C'est moi votre mutuel ancien

The Sick Bed of Cuchulain

The Taoiseach is the head of government ' the head of state is President Connolly.

I found him via the algo also. His "Nick Drake for grown-ups" vibe deserves to be vastly better known.

Let's call the whole thing off

You see the problem!

Well it wasn't exactly equivalent - but the blueshirts were a bad lot, alright.

O'Toole is really only interested in Dublin, and not the rest of this peculiar island. His vision of Irish life is heavily influenced by his anti-Fianna Fáil bent, which is a justified bent that he may have bent too far.

This is talking about the Irish situation before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967! Our civil service then was still modeled on that of our former British rulers. . . The comparison with the land of the Tsars is a new one on me, I have to say.

"We should have listened to that old Jewish man from Vermont", they said, as the icy waters of the North Atlantic lapped about their ankles.

No.

Oh yeah, not bad!

Maybe it wasn't meant maliciously? 😉

I think you misspelled "living the dream".