re: Huns The English used to refer to the Germans as the "Huns" during the Great War (World War I). In Ireland this was turned back on them; I remember a song of my youth called "Down by the Liffeyside", one of the less politically correct versions of which had the lines: "And we'll have little children And we'll rear them neat and clean To shout 'Up de Valera' And to sing about Sinn Féin. [A small piece escapes me here] "And we'll spike the guns Of the Saxon Huns Down by the Liffeyside".
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