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Nothing good has ever come out of Ireland. With the possible exception of Dunsany.

>> No.416301

Irish-descended American here. I have a hard time disagreeing with you.

>> No.416307

>>416294
Eriugena

>> No.416311

>>416294

Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Seamus Heaney.

You're full of shit.

>> No.416318

Whiskey, chemistry, and the guided missile.

Jerk.

>> No.416324

Frank McCourt.

>> No.416333

Presidents of Irish descent
1. Andrew Jackson, 7th President 1829-37 (County Antrim)
2. James Knox Polk, 11th President 1845-49 (County Londonderry)
3. James Buchanan, 15th President 1857-61 (County Tyrone)
4. Andrew Johnson, 17th president 1865-69 (County Antrim)
5. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President 1869-77 (County Tyrone)
6. Chester A. Arthur, 21st President 1881-85 (County Antrim)
7. Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President 1885-89, 1893-97 (County Antrim)
8. Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President 1889-93 (County Down)
9. William McKinley, 25th President 1897-1901 (County Antrim)
10. Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president 1901-09 (County Antrim)
11. William Howard Taft, 27th President 1909-13
12. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President 1913-21 (County Tyrone)
13. Warren G. Harding, 29th President 1921-23
14. Harry S. Truman, 33rd President 1945-53
15. John F. Kennedy, 35th President 1961-63 (County Wexford)
16. Richard Nixon, 37th President 1969-74 (County Antrim) & (County Kildare)
17. Ronald Reagan, 40th President 1981-89 (County Tipperary)
18. Bill Clinton, 42nd President 1993-2001 (County Fermanagh)
19. Barack Obama, 44th President 2009- (County Offaly)

>> No.416337

>>416324
Frank "Fuck Yeah" McCourt

>> No.416338

>>416311
Only Yeats is worth reading.

>> No.416342

Prominent Irish-American literary figures include Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, Jazz Age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, social realist James T. Farrell, mystery writer Raymond Chandler, and Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor. The 19th-century novelist Henry James was also of partly Irish descent. While Irish Americans have been underrepresented in the plastic arts, two well known American painters claim Irish roots. Twentieth-century painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born to an Irish-American father, and 19th-century trompe-l'œil painter William Harnett emigrated from Ireland to the United States.

>> No.416349

Film directors/producers
* Walt Disney
* John Ford
* Alfred Hitchcock
* John Huston
* Leo McCarey
* Michael Moore
* John Sayles

>> No.416355

>>416338

This is a lie.

You can't just say two major figures of modernism and the theatre of the absurd as well in Beckett's case aren't worth reading.

Whether one enjoys them is another matter entirely.

>> No.416358
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>>416294

>> No.416364

I like Wilde.

>> No.416398

Literature
* Philip Barry
* Ted Berrigan
* John Berryman
* Louise Bogan
* T. Coraghessan Boyle
* John Horne Burns
* Bill Bryson
* Jim Carroll
* Neal Cassady
* Raymond Chandler
* Mary Coyle Chase
* Kate Chopin
* Tom Clancy
* Mary Higgins Clark
* Billy Collins
* Joe Connelly
* Michael Connelly
* Pat Conroy
* Robert Creeley
* Maureen Daly
* J.P. Donleavy
* Kirby Doyle
* Alan Dugan
* James T. Farrell
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Robert Fitzgerald
* Thomas Flanagan
* Vince Flynn
* Alice Fulton
* Tess Gallagher
* Lucy Grealy

>> No.416411

Pipe-bombs

>> No.416413

Literature (continued)
# Pete Hamill
# George V. Higgins
# Fanny Howe
# Marie Howe
# Susan Howe
# Brigit Pegeen Kelly
# Robert Kelly
# William Kennedy
# X. J. Kennedy
# Richard Kenney
# Jean Kerr
# Galway Kinnell
# R. A. Lafferty
# Michael Lally
# James Laughlin
# Dennis Lehane
# John Logan
# William Logan
# Thomas Lynch
# Michael Patrick MacDonald
# Cormac McCarthy
# Frank McCourt
# Alice McDermott
# Campbell McGrath
# Thomas McGrath
# Thomas McGuane
# Jay McInerney
# James McMichael
# Terrence McNally
# Maile Meloy
# Margaret Mitchell
# Helen Curtin Moskey

