Irish Catholic Boy
“Uncle Bertie’s a Protestant!” That’s what we were told! That’s what we believed! Things got exciting when Uncle Bertie came to visit. You see, being the country cousins from Cork, we’d never even seen a Protestant before! Uncle Bertie was Daddy’s third brother who’d often visit from Dublin. They were all fairly well behaved in that family, it seemed, except of course, for Uncle Bertie. I mean, he smoked a pipe and would often drink pints of Guinness and rarely,…