“It’s a celebration of our people. A celebration of their survival in the face of political and religious instability. In the face of starvation and oppression and the fucking English’s attempts at genocide. It’s everyone from Queen Medb to Grace O’Malley to Mary Robinson. It has na always been that, I know, and there are problematic parts to be sure. I mentioned earlier the luck of the Irish? The phrase itself came from racist pricks who thought Irish success could only be because of luck, rather than any skill; but even that’s na fair. We do have luck, in our folklore and pantheons. We were
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