I like it!

stu_69

A pub, anywhere in Ireland,
Evening sunlight streams through stained glass windows,
turning old oak and glass into a cave of treasures. All
around, the hub of men and women relaxing over their drinks,
talking, laughing, flirting.
The barman catches your eye. This black beer that everyone seems
to be enjoying, you'll try a pint of theat.
As you wait for your pint to settle( for this is part of the ritua
of ensuring its enjoyment), you hear the distinctive sound of a banjo being
tuned. Yes, there it is in hands of a young man sitting at the table under the clock.
An older man reaches under his chair and takes a battered old fiddle from a scuffed
case. From nowhere, guitars appear, a sqeezebox, a silver flute, a tin whistle, a bodhran.
A momentary hush desends.
And then, with one voice, the entire pub erupts into song. As you lift your pint from the bar, savouring the paradoxof a pale, creamy head on nectar so rich it's almost black, you realise that this is it: this wild, foot-stomping, heart-quickening musi, this laughter, this pint, this sheer joy is what the irish call "the craic".
It is the celebration of life itself. And as you lift your pint to your lips
your foot tapping merrily away, you might hear yourself say, with a distinctive Irish lilt, "sure isn't it grand!"
Enjoy it!

TwoShedsJackson

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Ph33R M3!!!!!

neuro-praxis

What's wrong with Stu? I think he's gotten stuck inside an ad...quick!! get into the telly! QUICK!! THERE MAY NOT BE MUCH TIME LEFT!!!


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!


I can't get the TV open! (panicking now) Stu! Stu! Can you still breathe?!

LegacyUser

CT ur just gone in the head where u find this stuff.!!

stu_69

no,no it's ok. I'm going to Australia next week an i have this aunt who thinks i'm going to forget all about ireland so keeps irish music and books about the history of irlean and all that jazz. i thought that passage is such a good reprasentation of ireland today!