Lisa McInerney is happy to be Irish. This kindles Norm Geras' interest:
The question is this: how can one be proud or glad of one's identity without implying the judgement that 'your' people – Irish, Jews, Italians, whoever – are better than other people? Suppose you thought that the group you belonged to was worse than everyone else. How could you be glad to belong there? And if they were neither worse nor better but just different, what would be the source of your comparative feeling that belonging to this group was especially good?
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The Dish 