Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Made it to Northern Ieland, besides the roads be wider and the accents being a little different, did not notice much of a difference. I was talking to Valerie, my B&B host about Northern Ireland and being Irish. She said she did not consider herself Irish. She said she considered herself British because she is a protestant. That was the first time since I have been here the discussion of your religion as a defining point of your nationality has come up. I asked her if she had a Bristish passport or an Irish one. She said she has a British one, but they give them the choice of what kind of passport they want. So, she has a British one, but her neighbor could be Catholic and get an Irish passport. Interesting pieces of History to gain up here in the North.

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