Sorry to hear about your uncle. Setright was a brilliant writer particularly about motorcycles. And a great violin player too I believe.
You mention your uncle being an Irish American so forgive me asking a question that has puzzled me. We often hear of Irish Americans, Native Americans, Africa Americans even German Americans but I have never ever heard of an English American. Yet many if not most of the founding fathers were English. Why is that? Does it go back to the war of independance and the redcoats? Or to the British American war?
