You certainly can't fault God's sense of the ironic can you - St. Patrick being an Englishman!
It puts a different light on St Paddies day with all those Irishman praising and Englishman, doesn't it? :D
'an' not 'and' - must learn to type one day. . .
Thank God they didn't have "England out of Ireland bumper stickers back then!" :-)
"St. Patrick being an Englishman?"
For the record, St. Patrick was born in Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in SCOTLAND.
Tis enough to make a Lepra'cohen cry 'aye' tis true...(originally pronounced oye)...inna enough to find out St Paddy is really English? and now to find Lepracohens are actually Jewish?)
It's enough to 'drive an Irishman to drink'...on the other hand the only excuse he needs for that...is to still be breathin' and maybe not even that...
It is not quite so. Roman Britain were stocked by Britons, who were later forced to flee to Ireland by the successive waves of invading Anglo-Saxons, Nordic Vikings, and Normans. Racially today's white English people are a mix of Anglo-Saxons and Nordic people.
(BTW, don't say that I didn't study history. I grew up as one of your formerly great colonial empire's last colonies just before the sun finally set LOL)