Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.
Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.