In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

Being a cynical Englishman, I expected that first ad to end with the young guy arriving at the house to find that it had burnt to the ground because of faulty electrics. And the ad turns out to be a fire safety Public Safety Announcement. Because those are the kind of ads we get in England.

I couldn't find Sally O'Brien or Its Breakfast time back home

this one is horrible btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e90x9ZXEUMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_i3iX6ozvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTRZxDRYPg

so classic btw^

that ad is fucking demented...he is seriously randy for eggs, sally whatever her name is and of course, THE PINT OF HARP

I just wish I could find "BUT IT'S 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING!!!!"

oh breakfast time back home??? I am drawing a blank on these ads even though there must be loads.

anyone ever drink harp btw? it is fucking vile

Richmond Irish sausages advert shown in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLbQPVYIViQ

most of them aren't on youtube btw or if they are they are badly labelled irish ppl are shit at most things except for sentimental advertising strategies iirc

Harp used to be on the weightwatchers list so loads of women drank it fyi

i saw that richmond ad recently. such a joke, nowhere in Ireland sells those sausages. the only time I eat sausages is when I go home now, and when I do that, I drink....THE PINT OF HARP.

never heard of richmond sausages before that post

pint of harp ad is a+++++++++++++++++

and a pint of harp

"I miss the fields, and the rain, and the being abused by the priest... and a pint of Harp"

"and the way she might look at ye" has a nice Philadelphia Here I Come nudge winking sexual repression feel to it.

also love the hallowed holy tones given to "an egg", also seen in Angelas Ashes

"I remember the first time I saw... an egg"

Also, those Richmond Sausages look fucking foul. Are they supposed to look appetising?

However, I think the English have one ad that knocks even the pint of Harp into a cocked hat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLBvLxLJMI

"Last stop on t'round would be me old ma' Peggetty's place, it were like taking bread to the top 'o the world"

i dunno, the dementia of the pint of harp ad trumps even the hovis for me. also the way it appeals deeply to raging alcoholism.

Richmond Sausages (the thick ones) are quite tasty actually. Somerfield and Asda sell them.

i cannot believe i never looked at this thread

Yeah I hadn't realised quite how sweaty the Pint of Harp guy was.

They are always in the reduced section of our local Tesco because no-one actual buys them. They're pretty bland (OK, I bought them, but only because they were like 30p or something).

xpost about crappy Richmond sausages.

I used to drink Harp because I thought with it being related to Guinness it might be OK. I was wrong.

It doesn't matter whether Richmond Sausages were actually any good in real life. Surely they could have made them look slightly less foul in the advert?

Or maybe the point is that they looked foul when you were 10 years old but you didn't care because they were sausages?

was it the thick ones or the normal ones?
xposts to ailsa

I haven't actually watched the advert*, I just like the idea that they stick the word Irish on them and them people go "oh, the Irish are all about the sausages, let's buy those ones", like those crap made-up Scotch whiskies you get abroad that no-one in Scotland's ever heard of (I have a bottle of some mank called "Queen Margot" in my kitchen that I won in a pub quiz in Spain), or Castlemaine XXXX or whatever they don't actually drink in Australia, etc etc etc.

* OK, I've watched it now. If I'd ever seen that advert, I'd have avoided them like the plague, 30p cheap reduced price or not.

xpost, I don't know, or care, really, they were generic supermarket sausagey pish.

also love the hallowed holy tones given to "an egg", also seen in Angelas Ashes

― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda)

You say this then Frank McCourt dies!

I wasn't mocking Angela's Ashes

nah i just meant weird coincidence.

like I don't remember the last time I heard anyone mention Angela's Ashes.

