Ireland in ten words
 

I?m always curious about how Ireland is viewed from the outside. If you could only use a maximum of ten words to describe it (whether speaking from experience or simply from what you?ve read or heard) how would you describe ?The Emerald Isle??

Roots
Beauty
Kindness
Joy
Anger
Sorrow
History
Beer
Song

And RAIN to make ten words

Around each corner was more green, more history, more spirit

10 words. If you'd have asked for an even dozen, I'd have added 'more beer'.

Well, Degas when we were there in September of 2001 (boy, do I have a cool answer to "where were you on 9/11?"!) we hardly saw any rain. In fact, we had to buy sunscreen!

So I didn't include Rain. :-)

Green
Humour
Guiness
Sheep
Fatalistic

Rugby
Music
Ruins
Water
Mischevious

koshka, be happy you got lucky with no rain.

Did you hear this one over there: May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.

Ireland; people
Sweet and kind, friendly and warm
Splendorous beauty

Come to think of it - the one most important word to me is - home

Pubs, hatred of the English, green, fast driving, beautiful coast.

10 words.

what a shame that someone should write 'hatred of the English' as a way of decribing Ireland. Yet another stereotyping, I think.

Dragon, I would not have wrote it if it was not one of the notable and consistent things which I experienced on my vacation in Ireland. I am not "describing Ireland" or the Irish. I am describing my personal experience.

Have you experienced Ireland? Perhaps You have a stereotype of what people think of Ireland. My personal views are from real experience in Ireland. BTW I Love Ireland and the Irish and plan to return.

In defense of Jor, Dragon, by the end of my trip to Ireland, I personally hated the English, too. And most of my ancestry is English, including a grandmother and grandfather!

I've just been totally unaware. Somehow the Irish point of view was never raised at my dinner table growing up.

But the word I'd emphasize the most out of ten is "kind." Everyone had a patience that makes one's vacation a vacation.

My oldest told me on day three that when anyone is in a mean mood in the US, there should be an automatic "beaming" to Ireland to get him/her straight.

Thatch Roof Cottages
Bogland
Castles
Folklore
Rock Fences
Cliffs
Irish Brogue
Pubs
Salad Sandwiches
Quaint Shops

Lovers of Language

(and that's just three, but I love language too, and didn't need to say more.)

Just for the record, I'm an Irish person living in England - so yes, I have visited Ireland.

You lot are kidding yourselves.

Perhaps the Irish no longer "hate" the English, tho they have ample reason to do so.

But they have a long memory and many examples of English brutality, both recent and historical.

Until I visited Ireland I never knew what the school books never taught me. Ireland was the slave nation of the British Empire. Their crops, their young men, their homes. All to powere the Empire. I have listened to the comments of the Irish many times how they do not like the English.

I was in Ireland in 2001 during the Foot/Mouth disease that was ravaging the UK.

Most Irish were of the firm believe that the English got what they deserve with the that one. I would call it hatred but animosity.