Bavaria is wonderful. They also have the wonderful Rottweiller, my favourite dog of all from the Black Forest. Also marvellously Conservative, bless 'em.
I love this song. My mother still sings it, God bless her. Ireland is such a beautiful country, Padraig.
The world's other Emerald Isle is Montserrat in the Carribean, so called because the Irish and African salves tilled it together. Thence a proliferation of Irish surnames. You need to google Montserrst Irish accent, will blow your mind. Descendants of African slaves speaking with obvious Irish accents
Southern Alabama, near Mobile. Ancestors from Cahiciveen, Kerry and Mullingar, Westmeath, and Kildare.