Joking Through the Pain: A Pandemic Update from Ireland
By Clare Martin | February 19, 2021 | 1:15pm
Irish people don’t own the concept of gallows humor, but they’re certainly well known for it. After all, how else are you going to endure 800 years of oppression from the English? You have to laugh or else you’ll cry. Comedy as a coping mechanism is also baked into internet culture. Just take a scroll through Twitter on any given day. People are joking through the pain, and who can blame us, especially when we are being so collectively let down by our governments? (Other than New Zealand lucky bastards.)