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From: "Sean MacLochlainn" <>
Subject: Re: HM The Queen's St. Patrick's Day Message
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:41:26 -0000
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Tom Perrett wrote:
>> It a pleasure to see a blank page from Lizzie, and her gang,
>> on this, our National Saint's Day.
>
> Wasn't your National Saint an
> Englishman?

Yet another pub history lesson from Tom.

England did not exist at that time. St Patrick was a Romano-Briton, a
people whose closest modern day successors are the Welsh, Cornish and
Breton.

Sean


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