"The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
"The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
::Sigh:: For over a century the Gaelic language has been used by Irish Republicans (who have been leftwing radicals since the French Revolution) as an expression of a "revolutionary identity." All one has to do is study the history of Irish Republicanism or visit the various web sites of the various Irish Republican organizations, which feature a strange mixture of mystical medieval nationalism and radical modern Marxism. Please see the posts among wideawake, ArrogantBustard, and myself earlier in this thread.
This is similar to radicalized American Blacks adopting Arabic or African names. Arabic and Swahili are particularly inappropriate for a community with roots in west Africa.