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Infesting versus invading!
Started Jun. 8, 2009
Great Irish anti-heroes?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Nick McElwee Apr. 27, 2009.
Maptastic! 1,000 and still counting.
Started Apr. 17, 2009
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totally, those internecine squabbles can get addressed, a truth a reconciliation tribune as in South Africa for example. But when the hard-liners exit it doesn't happen and instead the position is fermented and hardened across the diaspora.
Anti-Britishness is such an over-simplification of the struggles and conflicts in Ireland over the years it seems to me. Much of the antagonism was inside, not outside surely. Same as Northern Ireland - I always thought to a large degree Religion wa…
I read Karl's invitation to us all, asking for tales of our ancestors - how they landed where they did, how they faired in the new land. These stories are really important I think, they are the raw material of the Diaspora. But what struck me as I t…
June 16 is Bloomsday & we're going to focus on ONE episode of Ulysses for that day.
What a great idea, I'm in! I've the book at home and have started it so many times I can't remember. I've never finished it. I bought the audio cd a few years back and this was great - the sounds are everything and listening is as much of the experi…
I recently was watching a video on youtube of the Irish comedian, Tommy Tiernan. He contrasts the Irish style of global domination to that of the English: whereas the English favoured invading, the Irish preferred infesting. A sort of global dominat…
I'll always check out the Irish bar when I'm traveling.But whereas before you were always certain of a good atmosphere and a genuine crowd that's not the case always anymore. God it must have been the 90's when every new pub was an Irish theme bar,…
Check out the guy defending himself in the stock room with a trolley! A friend sent me this yesterday so I thought to share it with you all. Bull in Irish Supermarket. N
Profile Information
- Tell us a little about yourself
- I was born in Ireland in 1969, 4th July. I grew up in Dublin, went to St Benildus College, then Trinity College. Post college I headed for Madrid. 1993 I moved to London, where I started working in Advertising. That's what I do now. In 2005 I moved to New York and in 2008 I moved to the United Arab Emirates, working in Abu Dhabi.
- What's your Irish link?
- Irish born
- What's your first language?
- English
- What does your Irishness mean to you?
- It means a global passport!
It means a life that's adventurous and unplanned.
- What interests would you like to share with other people
- rock climbing, guitar, innovation and creativity, cycling, watching american dramas like Grey's Anatomy, House, Brotherhood, etc.
- Do you have a website or club that you want to let others know about?
- www.mcelwee.redbus@gmail.com
Connecting the Irish, one click at a time
It never ends ☺, there’s no lay up for this project. Five months in the making and it’s now that the real work starts. We need to get out there and get people actively involved in this thing. The community is the search engine. That’s how it’s going to work, each one getting others to put themselves on the map. That’s what we mean by connecting the Irish Diaspora one click at a time.
In a way the act of others getting others is a test of how active the Irish Diaspora is. The more passive the community the less likely the community will rise to the challenge, the slower it will be to get it mapped. But we don’t think the community is passive, that’s why we started this thing. The Irish are a sticky lot we reckon, across time and geographies.
So here’s the thought, if you’re Irish then do something about it otherwise the Diaspora will wither away and become a meaningless relic brought to life once a year by a blow-up leprechaun and a felt Guinness hat. It’ll be a synonym for ‘a party mood’ which is no bad thing of course, but a terrible waste of a great opportunity. Here’s to building this thing with your help one click at a time.
In a way the act of others getting others is a test of how active the Irish Diaspora is. The more passive the community the less likely the community will rise to the challenge, the slower it will be to get it mapped. But we don’t think the community is passive, that’s why we started this thing. The Irish are a sticky lot we reckon, across time and geographies.
So here’s the thought, if you’re Irish then do something about it otherwise the Diaspora will wither away and become a meaningless relic brought to life once a year by a blow-up leprechaun and a felt Guinness hat. It’ll be a synonym for ‘a party mood’ which is no bad thing of course, but a terrible waste of a great opportunity. Here’s to building this thing with your help one click at a time.
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Untold Stories
I read Karl's invitation to us all, asking for tales of our ancestors - how they landed where they did, how they faired in the new land. These stories are really important I think, they are the raw material of the Diaspora. But what struck me as I thought about this was the many many stories that have gone untold. The Irish Diaspora was forced on the Irish to a large extent by the social and economic pain in the Ireland of the past. The Diaspora was uninvited and as people left Ireland they left… Continue
Posted on June 8, 2009 at 9:57am — 4 Comments
Running Bull
Check out the guy defending himself in the stock room with a trolley! A friend sent me this yesterday so I thought to share it with you all. Bull in Irish Supermarket. N
Posted on May 5, 2009 at 5:49am — 1 Comment
Boyle's got a belter of a voice!
