[wardaddy]

and what about Cromwell's orphans ...the Prod Scots Irish like me

we are the largest cracker DNA source in Dixie but all I ever hear about are Yankee Paddies.

[Fintan]

Hayden writes: "Drinking was the only Irish legacy passed along to me. You drink because you're Irish, I learned, which soon became you're Irish because you drink. Writ large, it was a coping mechanism for the Irish as a whole."

 

Nonsense. Drinking isn't the only legacy passed on to my people. We're also quite capable of turning funerals into front page news, and weddings highlighted by blood and broken teeth. And that's just the bridesmaids.