Ireland 2003

Kissing the Blarney Stone
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Who knows why kissing the Blarney stone exercises so much fascination?  The story goes that a man by the name of Cormac MacCarthy strung Queen Elizabeth I along with promises and prevarications, until she couldn't take it anymore and exclaimed in exasperation: "Blarney, Blarney!  What he says he does not mean", and thus the word entered the language.  Legend now has it that kissing the stone endows one with "The Gift of Gab".

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