Talks about British soldiers burning houses, and shootings. Dad was a vigilante, and collected milk bottles for bombs. 

Ireland, Belfast, war, conflict

White Irish male in his 30s named Don, but nicknamed Buddy Love. He's from County Monaghan. He talks about getting kicked out of a cinema for throwing popcorn and how he is working on a film to make himself famous. He also discusses the girls of Monaghan, who he thinks are nice. Also, he talks about the problems in Ireland like the litter, and the border problem with Army men and equipment coming around. He also talks about the food he's been having that evening and the night before.

Ireland, Irish, Belfast, Monaghan, Acting, film, fame, girls, litter, border, food, burger, chicken, pizza, fish, chips, popcorn

 

 

White male in Belfast Seventeen years old from Lurgan. He doesn't like the girls from Lurgan or the people from there in general and doesn't associate with them. He hangs in Armagh, about 20 minutes away. He talks about being afraid of Daddy Long Legs spiders since he was scared by one when he was one year old. He goes to St. Patrick's all-boys school, which he says is not bad but a bit draconian. Says he was going to leave but didn't and talks about the classes he is taking. He wants to go into filmmaking or something creative. He writes poetry and when he's pissed off he smokes in the garage. It's his happy place.

Male, 17, Irish, Ireland, Belfast, Lurgan, Armagh, St Patricks, high school, all boys school, filmmaker, poetry, smoking, writer

White Irish male, 29 years old. Originally from Tollymore, which is outside Newcastle, which is near the Forest Park in County Down, Northern Ireland. Says it's paradise, like heaven. He talks about the biggest problems in Ireland being the division of society, particularly in Northern Ireland. He believes differences in religion are the root of many problems. Plus, the biggest problems in the world are the destruction of the environment due to greed.

Male, Irish, Ireland, Belfast, Tollymore, Armagh, County Down, politics, religion, conflict, environment, greed

White female in Belfast in her 20s. She's from a very small, quiet village where she says the people are very nice. She says it's like a big, close family. They all go to the pubs on the weekend. She worked with Americans the previous week and they went to a bar and got very drunk and had a sing along. She had to cook them all breakfast the next morning and didn't like it. She and her mother are not close and call each other names.

Ireland, Irish, Female, 20s, Belfast, village, pubs, bars, respect, mother, mom, americans, pubs, sing-along, small-town

 

(presumably White) male middle-aged professor in Belfast, Ireland discussing the representation of Gay people in American media recorded in 2000.

Ireland, Belfast, professor, gay, media, America, representation

White male in his 60'sish from Belfast.  Talking about the problems of the country, litter and tourists, the border and army men coming around and sleeping.

belfast, problems, tourists, litter, border, army , helecopters, sleeping, monaghan, history, monuments

Ireland-Belfast-educated-white male-gay

Male discussing concessions in Ireland for voting, Nationalists and Unionists, The RUC, private policing organizations, and a taxi shooting.

 Ireland, Belfast, male, monologue, voting, gerrymandering, concessions, The Troubles, nationalists, unionists, Catholics, breeding, private police organizations, taxi shooting,

Another recording of a younger male, aged around 25 years old, from Belfast, Ireland shares his thoughts on some problems that Ireland faces.  His male friends also share their thoughts about problems.

 

A younger male, around 30 years of age from the Belfast area from Ireland talks about the problems in the country.

 

A younger Irish woman in her 20's from the Belfast area talks about how she spends her time.

 

A woman in her 20's from northern Ireland talks about an incident that her family faced when she was a child.  There was a bomb that went off near a motorway in Belfast in 1991. She has a smoother, more suttle Irish accent.