Is there more to Irishness than pints, crisps, funerals and not being British?

December 20, 2011 at 6:41 pm · Filed under Identity ·Tagged Celtic, Ethnicity, Halitosis, Ireland, Irish, Irish American, Irish people, Irish Times

An article from the Irish Times touches upon this question.  Essentially Shane Hegarty discusses a new book titled Stuff Irish People Love.  For Hegarty, if there is a thread in the book, ‘it is a longing to live up to the stereotype of a mischievous bunch, simultaneously baffling and charming outsiders. It’s how the world wants to see us, so why fight it? Although, you wonder if the world is just being polite to us. Given the preponderance of alcohol, crisp sandwiches and fried food in these books, perhaps number one on the world’s list of things Irish people love is “having bad breath’.

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