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- “The New Nationalism,” speech, Osawatomie, Kansas (31 Aug 1910) (556)
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Burke was Irish, not British
You are correct; corrected to Anglo-Irish, since he spent much of his adult life in England, and was buried there. (Actually, Anglo-Irish would structurally refer to an English person who moved to Ireland — I’m not sure how to put together the reverse, short of “Irish-born English.”)
Thanks, John.