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they go to work as farm hands, aoprentiees, bellboys
and newsboys. Girls nain desire is for haopiness in
their rnarriage. A funeral is sti11 a naJor eonrunity
event, wlth solenn ranks of dark-suited nen narehing
behind the hearse. The old-styIe drunken Irish wake
is a thlne of the past. It is still unconmon to own
a telephone and there i-s only a single direetory for
the whole of the Irish Republic--and then half the
entries have Dublin numbers.
The average Irishmen is not the most reliable
and efficient of workers, althoush he does well overseas
as long as he has an authority head over hjm and
has responded satisfactorily to the traininE pros?ams
in Irelandts new foreign-cr^nred factories. A laborer
is likely to just disanpear if the job is sornehow
displeasinr. The Irishman lives fron day to day in a
state of some physical and nental disorder and also
untidiness, withort nmch thousht for tornorrow.
Since the year 1900, the Irish are lrrown to be
f amous as drearners, and drearns are easier than aetion.
Color blindness is a trait of some of the frish. It iS
a defective color pereeption. Independent of the
capaeity for distine'r:ishing lieht and shade, and form.
Children uninterruotedly inhertt this characteristia or
trait from either Darent.
The eonventional Irish nother has sueh a strong
influence over her sons that she sometimes delays
thelr mamiases fcrr years. 0n the other hand, she
encourages her dauqhters to mamy at an earJ.y ape.
For most ccuples today in lreland, life is a
eonstant struggle and the wife is forced to work in
order to cope with debts and the rising cost of
living.
Skilled frish workers are turning out everything
from Duteh pianos to South Aflican industrial diamonds.
Canada and the Continent have located over 5C0 new
plants and projects in Ireland since 1960. fndustrial
exports now exceed agricultural exports in value and
emigration which traditionally drained off Irelandrs
youth, has been slowed from hhrOOO in 1950 to 2500 of
last year.