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Ваша оценкаFor Frank Gannon, being Irish-American has nothing to do with Lucky Charms, Irish Spring, leprechauns, and "the wretched thing that has been made of St. Patrick's Day." It means returning to the land where his deceased parents were born in search of his own Irish identity. Soon, he will discover much about his mother and father, and even more about himself. MIDLIFE IRISH draws on the universal themes of love, loss, and laughter that have kept the Irish both miserable and happy-often at the same ...
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Аноним6 ноября 2014 г.Читать далееI heard a strange expression in Ireland: “thin place.” I asked an old man to explain it to me. He looked at me as if it were a hard thing to explain, but he would try.
There’s this world and the next world. Some people call the next world Heaven or Hell, but no one who is in this world has ever been there, so no one can say what it’s like there. It’s just the next world. The door is shut and you can’t see what’s behind the door. Ireland is filled with very religious people, but no one knows exactly what “the next world” is like; they just know that it is there. That’s the faith.
But there are certain places on earth that are closer to the next world. There aren’t many places like that. But in these places, you are much closer to the next world than you normally are. You are so close to the next world that you can feel it: You can sense it. You can’t quite see it, but it’s very, very close. You close your eyes and you’re almost there. A “thin place” is a place that is very, very close to the next world. Ireland is filled with little spots they call “thin places.”
He mentioned some places in Ireland, but for me (and I think a lot of other visiting Americans), Ireland itself is one large, extremely thin place.12- Аноним6 ноября 2014 г.
But reading about Ireland is reading about a departing. The songs about leaving and the songs about dying are the same songs.
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Until fairly recently in Ireland the only economic factor was land. Since the English had permanently taken all the land, Irish people for centuries were faced with these options: A) Live in poverty and pay the English landlord; B) Make some weapons, band together, and then kill the English landlord; C) Leave.
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