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Oscar Wilde accused the Irish of just such limitations, did he not, kingmi?
I do believe that Mr. Wilde was a bit angry with the world. For an Irishman, he did not cut a flattering silhouette. Would that he have been a little more like Frank McCourt, a man whose story --
Angela's Ashes -- enriches us all. (As did Wilde's work, don't get me wrong. He just seemed so bitter.)
posted by
saul_relative
on March 18, 2006 at 4:15 PM
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Saul, We, the Irish, are well-developed victims
Of the world economy. As a group we have embraced the disolutionment of our national character, and remain objects of comic ridicule, no less than than the Poles, Italians, Jews, Blacks, etc. It should be an insult to only be thouhgt capable of drunkenness and commpassionate poetry. Great Post.
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kingmi
on March 17, 2006 at 10:40 PM
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