Ed Sheeran dice che si identifica culturalmente come irlandese | BreakingNews.ie

He should know there’s no bars on Grafton Street then

And yet he made that Galway girl abomination….

It’s easy to be cynical about Brits or Yanks who say things like this but at the same time, millions of Irish people went to these places and had families. In a lot of cases those cultural ties run very deep. I’ve never gotten the impression that Sheeran considers himself Irish in a Plastic Paddy kind of way and he’s certainly put the time in on the island, and can speak to its culture in a way that demonstrates a lot of familiarity and personal experience.

I’m an emigrant raising kids as dual citizens, both of whom fucking love Ireland so perhaps I’m biased here. 

Hang on. I hate his music, am ambivalent about him, but he’s a son of ireland and has a right to identify as such as much as anyone.

Ah lads, calm down. He spent a lot of his childhood in Wexford, went to Damian Rice gigs in Whelans and even sang one of his song as gaeilge. He seems like a sound lad too.

You can’t identify as a culture you didn’t grow up in or live in.

If you weren’t raised here or haven’t lived here for a long time and integrated, you are not culturally Irish.

It’s simple as.

Swap for McGregor

Beware, yer da’s everywhere about to get outraged at someone *checks notes*…loving our country.

Why are the comments so weirdly hateful? I have so many cousins in England who would have/ do regularly come home to Ireland, particularly in their childhood and I would be offended / confused on their behalf if anybody tried to take away their heritage, WEIRD! comments here. He has Irish family and spent enough of his childhood here that it rings true in his memory as precious and something he identifies with, why is that an issue?

Why is it when somebody not Irish born identifies with Ireland it’s a big big nono!

but Irish people are then so quick in turn to claim the likes of The Beatles, the Smiths, Oasis etc as being Irish?

How can you say Shane McGowan is 100% Irish and yet throw a hissy fit when Ed Sheeran does the same?

I mean look at the head on him.

I had the pleasure of knowing his fathers parents. If he wants to identify as Irish, so be it! He’s been ‘Irish’ to me forever.

Last week there was a post here which got lots of upvotes making fun of how an American didn’t know Irish because he used a pronunciation from the Donegal dialect. Perhaps Ed isn’t culturally Irish after all because he doesn’t know you that irishness is about being hostile to people who admire our culture.


Fuck off Ed.

I don’t know any Ned

What in the freshest of hells is identifying culturally as Irish?!

You either are or you’re not, fella.

We don’t have a special toilet for those of you that woke up one day and decided to identify as Irish