all things considered , it is not unfair to say in summary that by the first decade of this century the first street mayfairs thought of themselves as irish , often making remarks to that effect , and that they emerged in the consciousness of many who knew them - servants and peers alike as almost stereotypically irish in their madness and eccentricity and penchant for the morbid several critics of the family have called them 'raving irish loonies ' and a german priest of st alphonsus church once described them as existing in 'a perpetual state of celtic gloom ' several neighbors and friends referred to mary beth 's son , lionel , as a 'raving irish drunk , ' and his father , daniel mcintyre , was certainly considered to be one , by just about every bartender on magazine street .