The March Issue: Smithsonian Magazine has a rather "euphoric" article about "the new Ireland." While it would be great to believe that things are really the way the article claims, it sounds a little too much like the sort of thing a travel agent – or a high rolling promoter might spout.

You'll need to download a .pdf (200.93 KB) to read the whole article. It's only four pages, and unfortunately doesn't include the pretty pictures from the magazine. My quick look at both shows the full text is in the .pdf. ( and F.Y.I the ladies in the pictures were delightful, and apparently quite happy. I'm not a good judge of those of the other sort.)

It seemed a little longish to post, so I'll leave it to your curiosity to download.

The questions are:

– is it really that great?
– and is everybody there really that happy about it?

And if they're feedin' us a line, what's the real Irish view?

John