The Ireland Dispatches
Questions from four
teenagers at the coral beach near Carraroe, Co. Galway.
Do you really put green in your Guinness on St. Patrick’s Day? Are all your cars
really big? Does everyone drive at 16? Is it true you can’t drink until you’re
21? Not even go into a pub? Are guns really so easy to get there? Why? Do all women there
get breast implants? Are your local phone calls really free? Does everyone go to a
psychiatrist? And: Do all Americans think we dance with leprechauns over here
Favorite music: Celine (girls) Metallica (boys). Favorite movie actor:
Will Smith. Favorite TV show: Friends. Career aspirations: Bridie—photographer,
Maire—Gaelic newscaster ("But I want to make a million pounds before I’m
30." "Go into software," I told her.)
My impression: These were remarkably happy kids. They never want to live anywhere else
(have you ever heard an American teenager say that?) Oh, maybe go to Dublin for college,
but why would anyone want to leave Carraroe?
January 1999
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