Toot thought rather than Tweet thought: #IrishTwitter hounding anyone who doesn't fit their idea of Irish #citizenship is pretty tiring.
Kinda feel for the guy who reflected on the oddness of getting a citizenship to stay European who's getting dragged for everything from being in the British Army through to bad constitutional amendments made in Ireland.
@SamuelGuthrie years ago I was quite close to the trad music scene in Belfast. Growing up I was used to fiddles, tin whistles, mandolins, guitars and the likes in trad music. When i came across a bouzouki I asked an experienced musician how such an instrument could be seen as Irish. He replied that as long as an instrument can be integrated into the spirit of the music then it is Irish. I think of Irishness in the same way.
Of course all stringed instruments originated in North Africa so....