First aired in a much abbreviated and altered form on Day to Day, 3/17/04
The Braider family moved to Ireland in 1963 because my father was a writer and it was a cheap place to live. Who knew that being the second-best student in religious knowledge at St. Conleth's College (his older brother was the best) would land commentator Jackson Braider in a tableau vivant cruising up and down Dublin's main drag on St. Patrick's Day?
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First aired in a much abbreviated and altered form on Day to Day, 3/17/04 The Braider family moved to Ireland in 1963 because my father was a writer and it was a cheap place to live. Who knew that being the second-best student in religious knowledge at St. Conleth's College (his older brother was the best) would land commentator Jackson Braider in a tableau vivant cruising up and down Dublin's main drag on St. Patrick's Day?
Broadcast History
Aired in a much altered form on Day to Day, 3/17/04
Transcript
St. Patrick’s Day
It was a St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin like most others – that is to say damp and chilly, one of those so-called “soft” Irish days that remind you the place is so green because the sky is so gray.
And it was a typical St. Patrick’s Day – at least for Dublin in the mid-sixties – because there wasn’t much going on. This might come as a shock to the people of New York City and Boston, where “Kiss me, I’m Irish” badges rule.
But in Dublin, there was no green line painted down the middle of O’Connell Street; the Gardai did not come from the three corners of the country to march through the nation’s capitol, and Archbishop McQuaid did not give the faithful dispensation from Lent to eat corned beef and cabbage.
In other words, the Irish did not celebrate the feast of their patron saint in an orgy of stout. It just wasn’t that kind of festival.
I know this beca...
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Review of The St. Patrick's Day Parade, Dublin, 1965
How well I know this story, for it is my own: the young American who learns our myths about the old country across the ocean are just that. Jackson Braider uses his extraordinary skills of narration to guide us through one of those painful moments of disappointment and revelation (if I may use a fitting Biblical term here) that send us hurtling down the road towards maturity. Perfect for a magazine program drop-in looking for a piece that is iconoclastic enough to be interesting, but that also has an uplifting finish.