我母亲娘家在爱尔兰，因此姥姥总是给我讲一些太姥爷在爱尔兰的故事。

My mom's side of the family is Irish. So my grandma would tell me stories about my great-grandpa who was from Ireland.

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爱尔兰的故事犹如一个传说：从一个贫穷落后的国家一度跃为富裕之国，而后又跌落为贫穷国家。

THE story of Ireland is like a fairy tale: from rags to riches and back to rags again.

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罗伊.福斯特是爱尔兰历史研究方面大师级的人物（还著有一部为人称道的作品《现代爱尔兰，从一六零零年到一九七二年》）。 他几乎把爱尔兰的故事一直讲到了今天。

Roy Foster, grandmaster of Irish history (including a brilliant little book “Modern Ireland, 1600-1972”), brings the story almost up to date.

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