Commentary: How a proud Utah son won a limerick-writing contest in Ireland

There is a statue of James Joyce in Dublin, Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, and Frank McCourt got the Pulitzer. None of those great Irish writers, however, won a tour group bus limerick contest on the Emerald Isle.No, it was this Irish-American from Utah who captured that particular literary distinction. Although I have always enjoyed writing prose, Ireland’s whitewashed cottages, thousand shades of green, and Guinness-on-tap brought out the poet in me.Ancestry.com says I am 97% Irish,