ldora @ 2003-04-02T18:55:00

To be Irish today is to be welcome almost anywhere. Grape-pip brandy will be uncorcked, daughters unveiled, tables danced upon. People will line up to show you a Portuguese edition of Seamus Heaney or a Romanian Betamax pirate video of Riverdance. The Irish are perceived as young, eloquent, romantic, tuneful, mystical, funny, and expert havers-of-a-good-time. And, as a bonus, in the same way as English abroad are made doubly welcome once people realise they're not German, so the Irish are welcomed for not being English. (c)Pete McCarthy McCarthy's Bar