Talk:Patrick Cosgrave

A fact from Patrick Cosgrave appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Private Eye said the reason Margaret Thatcher dropped Patrick Cosgrave as her advisor was that he had vomited on her?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/April.

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Cosgrave's nationality[edit]

If Cosgrave reportedly "had a British passport" – colloquially speaking – then surely he was a British subject, therefore "British", and therefore "a Briton"? Cosgrave also died in England, as an emigrant. Plain "Irish" normally and ordinarily means a person who was born and who died in Ireland. Not so in his case. -- KC9TV 04:29, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know where you get the idea that 'plain Irish' means that you have to have been born and die in Ireland, there are plenty of Irish citizens who weren't born in Ireland and some of them have had very senior posts in the Irish government. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.156.13.12 (talk) 14:53, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]