“Because that's still how Irish people are seen, as twinkly-eyed fuckers with a pig under their arm, high-stepping it around the world, going 'I'll paint your house now, but watch out, I might steal the ladder later, ohohoho!”

— Dylan Moran

Which is only half true!
On prejudices about Irish people.
Like, Totally (2006)

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