"I'm an Ulsterman, of planter stock. I was born in the island of Ireland, so secondarily I'm an Irishman. I was born in the British archipelago and English is my native tongue, so I am British. The British archipelago consists of offshore islands to the continent of Europe, so I'm European. This is my hierarchy of values and so far as I am concerned, anyone who omits one step in that sequence of values is falsifying the situation."
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In The Irish Times (4 July 1974)
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John Hewitt (poet)
John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 – 22 June 1987) was an Ulster poet from Belfast.
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