—”They’re not pledging allegiance to Ireland”
Chicago has many great Americans of Irish descent and I have known many.
But I did have the misfortune to work a few years with a much lesser one.
My great ^6 grandfather and his brother left the Scottish Highlands and fought for Gen Cornwallis, the family name is well listed at Culloden.
The jamoke that I worked with was some kind of IRA wannabe and when he realized that I was not Irish, he what a fit.
I then told him that I was a Lutheran he went ape shite.
He talked like he was connected to the IRA and claimed to visit Ireland every few months? (the early 1980s)
He was born and raised in the same suburb I was, his father was a big-money guy in the area.
I also worked with an actual Irishman who explained how I was a “wrongfooter”.
One day he arrived at work in the late afternoon, He had just left his swearing-in ceremony to be a United States Citizen. AND WAS HE HAPPY!
He lives in my area and has a nice flagpole flying the US flag.
I guarantee if Poland played the US in Chicago, the crowd would at least 80% for Poland.
Heck even in Britain when Scotland played England at Wembley the crowd was overwhelming for Scotland.