March is Irish-American History Month! (soldier, top 10, Chicago, England)
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I'm "Irish" and we def changed from the "shanty" to the "lace curtain" in what, 100 years? Tho we do still have more problems with drinking and mental illness than many other groups I'm sorry to say but we ARE getting better!
In the 70's I was introduced to John Jameson at a decidedly pro-IRA/anti-Provo drinking establishment in Hell's Kitchen by a very comely red headed uber radical Republican (the Irish definition) who introduced me to Bernadette nee Devlin McAllskey, Irish Whiskey, and a decidedly Marxist primer on The Troubles and while the relationship was short lived it left me with an undying love for the Wolf Tones and the Chieftans - I pass on River Dance.
Sláinte chuig na fir, agus go mairfidh na mná go deo!
Which come to think of it sounds pretty Yiddish to me.
In the 70's I was introduced to John Jameson at a decidedly pro-IRA/anti-Provo drinking establishment in Hell's Kitchen by a very comely red headed uber radical Republican (the Irish definition) who introduced me to Bernadette nee Devlin McAllskey, Irish Whiskey, and a decidedly Marxist primer on The Troubles and while the relationship was short lived it left me with an undying love for the Wolf Tones and the Chieftans - I pass on River Dance.
Sláinte chuig na fir, agus go mairfidh na mná go deo!
Which come to think of it sounds pretty Yiddish to me.
Gaelic is such an interesting language and you are right, it does seem like Yiddish to me as well.
I mean how do you get "Dublin" from "Baile Átha Cliath"?
We need some of that attitude these days. Seems like working class whites are now so juiced up on Rush Limbaugh that they cannot wait to help the big dogs ( oh sorry, "job creators") destroy unions and decent public sector jobs. It is like they think Wall Mart is all about the working man. The Irish could smell that horse shyte a mile a way.
I'm "Irish" and we def changed from the "shanty" to the "lace curtain" in what, 100 years? Tho we do still have more problems with drinking and mental illness than many other groups I'm sorry to say but we ARE getting better!
Does this mean there'll be a discount on Jameson, Bushmills, and Guiness?
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