I am pleased to discover that my blog has at least one
reader in Ireland. For all that the English make jokes about the Irish — every
nationality chooses some other about whom to make jokes — The Irish (if one may
generalize that way) have a great respect for literature — unless things have
changed, professional writers in Ireland are exempt from income tax — and it
would only be a slight exaggeration to say that most of the great English
writers turn out to have been in fact Irish, or at least with Irish Forebears.
See how many you can identify from this little gallery:
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