Certainly a cause I'll celebrate, kilted, down at my local pub, but historically, always a source of mixed emotion for me: my grandparents and their siblings enjoyed a nicer standard of living during "Big Pro", as they were all able to step-up their involvement with moonshining & black marketing & even some over-border activities in Quebec. Come the repeal, it was right back to the hardscrabble life of logging, and smack in the Great Depression, no less!
But, it'll be me & Johnny (Jameson) & Art (Guinness), sharing toasts with friends & neighbors, kith, kin & clan; this past year, the Reaper, wearing his own tartan of blood & tears, has taken from our hearth two old firends, a nephew & my only daughter, so we'll be well visited from the Far Shore as well.
So SLAINTE, say I, slainte mhath!