On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:35:00 GMT, "Brett"
wrote:

"vincent Brannigan" wrote:
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| Brett wrote:
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| So what - it just confirms my comment - you are just an Irish
wanna-be.
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| no, I am an Irish citizen

No you are an Irish wanna-be.

I think you have to concede if Vince holds Irish citizenship
then he can reasonably claim to be Irish

My claim is somewhat more tenuous:

"Fifty years before William the Conqueror landed in England an Irish
mercenary named Anselan O'Kyan landed in Argyll. For his services in
fighting against the vikings King Malcolm of Scotland awarded him
lands on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond in 1016.

Anselan was the son of the King of Ulster and had in his retinue his
seneschal (steward or major-domo) who was named McWattie. Thus the
first known Watt was the son of an Irish Wattie from Ulster. "

But I can content myself by being English, British and Gibraltarian
and thats QUITE enough.


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Jim Watt http://www.gibnet.com