My people are from County Galway. I still feel the heartache, though I'm just a dumb American. But I shake my head at the bitterness. My grandfather seemed to support American isolationism during World War II only because he didn't want the English as allies.
Edit: My father and I were in an "Irish" pub here in the States. (You know the kind, I'm sure. All in the Irish manner ... as us Yanks understand it.) He rather innocently recited the charm "twenty-six and six" and the owner stared in a cold fury and stated, "Never."
Last edited by Kevin Greene; 12-07-2009 at 08:22 AM.
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