Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: msflora99@yahoo.com (flora macdonald) Newsgroups: soc.culture.french,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.british,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: What does everyone have against French society? Date: 30 Jul 2003 10:44:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <52210046.0307252157.54a853f8@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.125.205.241 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1059587046 9141 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2003 17:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jul 2003 17:44:06 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3687 "John of Aix" wrote in message news:... > "flora macdonald" a écrit dans le message de > news: b87d8d25.0307282138.456f5895@posting.google.com... > > > About 2 years ago, the British Embassy in Dublin reported that there > > are ca a half-million British passport- holders in the Republic of > > Ireland. I am one of them. The total population of the State is > about > > 3.5 million. > > Well it was question of Northern Ireland but the fact is interesting > and I'm glad to find it. I'm a bit surprised that they let the Brits > in after all they did do them but hey, the itish don't hold grudges > > > Apologies for my bad French > > No need. I doubt if such terms are taught at school. > > Is you name really Flora MacDonald? A great Scots name Yes, you may see on another thread that we come from Dal Riada in Co Antrim, (MacDounhaill) in medieval times when Ireland was called Scotia. We Scots from Co Antrim invaded Pictish Caledonia and changed its name to Scotland. Flora