Some hard out Irish Republicans love Meghan because she has “taken it to the British Royals’. Britain was Ireland’s oppressor - stole their lands etc! I say this as someone who is predominantly Irish Catholic and whose forbears were active IRA even. Maybe some of the Kennedys don’t care for the BRF. Biden doesn’t seem to have much time for Britain either. Funnily enough it’s the Irish in USA who are more rigid in this mindset.
I agree, and why I quoted earlier, "when the Irish leave Ireland..."
The funny thing is, I was recently listening to a podcast in which Americans were tracing there ancestors... and guess what?
They were all from Ireland...
(
well except those that were part Cherokee)...
So after rolling my eyes at the idea of John or Mary So-and-So who at some point was in Ulster (
we'll skip the part about them being born in Lincolnshire)... was somehow Irish...
and the outlandish tales of daring do against the British in the War of Independence/American Revolution...
John or Mary So-and-So decided to celebrate their Irish heritage by founding the town of Chipping Sodbury (
or some equally obvious English name), on the banks of the Mersey creek, in Noel Coward county.... or whatever.
It is really rather silly.