In Barney Kiernan’s pub, what does belonging look like? What do language and cliché have to do with self-determination, nationalism, and inclusion? Our wide-ranging interlocutors are Jim Ward, tour guide of Nora Barnacle’s Galway home, Valérie Bénéjam, maître de conférences at the University of Nantes, France, Daniel Mulhall, Irish Ambassador to the United States, András Kappanyos, professor at Miskolc University, Hungary, and Vincent Cheng, born in Taiwan and professor at the University of Utah.