This one for all us cynics, enough to soften even the hardest heart! Susan Boyle has blown everyone away in the UK with her singing talent. She's a heroine, she's 48, she'd never been kissed and with a name like Boyle, she's bound to have some Irish in her. Enjoy Susan's performance!
Posted on April 17, 2009 at 6:00am — 2 Comments
Challenge of nations life!
This week, Brian Lenihan the Irish Finance Minister, warned that the nation faced the challenge of its life. The doom-mongering came as he outlined plans for Ireland to set-up a… Continue
Posted on April 10, 2009 at 6:17am —
Formula 1 fever
Formula 1 excitement hit the UAE last Monday as thousands of tickets for November's inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix sold out within hours of going on sale. As one friend of mine commented: "it's gone off like a bride's nightie on her wedding night". I also thought you would all like to know that one of the key players in the management of this race is an Irishman by the name of Richard Cregan, ex Toyota F1 team boss. Nick
Posted on April 4, 2009 at 5:15am —
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 6:34am on October 8, 2009,
Ninette said… 
- At 1:02pm on March 17, 2009,
Sharon said… - Thanks for the St Patricks day greetings and I wish you a very happy St Patricks day back. May it be filled with lots of love, luck and laughter.
- At 12:45pm on March 17, 2009,
Sharon said…
- sounds like you've had a great life so far and probably the best is yet to come.
- At 5:40am on June 23, 2008,
Nick McElwee said…
- OK, got you. I looked at the thread and it only starts my end at my response to your message. You most likely can access your message by clicking on 'view thread' at the bottom of the comment box. That should take you back to your initial message. Nick
- At 5:34am on June 23, 2008,
Pearleen Elves-Plumpton said… - Hi Nick
The message that I sent was to the group by clicking on the "Send Message to Group" link in the Family History Group.
Sorry about the confusion.
Pearleen
- At 8:38pm on June 22, 2008,
Pearleen Elves-Plumpton said…
- Hi Nick
Thank you for the welcome. I have put myself on the project map and send a message to the group of my research interest.
It's my hope that I will get some help with my research and some of the brick walls that I have come up against.
Is there any way I can get a copy of my message sent back to me? I forgot to copy it for another group and I would a appreciate a copy. Thanks.
Pearleen
- At 7:59pm on June 22, 2008,
Peg Daugherty Calciano said… - Hi Nick,
Yes it's the same Roswell. Our town will be teaming with people coming for the UFO Festival during the 4th of July weekend. I am so happy to join this site and have sent e-mails to several encourging them to join also.
Peg
- At 1:41pm on May 12, 2008,
Nick McElwee said…
- hello there missy - he's a great fella indeed, a shinning beacon for us all and shows how well the Irish can play with someone else's language!!
- At 1:37pm on May 12, 2008,
grace ( Withrow-Witherow) said…
- hello ther Nick, I never heard his voice, I may well have been disappointed myself. However he was the first Irishman honered with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
W. B. Yeats b. 13 June 1865-d. 28 jan. 1939
luv ya' big fellow. mind yourself now.
ms. grace,....aka 'missy'
- At 8:36pm on March 30, 2008,
Nick McElwee said…
- Irish rock-climbing dancers with a taste in fine wine perhaps!
We started this project with great conviction for the stickiness of the Irish through time and geography but we also knew that Irishness is a backcloth to the lives we all lead. We knew that being Irish was something you are and not something you do. One of the ways to grow this project is to recognize this fact and reach out to the Diaspora through our individual interests, hobbies, professions and past-times.
It's about connecting with Irishness in real time, in real lives. I'm a rock climber so I'm trying to connect with the rock climbers around the word who see themselves as Irish in some way. May be Irishness breeds a certain type of climber for all we know!! Or I know we have a dancer on the map and he's activating the dance community, finding through his area of interest those who are Irish in some way.
At SEVENTYMILLION, we think that activating in real time, through real lives is a really important way to go. We are not here just drawing up a map in time and place of seventy million Irish people but importantly a map of seventy million Irish individuals.
Now of course these individual interests, hobbies, professions and past-times are not overtly stated as part of the project just now but that’s no matter – it provides the engine for the project and the reassurance that what we have is an Irish community that is big, spread across the globe, dynamic and alive in real life and real time.
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