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David Flood
SubjectRe: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of england) has died)
FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-07 22:37 (2002-04-07 21:37)
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"AC" <spam@nospam.com>wrote in message news:3cb09185.7146984@news2.randori.com...

AC
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 13:52:31 +0200, "?jevind L?ng" <ojevind.lang@swipnet.se>wrote:

?jevind L?ng
Howard Beale wrote:

[snip]

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

Howard Beale
(I'm

David Flood
not sure about GBS), Howard...

?jevind L?ng
George Bernard Shaw was a Protestant. Though I am quite amazed that

someone

might declare that great writers are no fellow-countrymen of his because they are "the wrong religion". or "have the wrong ancestry".

AC
That, in a nutshell, is Irish history for the last 300 years.

*Don't* go there.

D.