It's like how Tuomas killed Michael Jackson on the dead pool thread!

lol @ http://discohorror.com/2009/08/10/it-is-hot-so-i-am-listening-to-lugnet/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNH6gKbew2o

this one might be more sexxxay than nostalgic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Z4crBt-iM

this one though is an absolute masterpiece, and the when the old woman says "safe journey" it is more naked and real than i can handle

i mean, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqZ4h_5fZI

YOU COULD PUT A BIT O' BUTTER ON THE SPUDS, ANDRE

the andre one is like a failed draft of these later masterpieces

classic thred, but "he'll be barn in jurmany, but his feet will touch irish soil furst" crosses into official "fuck off and die" territory

thats not a phake sounding irish accent btw

spelling is more trying to convey that simpering heartfelt whisper putting jam on the accent that is horribly fake. & anyone who would do something like this and tell people abt it is the worst kind of disgusting savage imo or certifiable.

dear god man, just play him Thin Lizzy in his crib or something.

have they found a donor for your soul transplant yet?

sorry man but grabbing him bloody out of the womb and plunging him into your shoebox to prove to everyone how important your irish identity is = NAGL

Richmond Sausages: we have a packet of these in the freezer. Some people may think that is because I am gullible English person, but no! In town there is a butcher who makes sausages on the premises and they are a thousand times better. Richmond sausages are our cheap go-to sausage when we want to knock together a toad-in-the-hole.

kinda feel liek they hint at this whole human drama surrounding his family's closeness, the suspicion that he's been taken by this german woman away from home, the land that was supposed to be his, that he still misses, and that this is just a way of making some sort of symbolic compromise

xp

but i mean, to these ads get shown elsewhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1_1kAEZgk

for those who like the letter-writing format:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2a0hY6_Xo

way xxxxposts but it was like a national scandal when sally o'brien turned out to be irl english

idg the appeal here

eh its like an actual thing that when you are visiting ppl in other countries you are required to bring taytos, and i know from all the polish supermarkets in ireland now that ppl really do miss stuff from home, ireland has a weird relat. w/ diaspora etc.

i am nostalgic for all these nostalgic adverts

just lolling at "barry's tea", idk why

do irishmen living in england get nostalgic for taytos or is it just crisps in general longing for the further afield

they get nostalgic for it, sure and why wouldn't they?

well as far as i have discerned tayto quality isnt that vast compared to yr average walkers and whatnot - certainly not a void on the level of a pole pining for his packet of cup-a-borscht or whatever

the taytos u get abroad are a pile of shit

they're not the same, yr import tayto are made in NI to a different recipe i think.

but in either case r|t|c god made taytos on day 7 iirc

yeah i mean if you buy taytos outside of ireland they taste like cardboard, but here they really do render all other types of crisps irrelevant

cant imagine lyfe without taytos.

i mean barrys tea i can take or leave, tbh, that diaspora thing is just marketing bullshit. but taytos i dunno.

nah that NI thing is mostly bullshit, they are pretty much the same ime. however walkers cheese and onion are fucking appalling compared to any tayto or king crisps....so shit, can't believe rtc can't taste the diff!

(that esb as above is beautiful)

x-post just also to say, don't think i miss anything from ireland apart from decent sausages and i am slowly being weaned onto the british variety.

esb ad*

im in ireland right now

no ur not, i would see u

I was in "county roscommon" all week eating the pint of harp

nobody drinks harp=u are not in ireland

where did u even find harp on draught

well it was the metaphorical harp, really i was just eating loads of butter and various meat puddings

i had "the pint of guinness" though just like james joyce once did

anyone remember that dennys rashers ad with the irish guy and his american wife getting a phone call rom the old sod

how did you enjoy "the trip to ireland" max?

michael do you mean the denny ad where "it's breakfast time back home"?

I deeply enjoyed myself "local policeman" (via Gaelic). I went, with my grandmother, to the town from where my great great great grandfather emigrated. I also read the first hundred or so pages of Murphy. All in all, I would describe it as a "crack."

i have never read any joyce

kindof ashamed

Really though, I had a great time--everyone I met was friendly and helpful and the food, despite what I expected, was great. Good job on your country.

bought ulysses a few months back but can't get into it, despite liking musil/broch and stuff that gets compared to him a lot. max it's "craic" tho you probably knew that. "crack" is a drug which is frowned upon in Irish culture.

where in Roscommon was it? my friend's parents have a house in Boyle that I've been to a lot.

i have only been to roscommon to go to hyde park

is one of those places i don't think i've ever met anyone from (aside from while being there)

nah they all flee to galway

I was near Boyle in a tiny town called Castlecoote. Very pretty but probably insanely boring to live in.

