Aware of the problems facing the poor traveller around the Emerald Isle (Ireland), GotSaga have come with some useful tips to try to keep you from offending the locals...
Great advice for the wandering tourist includes "When accepting gifts, a polite refusal (such as, "no really you shouldn't") is common after the first offer of the item. Usually, this is followed with an insistence that the gift or offer is accepted, at which point your answer is likely to become more recognized...."
Or how about "Most Irish people are quite happy for friendly jibes regarding the Irish love of potatoes and drinking alcohol, however any jokes regarding the potato famine of the 19th Century in which over a million people died, could in some instances cause a similar amount of offence as joking about the September 11th attacks would in the United States...."
For more of these helpful hints, follow http://www.gotsaga.com/saga/detail.php/1773/
Barticus.
Great advice for the wandering tourist includes "When accepting gifts, a polite refusal (such as, "no really you shouldn't") is common after the first offer of the item. Usually, this is followed with an insistence that the gift or offer is accepted, at which point your answer is likely to become more recognized...."
Or how about "Most Irish people are quite happy for friendly jibes regarding the Irish love of potatoes and drinking alcohol, however any jokes regarding the potato famine of the 19th Century in which over a million people died, could in some instances cause a similar amount of offence as joking about the September 11th attacks would in the United States...."
For more of these helpful hints, follow http://www.gotsaga.com/saga/detail.php/1773/
Barticus.
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