Ursula has been staying with me for the past week, playing her viola da gamba for my final film project at school. She'd never been to Ireland before, so it's all been very exciting, like it always is when you go to a new country for the first time.
"What's this Celtic Tiger people keep mentioning?" she asks me, after we overhear someone else's conversation in a bar.
Hmm. The Celtic Tiger, how can I explain it? I'm not entirely sure what it is, really, except that it was to do with people suddenly getting rich and quickly building lots of apartment blocks. Also, wasn't it called the 'Tiger' after a big tiger that escaped from a zoo in China around the same time? Or was that Japan? Either way, I go on about all this for a while, and even manage to slip in the words 'economic' and 'boom', but Ursula just nods and shrugs.
"Okay," she says. "I just thought maybe it was a football team."
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Erm...go Tigers?
ReplyDeleteAlso, is it Celtic with a 'K' sound or Celtic with an 'S' sound?
The football team 'Celtic FC' is with an S sound, and the economic boom thingy is with a K sound, just like everything else Celtic.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why.
Whatever it is, it's stuffed.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a Bertie Ahern movie - "Celtic Tiger, Hidden Euros"
ReplyDeleteand did she mean football or did she mean soccer?
ReplyDeleteJust smile and nod guys. We could be here for hours.
ReplyDeletewhich would be awesome of course Annie. ahem.
ReplyDeleteUh ... I have to admit that I still have no idea what a Celtic Tiger is. Interesting about Celtic FC being a soft C though. I didn't know that.
ReplyDelete'Celtic Tiger, Hidden Euros'! ROFL!
You've been tagged, Annie Rhiannon - as one of the few bloggers I read on a regular basis. ;)
I had to try and explain the Celtic Tiger to my oldest son, who listened patiently during my thorough explanation, waited until I'd finished and then said 'so where did the tiger go once he'd earned all that money?'. Oh go and ask your father.
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