No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
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Daniel O'Connell during a speech (16 October 1843), as quoted in Reports of State Trials: New Series Volume V, 1843 to 1844 (1893) "The Queen Against O'Connell and Others", p. 2061st Duke of Wellington
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"I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman" []
Ian Paisley
Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse.
1st Duke of Wellington
Variants: If a man be born in a stable, that does not make him a horse.
1st Duke of Wellington
If a gentleman happens to be born in a stable, it does not follow that he should be called a horse.
1st Duke of Wellington
The commonplace needs no defence,
Dullness is in the critic’s eyes,
Without a licence life evolves
From some dim phase its own surprise;
Under these yellow-twinkling elms,
Behind these hedges trimly shorn,
As in a stable once, so here
It may be born, it may be born.William Plomer
Wellington, 1st Duke of
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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