Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "1420 by Daniil Orain"
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Wilde was definitely Irish by birth, but was of English heritage and descent (along with considerable Dutch on his father's side). Both sides of his family moved from England, in the 17th (father's side) and 18th centuries (mother's side). Thus both his parents were protestants and therefore there was scant chance if any at all that intermarriage with Irish catholics had taken place.
The Anglo-Irish, as the English settlers were and still are called, although they tended to consider themselves simply British, are sometimes said to have felt "English in Ireland, Irish when in England." In any case, those Irish with no English heritage, as everyone knows, just wanted them out. So while it is unknown to me whether Wilde at any point in his lifetime was prized by many Irish catholics as a native son, there is ample reason to doubt it.
It seems likely that people who really know a lot about Wilde and the Anglo-Irish will find something to correct me about, and they are welcome to do so.
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@mikerodent3164 I wasn't "guessing." Some things are just a matter of one's point of view. Simple declarations on them by anyone, even entities such as national governments, are not the last word. And views based only on politics can be called narrow, since politics are just one aspect of geography, peoples and civilizations.
Let's put it this way (based on what I've read, which as I say, repeating myself for the third or fourth time, is just one point of view): Had England never made war on them, it would never have occurred to Ireland's inhabitants to stop considering Ireland British (as a secondary identity based on history, geography and shared Celtic ethnicity, even if to them its identity as Irish would have mattered vastly more).
But 'Britain' was officially part of the name of the UK as well as the island on which it had been situated. And since they were invaders, the Irish at that point wanted nothing more to do with the word.
Consider an analogy: Let's say the US were to invade Canada and engage in a brutal repression. At present Canada holds a secondary identity of itself as North American. But if the Americans were thoroughly and bitterly despised as invaders, the very presence of the word 'America' in 'North America' might well put paid very soon to that identity, and Canadians would thenceforth consider themselves Canadians, full stop.
Not a perfect analogy, but it expresses what I have in mind.
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