Obligatory shamroguery and paddywhackery post

To begin with, my mother's tribe is from up around Scarriff, and my father's tribe is from East Cork, around Midleton and Glanmire, so we are only distantly related to the Glavins of West Cork, around Mizen Head, about whom a very, very distant cousin relates a story in the New York Times about how that branch of the family is descended from mermaids and disreputable tax collectors.

This is hilarious:



In the better shebeens, the song is banned.

Meanwhile, with the tenth anniversary of Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta upon us, Peter Duffy has a good idea: Let's raise a toast to the Protestants.