# What if Anglo-Irish treaty was rejected?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 11, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anglo-irish-treaty-was-rejected/539047 "2010-05-11T14:13:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anglo-irish-treaty-was-rejected/539047/61 "2010-05-24T14:07:10Z")

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> [@Lust4Life](#):
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> And perhaps I’m not, just someone who disagrees with your views, which obviously makes me evil .
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> And STILL no valid point put forward.

You have no idea about my “views.” I am an American citizen, born in New England (that’s a region) & raised in Texas. I am a Democrat.

Most of my ancestors were Irish, so I’m interested in Irish culture & history. My paternal grandparents were Catholics who emigrated from East Galway, but I had little contact with that side of the family. (My father, a WWII vet, was called up for the Cold War & died in a plane crash.) My mother’s family was also mostly Irish–partly of the hard-headed Presbyterian sort that used to call themselves “Scotch Irish.” (I think Scots Irish is now preferred.)

Generally, I hope that the Irish have peaceful & prosperous lives. It’s hardly up to me to dictate their political arrangements.

It’s very sad that your life has made you so bitter that you can’t discuss history almost a century past without taking it personally. (You have no sense of humor at all, do you?)

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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anglo-irish-treaty-was-rejected/539047/62 "2010-05-26T12:20:22Z")

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My life hasn’t made me bitter, its having an incredibly small penis and not being able to shag Jennifer Anniston thats made me bitter.  
That and Patrick O’Brian dying a couple of years ago.  
And all of the bloody soaps taking up T.V. airspace…bastards!

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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anglo-irish-treaty-was-rejected/539047/63 "2010-05-27T13:22:52Z")

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> [@Lust4Life](#):
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> My life hasn’t made me bitter, its having an incredibly small penis and not being able to shag Jennifer Anniston thats made me bitter.  
> That and Patrick O’Brian dying a couple of years ago.  
> And all of the bloody soaps taking up T.V. airspace…bastards!

Well, maybe I was wrong about the “no sense of humor” thing…

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