Publisher's Synopsis
What do you get when you mix kilts, guilt, Guinness, bagpipes, emotional damage, and a lot of shouting?
You get Whiskey & Wailing-a brutally honest, hilariously heartfelt guide to surviving life as a Scottish-Irish-American in a world that still thinks "Top o' the morning" is a real thing.
From the muddled madness of family trees that look like battlefield schematics, to the noble failure of trying to learn Gaelic via an app that now judges you-this book dives headfirst into the identity crisis of those blessed (or cursed?) with both Celtic fire and American confusion.
You'll laugh.
You'll cry.
You'll apologize for crying.
You'll fight with a cousin over the correct way to boil a potato.
Whether you descend from warriors, poets, or that one uncle who insists he's the rightful Laird of somewhere, Whiskey & Wailing is your passport to navigating tartan trauma, ancestral melodrama, and the rich, ridiculous joy of carrying two entire cultures in your heart-and your DNA test.
Perfect for anyone who's ever:
- Felt too Irish for the Scots and too Scottish for the Irish
- Cried during a fiddle solo and blamed it on the weather
- Said "Sláinte" and been corrected 37 different ways
- Considered genealogy a form of bloodsport
- Believed sarcasm counts as emotional intimacy
And if your idea of therapy is drinking tea while yelling at 18th-century census records, welcome home.
