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Entry: Taking Back Our Children Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_our_children#4896 Post contents: @ Adriana, "I can understand your distase of Irish nationalism, but I find the history of the Republic of Ireland fascinating" So do I, and a big part of me would like to sympathise with it. My paternal grandmother was Irish, and she married an English Catholic and so I've always felt ambivalent about, and among, Irish-Americans, many of whose greatest love seems to be hatred of the English. A few years ago while I was a guest at a very old Roman Catholic rectory in Philadelphia - founded by Irish immigrants, among whom were some of my ancestors (I mean literally, some of my Irish ancestors were parishoners there) - during one lunch someone mentioned the horrible conditions of today's Burma (aka Myanmar), after the same person had been spewing all kinds of anti-British nonsense, and I said sarcastically, "well, at least Burma is NO LONGER RULED BY THE BRITISH! So that's progress, yeah?" And the other Irish-American replied, "YES, you're right!" Ugh... Sent at: 2008 09 05