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Outside Molly Darcy's Traditional Irish Pub last Sunday, Thomas Clifford, producer of the cable program "Ireland on the Move," struggled with a video camera as he shot footage of the South Boston Saint Patrick's Day parade...
...immigrant from County Kerry, Ireland, Clifford remarked that his temporarily broken video truck almost cost him the ability to cover the parade, but he added with a smile, "Everything always works out for the best...
Nancy Murphy of Beacon Hill said the ubiquitious bagpipers were closely tied to Ireland...
...bagpipes are an embodiment of the spirit of Ireland," she said. "They are meant to carry you home. If you have left [Ireland], they tell you, good luck and God bless you--but don't forget who you are or where you are from...
...potato blight which killed crops throughout Ireland was the final movement in this first symphony of sorrows, to be joined later by Civil War and the Troubles. Potatoes were all that was left for most Irish people to eat. By 1845, potatoes had become the sole staple of the Irish diet. When they were gone, there was no food available to the poor. They could not afford anything else, and it was knowingly not given to them, prompting some historians to label the Famine not as an unfortunate calamity but as a genocide...