Englishman, Irishman by Tony Walsh: Longfella published on 2015-03-17T10:15:40Z From SEX & LOVE & ROCK&ROLL (Burning Eye, 2013) http://longfella.co.uk/sexandloveandrockandroll.html I'm half Irish. Neither Catholic nor Protestant. Unchristened. This is a poem about growing up with an Irish name and a confused identity in the early 1970s when The Troubles filled the news and racist Irish jokes were on tea-time tv. It's also about male, working-class emotional inarticulacy, especially in the days before Trisha. Genre irish