suggesting that growing up in Boston naturally gave him a ‘considerable depth of insight to [sic] the Irish people, their likes and dislikes, their history and their culture’.19 If an applicant had suggested that growing up Catholic in Birmingham or Glasgow had given him a special feel for Irish moods and desires, the scepticism would have been overwhelming. But Eamonn Andrews, in supporting Roth, suggested that his actual ‘lack of first-hand knowledge of Ireland’ could be compensated by ‘his catholicity, and his Irish ancestry’