Joyce is great. But I read Ulysses in college with one of "those" professors and feel like I totally "got" it & by extension "the soul of all Ireland."

Really though the reason I "get" Ireland is cause I've seen that Harp ad.

you are more irish than the irish themselves

x-post otm, did you see sally o'brien at all while "home"

sally o'brien was irl a brit sori to destroy ur illusions

she was on the late late to break it to the nation i saw it on reeling in the years

can't believe i lusted after a brit...an insult to the patriots

sorry were gonna take you out and shoot you now RIP i guess you had a good run

sher

I didn't see Sally O'Brien, I was too busy frying eggs, thousands of them, for in Ireland, unlike the Iberian peninsula, eggs are plentiful.

Disgusted to find out she's a Brit. What would my great great great grandfather, John Kerry Regan of Ballyghadoreen, County Roscommon, say?

ah sher this is it, i'll be dead now in a minute. mad altogether.

mad is right

is crack really frowned upon? what kind of drugs to people do there?

The pint of harp

^^ see xposts

Fierce.

My strongest memories of distinctively Irish ads involve the president of the IFA or someone monotoning about brucellosis and vaccinating your cows or somewhat. YouTube knows nothing.

cailini deas in shawls getting all moony eyed over a fucking cup a soup.

is this what john o'leary wanted for us?

i was thinking about it, and as far as i can tell, pound for pound, ireland has produced better ilx posters than any other nation

i dunno if they have a statistically significant number of ilx posters though

we punch drunk above our weight

i have been deeply enjoying this series of irish viral videos on the awl

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-part-one-irish-rap

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-the-secret-pregnancy-of-ham-sandwich

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-part-three-the-gardai

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-the-peculiar-madness-of-pat-kenny

sorry man but grabbing him bloody out of the womb and plunging him into your shoebox to prove to everyone how important your irish identity is = NAGL

― harbly formed dn pun (zvookster),

this is a good point, tbf

I just love how the mother in the Kerrygold ad clearly hates the German wagon who stole her son away. In her own head she is a wronged woman who gave him everything, everything, only for him to become bewitched by some flaxen-haired temptress from another country and leave his only home. In his head she is a nagging old biddy who is never happy about anything and he couldn't wait to get away from her. It's the oldest story we have.

sally o'brien gutted too

can't believe max is one of the regans from ballaghadereen tbh.

Ahhh, sally o'brien

what kind of crazy marketing fairydust magic makes you nostalgic for a place you never left, sher

Fiersh

and the pint of harp

this thread!

liam brady!

this thread breaks my heart because it is impossible to find the breakfast time back home ad

this is maybe the pinnacle of these ads

Cannot believe that's not on youtube. Travesty.

its kindof like never gonna happen now i think. like we've reached the end point of people still watching movies taped off the telly years ago so you're not gonna start lolling over a "this madness must end sooun" and wanna upload it y'know?

whats the point of the fucking internet. so appalled.

there's some brand of bog roll that used to pride itself on its irishness on the wrapper? always used to make me chuckle

all of them tbh?

hey, while we're all in one place, has anyone yesterday's independent? my uncle's only been featured or printed or somesuch in a 'new irish writing' supplement or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPH4Mv06Lig
not the gold standard of any kerrygold ad, but i always loved it.

fuck knows if I can explain the magic of this one though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IDO6M4Occ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOliu0yCMI0

Um, not safe for work.

haven't seen the "Goin' Back" ad turn up yet

'Sally O'Brien' is Vicky Michelle!

wait can you even use one of them ceramic/clay le creuset pots on a convection hob?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7umHnB0DtoU

the waterwipes advert is something tho, an actual human from uncanny valley

https://youtu.be/neBlUqR6IRc

reminds me of the carbon monoxide it IS the silent killer ad. my friend got a photo with that old guy.

that dublin bus thing tho - it is fucking hilariously bad.

most of the advert is just low budget a little bit bad but the lad in the costume dancing like a wounded Bez, wtf is that about?

like they didn't have time for a second take even?

yeah like it's beyond just low budget and more into "we gave two guys 15 minutes to do this"

WHAT THEN

plus surely the audience for this bus aren't likely to be people who live locally enough to be watching that ad?

