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Pastimes : A letter to Monica (Edwarda)
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To: Neocon who wrote (122)8/2/2000 3:23:06 PM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (1) of 315
 
Hmm! I always viewed it the other way. Take Yates or Bram Stoker. The British consider them English instead of Irish. Even Oscar Wilde is considered to be English in spite of his eventual ill repute.

But no, I tend to think of people being from Ireland as being Irish regardless of creed. Look at the first president of Israel, for example. Or the two former Jewish Mayors of Dublin.

Heck, I have an good friend who is Irish-Catholic. His family has it's roots in Dublin; his surname is Goldstein.

They don't buy him a lot of drinks in Irish pubs but then the Irish don't buy a lot of drinks period.

Now taken the other way, the first president of the Irish Republic is from Brooklyn, and let us not leave that actor who seems to delight in taking the English to task in his movies.....Mel Gibson....who is a New Yorker by birth.

Actually, I do not really care much whether one considers Mad Max as being a New Yorker or an Australian, but it seemed like an okay way to finish the post.
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