When I was growing up in royalist east Belfast,
to talk about The South of Ireland
(at the time, officially entitled The Irish Free State)
in polite society was like
mentioning a 'French Letter'
or Cancer, the Duke of Windsor or syphilis:
The less said (in polite society) the better.
Of the Civil War, and the Free State's
handy neutrality in World War Two,
my friends and I were decent in our ignorance.
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