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Stephen Colbert’s truthiness: we Irish hate the English

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This raises an interesting question. Who's Irish? If Colbert is descended from a Gearon (or Guerin) from Limerick, his roots may be English or French. And what we think of as English and French today, in days gone by, were really different flavors of Vikings (who took the native women of the British Isles for slaves and concubines in additon to intermarrying with the locals). All of this is less complicated for those of us who, like James Healy, believe that we are all one in Christ, neither slave nor free, neither Jew nor Gentile. Healy was born a slave according to the laws of Georgia, but was sent to Holy Cross College in Massachusetts by his Irish father and became America's first Roman Catholic bishop of African descent.
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