Blindboy (Host)

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The Blindboy Podcast · A cultural history of Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman Jokes · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

So you now go from paddy being a thick fuck to paddy being a legitimately dangerous fuck. voice-verified

The IRA never ever targeted a working men's club, but if you're in Birmingham or Sheffield 1972-73, you're a steel worker working in a mine, and one of your sons is a squaddy, I can see why these people would be afraid that their club might become a target. voice-verified

Target. voice-verified

Anti-Irish racism would have exploded around 1972 when that IRA campaign began. voice-verified

And you gotta remember, you're dealing with a couple of hundred thousand Irish people, 99.9% in no way affiliated with the Provisional IRA, not carrying out attacks, not even being in support of the attacks, just trying to exist as Irish people in England. voice-verified

And I I just find it so interesting that the Carryman joke emerges in that year and that the vast majority of the Carryman jokes that I've heard voice-verified

They're just anti Irish jokes, but it's a carrian instead of an Irishman. voice-verified

And at the core of the carrian joke, it's it's an urban Irish thing, it's an anti culchy thing. voice-verified

I think it was a way for the Irish immigrant to try and let their English neighbour know that they're quote unquote civilized. voice-verified

We're not the thick ones. voice-verified

That's the Kerry people. voice-verified

They're the rural ones. voice-verified

They're the mock savages. voice-verified

They're the ones you're talking about, the people from Kerry, not us. voice-verified

And by nineteen seventy-six there was a book released in Ireland, which is apparently the the best selling paperback book in Ireland of all time, which is the Book of Carryman jokes. voice-verified

Released in 1976. voice-verified

Most of the jokes in that book, it's English chicken in a basket anti-Irish jokes, except now it's about Kerry people. voice-verified

Now, in the London Irish context, I can see why a frightened, ashamed, and embarrassed community tried to distance themselves from Irish stereotypes by picking the scapegoat of the Kerry person. voice-verified

But why did it then take off so massively? voice-verified

In Ireland. voice-verified

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