>> No.416427

Literature (continued)
# Robert C. O'Brien
# Tim O'Brien-
# Edwin O'Connor
# Flannery O'Connor
# Frank O'Hara
# John O'Hara
# Charles Olson
# Eugene O'Neill
# J.F. Powers
# Anne Rice
# Nora Roberts
# Kay Ryan
# Michael Ryan
# John Patrick Shanley
# Mickey Spillane
# John Kennedy Toole
# Michael Walsh
# Roger Zelazny

>> No.416446

Flogging Molly jumps to mind, not to mention some of the beautiful folkstories that inspire some of their songs.
not really /lit/, but the point is valid.

>> No.416457

>>416333
most of those presidents sucked anyway
>>416342
fuck those guys
>>416349
amateurs
>>416398
entry-level
>>416413
don't get me started on these ones.
>>416427
does anyone at all care about these authors?

>> No.416478

>>416457
lol
dont be butthurt, bro

>> No.416485

>>416457

u mad

>> No.416509

>>416478
>someone disagrees with me
>become butthurt and accuse them of being butthurt

>> No.416516

>>416509
>butthurt
>called out on being butthurt
>tell that person that they are actually the butthurt one
>profit?

>> No.416528

What's Irish and sits out in the rain all year long?

Paddy O'Furniture.

>> No.416532

>>416516
>implying I'm >>416457
I'm just commenting on how dumb you are.

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416534

>>416528

OH GAWD I'M FUCKIN' DYIN' HERE

>> No.416536

>>416532

>get called out on being butthurt
>pretend to be someone else
>NOW I HAZ SUPPORTERS LOL FAG

>> No.416539

>>416536
You've really convinced yourself that haven't you?
You're such easy troll-bait.

>> No.416537

>>416532
>implying i am
>>416478

>> No.416542

>>416457
well that was successful.

>> No.416549

>>416542
What was?

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416551

>>416549
<--- that

>> No.416552

>>416542
>profit?

>> No.416555

>>416551
>coolface.jpg

>> No.416560

>>416555
yeah... it is.

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416575

Limerick-fag here. I'm annoyed by the OP, but he's entitled to his own opinions.

However, if he means there are no good Irish writers, he should say so. Because Guinness is pretty damn good.

But, either way, I call this a troll thread. And you, gentlemen of colored descent, are posting in it.

>> No.416583

>>416575
I prefer heiniken

>> No.416584

>>416318

Literature, I too almost shouted out a couple of beer names but caught myself.

>> No.416590

>>416294

but... didn't the english go to great pains to conquer the celts? really, they shouldn't be complaining about them being "freeloaders" if they fucked their asses in the first place

>> No.416617

>>416551

>conveniently switches to "lulz i trool u" when its apparent that the argument is lost

>> No.416637

>>416617
You're really confused aren't you? I trolled you, it's that simple.

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416641

Troll you may be, but I still give you kudos for not posting Ayn Rand.

Well done.

>> No.416647

>>416637
>troll = losing an argument

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416657

>>416590

>> No.416661

>>416637

Stop posting with my name!!!!!

>> No.416662

>>416641
Thanks, I'm trying to branch out. Chances are if you're arguing with someone anonymous and he seems extremely dumb it's me trolling. I usually won't bring it up unless the person I'm trolling seems to damn smug and diluted.

>> No.416665

>>416661
Thats my name?

>> No.416669

>>416647
troll=someone who was trolling from the start.

>> No.416675

I am gamergirl
(trying to start sparticus scene)

>> No.416677

>>416662
>i will argue a point and if i lose i'll just say i'm trolling

>> No.416684

>>416677
Fail counter-troll

>> No.416687

>>416675
No. I am GamerGirl.

>> No.416695

>>416677
>or if somebody says something i know i can't possible argue against and win i'll just accuse them of trolling