by Rebecca Dance<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t realize I was Irish for the longest time, even though my mother\u2019s maiden name is McCarthy, my favorite storybook when I was a little kid was <\/span>Hush: A Gaelic Lullaby<\/span><\/i>, by Carole Gerber, and my mother makes corned beef every Saint Patrick\u2019s Day. Looking back, I can\u2019t believe I didn\u2019t figure out I was Irish earlier. I mean, I learned \u201cRattlin\u2019 Bog\u201d as a sing-along at Girl Scout camp and didn\u2019t realize it had any other uses until I got to college. Really, it wasn\u2019t until my aunt gave me a jewelry box full of my grandmother\u2019s jewelry and I decided I wanted her Claddagh ring that the pieces started to fall into place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With this publication coming out on Saint Patrick\u2019s Day, I wanted to write about something that called in my heritage, and the theme of the day, and I settled on \u201cKiss me, I\u2019m Irish.\u201d I understand that it\u2019s meant to represent luck. Ireland, the Emerald Isle, home of the leprechauns and their pots of gold, is, in theory, a very lucky place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Take a moment to think about it though: in what universe has it been lucky to be Irish? Without even diving into the issues between the British and Irish, I can just even start with the potato famine and being forced to scatter to other places. It sure isn\u2019t that lucky to be Irish when you think about that. Also, leprechauns aren\u2019t particularly lucky – they\u2019re considered to be chaotic neutral at best and downright devilish at worst. They don\u2019t want to give you any gold, or grant you any wishes. Their magic is finicky at the best of times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, coming up on this Saint Patrick\u2019s Day, I hope that everyone has a beautiful weekend. Go looking for a four leaf clover, or a pot of gold. However, if you see me – please don\u2019t kiss me. I might be Irish, but I think the kissing is best left to my boyfriend. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Rebecca Dance I didn\u2019t realize I was Irish for the longest time, even though my mother\u2019s maiden name is McCarthy, my favorite storybook when I was a little kid was Hush: A Gaelic Lullaby, by Carole Gerber, and my mother makes corned beef every Saint Patrick\u2019s Day. Looking back, I can\u2019t believe I didn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/St_Patricks_Day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}