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Originally Posted by Bagor
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No I'm British, I am of Welsh and Irish decent, Monmouthshire and Dublin, I have spent most of my life in Canada now but from London prior to that, like every Brit I'm a mut, my grandmother was born in Edinburgh Castle, her father, my Great Grandfather was Bandmaster of the Black Watch
And as to my early feelings about MacGowan, british TV was full of Irish comedians playing up to the racist attitudes of the day, even Dave Allen would spend half his show making jokes about drunks so my first reaction was 'that's all we need another parody drunk on Saturday night TV' still not sure how to square that circle