Re: "Danny Boy" on Shamrock Day?

In article <13tdrsm7qmh17ec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(David Harmon) wrote:

> 
> There's no particular irony in the above.  You are confusing sarcasm
> with irony.  It's about one coincidence short of irony.

Incidentally, I've just looked sarcasm up in Chambers:

"an often ironical expression of scorn or contempt; the use of such an
expression"

So, it seems to me that something can be both ironic and sarcastic.