience.
I’m an emigrant raising kids as dual citizens, both of whom fucking love Ireland so perhaps I’m biased here.
I’ll never understand the hate Ed gets
His music isn’t for me but he seems like a very hard chap to dislike
Hang on. I hate his music, am ambivalent about him, but he’s a son of ireland and has a right to identify as such as much as anyone.
Might be against the grain here but why not, he’s not pretending to be Irish. He has a strong connection to the country in the family and spend a lot of time here as a kid.
Ah lads, calm down. He spent a lot of his childhood in Wexford, went to Damian Rice gigs in Whelans and even sang one of his song as gaeilge. He seems like a sound lad too.
I think people are on a hair trigger with words like “identity” these days
His da is Irish, he spent a lot of time here and obviously has genuine love for the country
He’s Irish, it’s just people’s brains are so fucking cooked they think him acknowledging that with “woke” language is some kind of political statement
Swap for McGregor
Lovely guy, happy to have him 🙂
Beware, yer da’s everywhere about to get outraged at someone *checks notes*…loving our country.
We hate people saying that they are Irish but we are desperate to claim anyone who doesn’t outright identify as Irish
Why are the comments so weirdly hateful? I have so many cousins in England who would have/ do regularly come home to Ireland, particularly in their childhood and I would be offended / confused on their behalf if anybody tried to take away their heritage, WEIRD! comments here. He has Irish family and spent enough of his childhood here that it rings true in his memory as precious and something he identifies with, why is that an issue?
Why is it when somebody not Irish born identifies with Ireland it’s a big big nono!
but Irish people are then so quick in turn to claim the likes of The Beatles, the Smiths, Oasis etc as being Irish?
How can you say Shane McGowan is 100% Irish and yet throw a hissy fit when Ed Sheeran does the same?
I mean look at the head on him.
I had the pleasure of knowing his fathers parents. If he wants to identify as Irish, so be it! He’s been ‘Irish’ to me forever.
Great, another ginger.
Seriously though, a friend of mine worked with him briefly and said he’s dead sound.
Last week there was a post here which got lots of upvotes making fun of how an American didn’t know Irish because he used a pronunciation from the Donegal dialect. Perhaps Ed isn’t culturally Irish after all because he doesn’t know you that irishness is about being hostile to people who admire our culture.
What in the freshest of hells is identifying culturally as Irish?!
You either are or you’re not, fella.
We don’t have a special toilet for those of you that woke up one day and decided to identify as Irish
He’s not going to be as articulate as Peter O Toole about being Irish as a British lad but it’s obvious he is influenced by the culture and he’s being fairly sound. Plastic paddy slaggings is pretty overdone at this stage. His music is total bollocks but it’s not for me anyhow good luck to him. Least he’s not doing that “I’m from the mean streets” like Bono and Colin Farrell (and most other famous twits)
Looks like a fish finger…
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Similar to me i suppose, except the ginger hair and musical “talent”. I grew up in London to Irish parents, most of my time was spent in either the Irish community, or in Ireland itself. I wasn’t automatically qualified for a British passport because of the year I was born, ( the rules have changed over the last decade, so that’s not the case anymore). Between my upbringing and having a load of English neighbours telling us to go back to Ireland, and we weren’t welcome in England, it just makes sense to me to be from where I was treated like one of their own.
Not a massive fan but maybe we could trade Conor McGregor for him
If he apologises for Galway Girl, he can say, think or identify as whatever.
I worked in a bowling Alley when Shape of You was on the radio. Literally no one alive has as much right to despise Ed as much as I do, he’s the sound of the summer of cleaning shitty toilets for me.
But I saw he had musical chops from his loop-based performance on Jules Hootenanny one new year’s eve. The guy is actually a seriously talented musician and performer and I’d see him life if it were ever convenient.
I always look with suspicion at the people who culturally we’ve all decided it’s ok to shit on. They usually get that way because lots of teenage girls like them; but sometimes lots of teenage girls are right and like a class act.
Good for him. I identify as an attack helicopter.
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