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Thread #22477   Message #243598
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Jun-00 - 08:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are You a Real Paddy or a Plastic Paddy?
Subject: RE: BS: Are You a Real Paddy or a Plastic Paddy?
There's a great song by Enda Kenny, like Eric Bogle a first generation Australian, except he came from Ireland.

It's "I won't sing the Wild Rover" and it's about people who go out from Ireland and turn their back on Australia, and play at being in "Ireland Over Here". A different type of plastic paddy.

He's a great singer and songwriter, Enda - and at the same time, he's 100 per cent Australian, and 100 per cent Irish. And it's the same 100 per cent.