I actually know a genuine ghost bus ghost irl. Keeps offering me a free ticket but I've yet to take him up on it

Apparently the tour itself is pretty decent though

i was hoping this lad had done a TV advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3yBzGJKyJc

but it doesn't look like it

i'd voice that for them for a tenner. in one take.

xpost i was kind of always curious about the tour, like i bet dublin has some interesting history you could tie into something like that.

hon with ye

what's the most recent one of these to attain a cultural foothold I wonder

specifically with the nostalgia, or the darkness, or just into the pantheon

because im as confirmed in my heterosexuality as i need to be but that lad that talks about the grass and how it makes irish lamb taste special could at least take me out for cocktails

the nostalgia I meant specifically

Kerrygold seems to still have the mammy issues anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF8UBOUkx6w

the start of this thread is like that film silence

catholic industrial schools ... slogan

Lol I fucking posted itt nearly eight years ago, going to die of shame soon.

Was that weird sub genre of post crash emigrant are ecer discussed? Eg https://youtu.be/ct4D63wH8iA - poss not best example but these always felt a bit bleak to me? Your man at home is oblivious and his friend in London just wants to get on with his life?

I think Lyons or Barry’s also had a competition to bring an emigrant home for a visit? I have a photo of it on my Facebook somewhere.

Are you even Irish if you don’t have mammy issues though?

That new Kerrygold ad though...omg. Truly Art.

i know yerman

specifically ive been his accent coach

as you can hear, he either hasnt the ear or doesnt listen

its the latter fwiw

I don’t want to bump the other thread with more ad chat, so if Andrew comes here, can I just say, idg where you’re getting that mammy insinuation in the Andre ad!

thia looks like it may be a resource worth mining

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.joe.ie/amp/life-style/nostalgia-alert-new-irish-ad-archive-released-loads-best-irish-ads-past-50-years-586668

xp yeah theres no hint of a consolation ride in the andre ad

the accent on yerwan is cat

someone has remedied the appalling oversight noted up thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aEMYnh-hs

Be with you in a moment, just need to watch a bunch of these then ring my mother in tears at quarter to midnight.

I would not be surprised to learn that this one was created by an advanced AI that had absorbed all previous iterations of the nostalgic Irish advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2a0hY6_Xo

sean!

the barrys one is the first one i remember where it felt like yknow the emigrant was more of a gap year tiger cub

Yes!!! I was going to link that one!

This is an absolute CLASSIC:
- mammy issues
- weird accent
- obvious insinuations
- unhappiness

https://youtu.be/fk68Znjabd4

im gone to bed and cant play any now gizza clue

yeah that's perfection

It’s the one with the daughter and the baby and her mammy brings out a photo album and there’s a photo of the mammy taken by a STRANGE MAN and the mammy looks wistful and goes “I was beautiful that day”

The strange man was the priest who was marrying her, of course.

what the fuck

jesus i dont know it but i might get up just to watch it it sounds scorching

the 97 one might be the last gasp of the "classic" era I feel

compare this from 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr4Fwwv8NCg

they obviously felt they couldn't use the letter-writing device anymore, but the weird proto-vlogging conceit doesn't work at all

Yeah I just watched that, it’s as painful as anything.

However, what about this one from 1999?
https://youtu.be/491RQvS5VVw

Worth it entirely for the look she gets from the neighbour.

gyac ur killin me with the hints

deems just pretend you need a piss & go watch these twenty year old tea ads in the toilet or something

posting in my usual fashion wha

anyway my lil brother emigrated actually yesterday so tbh it would probably be too much id break down

they were definitely chafing against the limits of the form with that one

ultimately feels a bit too self-conscious for me

mac eile ag imeacht :(

go to sleep or I’ll be forced to link HI KATE IT’S ME THE GUY FROM THE BAR NO HONESTLY IT IS

xp yeah it’s a bit too Celtic tiger

could have done with some butter

cmere can one not post links direct to image from imgur app anymore this is fucked

I don’t have that & also I too need to go to sleep

nm got it

thread and seeing it on fb prompted me to note what irl irish emigrants could look like in days of yore, heres a fellas aunt and uncle in the 60s posted today on their 54th anniversary

https://i.imgur.com/vqJVZ5C.jpg

Catch bars are back, lads

Walking the dogs yesterday, I told them to "Go, go, go," and then added "with the Glen Abbey Show!"

