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1 he Irish are a people whose wars are always merry and whose songs are always sad. They sing those terribly sad songs, after tipping too many a glass, because there is something in the blood that requires it. St. Patrick’s Day is merely the annual public revelation of the very private ethnic memory of the Irish. The memory, as O’Faolain says, “is in the blood and bones of every Irishman, as inflammable as
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