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Photos    Monahan's Well  By Jerry Curry  St. Padraic's Day is
Tuesday, March 17  On this day, all of us of Irish descent
across the planet get a little weird and there are many of us.
It truly can be said there are more Irish outside of Ireland
than there are in Ireland these days.  And it probably also is
true that we are a contentious people. We also think, sometimes,
too much of ourselves; all Irish are not this way - me, for
example.  The British say any organization of 10 Irishers will
fast break down into 10 splinter groups. That is the reason the
British used to extend their benevolent hand over the Irish
until we kicked them out of the 26 counties in 1922. On that we
agreed. Some of us are still working on getting them out of six
counties in the Northeast and we will prevail - Erin Go Bragh!
(That's Irish for Ireland Forever)  Time for a few lines from an
outlaw tune - Listen to the pipes wail across the street out of
the public house, pa