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James Carroll, Boston Globe
lsquo;THERErsquo;S NO point in being Irish if you donrsquo;t know the world is going to break your heart eventually,rsquo;rsquo; Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed at the assassination of President Kennedy. He added, ldquo;I guess we thought we had a little more time.rsquo;rsquo;Moynihanrsquo;s remark might have seemed even then like an overindulgence of melancholy, yet it now captures the Irish mood as the island nation faces near-insolvency. How could we Irish ever have imagined that we were free of the doom of our fate-laden history?

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