‘Irish English is very different. I learn a phrase and build it into my sentences – Ah sure look or The craic was mighty’
“Moving to Ireland is probably the capstone of that. It came as the most pleasant surprise. Just like myself, Ireland is full of people from everywhere. Since I moved, I have known people from India, countries from Latin America; it’s like this melting pot of different cultures that is brewing.” “We don’t drink Guinness, we drink a different beer; we don’t drink whiskey, we drink rum or tequila, but other than that I think we are very related.”“If you look into the history books of South American countries, you will notice there is a strong Irish influence as they were fighting for independence,” he says. “Even some Irish fighters went to South America to fight for our independence. If you look into Venezuela, you have Daniel O’Leary, who wrote most of the story we know today.
One of the biggest challenges he faced after moving to Ireland was the reduction in daylight hours during winter. “It is impossible to have a pint of Guinness in a pub in Dublin on your own. Someone will come and ask you something and you’ll have a conversation. Or, because we live in a small village within a huge city, my barber knows me. He’ll say hi through the window. I go into the butcher on the corner, and he knows what I like. That sense of community and welcome that I feel really represents the friendliness of Irish people,” he says.
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