Why are people so stereotypical about Irish guys drinking?

Question

i'm about 75% irish and it makes me soo mad!!!!!

even on here there are so many stereotypes answering to all the irish guy related questions saying somthing about drinking.

well people who lived in ireland or are living in ireland or ur alot irish is this true with u? really i think american men are more drunks. fyi i live in america!!!

Answer 1

It's a myth that all Irish guys are heavy drinkers.

I was born and reared in Ireland.

Answer 2

Yeah i am irish too and it is very annoying.  Theres nothing wrong ith an irish man having a few pints dow his local in fact i enjoy nothing more more than having a few pints down my local with my BF.

I think its just igorant people stereotyping us irish people as being irsh drunks who spend all day in the pub and its a stereo type that i hate..

Answer 3

I hate when people say stuff like im 75% irish....drives me crazy

Answer 4

I am not Irish , but my husband is.  We met when I was traveling in Ireland, at a pub and we were both drinking.  We ended up living there for 5 years. Sure not everyone drinks but it does seem to be a big part of their culture.  Every person I discussed   drinking with there, didn't think that a person was an alcholic if they just drank beer everyday, it had to be hard liquior to qualify an alcholic, so that was interesting.  When we met we drank about the same, but now that we have kids and don't really go out he diffently  drinks more than me , probably about 5 times a week.  I think there is drinking problems everywhere in the world but it might be bit more common and acceptable to drink 5+ beers(not hard stuff, lol) 5 times a week in Ireland than in America.

Answer 5

It's just the fact that there are a lot of Irish Pubs in the U.S. and there are a lot of different Irish brews as well.

Answer 6

I'm 100% Irish born and bred and I think its safe to say that I'm fond of a pint or two or twenty at the weekend. I don't go out during the week much but i think I live up to the stereotype. A lot of my friends and family do as well but there are also a lot of people that don't drink very often over here.

I wouldn't take it too personally, I think after 800 years of English repression we deserve to have our freedom and a few pints.

Answer 7

My niece married an Irishman (100%) They met at a pub....where he was drinking and they moved back to Ireland where he lives just down the road from a pub ...where he goes to drink during the week.  He is a living example of a stereotype.

Answer 8

I live in Dublin and I don't think is a stereotype at all. My Irish friends don't usually go to town during weekend because they don't like being "adventurous" and they get drunk at home. If you drink "only" 2 or 3 beers then: "what's wrong with you?" are u sick?", plus most of the guys get violent. I have personally seen people fighting badly in the streets on Saturdays nights at least 5 times, been attached a couple of times, and alcohol was involved every time.

Answer 9

irish people get mad a lot too, see you're irish

Answer 10

I'm also Irish, so i hear the same c**p >.<. Still, alcoholism is a problem in Ireland, but thats true of most countries. Mostly its just a stereotype, created,  and sustained, by ignorance.

Answer 11

I'm Canadian, of Central European extraction, thrice-married (a Scots anthropologist, a Peruvian construction worker and a New York Jewish hydrogeologist), and my first half-century of life have been interesting.

I have met people of all sorts of backgrounds.  It is an important article of faith and knowledge to me that each person is an individual.

Oddly, there have only been three men of Irish background (and one Irish woman) that I've known well enough to speak to. Each of the man was a stereotype in himself.

The first, who married my dad's sister, was an ardent Catholic, who said the Rosary twice a week with his family, treated his wife like a queen, was a hard worker in frontier pubs for much of his life, and drank little, if at all.

The second, an undergraduate colleague, born working class Irish, was passionately anti-English.  He was the first white n***r I'd ever met.  Very angry and resentful.  He'd brought prejudices with him to a place that really neither knew nor cared.  He married a calm, African student of educational administration.

The third is my next-door neighbour.  Name's Patrick, of course. Born St. Paddy's day. Golden Gloves in his teens. Passionate about his kids. Notorious brawler. Golden tongue. His stated motto is "Whiskey is God's way of keeping the Irish from ruling the world." Can't live with him and can't live without him.

It feels as if I'm caught up in a Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy stereotype ....

Answer 12

Everybody witl always be stereotypical and form opinions off of false statements.

A lot of these "drunk" statements are jokes. Have you seen how many Irish Pubs are here in America?  Yeah, exactly.

Just be glad they aren't talking directly about YOU.

P.S--Each backround has something they get hounded for.

Answer 13

oh! i thought it was the scottish!