Tag: Irish
Quote of the day.
Wishing one and all a very happy St. Patrick’s Day.
“That’s what the holidays are for—for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?” – Lara Flynn Boyle
10 Fun Facts about the Irish in America
It has been said that America is the most Irish country in the world and as a Boston girl, I would know.
At the age of five, I had a brogue. It was ever so slight, the faintest lilt of a melody rolling off my tongue. My pronunciation of ‘bathin suit’ and ‘vawlume’ left no doubt that there was a twinge of green coursing through my veins. But that’s what happens when you spend five days a week being taught by a nun from County Laois (pronounced leash) in parochial school. Continue reading “10 Fun Facts about the Irish in America”