#paddywhackery

[sleepy-pangolin]

It’s bad  - really, really offensively bad!

[lady-adventurer]

Is this what they call #paddywhackery?

[riancoulter]

Ah for jaysis sake. #paddywhackery (at Kilkenny, Ireland)

[postsatire]

Irish people need to get their shit together when it comes to YouTube videos. It's exactly what it says: the endless paddywhackery we once tried to escape. Have you ever seen a culture collude so willingly in its own appropriation? We can do better.

[ilivebetweenconcretewalls-blog]

I feel like I've been waiting for this my whole life :D

It's a parody of 'Celtic Woman', but it is a fair dig at Loreena McKennit and Enya too...

[ilivebetweenconcretewalls-blog]

'The tragic opening image of an old dying man singing an Irish folk song was guffawed through and an inappropriate celebrity cutaway showed Carol Vorderman singing the supposedly incomprehensible lyrics word perfect, suggesting the editor had some secret wish to undermine the piece. Already I was slack-jawed, thinking: "What are they going to do with Kirsty MacColl's vocal?" MacColl, part of the genetic fabric of folk, and an essential element of the song's appeal, died in a boating accident 11 years ago and it might seem rather tasteless to encourage a mass slur through her contribution. Instead, the backing track snapped into an instrumental, a young singer in hot pants came on, a troupe of stunned Irish dancers hoofed along and a cutaway to a happy Irish Eamonn Holmes reassured everyone this wasn't offensive.

On some level, the sequence was sincerely meant and 34 years since the last edition of The Black and White Minstrel Christmas Show, it's good to see racially stereotyped dancing back where it belongs, at the centre of the seasonal schedules. But the song survives.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/08/stewart-lee-christmas-traditions-pogues?CMP=twt_gu

Fucking hell. I didn't see this and I hope I never will.

*edit, I caved and watched it a day later. It is SO much worse than what I had imagined.