Hate is a toxic emotion. Hate is a dark, negative, tumultuous, heavy, internal, disgusting, poisonous, vile feeling that will hurt others and hurt you. Hate lashes out with ugliness, spewing out words ...

And they wrote songs about it. Joan Jett built a career on a song about hating love with “I Hate Myself for Loving You.” But country music has its fair share of love-hating songs, too.

It's been fifteen years since characters like Nidge, Fran, John Boy, Trish and Darren became part of the Irish cultural lexicon, and sayings like "I’ve a bone to pick with you, Nidgey" and "Get ...