We had a dream ... he’s one of us

Monday is Martin Luther King day. In the year of The Gathering, wouldn’t it be amazing to discover he was Irish? He just might have been, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

We had a dream ... he’s one of us

IN THEIR recently published book More Stuff Irish People Love, Colin Murphy and Donal O’Dea point out that “a fleeting reference to Ireland … in a Hollywood movie or Australian soap stirs a bit of pride in us. We almost treat it as though we’d unexpectedly heard our name on the radio — Hey!”.

The same could be said of our love of people with even the tiniest drop of Irish blood in them.

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