Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Oh, I thought Tinkers were the poor Irish. Or people who didn't or couldn't buy a house, and rather travel in covered wagon, kinda like how people in the US live in mobile trailers.

How do you feel about the Protestant Irish and/or the Catholic Irish? The group you don't identify with.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.