Easter commentary: Let us embrace our history without being too religious about it
As Ireland marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, Cee Smith reflects on Glasgow’s conflicted relationship with Irishness Like a great number of Glaswegians I have some Irish in me. My great grandmother came here from Donegal, making me one sixteenth Irish to be exact. So I was fascinated when I read in a history book in my teens, that every ‘Scot’ was in fact Irish. The word...
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As Ireland marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, Cee Smith reflects on Glasgow’s conflicted relationship with Irishness Like a great number of Glaswegians I have some Irish in me. My great grandmother came here from Donegal, making me one sixteenth Irish to be exact. So I was fascinated when I read in a history book in my teens, that every ‘Scot’ was in fact Irish. The word...
newsnet.scot/?p=116706
