WRESTLING. POCKET KNIVES. Showering outdoors.
All part of Irish life in 1979, apparently, according to this advert we stumbled across this morning. This is an ad for Irish Spring body wash, a toiletry line manufactured by Colgate and sold in the US (and not in Ireland, obviously).
It’s all a bit Nicole Kidman in ‘Far and Away’, isn’t it?
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That wasn’t the only one – via mycommercials, there’s this one from 1980 (we don’t know what accent that is either):
…and the Oirishness didn’t end there. As recently as last year, Colgate-Palmolive put out these two ads – both somewhat cringey too, but not nearly as mind-aching as their predecessors.
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