Wow. I almost skipped over this thread and maybe I'll wish I had. Right now I feel like a Brit who feels his country shouldn't be in Eire, except my country is in Kosovo. My last name is McCoy and I am pretty damn sure my ancestors were exiled from the north of Ireland somewhere before the famine. I also have two cherokee greatgrandmothers. For all the grief we get for being bigoted I think we have solved our problems well here. There have been wrongs and they continue, but as a whole we are very united. If anyone wants to see Hell on Earth try repeating Pearl Harbor. That said, let me say this. I would not dream of going to Ireland and singing pro/anti IRA songs. At a recent Celtic festival in Cincinnati I did not hear one song regarding the troubles. I will admit that I have a lot of IRA songs in my reportoire. They are catchy and when you aren't british, funny. I don't sing them in public though. That would be like singing the Horst Wessel at a Bar Mitzva (?)As much as it is hard to admit people we are now global. If nothing else the net has made us so. When I get on here I have to take into account Sapper's, Big Mick, Katlaughing's, Catpaw's,Banjer's, Joe's, Rick's.........you get my drift. I think that if we all met at a gathering and lost our accents we would be instantly united. We love music, we love life. It's time to get over the prejudices that we all harbor. Aye, let's keep our songs, they are our history, but let's not use them to instill hatred in yet another generation. Upfront, yes I want a united Ireland. I want an Ireland where the North and the South are all accepted as Irish. The Orangemen are there for the same reasons I am in America, but America is my home and now I am American.