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Ireland
What it means to be Irish
 Ireland is St. Patrick. Ireland is the land of saints and scholars. Ancient Hibernia. The Burren in Clare. The Vee. The Cliffs of Moher. Connemara and Galway. The Rind of Kerry. Stunning. Colonized by the British, we won our freedom just eighty years ago. We are a race of artists: musicians, writers, artists, poets. The uillean pipes, the whistle, the fiddle and the box. O Carolan. Sean Ui Riada. Michael O Suilleabhain. Riverdance. De Danann. U2. James Joyce. William Butler Yeats. Patrick Kavanagh. Ulysses. Our sporting heros are worshipped the length and breath of the land. GAA. Rugby. Soccer. All worshipped. We are generous of spirit, though we have suffered much. A famine claimed one million lives here. We have known poverty and malnutrition as well as our African counterparts. Emigration. Economic depression. But we have known great success too. The Celtic Tiger is alive and well, my friends. Today, we are one of the wealthiest countries on earth. A beacon of hope to postcolonial countries throughout Africa and the world. We are blessed indeed. I will miss this fair land, my home, over the next ten months.
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