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This a sing along for anyone with Irish heritage:---or those of you who wish they were Irish!!
or this version:
Both fantastic.
Enjoy Great Irish music: No Ney Never!!!
Same song, Dropkick Murphys
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I'm half-Irish, but this song is my favorite song (Irish or otherwise) EVER!!!
CountAllVotes
(20,879 posts)He used to sing along with this song now and then:
Paper Roses
(7,475 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,879 posts)Sad as all hell.
Thanks for nothing Angela Merkel!!!
From: One proud Irish American that is NOT GOING TO SHUT-UP ABOUT THIS. How can you "celebrate" St. Patrick's Day when the young people in Ireland are being forced to leave their land *again* IMO.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Sad...
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Boston Pride, an LGBT rights group, said this week organizers had accepted its application to participate in this year's march through the Irish bastion of South Boston.
The rights group will join OutVets, representing gay veterans, in bringing an end to two decades of debate over the issue. Organizers had insisted that homosexuality conflicted with Catholic doctrine, but the ban ran counter to the liberal mores that prevail in Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.
This is a huge step forward in our mission to have inclusivity in our city and in the Boston-area community, said Malcolm Carey, clerk of Boston Prides board of directors, in a phone interview.
Mayor Marty Walsh, who last year skipped the parade because of its exclusion of gay groups, plans to march on Sunday, becoming the first mayor to do so in 20 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/boston-st-patricks-parade-gay-groups-first-time-110321885.html
Well done Boston.
Sid
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)To England. Then Canada with 6 kids, including my mother, and then in 1919 to America to steal jobs from Good Americans.
As a kid I asked her what Ireland was like.
"It's a beautiful country...to starve in."
Paper Roses
(7,475 posts)Traveled from there to MA. They were always proud of the old country but the family could no longer survive.
I am proud of my mixed heritage.
Half Irish, half Italian. Both sides of my family came from the old country, one side through Canada, the other side through Ellis Island.
I think I'm a typical American. Mixed heritage, strong family ties, proud to be here and thank my brave ancestors. Can you imagine how much courage it took to pull up roots, risk everything and go to a new country to try and survive? I doubt I would be strong enough.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Apocryphal quote from an Irishman on why he emigrated.
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Scots-Irish (Presbyterians busy oppressing the Irish) on mom's side, English on Dad's side. Have not investigated Dad's side far enough back so there may well be some Irish there.