Happy Eat A Potato And Get Shot By An Englishman Day!

[theweaselking]

Brad Hicks, with a comment that fits well with the attitude that everyone's Irish one day a year:

Every country that has ever seen Ireland, more or less, has wanted to invade and colonize or conquer it. If you go back to the earliest recorded history of Ireland, the Ballad of Amergin, what do you see? The Milesian Celts invading Ireland, where the Tuatha de Danaan (previous invaders) had just finished fighting an alliance of the Fomorians (the invaders before them) and the Fir Bolg (the people before them). And that's how it's gone ever since: somebody new invades, uniting the previous invaders (who now collectively call themselves "the Irish") against the new invaders. Who, win or lose, then become "as Irish as the Irish." As the famous saying goes, nobody's more Irish than the Donegals, and what does their name mean? "Those foreigners from Denmark."

Comments

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

I don't mention it much, but my grandma's maiden name was McMahon.

Happy St. Patrick's.

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a quarter Irish, and have the right name to go with the Irish blood.

It's been said that whiskey was invented to keep the Irish from taking over the world. So far it's worked, but what if we get sober?

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

Hah! What if indeed. You know perfectly well that's never gonna happen.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I'm half-Ukranian, quarter-Italian, eighth-Irish, and eighth-Scottish.

You'd *think* my alcohol tolerance would be a little better, but noooo....