Tag: Irish history
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Singing in the Lifeboats
As the old saying goes, “There are only two seasons in Ireland: This winter and next winter.” Just days ago I was sitting in a Dublin pub, sipping a pint of stout and peering through a rain-streaked window at pedestrians scurrying through the icy downpour, chasing inside-out umbrellas, cursing in half a dozen languages. To…