David Flood
"Howard Beale" <howard@REMOVEmad-as-hell.com>wrote in message news:a8l4he$53c$1@dorito.esatclear.ie...

Howard Beale
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AC
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:54:37 GMT, vonroach@ix.netcom.com (vonroach) wrote:

vonroach
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:11:05 +0100, Feachadoir <Feach@d.oir>wrote:

Scriobh Fergus O'Rourke :

Fergus O'Rourke
You are both missing (evading ?) the point.

David Flood suggested that insulting the British monarch was a dangerous thing in 19th century Ireland.

But *was* it ?

I'd say it was safe enough in Connemara. I wouldn't think it was a bright idea in the Belfast shipyards though.

vonroach
Irish are not noted for bright ideas. Just fantasies hatched over a pint of suds.

AC
That's pretty strange, considering Ireland has produced some of the finest writers in the English language; including (but not limited to) Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Swift and George Bernard Shaw.

Howard Beale
Still a bunch of headers, most of them...

David Flood
Well, we can immediately disavow Wilde, Yeats and Swift as Anglo-Irish

not sure about GBS), Howard...