‘Paddies are changing the world’: exhibition seeks to debunk Irish stereotypes
New York photography project features 50 boys and men named Paddy of various backgrounds
The quintessential Irish name is famous often for the wrong reasons. There are Paddy jokes, paddy wagons and “thick Paddies” – the latter a generic insult used against anyone from Ireland.
It seldom matters if an individual’s given name is Patrick, Pádraig, Pádraic or Pat – in the eyes of the world and fellow Irish people, that still makes him Paddy and an embodiment of Irishness.
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