And then I’d walk into somewhere like the Blackwater Tavern, along the back roads of Kerry, just as the all-Ireland football finals between Cork and Down were beginning.
Twenty years later his Sinn Fein party took a dive in the south's general election; the people had swapped their all-Ireland dream for pride that the republic was now richer than the north.
二十年后，他的新芬党在南部大选中佯装战败，民众用爱尔兰统一梦换取了因经济强于北部而生的自豪之情。
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In 1845, a deadly disease struck the farms of Ireland, killing all the Lumper potato plants.