Never mind "where am I." LOL where was MinLo when we needed him.?
Hope you and Tera and the young ones are fine. Best wishes.
The question, of course, is why such details of birth would be described as distinctively "Irish," and thereby hangs an unfortunate tale. The use of "Irish" as a derogatory prefix in a variety of vernacular terms dates back to at least the 17th century, and arose largely in response to large-scale Irish immigration into both England and America. It's a sad fact that every immigrant group encounters hostility at least at first, and the Irish became the butt of numerous linguistic jokes in both countries commenting on their "strangeness," poverty or supposed proclivities for drunkenness, violence and loose morality. Thus "Irish confetti" was slang for bricks used as projectiles, an "Irish kiss" was a slap in the face, an "Irish banjo" was a shovel, and so on. (For a good rundown of anti-Irish slurs and terms of national prejudice in general, I recommend Hugh Rawson's excellent book Wicked Words).
In the case of "Irish twins" or "Irish triplets," the slur was actually a triple-whammy, implying that the Irish were more likely to bear children in quick succession because of the Catholic Church's proscription of birth control, less likely to restrain themselves from procreating, and unable to understand the proper meaning of the terms "twins" and "triplets."
Hows that MinLo.lol
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