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Nearly Sane

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What it means to be 'culturally' Irish in 2025 is complicated ....
« on: August 10, 2025, 11:52:12 AM »
...as Ed Sheeran has shown

I've 2 Irish grandparents, and spent a lot of holidays in Ireland when I was young. There was a lot of Irush music in the house but the grandparents had the very Scottish surnames of Campbell and Forsyth. The intertwined nature of the history of the West of Scotland and Northern Ireland almost makes me feel neither ar times rather than one. To be honest, I feel much more Glaswegian than anything else.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgln9y13x3yo
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ad_orientem

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Re: What it means to be 'culturally' Irish in 2025 is complicated ....
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2025, 12:06:16 PM »
I think some people have a hard time understanding mixed heritage and how such people identify themselves accordingly. It's something deeply personal.
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