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   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "William Black" :   
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   >"Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
   >news:4553bca4_1@news.iprimus.com.au...   
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   >> Allan, as for the southern Irish, what they say in public and what they   
   >> really think and feel in private can be quite completely different things,   
   >> as with any ethnic group in the world.   
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   >When did 'Irish' become an ethnicity?   
      
   Ethnic: Of or relating to people grouped according to a common racial,   
   national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin.   
      
   Perhaps you could tell us when Irish *wasn't* an ethnicity?   
      
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