America has been flooded with illiterate Irish, Italian and Slavic peasants in the past, yet in three generations the newcomers were almost wholly absorbed into the American middle class.
The Irish are right that they have enough money to last until the middle of next year (the treasury has around euro20 billion of cash squirrelled away).
爱尔兰人确信他们有足够的资金直到明年中旬（国库已经花费了大约200亿欧元的现金储备）。
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The man who knew every detail of the Irish and Middle East peace processes would not have been expected to simply read books to schoolchildren on trips abroad or deal with flowers for state dinners.