>Liza Featherstone wrote:
>
>> Sorry you can't read! I wasn't comparing the actual politics or content of
>> the Irish nationalist struggle to the right-wing Hindus and Zionists, just
>> the similar remove of the comfortable American suburbanites helping to
>> fund it, and the fact that they didn't have to live with the consequences.
>
>
>I'm Irish-American (grandparents). The only time I've heard of any of this
>was from British people ranting about it on some website or other. My
>grandmother was very nationalistic, but I never heard anything about this.
>I grew up in Chicago, maybe this is some Boston thing - I'm not denying that
>it's true, but it's not like I haven't known tons of Irish-Americans,
>comfortable and not so comfortable, urban and not.
Back during my days in Yale's Party of the Right (1971-2), there was an Irish-American member who raised money (and, it was rumored, arms as well) for the IRA. I couldn't figure out the politics of that, but sometimes ethnicity trumps politics.
Doug