Taken from the "Fireside Miscellany: A Collection of Irish Memories, Meanderings and History" - a St. Valentine's Day love story from a by-gone era at the Maple Ballroom, in County Monaghan.
Thomas Fleming writes of the struggles and triumphs of an Irish-American family. ℘℘℘ My County Mayo-born grandfather, David Fleming, could not read or write. He had a brogue so thick I couldn't understand a word he said. But I knew one thing. He was Irish and proud of it. He had a favorite poem that