Ah, but divided by religion and more important football.
To be serious for a moment, and I hope Robin is capable of same at the
moment and adds in a lot more than I know about the subject, the English,
beginning with James I & VI, used the Scots against the Irish, planting a
bunch of them in Ulster, where they remain a distinct community that has,
since the founding of the Irish Republic, become in its turn embattled.
Mark
At 01:30 PM 3/16/2005, you wrote:
>Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
>>>B'Jaysus, this sounds like St. Patrick's Day night in the Killarney
>>>Castle bar on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan back when I was a raw/roar yute.
>>>Pictures of the leaders of the October 1916 uprising all over the walls,
>>>place smelled like the inside of a beer barrel, even for an un-nice
>>>Jewish boy it was great:-).
>>>
>>>Ken
>>>
>>
>>Try humming "Sean South of Garryone" in the middle of a Glagow building site
>>in the sixties.
>>
>Without knowing a thing about the song, why do I think I'd need to have
>made my funeral arrangements beforehand, which would include a mortician
>who could reassemble me for the viewing?
>
>>Especially if you hummed it in the middle of a quite seriously heavy Glasgow
>>illiterate bog-Irish Catholic gang most of whose grandfathers got wasted
>>alongside Sean.
>>
>Confusion fall.... I woulda thunk the Irish and Scots were united by at
>least one thing: loathing England. Maybe not a time or place for a
>history lesson, but still....
>
>ken
>
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