Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Begorrah! Is dat a cliche I see before me?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ghost-estates-and-broken-lives-the-human-cost-of-the-irish-crash-2136104.html
A nice vignette from this piece:
......Like many others, Mr O'Hara's anger is aimed at the banks, which have already been bailed out and seem destined to force the government to seek further help of some kind from Ireland's European partners. "Everyone is responsible for their own actions, but the burden is being brought to bear on the people on the end of the line. In Ireland right now, it's better to owe ¤50m than ¤50,000. The people who have sinned the most are suffering the least," he said, sitting in his cottage along the borderlands between Leitrim and Sligo, in the boggy north-west of the country. "I don't know what's coming, but I know what we've got isn't going to stay. I've lost all faith and confidence in our system."..........
"In the boggy north west"?
We've cottage and pottage of all shapes and sizes
New builds and custom jobs, lovely devizes
We've landscapes and seascapes rugged vistas the besht
And eye-sore eshtates in the boggy north wesht.
We've wee-men and he-men twinkly-eyed ten-a-penny,
Hurl-wielding shillelagh swinging leprechauns from Kilkenny
We've peat-soft, dew-eyed lachrymose poets the beshtIn our culchie-ful, cliché-ridden, boggy north-wesht.
You can't swing a thing like a cat round your headWithout braining a virginal coleen awling stone dead
You can dance at the cross roads decked out in your beshtTill you're neck deep in debt in our boggy north-wesht.# posted by Flann O'Brien @ 4:40 PM 
