It's St. Patrick's Day: A day when we are confronted at every turn by craven caricatures of Irish people. We drink. We fight. We sing incoherently. We throw up on the sidewalk and then we drink some more. As a counterbalance to all that I offer you a random list of extraordinary Irish people whose reputations were built on something other than drinking, brawling and vomiting. Read it all at once, or use each entry as a palate cleansing sorbet between pints.
Note: to those of you who bemoan the lack of ethnic diversity in many Pajiba random lists, I did want to include Phil Lynnott (to whom we owe the title quote) and the long-awaited biopic of him, but four years on it's still in pre-production and Idris Elba is now too old to play him. By way of consolation, consider that Pierce Brosnan is what's known as "Black Irish...
Note: to those of you who bemoan the lack of ethnic diversity in many Pajiba random lists, I did want to include Phil Lynnott (to whom we owe the title quote) and the long-awaited biopic of him, but four years on it's still in pre-production and Idris Elba is now too old to play him. By way of consolation, consider that Pierce Brosnan is what's known as "Black Irish...
- 3/17/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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