The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyoneto wish their enemies ill.-Harold NicolsonWhen I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'memotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish arevery emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beercommercials.- Former U.S. General Barry McCaffreyIreland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenthcentury society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed thetwentieth century.