02-05-2008, 01:08 PM
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| Partisan Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by waitingtables  Yeah, except for the Irish. Must be Stockholm syndrome. | It's true for the Irish too.
As soon as they got independence in 1922 they started moving to the mainland.
Today there are 6m Irish in the UK vs 3.5 m in Ireland.
And in WW2 200,000 Irishmen signed up to join the British army - voluntarily.
Brits and Irish are much closer than you may think - don't believe everything the "Irish Americans" tell you!
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