WHEN IS AN IRISHMAN NOT AN IRISHMAN?

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 23

WHEN IS AN IRISHMAN NOT AN IRISHMAN?

Under date October 2S, 1928, you published in" the "Star" an article from me descriptive of a flying visit to Dublin. Incidentally in this I mentioned the loyaltv of Irishmen to the memory of their famoue men, instancing 1 tho many fine statues with which Dublin io dotted. Incidentally, also, I referred to England s indebtedness to Ireland for so many ol her great generals. One has only o read history to admit that, for Eng is men as a type do not seem to blossom out naturally into famous Amonf others I mentioned the Duke o Wellington, and the huge monument erected in memory of the pat e,o Waterloo adjacent to Phoenii. ar . Shortly after a correspondent wrote denying that nationality. As bearing on the question, not long ago a e e _ r appeared in the "Daily a copy of which I enclose. This . Mail' 3 correspondent states that one o Wellington's family in 1172 accompanied Henry 11. to Ireland as Standard .Bearer, and had a grant of land there as ft reward for his services. A descen a of his, Waleran de Wellesley, wa» Justice Itinerant for Ireland in m Since the latter date the descendants or this family, up to the time of Lord Hornington, the Duke of Welling father (1735-1781), resided in Ireland. If, by long residence of his forbears, Duke was not an Irishman, them 0 ing the-same reasoning, the King, instance, remains a German. His am y name (it is Windsor now) was true p ? one of the oldest in Europe: his £irec& ancestors (as we all know) were i beth, daughter of Charleo I. Frederick, King of Bohemia. ® ne , m surely take some sort of a s t an . say that long residence of any one iam y and its forbears in any particular cou try makes that family a, national country of its adoption. £AEXAC LE.