Proud! Why, I should think you would just parade around about proper over that! "And you can always be proud that you are born an Irishman.

My father is Irish, and if you want to see him get up and strut give him a teeny opening to enlarge on his race.

He says that if the Irish had decent territory they'd lead the world.

He says they've always been handicapped by lack of space and of fertile soil.

He says if Ireland had been as big and fertile as Indiana, why, England wouldn't ever have had the upper hand.