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Thread #156050   Message #3677480
Posted By: Thompson
15-Nov-14 - 05:24 PM
Thread Name: Patriotism
Subject: RE: Patriotism
"Come off it, mate" sounds a little too London for Heaney. Did he say that of Yeats? When and where?

As for immigrants being "proud of their new nationality", oh, that's nothing to do with patriotism for me. Happy to live in their new country, yes, fine. But "proud of their new nationality" sounds suspiciously like people on their way to enrol in an army to kill others.