" ... On May 11, 8:14 am, frantheman <[email protected]>
wrote: ... "

> > Are you sure about that?  Flanagan's bio indicates he left Ireland at
> > the age of 18.
>
> Flanagan's attendance at Summerhill is documented, gruff, and, in
> fact, the school gymnasium is called after him. I think this may be a
> case of Bernard Shaw's two nations divided by a common language. In
> Britain and Ireland, a college is a secondary (high) school. Colleges,
> in the US sense, are the undergraduate sections of universities.

Ahh, that would definitely account for it then.  Now that you mention
it, seems I've heard that before somewhere, that college means
different things in the islands than in the U.S.

Ye wouldn't happen to know anything about the Gaffneys, now would ye?
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