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I wish I could say it was an original thought Gem, but like 100% of what I say here it’s just repeating what someone else said. In this case, a lecture I listened to on the subway the other day.
Go to I-tunes and search for a course that is available free on I-Tunes University. Stanford University, Prof James Sheehan, course entitled “The History of the International System.” One of the last few lectures is entitled “….contested spaces.” There is a good bit about Ireland, including more or less verbatim what I said above. I’m a shameless copycat.
Real Irish don’t go in for that Mother MaCree crap like the McCorts.
True. That’s a silly American thing. Worst form of Irish American sentimentality gone wrong, very wrong is Noraid.
Supposedly a fund for widows and orphans. Irish Americans get drunk on St. Patrick’s day and give money to terrorists.
Lech – actually that’s an interesting outlook on the whole situation that I never really looked at.
Dibs – I guess you are right. I just get so riled up and I don’t even know why. It’s not like my family is pro-IRA. They are all too busy trying to get us all Irish passports so we can take our farm back from the old man who has been watching it for the past 40 years.
See that’s why I like coming to the OT b/c I learn and I learn to tone some of my own hard-nose beliefs down!!!!!
My Grandmother could have taken on Lechacal also. She was one tough lady.
In her mid 80’s she broke her hip. When the doctor told her she would be in the hospital for weeks, she reportedly said “Young man, if I stay in here for weeks, I am going to die”.
When nobody was looking, she took her walker, and snick out.
Later, she regained her legs, and walked on her own. She didn’t take crap from anybody.
Re Ireland: agree, totally Biff. To me, it is like my grandmother’s living room expanded into a country. (That doesn’t make me an Irish American chauvinist though).
I wish I could say it was an original thought Gem, but like 100% of what I say here it’s just repeating what someone else said. In this case, a lecture I listened to on the subway the other day.
Go to I-tunes and search for a course that is available free on I-Tunes University. Stanford University, Prof James Sheehan, course entitled “The History of the International System.” One of the last few lectures is entitled “….contested spaces.” There is a good bit about Ireland, including more or less verbatim what I said above. I’m a shameless copycat.
“I learn and I learn to tone some of my own hard-nose beliefs down!!!!!”
Well, that makes one of you, at least.
jester,
have you checked out a book titled:
One Hundred Saints
very interesting
like St. Laurence;
burned alive, but showed no suffering.
his excecution “converted all of Rome”.
By Arkady on November 4, 2010 1:40 PM
Real Irish don’t go in for that Mother MaCree crap like the McCorts.
True. That’s a silly American thing. Worst form of Irish American sentimentality gone wrong, very wrong is Noraid.
Supposedly a fund for widows and orphans. Irish Americans get drunk on St. Patrick’s day and give money to terrorists.
Lech – actually that’s an interesting outlook on the whole situation that I never really looked at.
Dibs – I guess you are right. I just get so riled up and I don’t even know why. It’s not like my family is pro-IRA. They are all too busy trying to get us all Irish passports so we can take our farm back from the old man who has been watching it for the past 40 years.
See that’s why I like coming to the OT b/c I learn and I learn to tone some of my own hard-nose beliefs down!!!!!
My Grandmother could have taken on Lechacal also. She was one tough lady.
In her mid 80’s she broke her hip. When the doctor told her she would be in the hospital for weeks, she reportedly said “Young man, if I stay in here for weeks, I am going to die”.
When nobody was looking, she took her walker, and snick out.
Later, she regained her legs, and walked on her own. She didn’t take crap from anybody.
did someone say pot?
Real Irish don’t go in for that Mother MaCree crap like the McCorts.
Re Ireland: agree, totally Biff. To me, it is like my grandmother’s living room expanded into a country. (That doesn’t make me an Irish American chauvinist though).