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- Massie outlines inconvenient truths. Cue the inevitable abuse: http://t.co/eV7xsDcl.
- @skip1979 Irishness is a mosaic and many younger Unionists in NI appreciate the inherent multicultural nature of their mixed identity.
- @skip1979 Which is not the prob of the language etc but those who promote it as part of a monocultural *Irish* id. Sort that out and we move
- @skip1979 I and many NI Unionists have no prob with the Irish language but like the other examples you quote it has been used to exclude.
- @skip1979 There is no one single defn of irish culture in exactly the same way as there is no single defn of what is an Irishman/woman.
- @skip1979 What's Irish culture? Is there single definition? Is irish culture, as is understood, in N.Ireland different from that of the ROI?
- @skip1979 ...and culturally there is very little indeed which divides those living in the ROI from those of us living in the United Kingdom.
- @skip1979 The perfect Union for irish Unionism would be a much closer political, econ and social Union between the ROI and the UK.
- @skip1979 No, no, no! "Unionism" is a political belief that's all, so as an abstract, it's not inherently sectarian or anti-Irish.
- Heh! Slugger's Nats spontaneously combust at the thought of Irish Catholicism does not necessarily equal Irish Nat: http://t.co/rceHdshd