I'm Not a Native Irish Speaker, but I Look Like People There, and I'm a Little Bit Raffish.

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i'm used to group in new york where i don't look like most of the people who live there. And so i' in the office where they're promotingth irish, and they're all native irish speakers. They're just brandly talking to each other in a way that like kids like me who took smester of irish at the behest of our parents can't really say anything. I realized, this is what i would have looked like. This is what the language i would have spoken,. If not for the intervention of a lot of history. It was an odd, uncanny feeling to suddenly find myself in the middle of the jean poolthat i was drawn

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