Thank you everybody for coming. I im a visiting fellow here at coi and f we are here for a gret conversation. It will be a conversation tonight about nationalism, family and fatherhood and the excellent new book i love, my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways this is different from what we do from what i used to. Im a scholar here at aei and fear of the American Enterprise institute forar Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact, social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland, but in a way that highlights what we have in common. It is often as he puts it a nation today in the modern way of thinking is often come up with, at best problematic. It is best problematic as an administrative unit. That section is tipped off by talking up singing to his newborn baby over and over again in the same songs. The wind that shakes the barley and even the game i tried to sing in the global byway i also sing my children t