Luckily there was nobody around to hear me.

Dairy Executive: Ok everyone the public mood on our product seems to be shifting. We need to run a relatable campaign to boost sales and change the conversation.
An actual maniac: I've got an idea pic.twitter.com/lIxFnL2z3C

— Pints Before People (@sonofedge) June 27, 2019

I don't think there's any place for irony on this thread

This is the bad kind of nostalgia

Bank of Ireland (~2005)
"Train tracks are ching ching, bitta cash you know what I mean"
You could say that this ad is of its time.@bankofireland @talktoBOI pic.twitter.com/lG46f5bJWF

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) September 22, 2020

Tayto (c. 2000)
This was part of a series of ads themed around hell and the devil. I think they originally aired a few years earlier in the mid to late 90s with the launch of a new flavour, Worcester Sauce.@MrTaytoIreland pic.twitter.com/7uSHn73zjQ

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 28, 2020

I was just thinking that

Is it the time of year, is it this year, but, lads

If ever there was a Christmas to look out for one another, this is the one ❤️ So, we’re delighted to share our Christmas ad which tells the story of how a simple act of homemaking becomes a beautiful act of kindness from one neighbour to another. #WereAllHomemakers pic.twitter.com/f8WCTYfKrQ

— Woodie's (@WoodiesIreland) November 14, 2020

I actually consider myself a homewrecker, thank you very much!

i feel like since the extreme schmaltz christmas ad took off in the uk and since the diaspora began returning this is not such a strong suit for the irish advertising industry any more discuss.

Obviously as mentioned upthread the ESB Going Back ad is alltime. I haven’t been able to watch that one this year as I will no doubt be undignified. Anyway this isn’t a diaspora one like your classic Barrys of old, y/n?

yeah that's what I meant

losing out on usp

Idk as a diaspora... what is the applicable noun...I find the ads like that really moving, because of the sense of community and small gestures being intrinsically more moving to me in that context.

i guess i am more cynical than you!

I have been watching a load of nostalgic ads recently due to the twitter account that collects them, however I keep getting interrupted whenever I try to post them so this is all i have atm

The housing crisis in two ads

Barry's Tea ad - New York (1997)
"Remember John O'Brien?"
Here's another Barry's ad from the late 90s, they were on a good run for sure in this era. Looks to me like John O'Brien might have had more interest in Angie herself than the sister though!@BarrysTeaTweets pic.twitter.com/fqqN0BAIFN

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) March 31, 2020

McDonalds - Apartment (2005)
Developed by TBWA Dublin. Directed by Chris Roche for H2 Films. Part of the Sense/Nonsense campaign, Eurosaver menu was positioned as a humorous solution to some of the overcharging associated with “Rip off Ireland”.@McDonalds@TBWA_Dublin @H2_Films pic.twitter.com/M1cCqEbTV5

— Classic Irish Ads (@AdsIrish) July 8, 2020

yeah i guess she like runs a hedge fund for a tobacco company or something

hedge fund witch

Tangentially related. I dunno how/if Bluesky links work, but here goes:

https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3keml6eeyua2v

Samantha Mumba’s Body II Body came on Spotify & I wonder what it’s like to only know this song as an inferior cover of Ashes to Ashes and not for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTdI-9V6Jk

irish salt bae ad

Omg

you can almost feel every life-ending internal injury

I’d totally forgotten that awful visceral cronch sound effect too

the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.

the airplane crash scene in Society of the Snow hit's even harder than that ad, just more snapping legs and broken necks than I needed at this moment.

that seat belt ad - holy shit! I can't imagine how they could make the violence that graphic without injuring the actors

I remember as a teenager when the first person learned to drive re-enacting that on the maiden drive in the backseat

Do it do it do it