abc wednesday - I is for "Irish"

On St. Patrick's Day here in NYC (well,

actually, this is Brooklyn: the courthouse and 

my subway station), it doesn't matter

whether your family is from Dublin or

Dubai, County Cork or Cancun—on this one day, 

we're all Irish.  Erin go bragh from

English-Scots-French-Polish-Danish me!

[See more abc wednesday here.]

Erin go bragh!

I have not one drop of Irish blood in my

veins, but on St. Patrick's Day we're ALL

Irish! So I'll be a good sport and wear

something green. Actually, the Irish

loom rather large in NYC and we've been

celebrating for a while; there was already

a parade in Queens on the 1st, and one

on Staten Island on the 8th. At that one,

Mayor Bloomberg veered off the parade

route and visited the home of some local

residents, where he chowed down on

corned beef and cabbage and played with

their dog, Elvis. (The Manhattan parade is

still pretty political.)