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That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Iris Murdoch
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
Not established
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1919 to 1999; Wikidata Q217495, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217495 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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