Fionn Rogan | Deputy Opinion Editor I’m an Irish man. Twenty years old. But am I an Irishman? By simply omitting that space between Irish and man one delves into what Brendan Behan would describe as, the psychosis of Irishness. An Irish man is a modern creature who uses the word Irish merely as a classification tool. The word is stripped of its mythologies and becomes a clinical and simple geographical term like German or Sudanese. In a sense, Irish is dispossessed of its Irishness. Two distinct classes of Irishness are created. The distinction between the two becomes more intriguing when it’s viewed from a … Continue reading The Fallacy of Irishness