USUALLY, IRISH-AMERICANS only come on the horizon in Ireland for all the wrong reasons – often around Patty’s Day (cough, cough).
And it’s with a heavy that we must report that this issue is all over people’s timelines again.
It began yesterday when Twitter user @DanaLisa found a screenshot of this YouTube comment from a supposed Irish-American
UltimaSinful had this to say on what it truly means to be Irish:
I’m sick of you Irishmen telling us Irish-Americans what a real Irishman is. I’ve been to Cork and Dublin and you’re nowhere near as Irish as us in Boston and New York. In your bars I’ve witnessed you watching soccer games and listening to British bands, with not a pint of Guinness or an Irish Flag in sight. I think Ireland is too near to Britain, so come to Boston to be reminded of what being Irish is all about. It seems you’ve forgotten true Irish pride.
Riiiight.
It seems like the comment originally popped up on a video from 2014, and might possibly be a 4chan meme, as found here. So it might very well be an intentionally troll-y response simply inserted into comment sections to provoke a big reaction.
And oh how it’s worked.
It’s gone seriously viral in the last 24 hours since it was rediscovered due to its ludicrously preachy nature. And got people thinking of other bad experiences they’ve had
Generally, the response was one of shock and uncontrollable glee
All the facepalms at once
It even reached Irish-Americans themselves – and they were mortified
Yes, this is Irishplaining
Or Iresplaining?
Either way, we have a new term.
We need to figure out what went wrong on his trip to Dublin and Cork
Not enough tricolours up on the walls, perhaps.
We’re just going to move the whole island here, that’ll fix the problem of proximity
Be grand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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