84 t , -- Maybe. as Pharos remarks, Carson 'would have tissumed that
Ulster Members would have made their Mark in the Commons as Ulstermen.' The fact remains that he was about as much an Ulsterman as I am. , He came from Dublin, like myself, and was a Leinsterman. if we must keep up this Thomas Hardy lark,
la these days of racial tension I hate mentioning it, but he was not as much R Leinsterman as me, because his right name was Carsoni, and he might more properly be described as a Leinster-Italian because his forebears came from Italy—no disgrace to him— so did Leonardo's, Michaelangelo's, and the Pope's.
But then it's a habit of Ulster Unionists to change their names.
Sometimes to the most romantic Gaelic chieftains'.
Two of the fancifully named Ulster loyalists—one a member of the Six-County Government and the other a British diplomat—have the most marvellous Celtic Twilight names—though the family name is Chichester.
BRENDAN BEHAN
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