http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Robert+Mapplethorpe IrishCentral Robert Mapplethorpe en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/girl-about-town/patti-smith-ireland-and-the-catholic-church-84387637.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/girl-about-town/patti-smith-ireland-and-the-catholic-church-84387637.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:00:31 PST
Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and memoirist and, having read her memoir "Just Kids," I can also tell you she is Irish -- in ancestry at least She grew up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and her family was poor; she tells how as a child she would play games with her siblings, taking the roles of Catholic against Protestant"We fought the wars of our Irish grandfathers, the orange and the green We wore the orange yet knew nothing of its meaning READ MORE ]]>