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Jim Buckley's avatar

Loved your story and also loved Mr. Cahill's refreshing and informative book. Pleased I am to be among the real Irish too. Although my grandmother immigrated to the U.S. as a sixteen-year-old girl, she never lost her Irish brogue and passed away with it at the age of 96. It was a lovely lilt, and yes, she actually used to sing me to sleep with an Irish lullaby. While it seems that all Irish songs are sad, it's not of sadness they sing; it's almost always about the unfathomable loneliness of being away from the Emerald Isle!

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SUZANNE PETRIE's avatar

God bless you for such a truly refreshing article! Yes Saint Patrick was a Christian, specifically he is a Roman Catholic Christian because only

the one true Church was around until 1,200 years later with the Protestant revolt. Yes look into how the Catholic Church sustained civilization over the centuries just as you described,

beginning the university system, hospitals, places to care for the poor and orphans. All thanks be to God!!

St. Patrick, pray for us!!

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