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A Taste 'o Ireland
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Recipe

Irish Stew

1 pound lean mutton pieces
1 pound carrots
1 pound onions
1 pound potatoes
salt & pepper
pinch of thyme

Place the mutton with thyme in a saucepan and add coldwater to cover. Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for one hour. Add onions, potatoes, carrots, all peeled. Season with salt and pepper. Continue cooking until vegetables are tender. Adjust seasoning. May be served alone or with cooked green cabbage or sprouts. Serves 4

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Recipe

Irish Omelette

4 large eggs
1 large mashed potato
some lemon juice
1 Tablespoon of Chives
Salt and Pepper
1 Tablespoon of Butter

Separate the eggs and beat the yolks. Add then to the mashed potato, mixing thoroughly and then add the lemon juice, chives, and salt and pepper. Melt the butter in a pan. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and stir them into the potato mixture. Cook the mixture until golden and then run under the broiler to finish and puff it up. Serves 2

Recipe

Irish Coffee

60 ml of Irish Whiskey
1 teaspoon of brown sugar
Freshly made strong black coffee
Double cream freshly whipped to peak

Gently warm an Irish Whiskey/Coffee glass in hot water. Pour whiskey and sugar into the glass and stir. Add the fresh made coffee filling the glass to within half an inch or so of the top. Pour the cream onto the top of the mixture gently using the back of a spoon to prevent splashing. Do not stir. Add grated chocolate to the top if required.

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Recipe

Black Velvet

1/2 qt Guinness
1/2 qt Champagne

Combine Guinness and champagne in a tall very chilled glass. Stir gently and serve.

A
Little
Irish
Laughter

Mick and Paddy were walking home after a night on the beer when a severed head rolled along the ground. Mick picked it up to his face and said to Paddy "Jez, that look like Sean" to which Paddy replied "No Sean was taller than that." 
A cop pulls up Barty and Joey-Jim, both the worse for drink, and says to the first, "What's your name and address?" 

"I'm Barty O'Day, of no fixed address." 

The cop turns to the second drunk, and asks the same question. 

"I'm Joey-Jim O'Flaherty, and I live in the flat above Barty." 

Joey-Jim was tooling along the road one fine day when the local policeman, a friend of his, pulled him over. 

"What's wrong, Seamus?" Joey-Jim asked. 

"Well didn't ya know, Joey-Jim, that your wife fell out of the car about five miles back?" said Seamus. 

"Ah, praise the Almighty!" he replied with relief. "I thought I'd gone deaf!" 

McCarthy is lying in the hospital bed. The doctor has left telling him he's only got about 3 hours to live. The priest has come and gone, having offered the last rites. Now its just McCarthy and in the chair next to him, his wife.
"Did ya hear what they said?" he asked. "Yes I did" she answered.
"Do you suppose, in light of that, we could do it one more time?"
"No" she says.
"Oh please darlin', its been such a long time."
"No" she says.
"Can't you think about ME this once?"
"It's always about you, isn't it? You don't have to get up in the morning."
O'Leary is at home in his bed, and he's dyin'. All his friends and relatives, the doctor and the priest have come and gone, and its just O'Leary and his wife who is sitting in the chair along side him.
He's very peaceful and content when he smells some thing delightful and familiar.
"What is that wonderful smell I smell coming from your kitchen" he asks.
"That'd be corned beef and cabbage cooking there" she answers.
"Might I have just a bit of it before I have to go? he asks.
"No" she replies, "that's for your wake."
Muldoon has died and finds himself at the gates of heaven. St. Peter says, "Ah its you Muldoon, let's look you up in the good book to see how well you treated your fellow man".
After flipping thru millions of pages, St. Peter cannot find any mention of Muldoon, and is ready to deny him admission to heaven.
"Can you look one more time", asks Muldoon, "I must of done something good".
St. Peter agrees, and very carefully turns each page looking for Muldoon's name. Finally, on page 87,393,000 he finds that once, a long time ago, Muldoon put 10 cents in the collection plate.
"Hmm", says St. Peter, "I'm going to have to consult a higher authority, wait here."
About 15 minutes later, St. Peter returns. "Well", says Muldoon, "can I come in now?"
"I was told to give you your dime back and tell you to go to hell"
Three Irish brothers, each less than a year apart, are sitting in the pub one night. The had gone to school together, studied together, played together, did everything together. But now they were in their 20's and it was time for them to make their way in the world. One bother is staying in Ireland, one is going to Australia, and the third, to New York City. They made a pact that no matter where they were, whenever they went into a pub, they would always order not one but three beers in honor of the other two.
The brother arrived in New York, and after getting settled, found the nearest pub. He asked the bartender for 3 beers.
When the bartender drew and seved the 3 beers, he explained that the Irishman could order them one at a time, and that's when the Irishman explained about the pact and always ordering 3 at a time, in honor of the other two. And so it went every night.
The following Monday night the Irishman ordered only two beers. "Oh my God", thought the bartender. "how do I handle this?"
As he served the 2 beers, the bartender said, " I'm so sorry you suffered such a loss, was it your brother in Ireland or the one in Australia who passed away?"
"Ah, nothing like that, I spoke to them just last night."
"Then why only 2 beers?" asked the bartender.
"Me wife put me on a diet."

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Hey, don’t forget McCarty!
The names Carty, Carth and McCarthy rank among the 20 most popular names in Ireland. These names were derived from the native Gaelic MacCarthaigh Septs that were mainly based in the province of Munster and were particularly prominent in the Counties of Cork and Kerry, where the majority of descendents can be found.
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