Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day

Whisker Administrator I live in Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,860	Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 15, 2016 9:53:39 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Whisker on Mar 15, 2016 9:53:39 GMT Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Inside Politics: Enda Kenny’s mix of breezy optimism and aul’ soddery goes down a storm with audiences in Washington Read More:

Whisker Administrator I live in Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,860	Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 15, 2016 10:26:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Whisker on Mar 15, 2016 10:26:00 GMT Thanks, barkerdude! You too!
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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 17, 2016 22:01:16 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 22:01:16 GMT Very interesting article!

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Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 1:12:55 GMT

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Glad you enjoyed it, @pingin. The next couple of weeks are critical as regards Enda's holding onto his position as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) after fairly dicey results in the recent General election. He is fighting hard to create a stable government with the amount of support he has.

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 21:20:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 21:20:53 GMT It would be interesting to hear what he & President Obama talked about in private, huh?

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Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 21:26:19 GMT

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I heard it said somewhere that President Obama said that he would like to be Ambassador to Ireland after his term as US President finishes. He would certainly be most welcome. There is one village in Ireland where he would be more welcome than anywhere else and that is where his eighth cousin, Henry, lives.

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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 21:30:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 21:30:18 GMT Oh, isn't that cool! This brings up something - in Ireland are there many .. black people? the term over here is African/American, but that wouldn't be correct there.

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Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 21:36:17 GMT

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I don't think the proportion of black people in Ireland would be as high as in the US. Mostly they are fairly recent immigrants and would probably be named after the African country from where they originate, such as Kenyan, Nigerian etc. Of course we have some that are naturalized Irish, and have been born in in Ireland, but I'm not sure how they are referred to. Far as I know, we don't have a term like "African American". If we do, then it should be "African Irishman", but I've never heard that. Maybe it does exist - who knows?

Good question, @pingin!

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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 21:43:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 21:43:54 GMT Thanks. I just checked on "Wiki", the US is 13.2% black & 2.5% two or more races. I've had many black co-workers & friends & right now we have 4-5 neighbors who are. We live in a 55+ community.

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Irish eyes turn stateside for St Patrick’s Day Mar 18, 2016 21:47:08 GMT

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Mar 18, 2016 21:43:54 GMT @pingin said:

Thanks.
I just checked on "Wiki", the US is 13.2% black & 2.5% two or more races. I've had many black co-workers & friends & right now we have 4-5 neighbors who are. We live in a 55+ community.

Interesting, @pingin!

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