Summary
America was disproportionately settled by Ulster Protestants (who, as everyone knows, are Bad People) and today 55 per cent of Americans of Irish ancestral origin are non-Catholics. Yet it remains expedient for US politicians to project themselves as descendants of Irish Catholics (who are Good People). We saw this with John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
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They All Want the Luck of the Irish
Is John Kerry, Democratic front-runner for the US presidency, an Irish American or not? His name certainly sounds Irish, and numerous US publications have stated that he is of Irish descent. Yet last year his spokeswoman, Kelley Benander, said that Kerry "has never...
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