THE IRISH HAVE HAD ENOUGH - THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK WAS AN ATTEMPTED BEHEADING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
If you are of Irish heritage (and I am) you will want to read this article.
Maurine Steele of "PJ" wrote: "The Irish don’t merely endure history. They wrestle it. Usually after three pints.
For centuries, they have endured conquest, famine, poverty, occupation, political violence, religious division, and enough hardship to make lesser peoples curl into a ball and quit.
The Great Famine alone scattered millions across the globe. Entire families boarded ships with little more than hope and a prayer. They arrived in America and discovered that life wasn’t exactly rolling out a red carpet for them either.
Signs reading “No Irish Need Apply” weren’t myths. Irish immigrants dug canals, built railroads, hauled stone, laid foundations, and worked some of the hardest jobs in the country. Alongside Italians, Scots, and countless other immigrant groups, they helped build the physical bones of America.
Their reward was often poverty, discrimination, and tenements packed tighter than a Dublin pub on St. Patrick’s Day.
And yet they survived. They always survive. That may be the defining Irish trait. Not optimism.
Not luck (ah, remember Murphy’s law?). Defiance.
The Irish possess a remarkable ability to look catastrophe squarely in the face and respond with some variation of: “Well, this is terrible. Whose round is it?”
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