"Here's to the three birds! May you always have a bird on the table, a bird in your glass and an eagle in your pocket."
I first heard that toast when I was very young from an elderly neighbor. It was a toast from her childhood in the early 1920s. The toast her mother and uncles always used. Already something of an antique in Jazz Age America.…
ContinueAdded by Sarah Nagle on December 24, 2014 at 10:30am — 3 Comments
This was originally in the Winter 2014 edition of Celtic Life magazine. One person's (mine) view of what it means to be part Irish, Irish-American, and not always fit in a box.
Added by Sarah Nagle on December 15, 2014 at 4:41pm — 1 Comment
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