Posted by Jock on March 30, 2006 at 22:16:25 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Riddle of the Sands Undefinaable readability posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 30, 2006 at 17:59:02:
this sets out to say that Childers was "an Englishman" rather than "an Irishman"
The Wikipedia article is better.
The Vikipedia article starts, "Childers was born in London to a Protestant family of Glendalough, Ireland. His father was English and his mother Irish, but he was orphaned as a child and raised by an uncle in County Wicklow." I guess this makes him Anglo-Irish or Irish-English. Truly The Mastadon's Dilemma.