Peter Laban wrote:Nobody is complaining about Father Ted either
Well that is cheesy.
There was a Scottish show which might have been regarded as more insulting to Gaels, I'm trying to think what it was called. Hamish McBeth, I think. But I think that was deliberately over the top. Hard to say by how much though. My own mother used to talk about second sight occasionally in a way that made me suspicious that she might really believe in it. I was too nervous about what she'd say so I never asked.
Thanks for the comments Brianc, Peter and Wombat. I have often wondered how the Irish liked the show. I guess the characters are overdrawn as part of the interest. After all we make some shows that make us look a lot worse. I actually like the show and enjoy some of the things that depict the Irish life that most Americans never think of. I don't think there is enough music though.
While I was in Ireland I visited Cong. It was interesting to see a town still making money on a movie 50 years after it was made. And yes I dropped a few Euro there.
I have never seen Killinaskully. It hasn't played here yet. Maybe I can request it on public television. Are there any shows or movies that give an accurate view of Irish life?
Maybe it is what you are or aren't used to seeing on television, as I said I didn't see particular negative things in BallyK (there was some music though, The Ceili Bandits were on one or two shows). American television likes to soften things a bit, see how they have turned the acidic hilarious comedy of errors that is One Foot in the Grave into a syrupy Bill Cosby outing so seriously unfunny that I can't even remember the name of it.
I was actually thinking of the Fester and Ailin that Podge an Rodge did, not the actual Foster and Allen, that would be too much even in a cheese thread.
Peter Laban wrote:I was actually thinking of the Fester and Ailin that Podge an Rodge did, not the actual Foster and Allen, that would be too much even in a cheese thread.
I thought you were losing it there for a minute,inflicting the real F+A on an unsuspecting public.
I love Podge and Rodge,one of my sisters send me over their stuff.....if only they were as well known as the other pair of chancers eh?
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
You win!
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
