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Originally Posted by IwillTumblrShameYou
7. Sir Ernest was a British born in Ireland. He was not Irish but he was British.
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Well, I have ignored a lot of tosh from the UnSaved on this site, but this level of ignorance is frankly astonishing. Oh, hang on - you say you're Irish. Not even a little bit surprising then.
Shackleton was born in Ireland in 1874. Ireland was, at the time, part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which made him a "UK" citizen but NOT British! His mother was Irish, a Fitzmaurice by descent - in other words, of illegitimate ancestry. If her sexual morals were anything like those of her forebears, who even knows who Shackleton's father was?
Shackleton was was no more "British" than the current Irish, including the intellectually challenged Northern Irish, who witter on incessantly about their imaginary Britishness. They are no more British than I'm Bulgarian! (Just for the avoidance of confusion, I am not Bulgarian.) The Northern Irish are just drooling pond slime who don't know the difference between Britain and the United Kingdom, and their neighbors to the south (who, just to confuse them further, live in the British Isles but not in the UK or Great Britain
) are no smarter.
And if that doesn't fit with your personal view (a view based on typical Irish ignorance and disregard for history) then tough luck.