http://youtu.be/X37sSI8AVq4 Fighting Irish. Today, these words evoke fields of play -- a perhaps too-easy association that the commercials are designed to moderate. But the origin of the phrase is decidedly more martial and springs from the field of battle. For "Fighting Irish" is the monicker under which scores of men, including the poet Joyce Kilmer who made the phrase famous, died. This year, this championship season, it is fitting to explore from whence The Fighting Irish came. I am ...