Hillbillies, Rednecks and Professional Irishmen
Tom McNamee in the Chicago Sun-Times has been responding to criticism of criticism, such as:
Please, in the future refrain from identifying yourself as Irish. You are a pure Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri “mutt” that an Irish surname stuck to
-which is strange way to let somebody know that Scotch is a drink, not a nationality.
It all started in this article
Something about liking being Irish, but not too much. You may not be interested however, as everybody isn’t Irish today. No, on March 26 everybody is from Bangladesh.
See Also:
• 10 Things I Heard on Holiday Back Home in Ireland
• Irish News to Beset the Nostalgia
• 10 Things I Never Heard Before Moving to America
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