![]() Yet we're still here, quietly plowing the fields and not so quietly plowing our wives, but we're faithful, and we have values, and those are traits Americans tend to be short on, like an empty crayon box lacks crayons.Įnter The Dropkick Murphys. King? Trace the lineage of the Irish settlers in my home state of Arkansas and you'll find men and women who drank hard, fought hard, and worked hard, and what did they get for it? As my Irish great-great-grandfather might have said, "sh ite, lad!" That's what they got. Patrick in the same league as Lincoln or Dr. An unpaid holiday where we have to go to work, then everybody gets drunk and starts fights. The Irish do not get a dignified day to themselves, let alone an entire month. Likely since so many of us are descendants of the Irish, we subconsciously look to appropriate relics of this culture that is so distant, yet so close at the same time. ![]() Review Summary: If you were an Irish leprechaun in search of gold, look no further.įrom Lucky Charms cereal to Irish Spring soap, the almost mystical allure of Ireland has a seemingly limitless appeal for Americans. ![]()
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