“An Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination.”

[Today’s blog post is a four-peat of one about Irish writers—celebrating St. Paddy’s Day, of course! Somehow, I missed this last year. Irish men and women have migrated to the far corners of the Earth. Some have migrated back. Some stayed home. They have suffered the boom and bust of late 20th and early 21st century economics. Their Church scandals involving priests and choirboys, and unwed mothers and evil nuns, have made ours in the U.S. seem minor, yet Ireland is still the most Catholic co...