File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9906, message 437


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 99 13:38:24 EDT
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: Re: J18 & transatlantic royal-mart


Dave writes:
>Well I would be quite happy to blame the Irish,
>but honesty compells me to pronounce them 
>blameless in this matter. I have cousins who 
>are Buchanans. My cousin June once showed 
>me a "clan history" thing for the Buchanans.  
>There really is no question about the Scottish
>origins of the Buchanans. If Pat Buchanan has 
>a connection with Ireland , it's "Scotch - Irish"
>   -   that is to say, he is descended from Scots 
>protestant settlers who emigrated to northern
>Ireland in the Seventeenth or Eighteenth 
>Centuries, and later emigrated again 
>to America. 

Well, we're all Celts, anyway.  Just because there's a Scottish clan 
Buchanan, doesn't mean their isn't an ancient Irish one as well. Pat is a 
Roman Catholic, so he doesn't meet the usual profile of a Scots-Irish.

But, hey, if you really want 'im, you can have 'im.


   

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